After the assaults on Petersburg the previous week failed to capture the city, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant reluctantly decided on a siege of Petersburg, defended by Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

At the beginning of the American Civil War he defended railroad lines in Missouri until ordered to command a division under Ulysses S. Grant.

This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the picture too.

Lincoln's most notable criminal trial occurred in 1858 when he defended William " Duff " Armstrong, who was on trial for the murder of James Preston Metzker.

This attitude he showed clearly when he attended the Council of Basel as legate of Pope Eugene IV, and defended the primacy of the Roman Pontiff and adjured the council not to " rend asunder Christ's seamless robe ".

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not " irrational prejudice or blind bigotry " but claimed that it was passed because " the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.

The idea was that when the batsman defended against the ball, he would be likely to deflect the ball into the air for a catch.

Indeed he was never rich, but he staunchly defended the rights of the monks at St. Catherine's Monastery when he persuaded them eventually to send the manuscript to the Tsar.

The Scot consistently defended Luis Suárez in the wake of the striker's eight-match ban for allegedly racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra when the teams met in October 2011.

Although Radek was not at Chemnitz when the decision to cancel the uprising in November 1923 took place at the KPD Zentrale, he subsequently approved the decision and defended it.

One of the other differences with CTF is the fact that the flag is not returned automatically when a player drops it: running over one's flag in Threewave CTF would return the flag to the base, and in TF the flag remains in the same spot for preconfigured time and it has to be defended on remote locations.

A classic fast torpedo boat action was the Channel Dash in February 1942 when German E-boats and destroyers defended the flotilla of Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen and several smaller ships against RN MTBs.

He claims that when asked if he would have defended Hitler, he replied, "... I'd even defend Bush!

* Boies defended Napster when the company was sued by the RIAA for facilitating copyright infringement.

New France was defended by about 3, 000 troupes de la marine, companies of colonial regulars ( some of whom had significant woodland combat experience ), and also made calls for militia support when needed.

Aristotelian realism is defended by James Franklin and the Sydney School in the philosophy of mathematics and is close to the view of Penelope Maddy ( 1990 ) that when I open an egg carton I perceive a set of three eggs ( that is, a mathematical entity realized in the physical world ).

The army attempting to relieve Narbonne met him in open battle at the Battle of the River Berre and was destroyed, but Charles failed in his attempt to take Narbonne by siege in 737, when the city was jointly defended by its Muslim Arab and Berber, and its Christian Visigothic citizens.

One anecdote of the conflict recounts June 1879 when the Santa Fe defended its roundhouse in Pueblo with Dodge City toughs led by Bat Masterson ; on that occasion, D & RG treasurer R. F. Weitbrec paid the defenders to leave.

The first siege was by Pompey in 78 BC, when Mutina was defended by Marcus Junius Brutus ( a populist leader, not to be confused with his son, Caesar's best known assassin ).

He even took part in the Diet held on 20 September 972, when he defended himself against the charge of nepotism in regard to his nephew Adalbero, whom he had appointed his coadjutor on account of his own illness and desire to retire to a Benedictine abbey.

However, when the present articles covering this subject were last revisioned, in 1953, doctrine was divided and some defended a more dualistic position, that of " limited monism ".

In March 2005, Hochhuth became embroiled in controversy when, during an interview with the German weekly Junge Freiheit, he defended David Irving, describing him as a " pioneer of modern history who has written magnificent books " and an " historian to equal someone like Joachim Fest ".

Darby defended Calvinist doctrines when they came under attack from within the Church in which he once served.

In 1846 Seward became the center of controversy in his hometown when he defended, in separate cases, two convicts accused of murder.

In 2009, Arum defended Antonio Margarito when he lost his boxing license in the US state of California on charges of illegal hand wraps, implied it was racially motivated and stated that Top Rank would not come back to the state of California until the issue was rectified.

In later years, Davis defended Warner against rumors of sexual impropriety when she wrote: " No lecherous boss was he!

Flair defended his titles against opponents like Harley Race, Ricky Steamboat, Roddy Piper, Kerry Von Erich, Jay Youngblood, Sting, Ronnie Garvin, Magnum T. A., and Rhodes throughout his career, as well.

A non-tournament match occurred where Hulk Hogan defended his WWF Championship against Roddy Piper.

She portrayed a recently widowed attorney who defended Cal Leonard accused of murdering his cousin in " The Case of Constant Doyle.

but he defended the doctrine in The Art Of Happiness, and what indeed could be said against the Epicurean virtues, health, frugality, privacy, culture and friendship??

