Slocum made his reconnaissanace the next morning, found the town empty, accepted the surrender of the mayor and occupied the city a little before noon.

Caesar occupied the town first and defeated the Germans before its walls, slaughtering most of the German army as it tried to flee across the river ( 1. 36ff ).

Fleeing Iran, he arrived in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 1841 — a town that had been occupied by an Anglo-Indian army in 1839 in the First Anglo-Afghan War.

When the other Latins subsequently occupied the empty town of Politorium, Ancus took the town again and demolished it.

Following the dispersal of the Seljuqs the town was occupied by the Sâhib Ata and then the Germiyanids.

The 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment, often hailed as the first armed anti-fascist resistance unit in occupied Europe, was formed in Croatia, in the Brezovica forest near the town of Sisak.

This town fell into decay ( possibly due to an earthquake ) and the Byzantine town of Chonæ occupied a site near its ruins.

The manual talks about killing civilians who try to leave an occupied town and to rationalize their killing, hiring professional assassins, blackmailing citizens into working for the contras, and inciting violence during demonstrations.

The Giza pyramid complex, which includes among other structures the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, is surrounded by a cyclopean stone wall, the Wall of the Crow, and outside of which Mark Lehner has discovered a worker's town, otherwise known as " The Lost City ", dated by pottery styles, seal impressions, and stratigraphy to have been constructed and occupied sometime during the reigns of Khafre ( 2520 – 2494 BC ) and Menkaure ( 2490 – 2472 BC ).

The Lancastrian army occupied the town but the Yorkist forces broke in and a battle took place in the streets of the town.

A major earthquake devastated Gallipoli ( modern Gelibolu ) two years later and Orhan's son Süleyman Paşa occupied the town, giving the Ottomans a strong bridgehead into mainland Europe.

* The Rock, a headland occupied by the original fortified town of Monaco, today's Monaco-Ville

After Germany invaded Poland and occupied the town, his family was placed in a labor camp where his father, a civil engineer familiar with much of the local infrastructure, was a valued prisoner.

During the 1980s, a house was occupied by squatters in almost every town, and the booming punk movement used them to organize concert tours and expositions.

In 1189, the town was briefly occupied by the Serbs.

After the outbreak of World War I in 1915 the town was occupied by the Kingdom of Bulgaria.

He himself occupied the castle town of Edo in Kantō.

* April – Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Sobibor opens in occupied Poland on the outskirts of the town of Sobibór.

* September 22 The town of Reshetylivka in the Soviet Union is occupied by German forces.

** Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Konzentrationslager Lublin ( commonly known as " Majdanek ") opens in occupied Poland on the outskirts of the town Lublin.

** Holocaust: The Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the German concentration camps, opens in occupied Poland near the town of Oświęcim.

This countship, the extent of which seems to have been practically identical with that of the ecclesiastical diocese of Angers, occupied the greater part of what is now the départment of Maine-et-Loire, further embracing, to the north, Craon, Candé, Bazouges ( Château-Gontier ), Le Lude, and to the east, Château-la-Vallière and Bourgueil, while to the south, on the other hand, it included neither the present town of Montreuil-Bellay, nor Vihiers, Cholet, Beaupréau, nor the whole district lying to the west of the Ironne and Thouet, on the left bank of the Loire, which formed the territory of the Mauges.

First, Wright said, he was choked by the smoke, which fortunately kept him from seeing the dreadful town.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

When Sir Edward Greville enclosed the town commons on the Bancroft, Quiney and others leveled his hedges on January 21, 1600/1, and were charged with riot by Sir Edward.

Not only his parishioners, but the whole town and, ultimately, the whole county were enormously impressed by this object lesson.

The `` fruitful course '' of metropolitanization that you recommend is currently practiced by the town of East Greenwich and had its inception long before we learned what it was called.

They buy some supplies from our colored grocers and they are patronized by some of the best white gentlemen in town ''.

The clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.

On Thursday evening we may go out of town together by some stage or mail about the distance of ten or twelve miles.

Although a similar situs for tangible property is mentioned in the statute, this is cancelled out by the provision that definite kinds of property `` and all other tangible property '' situated or being in any town is taxable where the property is situated.

Eighteen voted for assessment by the town in which it is located and eleven preferred assessment by the town in which the owner resides.

To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.

Assessors in Rhode Island are charged not only with placing a valuation upon real and personal property, but they also have the responsibility to raise by a tax `` a sum not less than nor more than '' a specified amount as ordered by a city council or financial town meeting.

