In besieging Besieging Bayonne , Alfonso the Battler was perhaps hoping to persuade the Count of Toulouse to switch Change allegiance to him and aid Assistance him in his war in Castile .

The battle is considered one of the largest and most eventful fought Hostile_encounter in the 18th century , and has perhaps the largest number of fatalities in a single day reported Reporting in a classic formation battle between two armies .

The Russians tried to interfere Hindering , sensing perhaps a vacuum was occurring Coming_to_be in China , and their forces Military_operation might intercede Judgment_communication .

As a result , vital clues about the purpose of the poem and perhaps its date have been lost Earnings_and_losses .

From a peak of perhaps 3000 men the force had diminished Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by half at Colinton , and then further dispersed Dispersal as the group headed Self_motion home towards Galloway .

The Republican military commander in Madrid was nominally a Spanish general , Jose Miaja , but Soviet military personnel were perhaps more important .

It remains the most powerful Change and deadliest Motion hurricane Catastrophe in recorded New England history , perhaps eclipsed Lighting in landfall intensity only by the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Marton or Meretum took place Process_start on approximately 22 March 871 at a place recorded Recording as Marton , perhaps in Wiltshire or Dorset .

It involved Participation thousands of ships in more than 100 convoy Patrolling battles Hostile_encounter and perhaps 1,000 single-ship encounters Hostile_encounter , in a theatre Social_event covering Filling millions of square miles of ocean .

The English border was not far distant ; all of the local castles were strongly held Defending by Edward 's forces Causation ; and , perhaps most important of all , the Lordship of Galloway , the old Balliol patrimony , was adjacent to Carrick , and many of the local families were hostile to King Robert the Bruce and his cause .

The Ottoman forces were smaller , perhaps around 25,000 strong under the overall command Control of General Khalil Pasha .

About 60 people were reported Reporting killed Killing in what is considered perhaps the deadliest strike Attack since the drone attacks Attack started Process_start .