During the siege of the rebel fortress of Lapara, however, sometime in the summer of 976, Skleros's army attacked unexpectedly, routing the loyalist army.
That he'd try to recruit a loyalist army is to be expected.
Everyone is now convinced that the loyalist army is a joke, and President Mobutu Sese Seko is finished.
In February 1081, Melissenos's troops took Nicaea, where he was acclaimed as emperor, and defeated a loyalist army under the eunuch John.
There is an insurrectionary army and a loyalist army: they feint at each other like two blindfolded boxers and end up fleeing in opposite directions.
Largely recruited by the American Communist Party, some 2,800 Americans went to Spain as volunteers in the loyalist army.
It was described by the UDA as "the nucleus of a new loyalist army at the ready".
The rebels outnumbered the loyalist army that Amalickiah commands.
Cato and Macro's army are forced to abandon the walls and fall back to the royal enclosure as the enemy numbers overwhelm the loyalist army.
They defeated a loyalist army in November, and were defeated only in May 793 by an expedition under Emperor Constantine VI himself.