Infobox Military Conflict conflict Battle of Rafa image File Powles p.73 Rafa.jpg 200px alt Line of dismounted ... The Battle of Rafa also known by the British as the Action of Rafah took place on 9 January 1917 at el Magruntein to the south of Rafa, close to the frontier between the Sultanate of Egypt s Sinai ... year 2004 publisher Reed Books location Auckland isbn 9780790009414 Refend DEFAULTSORT Rafa, Battle ... at Rafa partof Middle Eastern theatre of World War I date 9 January 1917 place On the Sinai Palestine ... Nomenclature Committee 1922, p. 31 ref This was to be the third and final battle in the Sinai ... Redoubt redoubts . After the British Empire victories at the Battle of Romani in August 1916 and the Battle ... on Rafa by the newly formed Desert Mounted Corps Desert Column possible. The Australian light horsemen ... their victory at the Battle of Romani on 4 August 1916, British mounted forces supported by infantry ... Brigade but with the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade attached, during a day long battle, won a victory at the Battle of Magdhaba which secured the British occupation of Arish El Arish on the Mediterranean ..., which was found suitable for cars and guns, running from El Arish towards Rafa. A further reconnaissance ... to within sight of El Magruntein the main Rafa defences, and reported on Ottoman activity. ref Falls ... of the Sinai Peninsula. He ordered the advance from El Arish to Rafa, a distance of convert ... Ottoman soldiers digging defences south of Rafa in the area of El Magruntein. British air patrols on 7 ... Empire force and or quickly reinforce Rafa. ref name Cutlack49 51 While the British air patrols ... in the air all day covering the assembly for the attack on Rafa. ref name Cutlack49 51 Prelude Lieutenant ... at 16 00 towards Rafa where a 2,000 strong Ottoman garrison was based. Chetwode s force was the same as Major General Harry Chauvel Henry Chauvel commanded during the Battle of Magdhaba in December ... north of El Arish . ref Powles 1922, p. 68 ref ref name Falls263 The plan for the attack at Rafa the next ... more details
Rafa or RAFA can refer to Places Rafah , a town in Gaza Strip Rafa, Kuyavian Pomeranian , a village in central northeast Poland People Rafa is short for Rafael Rafael Nadal Rafael Rafa Nadal born 1986 , Spanish tennis player Rafael Benitez Rafael Rafa Benitez born 1960 , Spanish football manager and former player Organisations Royal Air Forces Association disambig it Rafa ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Infobox settlement official name Rafa nickname motto image skyline image flag image seal image map map caption pushpin map United Arab Emirates coordinates display inline,title coordinates region AE subdivision type Country subdivision name United Arab Emirates subdivision type1 Emirate subdivision name1 Sharjah emirate Sharjah subdivision name2 established title established date established title2 established date2 government type leader title leader name area magnitude area total sq mi area total km2 area land sq mi area land km2 area water sq mi area water km2 area urban sq mi area urban km2 area metro km2 area metro sq mi population as of population footnotes population total population urban population metro population density sq mi population density km2 timezone utc offset timezone DST utc offset DST latd 25 latm 21 lats 0 latNS N longd 56 longm 21 longs 0 longEW E elevation footnotes elevation ft 131 elevation m 39 website footnotes Rafa is the name of a settlement in Sharjah emirate Sharjah . Category Populated places in Sharjah UnitedArabEmirates geo stub ... more details
Infobox football biography playername Rafa Jord image fullname Rafael Jord Ruiz de Assin dateofbirth birth date and age 1984 1 11 df y cityofbirth Santa Perp tua de Mogoda Santa Perp tua countryofbirth Spain height convert 1.91 m ftin 0 abbr on position Forward association football Centre forward Centre forward currentclub Levante UD Levante clubnumber 9 youthyears1 2000 2001 youthclubs1 CF Damm youthyears2 2001 2002 youthclubs2 Valencia CF Valencia youthyears3 2002 2003 youthclubs3 CD Numancia Numancia years1 2003 2004 clubs1 CD Numancia B Numancia B caps1 goals1 years2 2004 2008 clubs2 CD Numancia Numancia caps2 47 goals2 7 years3 2004 clubs3 CM Peralta Peralta loan caps3 17 