The last battle in which our forces stormed enemy defenses took place in late July 1953.
Ryan's 1966 book The Last Battle concerned the fight for Berlin that ended the war in Europe.
To take one example, at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the last big battle with the Indians in 1890, where almost 200 Sioux were killed, there was a rich haul of artifacts.
But the last ERA battle took 10 years and virtually defined the women's movement of the 70s.
In the final analysis, then, the two parties go into the last hours of battle evenly matched, and the outcome will be determined by whose last-minute effort to get out the vote proves more impressive.
Samuel Gibson was one of the last survivors of the Battle of Waterloo and was later a patient at St Lawrence's.
For the last, apocalyptic battle in Return of the King, it has created hundreds of thousands of soldiers to do battle.
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What happens if, as in the French battle last year, there is an inconclusive outcome?
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Tuesday that French troops and warplanes joined the battle last week on the side of Malian government forces, and prevented the Islamists from capturing the city of Mopti.
The Rangers are also in a three-rival battle for the last two playoff spots in the Eastern Conference.
Several government agencies, including the FTC, lost a pitched battle last year to have the companies voluntarily end all advertising to children unless the food being promoted was healthy fare such as whole grains, fresh fruits or vegetables.
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Unless Harmony's shareholders or Gold Fields' lawyers halt it first, the battle will last at least to November 26th, when the first stage of Harmony's bid is due.
When my first Senate boss, Phil Hart, was in the last stages of his battle with cancer, Kennedy spent hours by his side offering humor, Irish tales and Senate banter almost endlessly, as Chris Dodd and many others have now done for him.
Wenger dedicated the victory to Gunners fan Jack Chester, who was part of the club's recent Teenage Cancer Trust charity campaign and lost his battle against the disease last week at the age of 19.
Apple lost a preliminary injunction on this patent in the Dutch courts last year and also lost its battle in the courts in Britain against HTC Corp, and in Germany against Samsung and Motorola Mobility, which is owned by Google.
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His death at Bosworth - the last English king to be killed in battle - ushered in the Tudor dynasty beginning with Henry VII.
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The fire authority agreed the plans last month following a five-year battle to save the station from night closure.
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But the last few years have super-charged this battle with the release of consecutive successful movies and several more in the offing, plus the purchase of Marvel by Disney, which effectively made this a battle of the media titans (DC is owned by Time Warner).
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In our last battle, the regiment was attached to the 92nd Division -- all African-American.
The battle was joined last year when the commission launched a probe into alleged discriminatory licensing practices for Microsoft's Windows operating system.
But Spencer still needed something special in the last to tie the gripping battle - and he produced it, guiding Inchnadamph to a stunning eight-length triumph.
Just because his last stand at the Battle of Bosworth Field took place 528 years ago, it doesn't mean that a good man's name should continue to be sullied.
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The battle heated up last year after the Oscar-winning actress announced her engagement to Martinez and asked a family court to allow her to move with the daughter to Paris.
Savile was a regular visitor to the island and was Mr Battle of Flowers three times, the last time in 2002.
The Maloof family reached a deal with the city of Sacramento in March for a new arena after a long, tourtous battle that last year saw the team almost move to Anaheim, Calif.
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That skirmishing starts with the 2011 payroll tax cut which, after a bruising battle last December, Congress extended only to the end of February.
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Aubry, in a sworn statement that helped him gain a temporary restraining order against Martinez on Monday, said the fight in Berry's driveway last Thursday morning was apparently motivated by the custody battle, which Berry recently lost.
But he made it clear last night: The health care battle is a moment for history.
"The forwards were in a battle last week, " said Wales assistant coach Robin McBryde.
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