However, the walls did not prevent the Ottoman army from overrunning the city in 1645 after just two months ' siege.

However, as the war progressed and Royalist fortunes waned, Ashby — already the target of action in 1644 — was subject to a prolonged siege between September 1645 and its surrender in March 1646.

However, in 1645, with the passing of the Self-denying Ordinance, Cooper chose to resign his commissions in the parliamentary army ( which was, at any rate, being supplanted by the creation of the New Model Army ) in order to preserve his claim to be the rightful member for Downton.

However, Montrose decisively defeated Hurry at the Battle of Auldearn in May 1645 ; two months later he defeated Baillie himself at the Battle of Alford.

However, as the war progressed and Royalist fortunes waned, Ashby — already the target of action in 1644 — was subject to a prolonged siege between September 1645 and its surrender in March 1646.

However, it wasn't until 1645 that the Protestants had their own church.

However he surrendered to Sir Edward without fighting in 1645.

However, with his campaigns in India exhausting the state treasury, and with his troops stretched thin throughout Central Asia, Ahmad Shah lacked sufficient resources to check the advance of Qing forces.

However, the most significant contribution to the formation of Beijing cuisine came from Shandong cuisine, as most chefs from Shandong came to Beijing en masse during the Qing Dynasty.

However, Qing policy changed with the establishment of Xinjiang province in 1884.

However, circumstances led to the Yongying system becoming a permanent institution within the Qing military, which in the long run created problems of its own for the beleaguered central government.

However, Jiang Qing and Yao Wenyuan continued their denunciation of Wu Han and Peng Zhen.

However, a combination of famine, Qing naval opposition, and internal rifts crippled piracy in China around the 1820s, and it has never again reached the same status.

However, to introduce China proper, Winterbotham still used the outdated 15-province system of the Ming Dynasty, which the Qing Dynasty used until 1662.

However, its military power weakened thereafter and, faced with massive rebellions and defeat in wars, the Qing Dynasty declined after the mid-19th century.

#: However, the use of era names makes many mistake these for the names of the emperors themselves, and many scholars therefore encourage a reversed wording for Ming and Qing emperors, e. g., the Kangxi Emperor, the Qianlong Emperor, et cetera.

However, the Russian navigator Gennady Nevelskoy in 1849 recorded the existence and navigability of this strait and — in defiance of the Qing and Japanese claims — Russian settlers established coal mines, administration facilities, schools, prisons, and churches on the island.

However, Imperial Japan was too strong for the Qing Dynasty to cope with, and eventually Li gave Taiwan up.

However, plans were leaked out and more than 70 members, including Lu Hao-tung, were captured by the Qing government.

" However, this type of imagery was not officially endorsed by the central authorities in China at that time: in fact the kǎozhèng movement of the Qing scholars ( consisting of " Song Learning " and " Han Learning ") as supported by the government was opposed to this to the point that out of some 2, 320 resultingly suppressed works many were banned for having a perceived critical, " antibarbarian tone ".

However, during the period of Qing, Beijing was always the only focal point of Manchus in political, economic and cultural aspects.

However, the poetry scene was still dominated by the adherents to the Tongguang School ( named after the Tongzhi and Guangxu reigns of the Qing ), whose leaders — Chen Yan ( 陈衍 ), Chen Sanli ( 陈三立 ), Zheng Xiaoxu ( 郑孝胥 ), and Shen Zengzhi ( 沈曾植 ) — promoted a Song style in the manner of Huang Tingjian.

However, with the weakening of the Qing Empire in the second half of the 19th century, Russia began its expansion into the area.

However, there were some considerable naval conflicts during the Qing Dynasty before the First Opium War ( such as the Battle of Penghu, or the conflict against Koxinga ).

However, Southern China was highly developed in Ming, Qing Dynasty.

However, that army was annihilated and the Qing had faced the danger of losing control of Mongolia.

However, many of these measures were opposed by the conservatives of the Qing Court, and many reformers were either imprisoned or executed outright.

However, during some 50 days of warfare against Yuan's army, 15 of the 24 provinces had declared their independence from the Qing empire.

