The Communists had incorrectly estimated that there were only 12,000 Nationalist soldiers on the entire island-a calculation that would contribute to their calamitous defeat.

Bayern Munich experienced a calamitous 5-2 defeat at Bayer Leverkusen, which was involved in an intense battle to avoid relegation last season but is now third in the league.

Gone is the time when Arabs had to turn for the truth to the BBC, as in the Six Day War of 1967, when Egyptians learned from London of a calamitous defeat even as Cairo trumpeted triumph.

Frederick was blamed by both Pope Honorius III and the general Christian populace for this calamitous defeat.

One need not recount the particulars of that calamitous defeat, so grimly familiar are they to His Majesty, nor the details of the appalling losses to famine and disease of the flower of the Empire upon the long retreat to Asia.

It "was the most calamitous defeat of all the German armed forces in World War II".

Since 236 BC, Qin had been launching several assaults on Zhao, which had been devastated by its calamitous defeat at the Battle of Changping three decades ago.

As an explanation of Germany's calamitous defeat in the Soviet Union, this had little to commend it.

Now a quaint tourist town, this was enemy territory for Burnside, who was on his way to a calamitous defeat at the hands of Robert E. Lee's 75,000 Confederates.

In the late 11th century catastrophe struck with the unexpected and calamitous defeat of the imperial armies at the Battle of Manzikert in Armenia in 1071.