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During the siege, he purchased a captaincy in the grenadier company of the 40th Regiment of Foot.
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During the struggle of the Aetolians against Rome, it stood a stubborn siege, including the first known use of poison gas against the Romans ' siege tunnels.
During the Civil War, prior to the siege of Raglan Castle in 1645, King Charles I visited Abergavenny and presided in person over the trial of Sir Trefor Williams, 1st Baronet of Llangibby, a Royalist who changed sides, and other Parliamentarians.
During a siege by Parthian troops in A. D. 257, the buildings in the outermost blocks of the city grid were partially destroyed and filled with rubble to reinforce the city wall.
During the siege of February 1945 the city infrastructure was 65 % destroyed, including most of the historical city center.
During the first siege, Ephrem credits Bishop Jacob as defending the city with his prayers.
During the siege, Gibraltar played a key role as the supply base of the besieged.
* 1704 1 August ( NS ): ( 21 July ( OS )) – During the War of the Spanish Succession, and when returning from a failed expedition to Barcelona, an Anglo-Dutch fleet, under the command of Sir George Rooke, chief commander of the Alliance Navy, began a new siege ( the eleventh siege of the town ).
During the siege, on 8 February 1913, the Russian pilot N. de Sackoff, flying for the Greeks, became the first pilot ever shot down in combat, when his biplane was hit by ground fire following a bomb run on the walls of Fort Bizani.
During the lengthy siege, which lasted until 1191, Patriarch Heraclius, Queen Sibylla and her daughters, and many others died of disease.
During this period of French rule, the defences of the fortress were strengthened by the famous siege engineer Vauban.
During this siege, Vauban, the famous French military engineer, developed a new strategy in order to break down the strong fortifications surrounding Maastricht.
During this millennium, fortifications changed warfare, and in turn were modified to suit new tactics, weapons and siege techniques.
During the War of 1812, Nova Scotia ’ s contribution to the war effort was communities either purchasing or building various privateer ships to lay siege to American vessels.
During a summer-long siege which was later to be known as the Siege of Malta, the Ottoman forces which numbered around 50, 000 fought the Knights of St. John and the Maltese garrison which in total numbered around 6, 000.
During the siege of Nagashima, Nobunaga suffered tremendous losses, including the death of a couple of his brothers, to the Ikkō-ikki resistance, a coalition of peasant farmers, monks, Shinto priests and local nobles that opposed samurai rule.
During Childeric's siege and blockade of Paris in 464, the nun Geneviève ( later canonised as the city's Patron Saint ) pleaded with the Frankish King for the welfare of prisoners of war and met with a favourable response.
During the Warring States era of ancient China, there is both textual and archaeological evidence of prolonged sieges and siege machinery used against the defenders of city walls.
During the Renaissance and the Early Modern period, siege warfare dominated the conduct of war in Europe.
During a siege a surrounding army would build earthworks ( a line of circumvallation ) to completely encircle their target, preventing food, water, and other supplies from reaching the besieged city.
During the Renaissance and the Early Modern period, siege warfare continued to dominate the conduct of the European wars.
During the summer of 1172, a Nubian army along with a contingent of Armenian refugees were reported on the Egyptian border, preparing for a siege against Aswan.
During the siege of the Stonewall, Craig Rodwell called The New York Times, The New York Post, and The New York Daily News to inform them what was happening.
During and purchased
During the 1983 – 86 seasons, North Dakota buyers purchased an average of 7, 913 pelts annually, for an average annual combined return to takers of $ 255, 458.
During this time Duchamp began exhibiting " readymades " ( everyday objects found or purchased and declared art ) such as a bottle rack, and was active in the Society of Independent Artists.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Afghanistan purchased moderate quantities of Soviet weapons to keep the military up to date.
Her painting Two Women Throwing Flowers During Carnival was well received in the Salon of 1872, and was purchased.
During the campaign, the Kerrs purchased a Sydney apartment, as Sir John was prepared to resign in the event that the ALP triumphed.
During the final years of his life, Mantle purchased a luxury condominium on Lake Oconee near Greensboro, Georgia, near Greer Johnson's home, and frequently stayed there for months at a time.
During the season, Daryl Katz, owner of the Rexall pharmaceutical company, purchased the Oilers from the Edmonton Investors Group.
During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Pan Am purchased a number of ailing or defunct airlines in Central and South America and negotiated with postal officials to win most of the government's airmail contracts to the region.
* During the 1970s, the oil industrialist Bill Noël of Odessa purchased orchards in Comanche County.
During the American Civil War, the bolt-action Palmer carbine was patented in 1863, and by 1865, 1000 were purchased for use as cavalry weapons.
During the Great Depression, Witt purchased municipal bonds for ten cents on the dollar, confident that the bonds would be redeemable under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
During the 1910s, the Delaware State Fair Association purchased land and built a new fairgrounds within Elsmere's town limit.
During the 1990s, members of Cambridge City's historic preservation group Western Wayne Heritage, Inc. purchased the famous Vinton House hotel.
During the making of their third album, they purchased their first commercial synthesisers for the studio, the Minimoog and EMS Synthi AKS.
During the rebuilding of the linseed oil mill, French included a machine he had invented and patented in 1898, a " cake trimmer ", and purchased the most modern equipment then available.
During the Summer of 2007, not a single bus purchased was in operation ( though several were due to weak A / C systems ) and litigation was underway.
During World War I, the Patriots Committee of Aspinwall purchased wristwatches from a watch factory in Canton, Ohio, which they presented to the approximately 164 Aspinwall men entering the service.
During the late 18th century, Patrick Cassidy, a native of Newry, Ireland and an American soldier in the American Revolutionary War, purchased three hundred acres of land in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.
During these periods, parcels of adjacent land or woodland were purchased and subdivided for new house construction.
During the land purchase of 1755 James Sterrat of Carlisle purchased 400 acres including the sleeping place called John Hart ’ s log on the Juniata River, which is now Alexandria.
During this decade, New York businessman James F. O. Shaugnesy purchased the Red Boiling Springs tract and began development of the area as a resort.
During the trip, he ceremonially purchased biscuits from Amon G. Carter, who had grown up in the city.
During World War II the citizens of Montesano purchased war bonds to pay for a B-24 named the Spirit of Montesano.
During the 1990s, Airtours purchased Scandinavian Leisure Group ( SLG ) including award winning tour operators such as Ving and airline ; Premiair.
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