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...Middle Ages, Rhodes served as a stopping point for European Crusaders, until it was taken from the Byzantine Empire in 1309 by the Christian Knights of St. John, who needed a new base after their ignominious rout from Jerusalem. The Knights refortified the island, building a huge bastion on the site of the Colossus, and withstood sieges by the Egyptians and Turks, finally surrendering in 1522 to a vastly larger Ottoman Turkish force...
...Cornell lacrosse team won its 29th straight game and its second consecutive NCAA championship Saturday, unleashing an awesome first-half barrage and going on to rout Johns Hopkins...
After a disappointing 5-2 indoor season, Crimson Coach Bill McCurdy thought Princeton might win by five points but a combination of consistency and luck turned the expected squeaker into a rout...
Predun's outburst fell one point short of the Harvard record established by Grady Watts, Harvard's leading career scorer, in 1960 and tied 12 years later by John Hagerty in the annual rout over perennially overmatched MIT. Those two players were attackmen; Predun's effort was the best ever by a Harvard midfielder...
...Communists-and Chiang Ch'ing-were headquartered at Yenan until 1947, when a Nationalist attack finally dislodged them. More than two years of bitter civil war followed, ending in the rout of Nationalist forces and their retreat to Taiwan. On Oct. 1, 1949, Mao Tse-tung stood atop Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace and proclaimed the People's Republic of China...