A fratricidal war began between the Yugoslav Partisans and the Chetniks in late October 1941. Fratricidal wars and foreign invasions frequently disturbed the land. The legionaries' fratricidal carnage was interrupted only by short breaks used to tighten their formations. King Alfonso XIII abdicated to prevent a "fratricidal civil war". She records the fratricidal conflict between her brothers with a sense of grief. However, it had clearly been a fratricidal conflict, resulting in some 50,000 deaths. The succession led to the 1445 Division of Altenburg and the subsequent Saxon Fratricidal War. But the fratricidal war which breaks out between the two cities destroys this harmony. The coalition was never formed, however, and the fratricidal struggles within Georgia were soon resumed. These bacteria can employ a predatory fratricidal mechanism for active acquisition of homologous DNA.