They were able to open the gate and allow a much larger party who set fire to the town and plundered its churches and homes leaving Abergavenny Castle intact.

The story is set in an imaginary American town that has gone bankrupt.

In 1588 the troops of François, Duke of Lesdiguières entered the town and set fire to the church and convent during their campaign against the Duke of Savoy.

Coronation Street is a British television soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford.

The set was updated in 1989 with the construction of a new factory, two shop units and three modern town houses on the south side of the street.

The original Max Brand novel was translated into an " oater " with the town of Bottleneck set on a Hollywood sound stage.

From 1920 to 1945, Estonia's border with Russia, set by the 1920 Tartu Peace Treaty, extended beyond the Narva River in the northeast and beyond the town of Petseri in the southeast.

The series is set in the late 19th Century Western town of Four Feather Falls, Kansas and features the adventures of its sheriff, Tex Tucker.

It has set out to become " a modern European town " and seeks to attract commercial business in the many industrial sites round the borough.

The town council set about a huge rebuilding project, among which the promenade was rebuilt ; and an Olympic-size bathing pool was erected.

From his Vila do Infante in 15th Century Portuguese, Estate or Town of the Prince on the Sagres peninsula located at the south-westernmost point of Iberia and with sea access to both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, Henry sponsored voyages down the coast of Africa, sailing as far as Guinea, that were primarily exploration expeditions, later on bringing back to the nearby town of Lagos, from whence they set out, numerous African slaves and goods.

The castle, now much ruined, comprised two walled baileys set one behind the other, with the outer bailey on the town side and the inner bailey on the cliff side.

In Dancer in the Dark, jump shots and dramatically-different color palettes and camera techniques were used for the " real world " and musical portions of the film, and in Dogville everything was filmed on a sound stage with no set where the walls of the buildings in the fictional town were marked as lines on the floor.

When a papal inquisition arrived at a town it had a set of procedures and rules to identify likely heretics.

The government also set up a " special administrative zone " in Sinuiju, a town near the border with China.

Greek inscriptions discovered at Pergamon include the rules of the town clerks, Lex de astynomis Pergamenorum, which has added to understanding of Greek municipal texts, including such mundane examples as providing an early set of rules for maintaining public lavatories, aphedron.

Munroe's method of making pencils was painstakingly slow, and in the neighbouring town of Acton, a pencil mill owner named Ebenezer Wood set out to automate the process at his own pencil mill located at Nashoba Brook along the old Davis Road.

In 1994 the medieval court and the old town was set on the UNESCO world heritage list.

They took him to the town square, stoned him, stabbed him, set him on fire, and finally shot him.

On retreating from the town Piccolomini's troops set fire to Üsküb, perhaps in order to stamp out the plague, although some say this was done in order to avenge the 1683 Ottoman siege of Vienna.

Ethan said, " We wanted something that would generate a certain narrative feeling – like a modern Raymond Chandler story, and that's why it had to be set in Los Angeles ... We wanted to have a narrative flow, a story that moves like a Chandler book through different parts of town and different social classes ".

The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television and many aspects of the human condition.

The school, in the middle of nowhere, is set up to look like a normal English town in which pupils and instructors mix as in any other normal city, but the instructors are virtual prisoners with little hope of ever leaving.

Two ghettos were set up in the old town centre for the large Jewish population – the smaller one of which was " liquidated " by October.

" The City of Brass " features a group of travellers on an archaeological expedition across the Sahara to find an ancient lost city and attempt to recover a brass vessel that Solomon once used to trap a jinn, and, along the way, encounter a mummified queen, petrified inhabitants, lifelike humanoid robots and automata, seductive marionettes dancing without strings, and a brass horseman robot who directs the party towards the ancient city, which has now become a ghost town.

After twenty-five grueling days of constructing siege works under great stress, the Romans attack and trap the Gauls in the town.

The Metacomet Ridge, a mountainous trap rock ridgeline that stretches from Long Island Sound to nearly the Vermont border, runs through the center of the town, cutting off Salisbury Plain to the east, which used to lie under the ancient, glacial Lake Hitchcock.

This town is known as a " speed trap " with tickets averaging $ 180 ( this is due to a high flow of out of state motorists that do not obey posted speed limits.

The town, small in area and set amidst dense residential developments mostly with otherwise indistinguishable town boundaries, has earned a reputation as a speed trap town for the vigorous enforcement of its lower speed limits.

As a result of a complaint filed by a local business, Oklahoma's Department of Public Safety designated the town a speed trap, and prohibited the town's officers from writing traffic tickets for six months.

The main road through town, is known by those in Lincoln county to be a " speed trap area ".

The town filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy after Oklahoma's attorney general declared it was operating a speed trap, and barred local police from issuing speeding citations.

Society Hill is a speed trap, on all three major highways entering and leaving town.

The town of Gauley Bridge is well-known locally as a speed trap, and ensnares many travelers passing through the area .. Google Street View shows the Google car being pulled over.

The town was famous as a speed trap as referenced in the Steve Earle song " Guitar Town ".

As the Imperial German Army retreats they booby trap the whole town to explode.

The Roman name is unknown, but the town is referred to as Werham in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle entry of 784, from Old English wer ( meaning ' fish trap, a weir ') and hām (' homestead ') or hamm (' enclosure hemmed in by water ').

In the town, Pizarro prepared an ambush to trap the Inca: the Spanish cavalry and infantry occupied three long buildings around the plaza, while some musketeers and four pieces of artillery were located in a stone structure in the middle of the square.

Falaise — The next significant feature after the Verrières Ridge was the town of Falaise ; a German pocket was created when they counterattacked towards Mortain — the American armies, moving fast from the south under the command of General George S. Patton Jr., threatened to cut off this pocket of Germans and trap an entire army.

* Kindergarten Cop Two L. A. detectives set a trap for a drug dealer who is stalking his ex-wife in a small town in Oregon.

* In the event of the Srebrenica massacre, which triggered a number of investigations to determine the reasons for the failure of the UN to deter Serbian forces to storm the town, accusations have been made, notably by General Morillon, that the Serbs actually fell in a propaganda trap used by the Bosnians to reinforce their image of victims and blur their use of Safe Areas as bases.

The town, in turn, had taken the name in reference to a wild cat whose raids and nocturnal shrieks had so disturbed area residents in the 19th century that they set a on fire to keep it at bay after all attempts to trap or kill it had failed ; the lore of the elusive animal shaking up a sleepy planters ' hamlet appealed to the band.

The trap ends with Homer falling into a pool full of green paint, finally prompting him to go berserk and storm through town, causing much damage.

The reduction of the remaining Asture holdouts was entrusted to Publius Carisius, the Legate of Lusitania who, after managing to trap the Asturian General Gauson and the remnants of his troops at the hillfort of Lancia, subsequentely forced them to surrender when he threatened to set fire to the town.

In particular, the stretch through Boones Mill is not divided ; the town is also well known as a speed trap.

He was raised by wolves near the town of Ukiah, Oregon ( where he gets his name ) until Mom Jo caught him in a humane trap and took him home to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.