goals3 8 years4 2006 clubs4 Benidorm CF Benidorm loan caps4 18 goals4 9 years5 2008 2009 clubs5 Alicante CF Alicante caps5 13 goals5 3 years6 2009 clubs6 H rcules CF H rcules caps6 0 goals6 0 years7 2010 clubs7 Levante UD Levante caps7 34 goals7 7 nationalyears1 2010 nationalteam1 Catalonia football team Catalonia nationalcaps1 1 nationalgoals1 0 pcupdate 6 November 2011 Spanish name Jord Ruiz de Assin Rafael Rafa Jord Ruiz de Assin born 11 January 1984 in Santa Perp tua de Mogoda , Province of Barcelona Barcelona , Catalonia is a Spain Spanish Association football footballer who plays for Levante UD as a Forward association football Centre forward centre forward . External links http www.levanteud.com plantilla jugador 347 rafael jorda ruiz de assin.html Levante official profile es icon http www.bdfutbol.com ... Futbolme profile es icon http www.transfermarkt.co.uk en rafa jorda leistungsdaten spieler 51578.html ... Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Jorda, Rafa ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Spanish footballer ... PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Jorda, Rafa Spain footy striker stub Category 1984 births Category Living ... Category Levante UD footballers ca Rafael Jord Ruiz de As n es Rafa Jord fr Rafa Jord it Rafa Jord fi Rafa Jord ... more details
Rafa Villar Cee, Galicia , 1968 is a Galicia Spain Galician writer noted especially in the field of poetry . He has a degree in Galician Portuguese Philology from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela , and works in the linguistic normalization service of the Confederaci n Intersindical Galega . He was spokesman for the national operator of the Plataforma Nunca M is and part of the directive of the Galician Writers Association . He is a member of the Batall n Literario da Costa da Morte and was also one of the founders and promoters of the publishing firm Letras de Cal . He began to become known in the year 1991, when he won the Premio Ferm n Bouza Brey for new authors with Liques da Memoria . He is interested in alternative publishing formats, and was one of the first Galician authors to digitize their works. He has his own personal website, Mares de Simbad, where he offers part of his body of poetry along with articles on the topic of creating and editing literature. He also participated in the creation of the digital publisher Retagarda Edici ns , which offers books on disk. He won the Premio C maros Verdes , awarded by the city of Vilagarc a de Arousa , for his book Casa ou sombra . As a narrator, he won the Premio Curuxa do Humor for short stories. References http www.empresas.mundo r.com mico luagris luagris autores rvillar.htm About Rafa Villar Persondata NAME Villar, Rafa ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Galicia Spain Galician writer DATE OF BIRTH 1968 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Villar, Rafa Category 1968 births Category Galician poets Category Living people Spain writer stub gl Rafa Villar ... more details
Infobox Kibbutz kibbutz name Ein Rafa image PikiWiki Israel 9555 Geography of Israel.JPG imgsize 250 foundation 1940s founded by Barhom family region Jerusalem corridor council Mateh Yehuda Regional Council Mateh Yehuda industry affiliation website http einrafa.com einrafa.com Ein Rafa lang ar or lang he is an Arab citizens of Israel Israeli Arab village ten kilometers west of Jerusalem , Israel . Located across Route 1 Israel Route 1 from Abu Ghosh , it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council . In 2006 it had a population of 865. History Ein Rafa was founded in the 1940s when the Barhom family moved from the nearby village of Suba, Jerusalem Suba into the valley. It expanded after 1948 when several other families left Suba and settled there. ref B. Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited , Cambridge University Press 2004, p436. ref Most of the residents of the village are descended from the Barhom family. ref http www.haaretz.com weekend magazine family affair 1.233742 Family Affair, Haaretz ref In 2007, there was controversy when one home built without a permit was demolished in the village. ref http www.haaretz.com weekend magazine family affair 1.233742 Family Affair, Haaretz ref Education and culture In a co existence project in Ein Rafa, children and teachers from the local school meet with Jewish children for joint activities in which they share food and games and become more trusting of one another. ref http education.guardian.co.uk egweekly story 0,,1186055,00.html The ripple effect The Guardian , 6 April 2004 ref See also Projects working for peace among Arabs and Israelis List of Arab localities in Israel List of Arab villages in Israel populated with Internally Displaced Palestinians References Reflist External links commonscat http einrafa.com Village website ar icon Mateh Yehuda Regional ... cs Ajn Rafa he pl Ein Rafa ... more details
