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At the siege of Toulon, the British were expelled by a French force whose artillery was led by a young captain, Napoleon Bonaparte.
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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 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 and Toulon
* 1942 – World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
* November 27 – WWII: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
At the beginning of the 16th century, Cardinal Richelieu began to build a naval arsenal and dockyard at Toulon to serve as a base for a new French Mediterreanean fleet.
At the top of Mount Faron is a memorial dedicated to the 1944 Allied landings in Provence ( Operation Dragoon ), and to the liberation of Toulon.
At the entry of France into the American War of Independence in 1778, he left Toulon in command of a fleet of twelve ships of the line and four frigates with the intention of assisting the American colonies against Great Britain.
At Toulon, father and son are part their ways.
At Toulon, he first became interested in astronomy.
At the moment he plays for RC Toulon, a club in France.
At Toulon, national jealousies between the two combined powers impeded the defence.
At Toulon, he joined an ambitious side whose president Mourad Boudjellai signed many veteran superstars for the 2007 – 08 season, such as n George Gregan, the sport's all-time leader in international appearances ; Andrew Mehrtens, the all-time leading scorer for the All Blacks ; and, as coach, former All Blacks captain Tana Umaga.
At Toulon the convicts remained ( in chains ) on the galleys, which were moored as hulks in the harbour.
At and British
At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.
At the close of the Second World War the British government announced its intention to abolish the penal settlement.
* 1949 – At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth.
At this time, Lord Sandwich, together with the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, was advocating establishment of a British colony in New South Wales.
* 1868 – At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II.
At the durbar on July 22, 1880, Abdur Rahman was officially recognized as Amir, granted assistance in arms and money, and promised, in case of unprovoked foreign aggression, such further aid as might be necessary to repel it, provided that he align his foreign policy with the British.
At the same time, Charlton's emergence as the country's leading young football talent was completed when he was called up to join the England squad for a British Home Championship game against Scotland at Hampden Park.
At the same time, French lookouts on Heureux, the ninth ship in the French line, sighted the British fleet approximately off the mouth of Aboukir Bay.
At 19: 00 the identifying lights in the mizenmasts of the British fleet were lit.
* At Consett the closure of the British Steel works in 1980 marked the end of steel production in the Derwent Valley and the decline of the area.
At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room vacated by the British Library, its functions now moved to St Pancras.
At that time the British were busy making promises.
At the same time it encouraged Bulgarian aspirations over Thrace, preferring a Bulgarian Thrace to a Russian one, despite the assurances the British had given to the Russians in regard to their expansion there.
At Brigade gave the British Parachute Regiment permission to go in to the Bogside.
At the 2007 British Soap Awards, it won Best Storyline, and Kate Ford was voted Best Actress for her portrayal.
At the Battle of Waterloo — Napoleon's final battle — the French army had many more artillery pieces than either the British or Prussians.
At around the same time, British legislation was similarly freeing the corporation from historical restrictions.
* 1867 – At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
At the end of the war the state-of-the-art was represented by the British W class.
At the heart of the Great Game lay the willingness of Britain and Russia to subdue, subvert, or subjugate the small independent states that lay between Russia and British India.
At the same time, the Russians feared permanent British occupation in Central Asia as the British encroached northward, taking the Punjab, Sindh, and Kashmir ; later to become Pakistan.
At a conference with them Sir William MacNaghten was killed, but in spite of this, the sirdars ' demands were agreed to by the British and they withdrew.
At age 11, he began his acting career, appearing on the British television soap opera Coronation Street, which was produced at Granada Studios by Granada Television in Manchester.
At the 1993 British Academy Awards ( BAFTA ) the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film was introduced.
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