However, instead of a Crusade, Andrew led a campaign against the neighbouring provinces and occupied Zahumlje and Rama.

During the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919-1922 ) campaign ( part of the Turkish War of Independence ) Afyon and the surrounding hills were occupied by French, Italian and then Greek forces.

The Polish Home Army conducted a regular campaign of assassinations against top Nazi German officials in occupied Poland.

The campaign was designed by John, who was the fulcrum of the alliances ; his plan being to draw the French away from Paris southward against himself and keep him occupied, while the main army, under Emperor Otto IV, marched on Paris from the north.

During the Sinai campaign of November 1956, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula were occupied by Israeli troops.

In World War II, the United States, during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, invaded and occupied the islands in 1944, destroying or isolating the Japanese garrisons.

He came out of detention to an altered political scene — the Muslim League for example, which a few years earlier had appeared marginal, " now occupied the centre of the political stage " and the topic of Jinnah's campaign for Pakistan was a major talking point.

Germany began a campaign of " Germanization ", which meant to assimilate the occupied territories politically, culturally, socially, and economically into the German Reich.

Much of the Territory of New Guinea, including the islands of Bougainville and New Britain, was occupied by Japanese forces before being recaptured by Australian and American forces during the final months of the war ( see New Guinea campaign ).

In early 1903 Harding announced his campaign for Governor of Ohio, which was soon thwarted by an intra-party alliance that assured the election of fellow Republican Myron T. Herrick ; Harding was awarded the position of Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, a post he occupied from 1904 to 1906.

Their Russian and Saxon allies were occupied with the Polish campaign, and the Emperor distrusted Frederick William I of Prussia, who was willing to provide some aid.

The Partisans initiated a guerrilla campaign that developed into the largest resistance army in occupied Western and Central Europe.

Belgium was invaded, defeated, and occupied in an eighteen-day campaign after 10 May 1940.

The arming of Egyptians in this campaign had a disturbing effect upon the native population of Egypt, leading to the secession of Upper Egypt under pharaohs Harmachis ( also known as Hugronaphor ) and Ankmachis ( also known as Chaonnophris ), thus creating a kingdom that occupied much of the country and lasted nearly twenty years.

Achates was an English galleon ( one of a squadron of six ships ) that took part in William Winter's campaign of 1580, against the Spanish who had occupied the fort at Smerwick, Ireland.

Heine was furious ; he had expected much more from the will and his campaign to make Carl revise its terms occupied him for the next two years.

The Sassanid King Bahram II, limited by internal opposition and his troops occupied with a campaign in modern day Afghanistan, could not effectively defend his territory.

Bahram II was not able to offer any resistance as his troops were occupied with the campaign in Afghanistan.

After the disastrous campaign in Africa Anthemius turned to the reconquest of Gaul, occupied by Visigoths under the ambitious King Euric who had exploited the weak Roman control caused by political instability.

John, then styled Lord of Kyle, first appeared in the 1350s as the commander of a campaign in the lordship of Annandale to re-establish Scottish control over English occupied territory.

Tonopah and Kauai are occupied on a " campaign " basis, as test schedules dictate.

Recovering from his initial surprise, Napoleon beat the Austrian forces in a swift campaign and occupied Vienna at the beginning of May 1809.

In 1807 Brune held a command of troops fighting in the North German campaign and occupied Swedish Pomerania, but Brune's staunch republicanism and a meeting between Brune and Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden raised Napoleon's suspicions, and he was not afterwards employed during the Empire.

In the subsequent peace the King of Bohemia handed back the fortresses occupied during his campaign, while Stephen renounced his claim to the Hungarian royal treasury that his sister, Anna had taken to Prague after their father's death.

However, a political crisis relating to large-scale contributions from drug traffickers to Samper's presidential campaign diverted attention from governance programs, thus slowing, and in many cases, halting progress on the nation's domestic reform agenda.

During the 1992 U. S. presidential election campaign, the civil rights of gays and lesbians, particularly their open service in the military, attracted some press attention, and all candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination supported ending the ban on military service by gays and lesbians,

A campaign of bomb attacks against politicians, journalists and even civilian neighborhoods associated with the anti-Syrian camp has provoked much negative attention for Syria in the UN and elsewhere.

Though unable to halt the bill's passage, his campaign was successful in drawing attention to the grievances of Indians in South Africa.

Although most of those directly involved in the campaign believe that the rally really came to widespread attention only after the election itself.

Kinnock gained attention in the United States in 1987 when it was discovered that then-Senator Joe Biden of Delaware plagiarized one of Kinnock's speeches during his 1988 presidential campaign in a speech at a Democratic debate in Iowa in August 1987.

His energetic campaign attracted massive media attention and mobilized many young people, who saw Trudeau as a symbol of generational change ( even though he was 48 years old ).

According to Puntland government documents, the Somaliland region's Riyale government in 2006 both financed and offered military assistance to Atom's men as part of a campaign to destabilize the autonomous territory via proxy agents and to distract attention away from the Somaliland government's own attempts at occupying the disputed Sool province.

They started a big advertising campaign, but didn't pay attention to the technical details related to their number of users, so their quality of service decreased.

In February the following year, China's alleged role in the campaign finance controversy first gained public attention after the Washington Post published a story stating that a U. S. Department of Justice investigation had discovered evidence that agents of China sought to direct contributions from foreign sources to the DNC before the 1996 presidential campaign.

Frustrated with the lack of attention they were getting locally, they engaged in a graffiti campaign, with Brown and Wren spraying the band's name on walls from West Didsbury to the city centre.

Coalitions of NGOs, designers ( Katharine Hamnett, American Apparel, Veja, Quiksilver, eVocal, Edun ,...) and campaign groups like the Clean Clothes Campaign ( CCC ) have sought to improve these conditions as much as possible by sponsoring awareness-raising events, which draw the attention of both the media and the general public to the workers.

To help with the campaign and secure national attention, the Rev.

When the Ohio off-year campaign of 1879 approached, Garfield turned his attention to securing the U. S. Senate seat for Ohio, vacated by John Sherman.

In 1940, Vandenberg was also an isolationist ( he would change his foreign-policy stance during World War II ) and his lackadaisical, lethargic campaign never caught the voters ' attention.

This was a thinly veiled anti-semitic campaign designed to keep himself in power by shifting the attention of the populace from stagnating economy and Communist mismanagement.

Though Anderson was a leader in the House and the campaign commanded national attention, Anderson won the primary by 16 % of the vote.

Military historians have paid special attention to his Atlanta campaign and the March to the Sea, generally giving him high marks as an innovative strategist and quick-witted tactician.

The Dutch general election of 2006 did not start off well for the VVD: top candidate Mark Rutte was criticized by his own parliamentary party for being invisible in the campaign, and he was unable to break the attention away from the duel between current Christian-Democratic Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Wouter Bos of the Labour Party.

Aragorn and Gandalf then led the final campaign against Sauron's forces at the Black Gate, in an effort to distract the Dark Lord's attention from Frodo and Samwise Gamgee, who were at the same moment scaling Mount Doom to destroy the Ring.

The campaign has attracted significant media attention, controversy and generated angry responses from the victims ' family members.

The protest letter said that the spotlight on Tel Aviv was part of " the Israeli propaganda machine " because it was supported in part by funding from the Israeli government and had been described by the Israeli Consul General Amir Gissin as being part of a Brand Israel campaign intended to draw attention away from Israel's conflict with the Palestinians.

In the 1960 presidential campaign, it garnered attention for its high levels of poverty.

To Le Pen's advantage, the election campaign had increasingly focused on law and order issues, helped by media attention on a number of violent incidents.