The area of King's Cross, London was previously a village known as Battle Bridge which was an ancient crossing of the River Fleet.

Two more are in the near Cadillac area (' Caberfae Ski Resort ' and ' Greenwood Disciples of Christ Church ') and another two are dispersed in surrounding Wexford County (' Battle of Manton ' and ' 1st Wexford County Court House ').

The nearby settlement of Inverlochy was the main settlement in the area before the building of the fort, and was also site of the Battle of Inverlochy.

White troops in the Viipuri area tried to capture the trains ; 50-60 Finns, Red and White, died in the " Battle of the Rahja Trains " in the Karelian Isthmus on 27 January 1918.

Alexander the Great arrived in the area of Afghanistan in 330 BC after defeating Darius III of Persia a year earlier at the Battle of Gaugamela.

Roads from the Old Town valley lead towards the Victorian area of Clive Vale and the former village of Ore, from which " The Ridge ", marking the effective boundary of Hastings, extends north-westwards towards Battle.

* 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.

In 1921 the Berbers under the leadership of Abd el Krim inflicted a grave defeat on the Spanish ( see Battle of Annual ), and were not pacified until 1926, when the Spanish Protectorate finally managed to control the area again.

Their major victory at the Battle of Isandlwana is well known, but they also forced back a British column at the Battle of Hlobane mountain, deploying fast-moving regiments over a wide area in the rugged ravines and gullies while the British were quickly on the move.

At the Forward Edge of the Battle Area ( FEBA ) no salutes of any kind are ever given, under any circumstances ; it is sensible to assume that there are always snipers in the area.

Similarities to the works of other writers who faced the Great War are seen in The Hobbit, including portraying warfare as anti-pastoral: in " The Desolation of Smaug ", both the area under the influence of Smaug before his demise and the setting for The Battle of the Five Armies later are described as barren, damaged landscapes.

The area was first settled by Americans in 1845, after the Battle of Fallen Timbers, with the founding of Fort Industry.

The Republic of Venice was a major maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as a very important center of commerce ( especially silk, grain, and spice ) and art in the 13th century up to the end of the 17th century.

After the initial campaign of 1994 – 1995, culminating in the devastating Battle of Grozny, Russian federal forces attempted to seize control of the mountainous area of Chechnya but were set back by Chechen guerrilla warfare and raids on the flatlands in spite of Russia's overwhelming manpower, weaponry, and air support.

The Battle of Teutoburg Forest took place near Osnabrück ( as mentioned, it is disputed whether this is in Westphalia ) and some of the tribes who fought at this battle came from the area of Westphalia.

The Duke of Monmouth used " soho " as a rallying call for his men at the Battle of Sedgemoor, half a century after the name was first used for this area of London.

After the Franks under Clovis I defeated the Alamanni in the Battle of Tolbiac in 496, the Franks eventually displaced the Alamanni in the Wiesbaden area over the course of the 6th century.

The U. S. commanders ' initial goal was to pin down German forces in the area to keep them from reinforcing the front lines further north in the Battle of Aachen, where the Allies were fighting a trench war between a network of fortified towns and villages connected with field fortifications, tank traps and minefields.

The Germans fiercely defended the area for two reasons: it served as a staging area for the Ardennes Offensive ( what became the Battle of the Bulge ) that was already in preparation, and the mountains commanded access to the Schwammenauel Dam at the head of the Rur Lake ( Rurstausee ) which, if opened, would flood low-lying areas downstream and deny any crossing of the river.

In 1775, Benedict Arnold and his 1, 100 troops would use Fort Western as a staging area before continuing their journey up the Kennebec to the Battle of Quebec.

The boy was known as Henry of Monmouth before his coronation as Henry V ; supported by longbowmen from the area, he won the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.

Furthermore, in 507 they were expelled south to Hispania after their defeat in the Battle of Vouillé by the Franks, who became the new rulers in the area.

