" In retribution, Wallace and several villagers slaughter the English garrison and execute the sheriff.

A contemporary report of this noted defence says, " Encouraged by the Prince of Hesse, the garrison did more than could humanly be expected, and the English Marines gained an immortal glory ".

Acre was defended by Henry II's brother Amalric of Tyre, the Hospitallers, Templars, and Teutonic Knights, the Venetians and Pisans, the French garrison led by Jean I de Grailly, and the English garrison led by Otton de Grandson, but they were vastly outnumbered.

Glyndŵr entered the English king's military service in 1384 when he undertook garrison duty under the renowned ' Welshman ' Sir Gregory Sais, or Sir Degory Sais, on the English – Scottish border at Berwick-upon-Tweed.

The English garrison surrendered and for the third time in the day Bruce and his supporters were victorious.

Looping back via the hinterlands of Inverness and a second failed attempt to take Elgin, Bruce finally achieved his landmark defeat of Comyn at the Battle of Inverurie in May 1308, then overran Buchan and defeated the English garrison at Aberdeen.

* 1649 – Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's English Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.

He flees to Patna, where he massacres the English garrison, but is subsequently defeated at Katwa, Murshidabad, Giria, Sooty, Udayanala and Munger.

After the escape of Sir Marmaduke Tweng, an English knight from Yorkshire, de Warenne ordered the bridge's destruction and retreated towards Berwick, leaving the garrison at Stirling Castle isolated and abandoning the Lowlands to the rebels.

Lincoln was joined by a number of rebel English Lords at Mechelen, in particular Richard III's loyal supporter, Lord Lovell, Sir Richard Harleston, the former governor of Jersey and Thomas David, a captain of the English garrison at Calais.

The establishment of the outworks was not without difficulty-the French garrison sallied out repeatedly to harass the builders, and systematically destroyed other buildings ( notably, all the churches ) in the suburbs to prevent them serving as shelter for the English during the winter months.

While French skirmishers kept the English garrison of Saint-Loup contained, a fleet of boats from Orleans sailed down to the landing to pick up the supplies, Joan and 200 spearmen.

Dunois military convoy arrived via the Beauce district, on the north bank of the river, in the early morning of May 4, in full view of the English garrison at St. Laurent.

The English garrison of 400 was heavily outnumbered by the 1, 500 French assaulters.

That plan had been to cut off and take St. Jean-le-Blanc from the west, but the English garrison commander, William Glasdale, sensing the intent of the French operation, had already hurriedly destroyed the St. Jean-le-Blanc outwork, and concentrated his troops in the central Boulevart-Tourelles-Augustines complex.

The assault broke off when there were cries that the English garrison of the bastille of St. Privé ( further west ) was rushing upriver to reinforce Glasdale and cut them off.

Seeing the " witch " on the run and the " spell " broken, Glasdale's garrison burst out to give chase, but according to legend, Joan turned around on them alone, raised her holy standard and cried out " Ou Nom De " (" In the name of God "), which reportedly was sufficient to impress the English to halt their pursuit and return to the Boulevart.

That same night, what remained of the English garrison at St. Privé evacuated their outwork and went north of the river to join their comrades in St. Laurent.

Glasdale was isolated, but counted on a strong and well-esconsed English garrison of 700-800 troops.

The combined Danish and English forces defeated the Norman garrison at York, seized the castles and took control of Northumbria, although a raid into Lincolnshire led by Edgar was defeated by the Norman garrison of Lincoln.

The English garrison, numbering 100, were all killed.

During the English Civil War dragoons were used for a variety of tasks: providing outposts, holding defiles or bridges in the front or rear of the main army, lining hedges or holding enclosures, and providing dismounted musketeers to support regular cavalry.

However, as conspiracy neared completion in 1688, the English government sometimes used to disrupt this correspondence by holding up the whole mail delivery system.

The English merchants holding plantations in the warm southern parts of America then resorted rather quickly to the slavery of Native Americans and imported Africans in order to cultivate their plantations and sell raw material ( particularly cotton and tobacco ) in Europe.

King Henry is famed for holding the record for more than twenty acknowledged illegitimate children, the largest number born to any English king ; they turned out to be significant political assets in subsequent years, his bastard daughters cementing alliances with a flock of lords whose lands bordered Henry's.

His opera Artaxerxes ( 1762 ) was the first attempt to set a full-blown opera seria in English and was a huge success, holding the stage until the 1830s.

Wry adverts for mail order " objets de tat " will require prospective buyers to commit to exorbitant, protracted payment arrangements and demand they give up the opportunity to put right their error, once the thrill of actually holding a " Lady Diana Full English Breakfast Plate of Hope " has faded.

This was owned by Vickers, English Electric and Bristol ( holding 40 %, 40 % and 20 % respectively ).

United States law has its roots in English common law, and it had an established precedent of women holding public office.

Ceawlin is one of the seven kings named in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People as holding " imperium " over the southern English: the Chronicle later repeated this claim, referring to Ceawlin as a bretwalda, or " Britain-ruler ".

With such a large number of English fyrdmen now holding the front rank, the disciplined shield wall that the housecarls had maintained began to falter, presenting an opportunity to William.

The translation of his name from Old Persian to English is " holding firm the good ", which can be seen by the stem dāraya, meaning " hold ", and the adjective vau, meaning " good ".

The Angevin property having been partly his own lands whose control was lost in the aftermath of the Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ), King John of England would not allow a French subject to take ownership of such an estate in England, a policy maintained by the following Regency, so the lands were split between the boys, Simon's elder brother Amaury taking the French holding ( which he promptly lost, not having his father's military accumen ) and Simon taking the English, when King Henry eventually changed the policy on his accession to power on arriving at an age of majority in 1227: both he and Simon were virtually contemporary and both had seen their lands abused by their elders during their minority.

His ship, the Rose, attacked a Spanish and a French privateer holding a captive English vessel.

When they died, the holding normally passed to their next heir-who might be the eldest son / daughter ( primogeniture ); or youngest son / daughter ( Borough English or ultimogeniture ); or a division between children ( partible inheritance ), depending upon the custom of that particular manor.

Edward invaded in 1333, marking the start of the Second War of Scottish Independence, and the English forces reoccupied and refortified Edinburgh Castle in 1335, holding it until 1341.

The Latin annotation embroidered onto the Tapestry above his image reads: " Hic Odo Eps ( Episcopus ) Baculu ( m ) Tenens Confortat Pueros ", in English " Here Odo the Bishop holding a club strengthens the boys ".

He played an escaped convict holding a playwright and his wife hostage in their English country cottage.

After the Restoration the English Parliament passed the Sedition Act 1661, which declared that the Solemn League and Covenant was unlawful, was to be abjured by all persons holding public offices, and was to be burnt by the common hangman.

Upon the restoration of Charles II to the British throne in 1660, Ormonde became a major figure in English and Irish politics, holding many high government offices.

Following the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, the castle was held by forces loyal to Charles I, holding out until 1646 when it surrendered to the Parliamentary armies.

Following the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, the castle was held by forces loyal to Charles I, holding out until 1647 when it became the last fortification to surrender to the Parliamentary armies.

Following the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, the castle was held by forces loyal to Charles I, holding out until 1646 when it surrendered to the Parliamentary armies.

The first self-denying ordinance was a bill moved on 9 December 1644 to deprive members of the Parliament of England from holding command in the army or the navy during the English Civil War.