" In 1982 BJU's then-president Bob Jones III, during interviews in which he defended the school's tax-exempt status, cited nine passages from the Bible-drawn both from the Old and New Testaments-which he claimed demonstrated that God intended races to be segregated: " The Bible clearly teaches, starting in the 10th chapter of Genesis and going all the way through, that God has put differences among people on the earth to keep the earth divided ", he said, adding that inter-racial marriage was " playing into the hands of the antichrist and the one-world system.

It is said that on this occasion Wycliffe served as theological counsel to the government, composed a polemical tract dealing with the tribute, and defended an unnamed monk over against the conduct of the government and parliament.

Clinton had also said, " there is not a sexual relationship, an improper sexual relationship or any other kind of improper relationship " which he defended as truthful on August 17, 1998, hearing because of the use of the present tense, famously arguing " it depends on what the meaning of the word ' is ' is " ( i. e., he was not, at the time he made that statement, still having a sexual relationship with Lewinsky ).

However, defense attorneys defended Feldman, and two ethics experts said there is absolutely no evidence Westerfield's attorneys committed any violations of the California Rules of Professional Conduct.

He defended his actions by stating that he believed in the goal of aiding the Contras, whom he saw as freedom fighters, and said that he viewed the Iran-Contra scheme as a " neat idea.

When co-host Jim Norton, who defended these actions by Border Patrol, said he believed in the Constitution, too, Ventura said, " No, you don't, ' cause you're saying this is OK ."

The show came to an end after Ventura told Norton to not " put words in my mouth ," in which Norton defended doing so by saying Ventura was doing the same, to which Ventura said " Bye, guys " and prepared to exit the studio.

Ahithophel is said to have defended his use of the name of God in this emergency by reference to the practice enjoined by Scripture ( Num.

Pointer, said to have stood tall, along with Philip Hamman defended the log door, giving the settlers enough time to awaken and defend themselves against the attack.

Also missing is the speech in which he defended the illustrious courtesan Phryne ( said to have been his mistress ) on a capital charge: according to Plutarch and Athenaeus the speech climaxed with Hypereides stripping off her clothing to reveal her naked breasts ; in the face of which the judges found it impossible to condemn her.

In an interview on a national cable news network held on May 23, 2006, its mayor defended the decision but said that official business was now conducted in both English and Spanish.

Basayev defended the hostage-taking for giving " all Russians a first-hand insight into all the charms of the war unleashed by Russia and take it back to where it originated from " and said that his next " main goal will be destroying the enemy and exacting maximum damage " and " the next time, those who come won't make any demands, won't take hostages.

O ' Ceallaigh, who had been fired by U2 for complaining about them in an interview, was outspoken with his views on music and politics, and O ' Connor adopted the same habits ; she defended the actions of the IRA and said U2's music was " bombastic ".

The Neville family were said to have given a good account of themselves and defended themselves well in the skirmish.

The Siege of Ostend, 1601 to 1604, of which it was said that " the Spanish assailed the unassailable and the Dutch defended the indefensible ", cost a combined total of more than 80, 000 dead or wounded, making it the single bloodiest battle of the Eighty Years ' War.

Downey defended Gibson during the controversy surrounding The Passion of the Christ, and said " nobody's perfect " in reference to Gibson's DUI.

Then Abraham defended what he had said as not being a lie at all: " And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.

Later, he said he had defended a " shameless " Cold War policy toward East Timor.

He has said, “ My personal life is a private matter, despite that fact that I have become a public person .” Crain defended his decision in a September 2005 editorial and claimed the " steady stream of feedback / vitriol " had declined " a little " with each new Gannon article.

On 28 November 2008, Harney defended her use of expenses while on a FÁS trip to the US, saying that she was " not on holiday ", had not used public taxes for her own personal grooming, said the use of the government jet for the trip was made by the Taoiseach, and had followed advice in claiming her expenses.

Inspecting it later, Whitmore said, " No troops in the world could have hewn their way through a double row of strong palisades, backed by rifle pits and flanked by two-storey erections, such as are constructed in this fortification, defended by excellent shots and desperate men.

At the Battle of Garigliano it is said that he single-handedly defended the bridge of the Garigliano against 200 Spaniards, an exploit that brought him such renown that Pope Julius II tried unsuccessfully to entice him into his service.