The Battle of Tours ( October 732 ), also called the Battle of Poitiers and in ( ma ‘ arakat Balâṭ ash-Shuhadâ-Battle of the Royal Palace of Martyrs ) was fought in an area between the cities of Poitiers and Tours, in north-central France, near the village of Moussais-la-Bataille, about northeast of Poitiers.

A weapons carrier took Greg, Todman, Belton, Banjo Ferguson, and Walters and the others the two miles from the bivouac area to the strip.

The Prince took her with him on every tour around the area, and it was rumored he was utilizing her knowledge of Constantinople as part of his espionage network.

Evidence also suggests that a profound change took place in the Ancestral Pueblo area and areas inhabited by their cultural neighbors, the Mogollon.

It is against this background that two religious orders or congregations, one of men and one of women, when founded in the Milan area during the 13th and 15th centuries, took Saint Ambrose as their patron and hence adopted his name.

Many games took advantage of this, gaining storage by leaving non-graphical data in the disabled area.

Robert Roy MacGregor was born at the head of nearby Loch Katrine, and his well known cattle stealing exploits took him all around the area surrounding Aberfoyle.

The developments that led to the First Balkan War did not go unnoticed by the Great Powers, but although there was an official consensus between the European Powers over the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, which led to a stern warning to the Balkan states, unofficially each of them took a different diplomatic approach due to their conflicting interests in the area.

Sand's article was the first to lay out the now-familiar triangular area where the losses took place.

Chaplin considered the musical accompaniment of a film to be important, and from A Woman of Paris onwards, he took an increasing interest in this area.

An opinion on the matter was sought from the most esteemed ministers of the area and Cotton Mather took credit for their response when anonymously celebrating himself years later: " drawn up at their desire, by Cotton Mather the younger, as I have been informed.

Growing French interest in the area took place against a backdrop of British activity in Egypt and the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.

Drop kicks are mandatory from the centre spot to start a half ( a kick-off ), from the centre spot to restart the game after points have been scored, to restart play from the 22-metre line ( called a drop-out ) after the ball is touched down or made dead in the in-goal area by the defending team when the attacking team kicked or took the ball into the in-goal area, and to score a drop goal ( sometimes called a field goal ) in open play, which is worth three points.

On 13 April German troops took over the Market Square, " Smolna ", the Presidential Palace, and the Senate-Ritarihuone area.

In addition to the Swedish officers, a 800-1, 000-strong " Swedish Brigade ", led by Hjalmar Frisell, took part in the battles of Tampere and those fought in the area to the south of the town.

Alan Ball took it, outswinging the ball to Hurst on the edge of the area.

In time it took on the typical shape of a Basque town, comprising a series of parallel streets ( Goyenkale, Azokekale, Artekale and Barrenkale ) and a transverse street called Santa María, with a church at each end of the built-up area.

During the decade of 1780, the Spanish regained control of the Bay Islands and took most of the British and their allies in the Black River area.

The republic proved short-lived as Albania collapsed with the onset of World War I. Greece held the area between 1914 and 1916, and unsuccessfully tried to annex it in March 1916, however in 1917 it was driven from the area by Italy, who took over most of Albania.

They took on the Kips Bay residential area on the east side of Manhattan, where Pei set up Kips Bay Towers, two large long towers of apartments with recessed windows ( to provide shade and privacy ) in a neat grid, adorned with rows of trees.

Christianity took hold in the city during the Byzantine era and the area was heavily populated.

The area took its name from the city quarter or dēmos ( δῆμος ) of the Kerameis ( Κεραμεῖς, potters ), which in turn derived its name from the word κέραμος ( kéramos, " pottery clay ", from which the English word " ceramic " is derived ).

The Spanish took over the region in the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ), but were not to play a major role in the area other than taxing and licensing all traffic on the Missouri River.

Japan was therefore left in control of Manchuria until the Soviet Union's Red Army took over the area and returned it to China at the end of the Second World War.