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They were repulsed at Hispaniola by a strong Spanish force and decided to take Jamaica as a consolation prize.
Most critics, such as the Los Angeles Times ' Kenneth Turan, are repulsed, calling it "a cinema of humiliation, embarrassment, and misery."
Two rather half-hearted Spanish attempts to establish footholds on Guadeloupe were repulsed by the Caribs.
In 1588, Philip II prepared to invade England, only to be repulsed when the English navy destroyed Spain’s previously invincible Armada.
The Wall Street Journal runs an AP dispatch stating that the Chechens have "repulsed" Russian forces.