Infobox football biography name Rafa G mez image fullname Rafael G mez Llorens birth date birth date and age 1983 5 23 df y birth place Alicante , Spain height convert 1.79 m ftin 0 abbr on currentclub CD Alcoyano Alcoyano clubnumber 20 position Forward association football Forward youthyears1 youthclubs1 Kelme years1 2002 2007 clubs1 Elche CF Ilicitano Elche B caps1 goals1 years2 2003 2004 clubs2 Yeclano Deportivo Yeclano loan caps2 goals2 years3 2004 clubs3 Caudal Deportivo Caudal caps3 11 goals3 0 years4 2007 2008 clubs4 Torrellano Illice CF Torrellano caps4 15 goals4 9 years5 2008 2009 clubs5 CD Alcoyano Alcoyano caps5 45 goals5 11 years6 2009 2011 clubs6 Elche CF Elche caps6 8 goals6 0 years7 2010 clubs7 Sangonera Atl tico CF Sangonera loan caps7 4 goals7 0 years8 2011 clubs8 CD Alcoyano Alcoyano caps8 1 goals8 0 nationalyears1 nationalteam1 nationalcaps1 nationalgoals1 pcupdate 11 September 2011 ntupdate spanish name G mez Llorens Rafael Rafa G mez Llorens born 23 May 1983 in Alicante , Valencian Community is a Spain Spanish Association football footballer who plays for CD Alcoyano as a Forward association football forward . Football career After spending five years at local Elche CF without receiving one single first team opportunity, G mez played in the following years mostly in the Tercera Divisi n fourth division , but also spent some months in the fifth with Torrellano Illice CF , also in Valencian Community Valencia . In the 2009 summer, after helping CD Alcoyano to the unsuccessful promotion playoffs to Segunda Divisi n , he signed a two year deal with first club Elche, with the side in that same category. Two years later, he returned to his previous team. External ...?id jugador 824 Futbolme profile es icon http www.transfermarkt.co.uk en rafa gomez leistungsdaten spieler ... . NAME G mez, Rafa ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rafael G mez Llorens SHORT DESCRIPTION Footballer DATE OF BIRTH 23 June 1983 PLACE OF BIRTH Alicante , Spain DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Gomez, Rafa ... more details
Infobox basketball player name Rafa Mart nez nickname Pit bull Pitbull image RafaMartinez.jpg caption Rafael Mart nez with Valencia BC . position Shooting guard height ft 6 height in 2.75 weight lbs 180 league Liga ACB Spanish League br Euroleague team Valencia BC number 17 nationality Spain Spanish birth date Birth date and age 1982 3 3 birth place Santpedor , Barcelona , Spain career start 1999 career end former teams Basquet Manresa 1999 00 & 2003 08 br Club Basket Vic 2000 01 br CB Valls F lix Hotel 2001 03 awards MedalTableTop MedalSport Men s Basketball MedalCountry ESP MedalCompetition Mediterranean Games MedalBronze 2005 Mediterranean Games 2005 Almer a Basketball at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Team Competition MedalBottom Rafael Martinez Aguilera , known as Rafa Mart nez Born March 3, 1982 in Santpedor , Barcelona , Spain is a Spanish people Spanish basketball player. He plays shooting guard position and his current team is Valencia BC Power Electronics Valencia of the Spanish Liga ACB ACB League . Pro career Rafa Mart nez started playing basketball for Basquet Manresa eventually rising from clubs junior team ranks. The team previously played in the Spanish second division Liga Espa ola de Baloncesto LEB but was promoted to the Liga ACB Spanish League for the 1999 2000 season where on October 9, 1999 he made his professional debut in the top Spanish league against FC Barcelona B squet FC Barcelona . The following season he spent in the Basketball team Club Basket Vic . After spending two years in the Valls Felix Hotel in LEB 2, he returned to the Basquet Manresa in 2003. In 2008 he joined Valencia BC team that later won the ULEB Eurocup Eurocup in 2010. In the 2009 10 season he had the best three point percentage in the ACB League. Spanish national team He has ... see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Martinez, Rafa ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mart nez Aguilera, Rafael SHORT ... PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Martinez, Rafa Category 1982 births Category Living people Category Liga ... more details
