We found ourselves outnumbered day after wretched day.

(...) Italians outnumbered Brazilians two to one in São Paulo.

By the start of the 20th century, the French outnumbered the British two to one.

The Danes, heavily outnumbered, would have been wiped out if the tide had not risen.

Some of their equipment, such as tanks, outnumbered the Iranians' by at least five to one.

In the face of a seemingly massive Iraqi military presence, Saudi Arabia's own forces were well armed but far outnumbered.

The Allied forces, numbering about 89,000, seemed to be far superior and would be tempted to attack an outnumbered French army.

European Americans were outnumbered by the African American slaves they brought with them, and ethnic Europeans remained a minority in the territory.

Finally, it moved to attack Athens, landing at the bay of Marathon, where it was met by a heavily outnumbered Athenian army.

In east London neighborhood Bethnal Green, a video shows youth smashing bottles and store front windows, as outnumbered police move towards them with raised shields.

Death at the Battle of Bosworth Field On 22 August 1485, Richard met the outnumbered forces of Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

Charles's army did not engage the Covenanters as the king feared the defeat of his forces, whom he believed to be significantly outnumbered by the Scots.

The Lords Spiritual, as members of the clergy with seats in the House of Lords were known, were for the first time outnumbered by the Lords Temporal.

The vastly outnumbered Greeks held off the Persians for seven days (including three of battle) before the rear guard was annihilated in one of history's most famous last stands.

Although outnumbered two to one, Lee committed his entire force, while McClellan sent in less than three quarters of his army, enabling Lee to fight the Federals to a standstill.

The mission proved to be a disaster for the Spanish, as they were outnumbered and outgunned, and in 1697, the Spanish government signed the Treaty of Ryswick, renouncing any claims to Hôpital.

Saitō, along with the few remaining men of the Shinsengumi who went with him, fought against the imperial army at Nyorai dō (a small temple near Aizuwakamatsu Castle), where they were severely outnumbered.

Before that, some people had the chance to upload photographs to services like twitpic. M_Na7as uploaded the photograph below on his twitpic account showing how the protesters outnumbered the security forces in the city of El Mahalla.

Despite a desperate last ditch defence of the city by the massively outnumbered Christian forces (c. 7,000 men, 2,000 of whom were foreign), Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans after a two month siege on 29 May 1453.

Tsarist period In May, 1865, Mikhail Grigorevich Chernyayev (Cherniaev), acting against the direct orders of the tsar, and outnumbered at least 15 1 staged a daring night attack against a city with a wall long with 11 gates and 30,000 defenders.

The Soviet Armed Forces in the western Soviet Union was outnumbered at the start of the invasion, with about 3.8 million of the Axis in the Eastern Front in June 1941 facing about 2.6 2.7 million Soviets in the western Soviet Union, and an overall Soviet force of 5.3 5.5 million.

Despite being outnumbered 10 1 in the air, Iran's air defense system downed many Iraqi aircraft (50 60 jets total 10 of Iraq's air force), allowing Iran to provide close air support with their smaller air force, which also proved superior in dogfighting, causing the Iraqis to temporarily stop providing their troops air support.

With no easily accessible outlet to fence their stolen goods, pirates were reduced to a subsistence livelihood, and following almost a century of naval warfare between the British, French and Spanish during which sailors could find easy employment lone privateers found themselves outnumbered by the powerful ships employed by the British Empire to defend its merchant fleets.