However, only six days later was the Wuchang Uprising, which effectively led to the end of the Qing Dynasty with the declaration of the Republic of China on January 1, 1912 and the abdication of the emperor on February 12, 1912.

However, they became disenchanted when the Qing government created a cabinet with Prince Qing as prime minister.

However, the details of their plans were leaked to the Qing government.

However, during the Battle of Megiddo, the first reliably documented battle in the fifteenth century BC, actual discipline was instilled in both armies.

However Lewis Spence's 1937 book Boadicea-warrior queen of the Britons went so far as to include a map showing the positions of the opposing armies.

However, lands gradually fell into the hands of private land owners, and standing armies were to replace conscription towards the middle period of the dynasty.

However, Tokugawa was defeated during the Boshin War at the Battle of Toba-Fushimi by large Imperial armies.

" However, to be the policeman of Europe and maintain the Holy alliance needed large armies.

However it was the Franks who came to dominate Western and Central Europe after the fall of Rome, and they generally fielded armies composed of large masses of infantry, with an infantry elite, the comitatus, which often rode to battle on horseback rather than marching on foot.

However, both consuls were killed, leaving Octavian in sole command of their armies.

However, facing a similar threat in Post-invasion Iraq to that which prompted the Russians to convert tanks to APCs, the occupying armies have found it necessary to apply extra armor to existing APCs and IFVs, which adds to the overall size and weight.

However, almost all high medieval armies in Europe were composed of a great deal of paid core troops, and there was a large mercenary market in Europe from at least the early 12th century.

However, a mounted reserve was often kept, and the heavy cavalry continued to be an important battlefield arm of European armies until the 19th century, when new and more accurate weapons made the mounted soldier too easy a target, with WWI being the last instance where cavalry played a major role in the war.

However, as the Byzantine civil war of 1341 – 1347 dissipated the last resources of the Byzantine Empire, the auxiliary armies of the Emirs of Turkish principalities were frequently called over and employed in Europe.

However, most of the officers who commanded the armies were Carthaginian citizens.

However, Richard and his army were able to hold back the invading armies, and they executed any prisoners.

However his actions of supporting alternately the English and Scottish armies had led to a great deal of distrust towards Bruce among the “ Community of the Realm of Scotland ”.

However, the Prussian and other German armies were delayed for months at the Siege of Metz and the Siege of Paris, due to the greatly increased firepower of the defending infantry, and the principle of detached or semi-detached forts with heavy-caliber artillery.

However Jamal upon hearing of Yeshaq's plan to send several large armies to attack three different areas of Adal, including the capital returned to Adal where he fought the Solomonic forces at Harjai and according to al-Maqrizi this is where the Emperor Yeshaq died in battle.

However, Caesar's army was surrounded by the rest of Gaul, and Vercingetorix had summoned his Gallic allies to attack the besieging Romans, so Caesar built another outer fortification against the expected relief armies ( resulting in a doughnut-shaped fortification ).

However, early battle reports of insignia on Allied units that the German armies encountered only confirmed the information the double agents had sent, increasing the Germans ' trust in their network.

However, the Japanese involvement also marked the connection of the European and African theaters to Second Sino-Japanese War, and estimates cited above ignore the China, whose armies totaled about two million by the end of the war.

However with the Hussite wars in Bohemia, it was impossible to count on the Czech or German armies, and the Hungarian ones were needed to protect the Kingdom and control the religious conflicts.

However, the resistance gained momentum after the Italian surrendered in 1943 when the German armies occupied Vichy France.

However during the period until the beginning of the 19th century few formal arms control agreements were recorded, except theoretical proposals and those imposed on defeated armies.

However, all three armies include units either formed ( several units of Theodosiani among them ) or redeployed ( various legions in Thrace ) after Adrianople.

However, regarding the exact nature of the trebuchets used by the Mongol armies, recent research by Paul E. Chevedden indicates that the hui-hui pao was actually a European design, a double-counterweight engine that as Cheveddens shows had been introduced to the Levant by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II ( 1210 – 1250 ) only shortly before.

However, Napoleon did not rule France again for very long, suffering a decisive defeat at the hands of the armies of the Duke of Wellington and Field Marshal Blücher at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June.