Infobox football biography playername Rafa Berenguer image caption fullname Rafael Berenguer Soriano dateofbirth birth date and age 1982 11 6 df y cityofbirth Alicante countryofbirth Spain height convert 1.78 m ftin 0 abbr on currentclub clubnumber position Defender association football Centre back Centre back youthyears1 youthclubs1 H rcules CF H rcules youthyears2 youthclubs2 Alicante CF Alicante years1 2001 2002 clubs1 Alicante CF B Alicante B caps1 goals1 years2 2002 2003 clubs2 Real Avil s caps2 5 goals2 0 years3 2003 2004 clubs3 H rcules CF B H rcules B caps3 goals3 years4 2004 clubs4 H rcules CF H rcules caps4 1 goals4 0 years5 2004 clubs5 Calasparra FC Calasparra caps5 0 goals5 0 years6 2004 2005 clubs6 Ontinyent CF Ontinyent caps6 goals6 years7 2005 clubs7 Crevillente Deportivo Crevillente caps7 goals7 years8 2005 2006 clubs8 CF Sporting Mahon s Sporting Mahon s caps8 goals8 years9 2006 clubs9 Algeciras CF Algeciras caps9 17 goals9 0 years10 2006 2007 clubs10 Lucena CF Lucena caps10 48 goals10 7 years11 2008 clubs11 V lez CF V lez caps11 16 goals11 1 years12 2008 2009 clubs12 CD Eldense caps12 31 goals12 0 years13 2009 2010 clubs13 Crevillente Deportivo Crevillente caps13 34 goals13 1 years14 2010 2011 clubs14 Novelda CF Novelda caps14 goals14 pcupdate 12 December 2011 spanish name 2 Berenguer Soriano Rafael Berenguer Soriano born 6 November 1982 is a retired Spain Spanish Association football footballer who played as a Defender association football Centre back central defender . Football career Berenguer played in the ranks of H rcules CF and Alicante CF . He has been professional throughout his career although he played in the Segunda Divisi n B third and Tercera Divisi n fourth level of Spanish football . ref http www.diarioinformacion.com secciones noticia.jsp ... su equipo con Rafa Berenguer Eldense strengthens its team with Berenguer Diario Informaci n, 18 June ... noticia.php?n 7739 El Novelda CF ficha al defensa Rafa Berenguer Rafa Berenguer signed for Novelda ... more details
www.fcbarcelona.cat web english futbol temporada 11 12 futbol b plantilla jugadors Rafa Alcantara.html ... Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Rafa Alcantara ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rafinha SHORT DESCRIPTION ... DEFAULTSORT Rafa Alcantara Category 1993 births Category Living people Category People from ... more details
Summary Non free use rationale Description Screenshot showing the cover art of Rafa Nadal Tennis for Nintendo DS Source http www.xtrmgame.fr images rafa 20nadal 20tennis 20ds.jpg Article Rafa Nadal Tennis Portion Original media package Low resolution Yes, image is low resolution Purpose To identify and illustrate the game or program in its own article or a closely related article. Replaceability No free equivalent of this image exists. Other non free images can be easily provided. other information This image does not allow users to make illegal copies of the software, and does not diminish the copyright holder s ability to market the software. Licensing Non free game cover Nintendo DS ... more details
Other places3 Rafa disambiguation Rafa Infobox settlement name Rafa settlement type Village total type image flag image shield image map coordinates region PL subdivision type Countries of the world Country subdivision name POL subdivision type1 Voivodeships of Poland Voivodeship subdivision name1 Kuyavian Pomeranian Voivodeship Kuyavian Pomeranian subdivision type2 Powiat County subdivision name2 Bydgoszcz County subdivision type3 Gmina subdivision name3 Gmina D browa Che mi ska D browa Che mi ska latd 53 latm 12 lats latNS N longd 18 longm 13 longs longEW E pushpin map Poland elevation m population total website Rafa IPAc pl r a f a is a village in the administrative district of Gmina D browa Che mi ska , within Bydgoszcz County , Kuyavian Pomeranian