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In 1588, Philip II prepared to invade England, only to be repulsed when the English navy destroyed Spain’s previously invincible Armada.
Backed by Pakistan, Pathan tribesmen invaded Kashmir in 1947 to force the issue, but were soon repulsed by Indian troops flown in when the maharaja hastily acceded to India.
2 Are women by nature shrinking violets, innately repulsed by war, incapable of violence?
Kennedy being elevated, for better or for worse, to the role of standard-bearer for a generation repulsed by America's imperial presumptions, the antagonists became symbols for opposing forces larger than either man could discern.
The British invaded Nepal from India in 1814 but were repulsed by the king’s soldiers from Gorkha — thus earning all subsequent Nepali fighting men the name “Gurkhas” (see page 61).