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Grimbold managed to hold the island, but would not have succeeded if Elfhelm had not come with reinforcements from Helm's Deep.
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Grimbold and hold
Elfhelm did not want to hold the Fords, as he argued that it provided little defence, but Grimbold was not willing to wholly abandon it, partially due to the tradition of Westfold.
Grimbold knew he could not hold out forever.
Grimbold and Elfhelm
* Various captains in the War of the Ring, such as Grimbold, Gamling the Old, Háma, Elfhelm, and Erkenbrand
He placed Grimbold and Elfhelm at the Fords.
Elfhelm rushed to his aid and felled one orc while Grimbold slew the other.
Grimbold held the eastern side of the ford and waited for Elfhelm to come to his aid.
Although he knew Grimbold was in danger, Elfhelm retreated eastwards.
When Théoden rides to the Battle of the Pelennor Fields with Éomer, Grimbold, and Elfhelm, Erkenbrand remains in Rohan in charge of its defence, overseeing the Dunlending prisoners and the repairs to the Hornburg.
Grimbold and had
Grimbold, who was in command of the Rohirrim rearguard, had to cut down their pursuers many times.
But by the time Grimbold reached him, Théodred had fallen, cut down by a giant orc.
Grimbold and come
Grimbold decided to place foot soldiers at the ford and put Elfhelm's men on the east side where he expected the attack to come from.
Grimbold and with
The attackers forced Grimbold to retreat across the ford with heavy losses.
Grimbold and reinforcements
Grimbold was still holding his position when he saw torches coming from the north and from Isengard-the vanguard of Saruman's reinforcements advancing towards him.
Grimbold and from
At the same time Grimbold's force was being attacked from the western side, and as Grimbold looked east, he saw Théodred's force being driven from the islet to a hill.
Grimbold slew the orc and then found himself defending Théodred's body from orcs.
However, until he arrived from Helm's Deep, Grimbold held the position.
The castle was refortified in stone from 1242 when Sybil Turberville a Turberville heiress married Sir Grimbold Pauncefote or Paunceforte.
Grimbold and .
Grimbold and a few men raced toward Théodred's position.
When they reached the islet they found Grimbold defending Théodred's body against two huge orcs.
The castle was refortified on the Royal command of new King King Henry IV in 1400 and carried out by Sir John Pauncefote, great grandson of Sir Grimbold, in advance of the uprising led by Owain Glyndŵr to 1412.
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The English have managed to hold onto their madrigal tradition better than anyone else.
It was unclear how the Sultan got hold of scissors in his tower prison cell and how he managed to cut two wrists at once, since no autopsy was allowed afterwards.
They became adept at raiding Spanish settlements and, albeit in declining numbers, managed to hold off the Spaniards and their descendants until the late nineteenth century.
The Republicans managed to hold out in Madrid, despite a Nationalist assault in November 1936, and frustrated subsequent offensives against the capital at Jarama and Guadalajara in 1937.
The Janata Dal won elections in 1989, but its government managed to hold on to power for only two years.
This was the case throughout the majority of Severn's tenure as Consul, as Pope Pius IX managed to retain a fragile hold on power, relying on a garrison of French troops to control Rome.
His assaults were again resisted, but he managed to secure not only a truce, but a mutual alliance with Aleppo, in which Gumushtigin and as-Salih were allowed to continue their hold on the city and in return, they recognized Saladin as the sovereign over all of the dominions he conquered.
The Giants never would hold a lead in any of the 4 games and never even managed to send the tying run to the plate in their last at-bat.
In the aftermath of the war, the Kurds in the north of Iraq and the Shiites in the south rose up in revolt, and Saddam Hussein barely managed to hold onto power.
By 1913, the British occupied Burma, Malaya and the northern Borneo territories, the French controlled Indochina, the Dutch ruled the Netherlands East Indies while Portugal managed to hold on to Portuguese Timor.
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Although with the cost of lives and the capture and execution of assassin dai Ahmad ibn Hattash, the hashashins managed to hold their ground and repel the attacks until the Mongol invasion.
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In the ensuing battle, only a small force managed to hold one end of the Arnhem road bridge and after the ground forces failed to relieve them, they were overrun on 21 September.
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Modern writers including Paula Mitchell Marks and Alford Turner have advanced the theory that Holliday somehow managed to hold and accurately fire two weapons ambidextrously, but none of the witnesses including Behan reported observing this.
The Williamites were not able to resume their advance until their own horsemen managed to cross the river and, after being badly mauled, managed to hold off the Jacobite cavalry until they retired and regrouped at Donore, where they once again put up stiff resistance before retiring.
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held the global record until it was usurped by Jurassic Park — another Spielberg directed film — in 1993, although it managed to hold on to the domestic record for a further four years, where a Star Wars reissue saw that film reclaim the record.
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The BEF had initial early successes which drove the Germans back to the Aisne River ; the German troops dug in and managed to hold out against both British and French attacks.
The citadel managed to hold out until 213 BC under Achaeus ' widow Laodice who surrendered later.
Even then, the former MP for Hastings Jacqui Lait managed to hold on to the seat for the Conservatives by just over 1, 000 votes.
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