Voivodeship , in north central Poland. ref name TERYT cite web url http www.stat.gov.pl broker access prefile listPreFiles.jspa title Central Statistical Office GUS &ndash TERYT National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal date 2008 06 01 language Polish ref It lies convert 6 km mi 0 west of D browa Che mi ska , convert 18 km mi 0 abbr on north east of Bydgoszcz, and convert 33 km mi 0 abbr on north west of Toru . References reflist br Gmina D browa Che mi ska coord 53 12 N 18 13 E region PL type city display title Category Villages in Bydgoszcz County Rafa Bydgoszcz geo stub pl Rafa wojew dztwo kujawsko pomorskie ... more details
Orphan date February 2008 update date November 2010 Infobox video game image Image Rafa Nadal Tennis.jpg 252px Rafa Nadal Tennis also known as Rafael Nadal Tennis is a game that is produced by Codemasters and developed by VirtualToys, and has been released for the Nintendo DS in January 2007 and is scheduled to be released on the Wii on December 27, 2007. The game features tennis athlete Rafael Nadal on the cover and primarily focuses around the sport of tennis . The player must use the stylus to hit the tennis ball and do tricks. The game has a career mode in which there are 20 tournaments at 17 international locations for the player to compete in. The game will also feature multiplayer mode in which up to four people can play. There is also a training school to learn how to do tricks. References http au.codemasters.com games ?format DS Codemaster s official website Rafa Nadal Tennis http 80.81.115.188 index.php?option com content&task blogcategory&id 14&Itemid 33 More information on Rafa Nadal Tennis External links http au.codemasters.com games index.php?gameid 2254 Codemasters website See also Wii Sports video game designed for the wii console that involves several sports, including tennis Category 2007 video games Category Codemasters games Category Nintendo DS games Category Tennis video games Category Video games developed in the United Kingdom Category Wii games Tennis videogame stub fr Rafa Nadal Tennis ... more details
Infobox musical artist See Wikipedia WikiProject Musicians name In Battle image caption image size background group or band origin Sundsvall , Sweden genre Black death metal , viking metal years active 1996 present label Napalm Records br Imperial Dawn Records br Cold Records br Metal Blade Records br Candlelight Records br Nocturnal Art Productions associated acts A Teem br Abyssos br Aeon band Aeon ... In Battle is a Viking metal Viking black death metal band from Sundsvall , Sweden . The main lyrical ... Wiklund on drums. ref name In Battle biography Official Site http inbattle.se site index.php?p history&object biography In Battle biography Official Site ref H kan Sj din left the band early so that he could play with Setherial full time. The band s first album, titled In Battle album In Battle .... ref name In Battle Tartarean Desire http www.tartareandesire.com bands In Battle 828 In Battle ... asking Hans Carlsson guitar of Diabolical band Diabolical to join the band. ref name In Battle biography ... index.cfm?fuseaction user.viewprofile&friendID 49141630 In Battle Myspace ref The album was mixed ... candleweb redesign candle inbattle.htm In Battle Candlelight Records ref Rutan also donated a guitar solo to the album. ref http www.metalblade.com bands in battle index2005.html In Battle ... after that album s release. In 2006 In Battle signed a contract with Nocturnal Art Productions and began working on their 4th full length album, which turned out to be Kingdom of Fear In Battle album Kingdom of Fear . The album was released on September 3, 2007. In Battle are currently working on a fifth ... In Battle news Official Site ref Line up Current members ref name In Battle Tartarean Desire John ... In Battle album In Battle full length, 1997 The Rage of the Northmen full length, 1999 Soul Metamorphosis EP, 2003 Welcome to the Battlefield full length, 2004 Kingdom of Fear In Battle album Kingdom ... groups Category Viking metal musical groups de In Battle it In Battle pl In Battle pt In Battle ... more details
