1.   The knights feasted and wassailed for three days after the battlefield victory.

2.   Also Sunday, Moscow claimed an important battlefield victory, saying its forces had captured part of the village of Tando, a key rebel base.

3.   But at the time, the West looked the other way because the battlefield victories forced Milosevic to sue for peace.

4.   But the head of the alliance delegation said it would not try to use its battlefield victories as leverage during the talks.

5.   His opponent is a war hero whose battlefield victory has dissolved into a political stalemate.

6.   The Bosnian Serb commander, Gen. Ratko Mladic, told aides last week that he would try to punch back at the Croats by getting a battlefield victory soon.

7.   The general will try to restore confidence by gaining a battlefield victory in the coming days, the aide said.

8.   But Croatia, flush with recent battlefield victories, swiftly rejected the offer.

9.   But Croatia, flush with recent battlefield victories, swiftly rejected the offer and turned its guns toward Knin.

10.   Congo government and rebel forces have both launched ambitious radio campaigns claiming battlefield victories since Tutsi forces launched the rebellion earlier this month.