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At Balete Pass in Nueva Vizcaya the retreating Japanese under General Tomoyuki Yamashita dug in and held on for three months against the American and Filipino forces who eventually drove them out ; the pass is now called Dalton Pass in honor of General Dalton, USA, who was killed in the fighting.
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At its peak, in the 19th century, the empire extended from the Khyber Pass in the west, to Kashmir in the north, to Sindh in the south, and Tibet in the east.
At the north end of the valley, North Pass is the route of State Highway 114 between Saguache, Colorado and Gunnison, Colorado, bypassing the original route over Cochetopa Pass, now a county road.
At the time the ' Uptop ' depot on Veta Pass, rising over in elevation, boasted the highest elevation for a narrow gauge railroad.
At Soda Springs was one branch of Lander Road ( established and built with government contractors in 1858 ), which had gone west from near South Pass, over the Salt River Mountains and down Star Valley before turning west near present-day Auburn, Wyoming, and entering Idaho.
At Juyong Pass the civil officials and generals wanted to halt and send the emperor back to Beijing, but their opinions were overruled by Wang Zhen.
At his urging, several early settlers of Eagle Pass were emigres of the Mexican river villages and missions of San Juan Bautista, San José, Santo Domingo, San Nicolás, La Navaja, and San Isidro.
At that time, another Orc-host under Boldog came over Dorthonion, now named Taur-nu-Fuin, through the Anach Pass on the North March of Doriath and the Orc army that broke through the Pass of Aglon harried Radhrim, the East March of Doriath.
At Bradley's suggestion, II Corps, which had just suffered the devastating loss at the Kasserine Pass, was overhauled from top to bottom, and Eisenhower installed George S. Patton as corps commander.
At the south-west end of the valley, the Maloja Pass drops precipitously down to Chiavenna in Italy through the Val Bregaglia, and thence to Como.
At the Lunghin Pass, above Maloja, lies the most notable triple watershed in western Europe, from where the Inn flows via the Danube to the Black Sea, the Maira via the Po to the Mediterranean Sea, and the Julia via the Rhine to the North Sea.
At, Forester Pass is the highest point along the Pacific Crest Trail and the second-highest pass along the JMT ( after Trail Crest on the Mount Whitney Trail ).
At the same time Microsoft developed SCSI Pass Through Interface ( SPTI ), an in-house substitute that worked on the NT platform.
At the Battle of Glorieta Pass, the Union ended the Confederate campaign and the area west of Texas remained in Union hands.
At Apache Pass in 1862, Cochise and Mangas Coloradas, with around 500 fighters, held their ground against a New Mexico-bound force of California volunteers under General James Henry Carleton until caisson-mounted howitzer artillery fire was brought to bear on their positions in the rocks above.
At Woodhead, the route would have diverged, with one carriageway entering the Woodhead Rail Tunnel ( now disused ) and the other rising on a sweeping viaduct to go over a realigned Woodhead Pass.
At a dinner, Trueman is said to have ordered a local dignitary, apparently the Indian High Commissioner, to: " Pass t ' salt, Gunga Din ".
At the eastern border, the Wakhjir Pass through the Hindu Kush at, is one of the highest in the world.
At and Nueva
At about 07: 00, two invading FAL B-26s attacked and sank the Cuban Navy Patrol Escort ship El Baire at Nueva Gerona on the Isle of Pines.
At that young age, Yolandita would perform with legendary Argentinian singer Libertad Lamarque and then sing at the Festival De La Canción Nueva York ( New York Song Festival ).
At the age of 15, Corretjer hosted a Puerto Rican television show named La Ola Nueva ( The New Wave ).
At the end of the 17th century, the new public square was built, called Plaza Nueva or Plaza de los Fueros, which became the main city centre.
At the request of Spanish authorities, he wrote a bowdlerized version in Spanish ( the Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España ), but his original work, the Florentine Codex, was never published.
At this spot he claimed the territory for the Spanish Crown, and in the process bestowing the name to the island ( Nueva Guinea ) by which it is known today.
At the beginning of the 19th century came another rebellion in the Tequila area, this time led by a man only known as “ The Gold Mask .” This rebellion was suppressed by the governor of Nueva Galicia, José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, for which he was subsequently promoted to viceroy of Peru.