dablink This article is about combat. For other meanings, see Battle disambiguation . Generally, a battle ... force s, or combatants. In a battle, each combatant will seek to defeat the others, with defeat ... was the essence of strategy . Image Sadler, Battle of Waterloo.jpg thumb right 400px The Battle of Waterloo by William Sadler painter William Sadler II Etymology The definition of a battle cannot be arrived ... battle is a loanword in English from the Old French bataille , first attested in 1297, from Late Latin ... in Rome that may have numbered 10,000 individuals. Characteristics of battle history of war The defining characteristic of the battle as a concept in the Theory of combat ref pp.63 64, Dupuy ref has ... Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as something which happens between two army ... ref the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly. In general a battle ... of the battle is longer than a week, it is often for reasons of staff operational planning called an operation . Battles can be planned, encounter battle encountered , or forced by one force on the other when the latter is unable to Withdrawal military withdraw from combat. A battle always ..., Dupuy ref A victory in the battle is achieved when one of the opposing sides forces the other to abandon ... it to retreat or renders it militarily ineffective for further combat operation s. However, a battle ... in a battle, it can result in a stalemate . A conflict in which one side is unwilling to reach a decision by a direct battle using conventional military forces often becomes an insurgency . Until the 19th century the majority of battles were of short duration, many lasting a part of a day. The Battle of Nations 1813 and the Battle of Gettysburg 1863 were exceptional in lasting three days. This was mainly ... military night operations . The means of prolonging a battle was typically by employment of siege ... by the start of the World War II Second World War . The use of the term battle in military history has ... more details
This is the page about the children s book. For the album by heavy metal music heavy metal band Brocas Helm , see Into Battle album . For the EP by avant garde band Art of Noise , see Into Battle with the Art of Noise . Infobox Book name Into Battle title orig translator image File Into Battle Garth Nix coverart.jpg image caption Into Battle book cover author Garth Nix illustrator Steve Rawlings cover artist Joan Moloney country Australian language English language English series The Seventh Tower genre Fantasy publisher Scholastic Corporation Scholastic release date July 2001 english release date media type Print Paperback pages 208 isbn preceded by Above the Veil followed by The Violet Keystone Into Battle is the fifth book in Garth Nix s The Seventh Tower series, published in 2001 by Scholastic Corporation Scholastic . In the book, the Icecarls are preparing to attack the Chosen s Castle to protect the Veil, which lies vulnerable as a mysterious force of evil begins to reveal itself. In this book, the Icecarls are fed up with the Chosen, and prepare to attack the Castle with War Chief Milla Talon Hand at the lead. Milla, trained with a Sunstone, and wielding a talon of Danir, is prepared to defend her army from anything, no matter what the cost. Milla s Icecarl army quickly destroys and conquers the Red and Orange levels, terrorizing all with a Violet Wave of Destruction, produced by her half of the Violet Keystone which she thinks is just a normal Sunstone at first, but slowly begins reconsidering. The cover design and art are by Joan Moloney and Steve Rawlings respectively. Category 2001 novels Category Children s fantasy novels Category Novels by Garth Nix Category 2000s fantasy novels child fantasy novel stub Garth Nix ... more details
infobox military conflict conflict Battle of An partof image File Huahill 2008 09 14.jpg 300px caption Location of the battle at Hua Hill, Jinan. date 589 B.C.E. place Hua Hill , Jinan coordinates coord 36 43 42.96 N 117 3 49.86 E type landmark region CN display inline map type latitude longitude map size map caption map label territory result victory of the State of Jin, alliance between Jin and Qi status combatant1 State of Qi combatant2 Jin Chinese state State of Jin commander1 Wuye, Duke Qin of Qi commander2 Xi Ke strength1 strength2 casualties1 casualties2 notes The Battle of An zh c linktext p linktext Q J n n zh Zh n was fought during the Spring and Autumn Period in 589 B.C.E. at