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1539-Construction of the first fortified defenses at Castillo San Felipe del Morro and La Fortaleza, with batteries aimed at the harbor entrance.
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At that time the entire frontier was being fortified for the first time.
Dutch forces first established independent bases in the East ( most significantly Batavia, the heavily fortified headquarters of the Dutch East India Company ) and then between 1640 and 1660 wrestled Malacca, Ceylon, some southern Indian ports, and the lucrative Japan trade from the Portuguese.
He built a fortified capital at Ngazargamu, to the west of Lake Chad ( in present-day Niger ), the first permanent home a Sayfawa mai had enjoyed in a century.
During his reign, Janiculum Hill on the western bank was fortified further to protect Rome, and the first bridge across the Tiber River was built.
Saladin first fortified the Citadel of Cairo ( 1175 – 1183 ), which had been a domed pleasure pavilion with a fine view in more peaceful times.
Later he established the first diocese in Germany north of the old Roman Limes at the Frankish fortified settlement of Büraburg, on a prominent hill facing the town across the Eder River.
* Singapore emerges for the first time as a fortified city and trading centre of some importance.
Despite this legendary history, the first authenticated history of Totnes is in AD 907, when it was fortified by King Edward the Elder as part of the defensive ring of burhs built around Devon, replacing one built a few years earlier at nearby Halwell.
** Shanghai is fortified for the first time.
The first fortified settlements, Asva and Ridala on the island of Saaremaa and Iru in the Northern Estonia began to be built.
It is usually thought that the first such camp in the general area of today's Khabarovsk was the fortified winter camp named Achansk () or Achansky gorodok (), built by the Cossacks of Yerofey Khabarov in September 1651 after they had sailed to the area from the upper Amur.
The first winery in Alta California was built in San Juan Capistrano in 1783 ; both red and white wines ( sweet and dry ), brandy, and a port-like fortified wine called Angelica were all produced from the Mission grape.
Rehoboam, the first king of Judah, fortified the city of Aijalon, supplying officers, weapons and food provisions ().
Having crossed the Cottian Alps at the Mont Cenis pass, he first came to Segusium ( Susa, Italy ), a heavily fortified town containing a military garrison, which shut its gates to him.
In the last decade of the 8th century, Norse raiders began attacking targets in Ireland and, beginning in the mid-9th century, these raiders established the fortified camps that later grew into Ireland's first cities: Dublin, Limerick, Waterford, Wexford, and Cork.
The stronghold at the edge of the Chinon forest overlooking the Indre Valley was first fortified in the eleventh century by the Norman seigneur of Ussé, Gueldin de Saumur, who surrounded the fort with a palisade on a high terrace.
The first mention of Middelburg was as one of three fortified towns ( i. e., borgs ) erected on Walcheren ( then an island ) to guard against Viking raids.
The area was first fortified by the Saxons in the 6th or 7th century.
In 1093 Roger of Montgomery built the first castle at the site when he fortified the promontory during the Norman invasion of Wales.
The first land battle of the revolution south of New England was fought here in 1775, and in 1780 the British fortified the strategically important frontier town.
During the winter of 1861 and early 1862 the town was significantly fortified by the Confederacy and served as a supply depot for both sides at various points in the war, and is famous for being the site of the construction of the first railroad ever built exclusively for military use, the Centreville Military Railroad.
In 1309 the town was under the rule of the Teutonic Knights, who during the first half of the fourteenth century fortified Chojnice, expanded the area belonging to the city and eventually released in the year 1360 a new foundation document.
The name is Conisbrough is descended from the Old English Cyningesburh ( first recorded c. 1000 ) meaning " king's stronghold " or " king's fortified place ".
* Above the church rises the vertical flank of the rocher surmounted by the fortified Citadel that was first built in the 11th century to control the Meuse valley.
The first element, " dun " translated from Gaelic, has been accepted as a ( fortified ) hill, and is assumed to be referring to the rocky outcrop at the site of Malcolm Canmore's tower in Pittencrieff Glen ( now Pittencrieff Park ).
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The first quarter of the game was completely dominated by both teams ' defenses.
The two teams ' defenses seemed to dominate most of the first half.
** Battle of the Kasserine Pass: German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia ; it is the United States ' first major battle defeat of the war.
The Monschau-Düren road was quickly cut, but both regiments were slowed by defenses and suffered significant casualties: the 60th ′ s 2nd battalion was reduced to a third after the first day.
Aleixo Garcia was the first European to cross the Chaco and even managed to penetrate the outer defenses of the Inca Empire on the hills of the Andes ( near Sucre ), in present-day Bolivia.
Indeed, according to game theory, the side not building large-scale missile defenses would have an incentive to launch a pre-emptive first strike while such a strike could still get through.
Because of these incursions, the Qing government began constructing a series of coastal defenses and on 12 October 1885 Taiwan was made a province, with Liu Mingchuan serving as the first governor.
* In the film Gettysburg one can see the 14th Brooklyn during the first day of battle, and the 114th Pennsylvania briefly as the Union are building up defenses on the high grounds outside Gettysburg that night after the first day of battle.
In his first two title defenses, Holmes easily knocked out Alfredo Evangelista and Ossie Ocasio.
Theodosius used this opportunity to strengthen the walls of Constantinople, building the city's first sea wall, and to build up his border defenses along the Danube.
On 19 March, the first U. S. action was taken when 114 Tomahawk missiles launched by US and UK warships destroyed shoreline air defenses of the Gaddafi regime.
The arrival of National Guard units at the end of September provided the first ground defenses for Clark Field.
With the onset of attacks from Cossacks, White Guards, pogromists, and later the Red Army, the Ukrainian Black Cross took on a unique secondary role preparing city defenses and organizing the first urban army in Ukrainian history.
This was designed to unhinge the formidable German Gustav Line defenses some to the southeast which had been under attack from the south by the other three corps ( one British, one French and one U. S .) of Mark Clark's United States Fifth Army since 16 January in the first Battle of Monte Cassino.
The first major battle between the two armies, at the Russian defenses of Borodino, was one of the bloodiest single days in human history, with estimates of at least 65, 000 dead.
At first they used dive bombers with some success in this role, but their successes were countered by ever-increasing anti-aircraft defenses on the Royal Navy ships they were attacking.
Skippered by John Bertrand, she was the first successful Cup challenger, ending a 132-year tenure ( with 26 successful defenses ) by the New York Yacht Club.
The first attack by Rommel's army was driven back however the other three were met with success and by six o ' clock they had successfully breached the French defenses.
The two would dine at Romanoff's and " pool their defenses about what Hitchcock thought was a first class script.
He managed to penetrate the outer defenses of the Inca Empire on the hills of the Andes, in present-day Bolivia, the first European to do so, eight years before Francisco Pizarro.
In 1943 the Japanese established light defenses at Eniwetok — they believed that the Americans would strike at the southwestern Marshalls first.
The then Lieutenant Rozhestvensky volunteered to lead the first attack against the Turkish warships, but his torpedo boat became caught up in the rope boom defenses that protected the enemy ships.
It has three layers of defences, the first being the central fort itself with its earthen defenses built during the 1st century.
Even the citizens of Clan Blood Spirit were armed and supported the final defenses of Blood Spirit enclaves ( previously doing this was part of the evidence used to call the Trial in the first place ).
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