At 12 Midnight on September 6, 2012, the AM-FM simulcast ended, with 1050 AM airing a loop of sweepers alternating bilingually in English and Spanish announcing that ESPN New York 98. 7FM will no longer be heard on 1050 AM and that ESPN Deportes Nueva York will launch at 2PM on September 7, 2012.
At this stage they began to be considered a new element in the “ Nueva Canción Chilena ”/ New Chilean Song movement.
At the end of 2011-12 season, Chacarita finished 20th and therefore the Funebreros had to play two matches against Nueva Chicago ( winner of Primera B Metropolitana's Torneo Reducido ) to avoid being relegated to the lower division.
At and Vizcaya
At the same time Banco de Vizcaya also expanded and began to emerge as an important financial group.
At the same time, Vizcaya has completed the first half of a major conservation program of its outdoor sculpture collections.
At and retreating
At the end of World War II the US Army occupied Obersalzberg, to prevent Hitler from retreating with the Wehrmacht into the mountains.
At the Battle of Paardeberg from 18 to 27 February, Roberts then surrounded General Piet Cronje's retreating Boer army.
At this the French knights decided it was time to charge, and they ran over the retreating mercenaries in an unorganized way.
At one crucial point, a bridge over the Narova river collapsed under retreating Russian troops: The stampede led to the overall losses of 6, 000 – 18, 000 dead Russians, depending on sources.
At this crucial juncture, Murat's chief of staff, General Augustin Daniel Belliard rode straight to the Emperor's Headquarters and, according to General Ségur who wrote an account of the campaign, told him that the Russian line had been breached, that the road to Mozhaysk, behind the Russian line, was visible through the gaping hole the French attack had pierced, that an enormous crowd of runaways and vehicles were hastily retreating, and that a final push would be enough to decide the fate of the Russian army and of the war.
At one point, on 25 September near MacKenzie's Farm, Raglan and his staff in front of the British column stumbled across the rear of the retreating Russians ; with the rest of his army strung out behind in hopeless disorder, Menshikov missed a chance to inflict a major reverse on the British.
At French Commander Marcel Alessandri's request, Gaur K, supported by 80 remaining legionnaires from the 3 / 5th REI ( Régiment Étranger d ' Infanterie ), was sent to the arrière-garde of the Alessandri column retreating to China for hundreds kilometers of tracks in the high region.
At the battle of Collecchio, the Brazilian forces were preparing to face fierce resistance at the Taro river region from the retreating German-Italian forces of the region of Genoa / La Spezia that had been set free by troops of the 92nd US Division.
At the Battle of the Thames ( also called " Battle of Moraviantown "), General Harrison, with 4500 infantry intercepts the retreating British and Indian forces and win a decisive victory.
At dawn on June 22 at the retreating Turkish squadron exploded another battleship and a frigate, and two damaged frigate sunk off the island of Samothrace.
At Forty Mile Creek, the retreating American troops were met by reinforcements under Dearborn's second-in-command, Major General Morgan Lewis.
At the city, the fleet shelled the retreating Confederate troops, denying them the opportunity to regroup.
At age 75, Adair took part in extinguishing the oil well fires in Kuwait set by retreating Iraqi troops after the Gulf War in 1991.
At the same time, the right wing of Ptolemy was retreating and wheeling to protect itself from the panicked elephants.
At the end, Grodd is trampled by his retreating forces, and is taken back to the present in handcuffs with Batman.
At the end of The Matrix Revolutions, as the retreating Machine army obliged the new peace bartered by Neo, Niobe is seen embracing Morpheus, perhaps an indication of a renewal of their romance.
At the end of World War II several Japanese Class D51 2-8-2 locomotives were left behind on Russia ’ s Sakhalin island, formerly Karafuto, by retreating Japanese forces.
) At this gorge, Colonel Walter O ' Hara — an early 19th century Irish settler who played a significant role in the establishment of the neighbourhood — led a regiment that fought against the retreating army of Napoleon.
At this time the LIVth Army Corps of the 11th Army was still engaged in Crimea, and because the Romanian forces were still engaged in the Siege of Odessa, the Army's resources for the Rostov objective were severely limited even against retreating Red Army troops.
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