After the Spanish soldiers defeated the Aztec empire, they were able to seize the supplies of cacao and send them home.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

And later still, during the War of 1812, the Americans defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

And later still, during the War of Eighteen Twelve, the Americans defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain.

VOA: special.2010.08.30

In college basketball, a small school with a young coach nearly defeated a longtime powerhouse team for the national championship.

VOA: special.2010.04.10

In eighteen sixty-three, Union forces defeated Confederate forces in the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War the Battle of Gettysburg.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

In nineteen ninety the Indomitable Lions, as they are called, defeated defending champion Argentina and reached the quarterfinals.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

He served five terms. In nineteen fifty-eight, McCarthy defeated a Republican Party senator and won a seat in the United States Senate.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

The next day, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and supporter of the defeated Confederacy, shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

The Union army there had just been defeated in a battle along a little river called the Chickamauga.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

But he said McClellan was a good organizer who could build the defeated army into a strong force.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Barbara Klein explains. On February fifth, the University of Tennessee women's basketball team defeated the University of Georgia.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

They would not surrender. The war would not end until the Confederate armies were defeated by military force.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

On June fourteenth, the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Orlando Magic to win the National Basketball Association championship.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

True,he had lost the political fight to control the re-building, or reconstruction, of the defeated southern states.

VOA: special.2010.02.11