As the historic processes of modernization gradually gain momentum, their cohesion will be threatened by divisive forces, the gaps between rulers and subjects, town and country, will widen ; ;

The committee submitted a report signed by Louis Martin and Leon Wiley with a map published in the 1946 town report.

No figures were submitted with the report and no action was taken on it by the town.

The final step was a vote for a $230,000 bond issue for the construction of a sewage system by the 1959 town meeting, later confirmed by a two-thirds vote at a special town meeting June 21, 1960.

On the one hand, there are ecumenists who are so stirred by the crises of the church in its encounter with the world at large that they have no eyes for what the church is doing in their own town.

Gulf Springs was ten miles inland -- more of a quaint old coast town than those along the beach made garish by tourist attractions.

Town after town now succumbed to the Allies.

Immediately after his detention ended, his father brought him to Salerno, the town in which the Royal family and the government had taken refuge after the armistice between Italy and the Allies.

The first men of Davout's corps arrived at this time and threw the Allies out of Telnitz before they too were attacked by hussars and reabandoned the town.

Town after town subsequently fell to the Allies.

After outwitting Marshal Villars to take the town of Tournai on 3 September ( a major and bloody operation ), the Allies turned their attention upon Mons, determined to maintain the ceaseless pressure on the French.

In the First Battle of Ypres ( 12 October to 11 November 1914 ), the Allies captured the town from the Germans.

French reconnaissances had confirmed Saxe in his belief that the Allies would endeavour to relieve Tournai by attempting to force a passage from the south-east via the hamlet of Fontenoy and the small town of Antoing on the Scheldt.

Having been liberated by the Allies in September 1944, the town was recaptured by the Germans in December, during the Battle of the Bulge.

The first men of Davout's corps arrived at this time and threw the Allies out of Telnitz before they too were attacked by hussars and re-abandoned the town.

The 26th Panzer then proceeded to create a formidable defensive complex around the town and along the ridge towards Ortona on the coast and Orsogna was not occupied by the Allies — despite a further two determined attempts during December — until the Germans withdrew after the Allied breakthrough at Cassino in May 1944.

The Gari river ( erroneously identified as the Rapido ) was the site of a bloodily repulsed and ill-conceived assault by the U. S. 36th Infantry Division, led by General Walker from January 20 – 22, 1944 when the Allies were attempting to establish a bridgehead in the vicinity of the town of Sant ' Angelo, to launch attacks on the Gustav Line near Monte Cassino.

The Allies invested Embrun, which capitulated on 15 August, before sacking the deserted town of Gap.

The duke then issued a proclamation called the Brunswick Manifesto, written by the French king's cousin, Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, the leader of an émigré corps within the allied army, which declared the Allies ' intent to restore the king to his full powers and to treat any person or town who opposed them as rebels to be condemned to death by martial law.

For the Allies, Ypres was also important because it eventually became the last major Belgian town that was not under German control.

The Allies occupied the hills near the town and began firing on the retreating Germans.

Finally, during World War II ( 1944 ), the town was heavily damaged by bombings of the Allies.

In April 1917, the town suffered almost total destruction as the Allies dislodged the Germans, who blew up the church of Saint-Martin before leaving the city.

After reinforcement by an airlanded Chinese army division, the town finally fell to the Allies on 3 August 1944.

However, the Salamaua – Lae campaign involved many weeks of fierce fighting, before the town fell to the Allies on 16 September.

The 1st Battalion took part in the Battle of Famars on 23 May and the Siege of Valenciennes ( 1793 ) which began that same month, with the town eventually falling to the Allies in July that year.

The regiment took part in the final battles of the war on the Western Front, on 17 October, the Battle of the Selle began which eventually saw the town of Valenciennes captured by the Allies, and on 4 November took part in the Battle of the Sambre.

The film was finally completed at the Babelsberg Studios at Potsdam while the town and nearby Berlin were being steadily bombed by the Allies.

During this period, the island was raided by the bombers of the Allies aiming to incapacitate the Japanese military infrastructure, in particular the airport at Namlea – the major town of Buru.

The Allies could fly men, equipment and supplies into the airstrips at Imphal ( and Palel also, until the onset of the monsoon rains ), so although cut off by land, the town was not without a lifeline.

A raid on the German-occupied coastal town of Dieppe, Operation Jubilee was intended to demonstrate the Allies capacity to seize and hold a major port for a short while.