At the same time, after initial setbacks, Grant laid siege to Vicksburg and the Union navy attained some success in Charleston harbor.

At the very outset, he had to meet the formidable attack of the Normans ( led by Robert Guiscard and his son Bohemund ), who took Dyrrhachium and Corfu, and laid siege to Larissa in Thessaly ( see Battle of Dyrrhachium ).

At one time, the word, " Engine " ( from Latin, via Old French, ingenium, " ability ") meant any piece of machinery — a sense that persists in expressions such as siege engine.

The Mongols were then free to lay siege without interference of the field army as it had been destroyed ... At the siege of Aleppo, Hulegu used twenty catapults against the Bab al-Iraq ( Gate of Iraq ) alone.

At the end of the 17th century, two influential military engineers, the French Marshal Vauban and the Dutch military engineer Menno van Coehoorn, developed modern fortification to its pinnacle, refining siege warfare without fundamentally altering it: ditches would be dug ; walls would be protected by glacis ; and bastions would enfilade an attacker.

At the second Siege of Przemysl, the Austro-Hungarian garrison showed an excellent knowledge of siege warfare, not only waiting for relief, but sending sorties into Russian lines and employing an active defense that resulted in the capture of the Russian General Lavr Kornilov.

At Dien Bien Phu, the French were unable to use air power to overcome the siege and were defeated.

At this siege the attackers also made use of " sows "-mobile armoured shelters which were used throughout the medieval period, and allowed workers to fill in moats with protection from the defenders ( thus levelling the ground for the siege towers to be moved to the walls ).

At the end of the day, the siege was suspended, and the Hungarians prepared for the next day's battle.

At the siege of Harfleur, Henry utters one of Shakespeare's best-known speeches, beginning " Once more unto the breach, dear friends ..."

At the siege of Toulon, the British were expelled by a French force whose artillery was led by a young captain, Napoleon Bonaparte.

At the council of war in the Spring of 1428, the English regent John Duke of Bedford determined the direction of English arms would be towards the west, to stomp out the fires in the Maine and lay siege to Angers.

At the recommendation of the influential minister Joseph Bringas, Nikephoros was entrusted in leading this expedition against the Saracen Emirate of Crete, and, storming Chandax after a 9-month siege, he wrested the whole island from the Muslims in 961.

At the siege of Tarentum, 209 BC, Cato was again at the side of Fabius.

At the siege, the king took an arrow to his hauberk, but the castle, considered impregnable, fell after two years.

At the same time he started the siege of Tyros, Antigonus allied with Rhodes.

Quoting Forrest ," At this point ( near the village of Sultanpet, Figure 5 ) there was a large tope, or grove, which gave shelter to Tipu's rocketmen and had obviously to be cleaned out before the siege could be pressed closer to Seringapatam island.

At Ninety Six, Kościuszko conducted a siege on Star Fort from May 22 to June 18.

At the same time, the Goths invaded Moesia and Thrace across the Danube frontier, and laid siege to Marcianopolis, as the Carpi, encouraged by the Gothic incursions, renewed their assaults in Dacia and Moesia.

At Hondschoote, 30, 000 French had defeated 14, 500 Hessian and Hanoverian soldiers, capturing 6 flags and ( as a consequence of the subsequent retreat ) the Duke of York's 32 requisitioned naval siege guns.

At the siege of Perpignan, or in a tournament there, she is said to have dressed in male clothing and fought on horseback in the ranks of the Dauphin, afterwards Henry II.

At the end of 1644 it was besieged by forces from Nottingham, Lincoln and Derby, the siege was only relieved in March by Prince Rupert.

At this siege occurred that famous act of heroism, the innocent death of the son of Guzmán.

At some time in 285 at Mediolanum ( Milan, Italy ), Diocletian raised his fellow-officer Maximian to the office of Caesar, making him co-emperor.

At an exclusive Milan screening on February 5, 1960, one outraged patron spat on Fellini while others hurled insults.

At the FIDE Congress in 1961, GM Milan Vidmar said that the regulations " made it possible to award international titles to players without sufficient merit ".

At the death of King Haripert I in 661, the kingdom was split between his children Perctarit, who set his capital in Milan, and Godepert, who reigned from Pavia.

At this point divisions between the allies became clear, as Spain laid claim to Mantua, and also refused to guarantee Milan to Charles Emmanuel.

At that time, Milan was defended by Swiss mercenaries.

At the very time of Leo's accession Louis XII of France, in alliance with Venice, was making a determined effort to regain the duchy of Milan, and Leo, after fruitless endeavours to maintain peace, joined the league of Mechlin, on 5 April 1513, with the emperor Maximilian I, Ferdinand II of Aragon, and Henry VIII of England.

At the end of 1944, Togliatti appointed him to the national secretariat of the Communist Organisation for Youth ( FGCI ); as a secretary of the FGCI, Berlinguer at one point presented Maria Goretti as an example for activists ; he was soon sent to Milan, and in 1945 he was appointed to the Central Committee as a member.

At 4, he moved with his family to Milan, but they soon moved back to Puglia, where he gained a classical high school degree at Archita lyceum in Taranto.

At the Battle of Magenta on June 4, the French and Sardinians were victorious over the Austrian army of Count Ferencz Gyulai, leading to Austrian withdrawal from most of Lombardy and a triumphal entry by Napoleon and Victor Emmanuel into Milan.

At the end of the War of the Spanish Succession ( 1713 ), the Duchy of Milan was assigned to the House of Habsburg of Austria.

At the conclusion of the Italian campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte ( 1796 ), the Duchy of Milan was sold to the French Republic and then entered the Cisalpine Republic ( which, in 1802, became the Italian Republic ).

At Milan on March 1, 293, Constantius was formally appointed as Maximian ’ s Caesar.

At the same time, many of the most illustrious conductors, singers and opera-house managers in Europe were vying for an opportunity to play a part in Otellos premiere, despite the fact that Faccio and La Scala, Milan, had already been selected as the conductor and the venue for the first performance.

At that time Milan was known as the Pharsalia Post Office.

At Milan they materially advanced the interests of the city by their industry and commerce.

At the age of twelve, he left the Low Countries with Ferrante Gonzaga and went to Mantua, Sicily, and later Milan ( from 1547 to 1549 ).

At the end of the war, Graziani spent a few days in San Vittore prison in Milan before being transferred to Allied control.

At the time of the Milan riots of 1814, when the minister Giuseppe Prina was assassinated, Confalonieri was unjustly accused of complicity in the deed.

At the start of the 1996 – 97 season Davids moved to Italy to play for A. C. Milan.

At age 15, Moneta participated in the " Five Days of Milan " ( 1848 uprising against Austrian rule ).

At some time after the coronation, the King would, if possible, cross the Alps, and might receive coronation ( in Pavia or Milan ) with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy.

At La Scala in Milan, the A above middle C rose as high as.

At the Fourth Congress of the Czechoslovak Writers Union in 1967, Milan Kundera himself described this wave of national cinema as an important part of the history of Czechoslovak literature.

At the back of Pollocks and in the next block was the site in 1772 of the Scala Theatre, Tottenham Street – then known as the Cognoscenti Theatre – but it had many names over history: the King's Concert Rooms, the New Theatre, the Regency Theatre, the West London Theatre, the Queen's Theatre, the Fitzroy Theatre, the Prince of Wales and the Royal Theatre until its demolition in 1903 when the Scala Theatre was built on the site for Frank Verity and modelled on La Scala in Milan.