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This disastrous French naval defeat is known as the Battle of Les Saintes.
What's more, 30,000 people pledged 750,000 hours of volunteer time to defeat pro-impeachment legislators in the 2000 election.
And that is why Gingrich and Dole did not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
A "clear sign," according to the Guardian , "that despite his defeat, President Slobodan Milosevic is still trying to ethnically engineer the future of the devastated province."
Reasons for the defeat: 1) Voters were sick of the country's lousy economy; 2) they were sick of the ruling party's tradition of rigging elections; and 3) this time, the ruling party neglected to rig the election.