The high plateau area of Ramat HaNegev (, The Negev Heights ) stands between 370 metres and 520 metres above sea level with extreme temperatures in summer and winter.

It is best known for the internment camp located there where about 300 – 370 communists and pacifists were held during the winter of 1939 – 1940.

Instead of going after Pap, Shapur II concentrated his attack on the now long besieged fortress of Artogerassa which fell in the winter of 370, the royal treasure was captured by the Persians and Pharantzem, raped and murdered.

The Republican armies in Spain — which were resisting a Carlist insurrection — pronounced their allegiance to Alfonso in the winter of 1874 – 1875, led by Brigadier General Martínez-Campos.

Unable to decisively engage and defeat the standing Russian armies, Napoleon attempted to force the Tsar to terms by capturing Moscow at the onset of winter.

When he finally withdrew most of the allied army to Cremona, the Austrians advanced on the north bank of the Po as far as the Adda before both armies entered winter quarters in December 1734.

The armies in northern Italy suffered significantly over the winter, with significant losses to disease and desertion.

The port city was also the main objective of German armies in December ; the inability of the Allies to end the war in 1944 meant that Allied troops had to winter in Belgium, during which time the Ardennes Offensive was launched by the Germans, resulting in heavy fighting on Belgian soil that lasted into 1945.

During the winter, the two armies prepared for a major confrontation.

The armies went into winter quarters and the First Corps rejoined the Army of Northern Virginia in the spring.

At the end of the Second World War, during the winter of 1944 – 45, Dordrecht and its surroundings were in the middle between the opposing armies.

As was usual in those days, the armies would disband for winter and Croesus did accordingly.

Clark rounded up enough men to outnumber the British and planned a brilliant surprise attack on Fort Vincennes in the heartache of winter, a horrible time when no armies were expected to be able to attack due to illness, lack of food, and the flood waters were high during this time.

On 3 November Brauchitsch visited Rundstedt's headquarters at Poltava, where Rundstedt told him that the armies must halt and dig in for the winter.

The destruction and looting from both armies stripped the Canton of food and ruined fields, causing hardship and death among the Schwyzer during the following winter.

Russians renegaded their ceasefire agreement as early as in the March 1742 but harsh winter made it impossible for the main armies to operate.

As Daniel Defoe observed in 1697, " Now it is frequent to have armies of 50, 000 men of a side spend the whole campaign in dodging – or, as it is genteelly called – observing one another, and then march off into winter quarters.

Wang's armies defeated Zhai and Liu's armies in winter 7, and Zhai was captured and executed by drawing and quartering.

Romanian armies advanced far into the Soviet Union during 1941 and 1942 before being involved in the disaster at the Battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942-1943.

Mountjoy rushed to contain the Spanish, while O ' Neill and O ' Donnell were compelled to hazard their armies in separate marches from the north, through territories defended by Sir George Carew, in the depths of a severe winter.

The armies from the Eastern satrapies were gathered in Kritala, Cappadocia and were led by Xerxes to Sardis where they passed the winter.

Wang's armies defeated Zhai and Liu's armies in the winter of 7 AD, and Zhai was captured and executed by drawing and quartering.

On the approach of Octavian, he retired to Perusia in Etruria, where he was besieged by three armies, and compelled to surrender ( winter of 41 BC ).

Both Prussian and Austrian armies then retreated into their winter quarters.

Once the full fury of the Russian winter struck, which was the coldest in over 50 years, the German armies quickly became unable to conduct further combat operations, with more casualties occurring due to the cold weather than from battle.

The armies of Wessex and Mercia did no serious fighting, and the Danes were allowed to remain through the winter.

For a quarter of the year the flocks and herds are fed on the upper pastures, but the true limit of the wealth of a district is the number of animals that can be supported during the long winter, and while one part of the population is engaged in tending the beasts and in making cheese and butter, the remainder is busy cutting hay and storing up winter food for the cattle.

Birds are generally of little importance however, except in spring when male songbirds are engaged in courtship display and often rather oblivious of their surroundings, in late summer when inexperienced fledglings abound, and in winter when most small mammals hibernate.

The rest of the winter on the Adriatic front was spent in bitterly uncomfortable conditions with the opposing sides often in close proximity and engaged in night-time patrolling and vicious skirmishing.

; Winter ( W ): In some Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and General Motors Europe models, a winter mode can be engaged so that second gear is selected instead of first when pulling away from stationary, to reduce the likelihood of loss of traction due to wheelspin on snow or ice.

The villagers, who were all Muslims, engaged in rainfed agriculture, cultivating grain and winter and summer vegetables.

When the Germans launched their winter offensive on 16 December 1944, the 9th, with no real combat experience, suddenly found itself engaged in heavy fighting.

Operating in sub-zero temperatures, the 8th Hussars learnt the rigours of winter warfare: their tanks had to be parked on straw to prevent the steel tracks from freezing to the ground, with engines having to be started every half hour, with each gear being engaged in turn, to prevent them from being frozen into place.

Every year since the College began in 1932, every Bennington College student has engaged in internships and volunteer opportunities each winter term.

The river's name, according to local lore, was given after a survey party, led by Col. John Mullet, engaged in hostilities with some local Native Americans in the winter of 1823-24.

Cottage industries were very common in the time when a large proportion of the population was engaged in agriculture, because the farmers ( and their families ) often had both the time and the desire to earn additional income during the part of the year ( winter ) when there was little farming work to do.

Cuzzoni spent the winter of 1728-29 in Vienna at the invitation of Count Kinsky ( Imperial Ambasasador to London ), but, in spite of her great success there was not engaged by the opera because she demanded too high a salary.

In May 1942, after having engaged in heavy fighting around Moscow in the winter of 1941 – 1942, the 7th Panzer Division was transferred to France for refitting.

During this time his Division or Panzerkorps engaged in the defense against the Soviet breakthrough at Stalingrad, and the attempt to relieve Stalingrad in late 1942, the defense against the Soviet breakthrough across the Dnieper, and the counterattack at Zhitomir in 1943, as well as the defense against the Soviet winter / spring offensive in western Ukraine in 1944.

In the winter of 1882, they met again at Darmstadt, and were engaged the following summer.

During the winter and spring of 1818, Congress was engaged on a bill for the reorganization of the staff of the army.

Conflicting stories arrived and as the British regulars had spent much of the winter engaged in harmless route marches through the Massachusetts countryside their exact intention was far from certain.

On 16 January 2010, Offerman once again engaged in an on-field assault when he struck an umpire while managing a Dominican Republic winter league game.

Target engaged Stella McCartney to design a 42-piece winter collection and Australian media noted frenzied activity in Target stores on the morning of the launch.

For twelve years from that time she was constantly engaged for opera or concerts, appearing with Carlotta Patti, Mario, Albani, and others in America, until the winter of 1875 / 76, when she visited Moscow and St. Petersburg, and repeated the tour in the following winter.

During the winter of 1863 – 64, he was in charge of the outer defenses of Washington, D. C., and was engaged in repelling the raid by Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal Early that reached the outskirts of the capital.

Over the winter of that year, Phallyos engaged in diplomatic efforts to gather more support from Phocis's allies, and succeeding in widening the theatre of conflict in the next campaigning season.