Hua Hill in the area of the present day city of Jinan , Shandong between the states of State of Qi Qi and Jin Chinese state Jin . It ended in a victory for the state of Jin and eventually resulted in an alliance between the two states. Two of the three surviving commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals , the Zuo Zhuan and the Guliang Zhuan describe the event that led to the battle as an insult that an emissary of Jin suffered at the court of Qi ref name battleofan http www.ourorient.com the battle of an between jin and qi for hegemony.htm Jiang Yike, The Battle of An, Between Jin and Qi, For Hegemony ref , but the two accounts differ on the nature of the insult. According to the Zuo Zhuan , the King of Qi allowed women to watch the emissary s visit from behind a screen, women who then insulted the emissary with their laughter. ref name battleofan ref name watson http books.google.com books?id UcYRpKmh W4C Burton Watson The Tso chuan selections from China s oldest narrative history, Columbia University Press, 1992 ref The Guliang Zhuan claims that the King of Qi insulted the emissaries of four visiting states by assigning each of them a server who shared their respective physical defects. ref name battleofan References reflist china hist stub Category 589 BC Category 6th ... more details
The Battle of Rafah refers to any of the military engagements fought in and around Rafah , today in the Gaza Strip Battle of Rafa in World War I Battle of Rafah 1948 in the 1948 Arab Israeli War disambig ... more details
refimprove date December 2010 infobox tennis match match desc Battle of the Surfaces match date May 2, 2007 tournament location Palma de Mallorca player1 Rafael Nadal player2 Roger Federer p1 s1 7 p2 s1 5 p1 s2 4 p2 s2 6 p1 s3 7 sup 12 sup p2 s3 6 sup 10 sup p1 s4 p2 s4 p1 s5 p2 s5 image BattleSurfacesMinibanner.jpg The Battle of Surfaces was a men s tennis exhibition match that was held on May 2, 2007, between Roger Federer , then the top ranked men s player, and Rafael Nadal , then World No. 2. The match was played in the capital city of Nadal s home island, Palma de Mallorca , in front of a home crowd at Palma Arena . Nadal won 7 5, 4 6, 7 6 sup 12 10 sup . The match was played on a unique court with a clay court clay surface on one side of the net and grass court grass on the other. The court cost 1.63 million to make and took 19 days to prepare. At the time, Federer had won 48 straight matches on grass courts, while Nadal had 72 straight wins on clay. ref cite web url http english.donga.com srv service.php3?bicode 070000&biid 2007050416588 title Nadal Wins the Battle of Surfaces author date May 4, 2007 work The Dong a Ilbo publisher accessdate November 26, 2010 ref In the match, Federer won an equal number of points on both surfaces. Nadal won seven fewer points than Federer on grass but twelve more on clay. Before the match, Federer said, blockquote We are both looking forward .... Rafa holds the record of 72 victories in series on clay and I have not been defeated on grass ... which is very nice, by the way is located on Majorca, Rafa s home. He has been to Basel, after all ... en en speziell news detail news 478 kampf der oberflaechen.html title The Battle of Surfaces ... ref blockquote See also Bailey Johnson 150 metre race Battle of the Sexes tennis References reflist ... br Tennis exhibition tournaments DEFAULTSORT Battle Of Surfaces Category Tennis tournaments in Spain ... Tennis matches Category 2007 in Spain ar de The Battle of Surfaces fr Bataille des surfaces ... more details
refer Battle of Langemarck Battle of Langemarck 1914 , part of the First Battle of Ypres Battle of Langemarck 1917 , part of the Third Battle of Ypres disambig ... more details
The Battle of Montevideo may refer to the following battles Battle of Montevideo 1807 Battle of Montevideo 1814 Battle of Montevideo 1843 Battle of Montevideo 1851 Battle of Montevideo 1863 disamb ... more details
Battle of Bornholm may refer to the following battles Battle of Bornholm 1227 Battle of Bornholm 1456 Battle of Bornholm 1535 Action of 7 July 1565 Battle of Bornholm 1565 Battle of Bornholm 1676 , a naval battle between a Danish Dutch and a Swedish fleet during the Scanian War Battle of Bornholm 1945 disamb ... more details
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