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During his retreat, the emperor was surrounded and worn down by the Pechenegs, who forced him to sign a truce and pay protection money.
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During the Nationalist's retreat from Nanjing, the dams around the city were deliberately destroyed by the Nationalist army in order to delay the Japanese advance, killing 500, 000 people in the subsequent 1938 Yellow River flood.
During the second-dessert, the noble family would retreat in separate private quarters for an intimate part of the meal without servants.
* 1811 – During André Masséna's retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give Masséna time to escape.
During times of Portuguese colonization, Moors were persecuted, and many forced to retreat to the central highlands and the eastern coast.
During the period of Ngawang Namgyal's supposed retreat, appointments of officials were issued in his name, and food was left in front of his locked door.
During the Battle of Wuzhang Plains, he falls sick and sends secret orders for his army to retreat.
During the filming of a scene in which a bridge was blown up, Eastwood urged Wallach to retreat to a hilltop.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Mazrui and Omani Arabs reclaimed much of the Indian Ocean trade, forcing the Portuguese to retreat south.
During Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in 1812, more French soldiers died of typhus than were killed by the Russians.
During the retreat, the nineteen-year-old king died in a marsh.
During the retreat from Forts Washington and Lee, he dawdled with his army, and intensified a letter campaign to convince various Congress members that he should replace Washington as Commander-in-Chief.
During this retreat the army had to fight its way across the Somme at the ford of Blanchetaque against a French army led by Hugh de Châtillon, who was captured and sold to Edward III.
During the retreat, membership in the party fell from 300, 000 to around 40, 000.
During the retreat, approximately 200, 000 Serbs perished in the Albanian mountains and thousands more perished once they arrived on the Greek island of Corfu.
During his leadership of the Russian revolution of 1905, Trotsky argued that once it became clear that the Tsar's army would not come out in support of the workers, it was necessary to retreat before the armed might of the state in as good an order as possible.
During World War I, the city was one of the focal points of Austro-Hungarian / German Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive of 1915, a military operation that changed the situation in the Eastern Front and resulted in major retreat of opposing Russian forces.
During their retreat from Quebec, the Americans carefully took or destroyed all ships on Lake Champlain that might prove useful to the British.
During the Holocene glacial retreat the sand dunes, which had been deposited in their current location by the vast continental glaciers, were exposed and grasses eventually took over.
During the 1970s, the castle was rented out as a honeymoon retreat.
During their retreat, the Confederates destroyed bridges across the Barren River, the railroad depot and other important buildings.
During the post-Civil War years, President Ulysses S. Grant stayed at a summer retreat known as the Friendship House located in Cottage City.
During the Gettysburg Campaign in the American Civil War, the Battle of Fairfield played an important role in securing the Fairfield pass and the Hagerstown Road, enabling Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to retreat through Fairfield towards the Potomac River.
During the American retreat, Lafayette rallied the troops, allowing a more orderly retreat before being treated for his wound.
During and emperor
During these days in which the offices of sadaijin and udaijin were vacant, the major counselors ( the dainagon ) and the emperor assumed responsibilities and powers which would have been otherwise delegated.
During the Heian period of Japanese history, the Hokke managed to establish a hereditary claim to the position of regent, either for an underage emperor ( sesshō ) or for an adult one ( kampaku ).
During the autumn of 169 AD when Roman troops were returning to Aquileia, the great plague broke out and the emperor summoned Galen back to Rome.
During the persecutions of emperor Maximinus Thrax he is martyred.
During his brief deposition of 830, the emperor Louis the Pious was sent to Nijmegen by his son Lothar I.
During his pontificate, the Byzantine emperor John V Palaeologus offered to submit the Greek church to the Roman See on condition of assistance against John VI Cantacuzenus.
Court painters made new versions of the Song Dynasty masterpiece, Zhang Zeduan's Along the River During the Qingming Festival whose depiction of a prosperous and happy realm demonstrated the beneficence of the emperor.
During the Edo period, effective power rested with the Tokugawa shogun, not the emperor in Kyoto, even though the former ostensibly owed his position to the latter.
During the first war he was captured by Hephthalite army and later was released after Byzantine emperor paid a ransom for him.
During this period Europe, North Africa and the Near East fell under increasing domination by the Roman Empire, which continued expanding, most notably conquering Britain under the emperor Claudius ( 43 ).
During the Napoleonic Wars the French emperor made it a base of operations, winning there the famous Battle of Dresden on 27 August 1813.
During his later years, the emperor took little part in German affairs beyond securing the election of his son Wenceslaus as king of the Romans in 1376, and negotiating a peace between the Swabian League and some nobles in 1378.
During the reign of Roman emperor Domitian after having spent time imprisoned in Rome, John was sentenced to be boiled in oil at the Colosseum.
During the time the emperor spent in Poland, Bolesław I did not hide the wealth of his country, in fact he showed off its affluence at every step as he tried to dazzle the emperor.
During this span of time Marsala lived a wealthy period, but the burying of the big harbour of Punta Alga, decided by the emperor Carlo V to stop Saracenis forays, entailed the end of its flowering.
During the 20th century in Greece, interest in the prominent emperor led to a number of biographies and historical novels about him.
During his reign as emperor, Caracalla raised the annual pay of an average legionary to 675 denarii and lavished many benefits on the army which he both feared and admired, as instructed by his father Septimius Severus who had told him on his deathbed to always mind the soldiers and ignore everyone else.
During the altercations between Emperor Basil I and his heir Leo VI, Photios took the side of the Byzantine emperor.
During the reign of emperor Tiberius, sumptuary laws were passed that forbade men from wearing silk garments, but these proved ineffectual.
During his tenure as bishop, Bamberg rose to great prominence, while Otto achieved fame as a missionary and as a diplomat and politician, notably during the Investiture Controversy between Emperor Henry IV and the papacy during which he remained loyal to the emperor.
During his years of imprisonment, he wrote essays and pamphlets that combined his claim to be emperor with progressive, mildly socialist economic proposals, published as L ' extinction du paupérisme, which he came to define as Bonapartism.
During the reign of Roman emperor Domitian and the persecution of Trajan, Onesimus was imprisoned in Rome and may have been martyred by stoning ( although some sources claim that he was beheaded ).
During the First Jewish-Roman War, Berenice began a love affair with the future emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus.
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