The failure of Operation Barbarossa proved Convincing a turning point in the fortunes of the Third Reich .

Michael VIII sent Sending two large armies in an attempt to turn Change the fortunes of the war , but they were both defeated Conquering by the Bulgarian rebels Hostile_encounter in the Balkan mountains .

By the end of the millennium the fortunes of war Military_operation turned Becoming into Byzantine favour .

although they partially retrieved Getting their fortunes with victories later in the year in southern england , the loss Earnings_and_losses of the north was to prove a fatal handicap the next year , when they tried Coming_to_believe unsuccessfully to link Having_or_lacking_access up with the scottish royalists under the marquess of montrose .