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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 ).
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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 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.
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At this time torpedo attacks were still very close range and very dangerous to the attackers.
At Rorke's Drift, outnumbered British soldiers drive the attackers away after hours of fighting.
At first, Gunnar manages to fight off his numerous attackers with his masterful archery.
At Santiago, the two attackers destroyed a C-47 transport, a PBY Catalina flying boat, two B-26s and a civilian DC-3 plus various other civilian aircraft.
At San Antonio, the three attackers destroyed three FAR B-26s, one Sea Fury and one T-33, and one attacker diverted to Grand Cayman due to low usable fuel.
At Ciudad Libertad, the three attackers destroyed only non-operational aircraft such as two P-47 Thunderbolts.
At the road near Carreira, the attackers were confronted by a small group of Franciscan monks, which were quickly dispatched.
At the peak of this attack, the attackers had a total of six computers posting sporgeries into the newsgroup, dumping into USENET an average of 170 megabytes in 44, 075 articles every month.
At this time, the attackers appeared likely to succeed, as they had firmly established themselves across the telegraph line and the old caravan road, supported by the Somerset and Leicester batteries.
At 1: 00 pm, an immigrant hostel run by the Zionist Commission and home to a hundred people who had arrived in recent weeks and days was attacked by the mob, and though the residents tried to barricade the gate, it was rammed open and Arabs attackers poured in.
At the cost of a small amount of overhead, PaX reduces many security exploits to a denial of service ( DoS ) or a remote code-flow control ; exploits which would normally give attackers root access, allow access to important information on a hard drive, or cause other damage that will instead cause the affected program or process to crash with little effect on the rest of the system.
At this point, Lovell ordered the attackers to halt and entrench where they were.
At the trial, Denny faced his attackers for the first time since they had assaulted him.
" At some points in the game it is possible to be attacked by dozens of different types of enemies simultaneously, and some creatures, such as axe-throwing minotaurs, split into two more attackers when " killed ".
At first the Union troops could barely see their attackers.
At this time, the situation became clearly not favourable for the Soviet and Polish attackers.
At 18: 14, knowing his Maple Leafs were in danger, Toronto coach Howie Meeker pulled goaltender Ed Chadwick for six attackers.
At his unveiling, club president José María del Nido commented that Koné was ' one of the best attackers in the world ' and with the Ivorian in their ranks, the Andalusians had the strongest side in the club's history.
At and also
At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.
At Khrushchev's door, therefore, can be placed the primary blame but also at fault are those who permitted themselves to be intimidated.
At the end of its letter was the information that applicants for this position `` must also be prepared to teach costume design and advertising art ''.
At times, clumps of 10 to 15 closely-packed nuclei were also observed.
At the same time that religion binds the individual helpfully to the supernatural and gives him cosmic peace and a sense of supreme fulfillment, it also has great therapeutic value for him.
At the same time that religion exercises a conserving influence, it also energizes and motivates both individuals and groups.
At Fort Garry some of the Swiss also decided to cast their lot with the United States, and in 1823 several families paid guides to take them to Fort Snelling.
At this Women's University we find a monument to a courageous family who believed that Japanese women also should be educated.
At Berger's direction, the city also intervened in the Hughes bankruptcy case in U. S. District Court in a move preliminary to filing a claim there.
At the beginning of the war, he also sought to persuade the states to accept compensated emancipation in return for their prohibition of slavery.
Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective — Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté — who, first appearing in the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose, predates the writing of the first Poirot novel by six years.
At Alba Augusta ( Alba-la-Romaine ) the devastation was so complete, that the Christian bishop retired to Viviers, but in Gregory's account at Mende in Lozère, also deep in the heart of Gaul, bishop Privatus was forced to sacrifice to idols in the very cave where he was later venerated.
At any rate affairs in that region, including the future of the church of Ephesus ( 20: 28 – 30 ), are treated as though they would specially interest " Theophilus " and his circle ; also an early tradition has Luke die in the adjacent Bithynia.
At first, the falcon crest logo was also put on the jersey sleeves, but it was replaced by a red and white stripe pattern four years later.
At that time, they also led the NL West by 6. 5 games.
At that time MCP did also sell imported home computers like the TRS-80, the Video Genie, ( another TRS-80 clone ), the Luxor ABC 80 and the Apple II.
At this time Cossa also had some links with local robber bands, often used to intimidate his rivals and attack carriages, this part of Cossa's life isn't widely known, but gave him certain influence and power in the region.
At the time, precautions were not taken against this unintended side reaction, which caused also the Seveso disaster in Italy in 1976.
At higher elevations, where the atmospheric pressure is much lower, the boiling point is also lower.
At the same time, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and OneNote, both 2007 and 2010, are also backward compatible with their 97-2003 file formats and features in the same manner.
At higher altitudes, a form of arid shrubland was also present.
At least one additional, two-letter generic chemical symbol is also in informal usage, " Ln " for any lanthanide element.
At the same time, too much air or water also slows the process, as does too much carbon ( or too little nitrogen ).
At the Battle of Vercellae, at the confluence of the Sesia River with the Po River, in 101 BC, the long voyage of the Cimbri also came to an end.
At the center of the city rose the giant ziggurat called Etemenanki, " House of the Frontier Between Heaven and Earth ," which lay next to the Temple of Marduk. He also made The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, for his wife from the mountains so that she would feel at home.
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