Battalions of the division formed the core of the force ( known as " Baldwin's Brigade " after the commander, Brigadier General Anthony Baldwin ) to capture Hill Q on 9 August but were not in position in time and so spent the day encamped on a small plateau beneath Chunuk Bair known as " The Farm ".

In what became known as the Battle of Chunuk Bair, the New Zealanders failed to capture the peak by the morning of 7 August but managed the feat on the next morning.

The capture of Chunuk Bair was the only success for the Allies of the campaign.

The capture of Chunuk Bair would provide considerable relief to the Anzac sector.

** Anzac: After a lengthy delay, the New Zealand Infantry Brigade attempts to capture Chunuk Bair but fails.

During the August offensive, Monash's objective was the capture of Hill 971, the highest point on the Sari Bair range, but a failure to get his troops through poorly mapped mountainous terrain prior to the battle resulted in disaster for the last co-ordinated effort to defeat the Turkish forces on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

The city had been incorporated into the Siegfried Line, the main defensive network on Germany's western border ; the Allies had hoped to capture it quickly and advance into the industrialized Ruhr Basin.

The low-emissions project, called the Texas Clean Energy Project, is projected to capture just under 3 million tons a year of carbon dioxide, which will be used for enhanced oil recovery in the West Texas Permian Basin.

Landsat image of the Connolly Basin crater ( circular feature in centre ); screen capture from NASA World Wind

Oblique Landsat image draped over digital elevation data ( x10 vertical exaggeration ), Connolly Basin crater ( circular depression in centre ); screen capture from NASA World Wind

He contributed millions of scudi to the Turkish war fund in Austria and Hungary and had the satisfaction of surviving the capture of Belgrade, 6 September 1688.

* December 23 – WWI – Battle of Magdhaba: In the Sinai desert, Australian and New Zealand mounted troops capture the Turkish garrison.

As a young man he went to study at Adrianopolis, by now the Turkish capital following its capture by the Ottoman Sultan Murad I in 1365.

Delacroix produced a second painting in support of the Greeks in their war for independence, this time referring to the capture of Missolonghi by Turkish forces in 1825.

Ruffo indignantly declared that once the treaty was signed, not only by himself but by the Russian and Turkish commandants and by the British Captain Edward Foote, it must be respected, and on Nelson ’ s refusal he said that he would not help him to capture the castles.

* Both major parties of Kurdistan, an autonomous region in Northern Iraq, vow to fight Turkish troops if they enter Kurdistan to capture Mosul or interfere in Kurdish self-rule.

Although the Turkish troops had failed to capture it, they were close enough to it to demand that it not be reopened.

However, Kilij Arslan's horse archers could not penetrate the line of defense set up by the Crusader knights, and the main body under Bohemund arrived to capture the Turkish camp on July 1.

The capture of Aqaba helped open supply lines from Egypt up to Arab and British forces afield further north in Transjordan and Greater Palestine, and more importantly alleviated a threat of a Turkish offensive onto the strategically important Suez Canal.

In the mid 17th century the area suffered from the ravages of Turkish pirates ( actually Algerian rovers ), who raided the Devon and Cornwall coastlines, attacking shipping and attempting to capture sailors and villagers for sale as slaves in North Africa.

In The Turkish Gambit, Fandorin is charged with the capture of a Turkish spy during the war between Russia and the Ottoman empire.

The Australians, initially at brigade strength, managed to capture the main Turkish trench line from the battalion that was defending the position in the first few hours of the fighting ; however, the fighting continued for the next three days as the Turks brought up reinforcements and launched numerous counterattacks in an attempt to recapture the ground they had lost.

He enveloped the Turkish position at Gaza while the British 53rd ( Welsh ) Infantry Division and 54th ( East Anglian ) Infantry Division attempted to capture it.

On 26 March 1917, the 53rd Division bore the brunt of the First Battle of Gaza where the three brigades, along with the 161st Brigade of the 54th Division, had to advance across exposed ground, withstanding shrapnel, machine gun and rifle fire, to capture the Turkish fortifications.

They helped in the British capture of Ottoman Syria ( including Palestine ), leading to the Turkish surrender.

The summer and autumn of 1789 saw numerous victories against the Turks, including the Battle of Focşani in July ; in early September, the Battle of Rymnik and the capture of both Kaushany and Hadjibey ( modern day Odessa ); and finally the surrender of the Turkish fortress at Akkerman in late September.

Jack and the Surprises are dispatched on a secret mission by the new Commander-in-Chief, the highly competent Admiral Ives, to take the Dromedary and capture a Turkish galley laden with French silver in the Red Sea.

The first deed of the Cartagenan cantonalists was the capture of the Saint Julian castle, which motivated a strange telegram sent by the city's captain-general to the Minister of the Navy: " Saint Julian castle shows Turkish flag ".

Persecuted by the Ottoman authorities who offered 500 Turkish liras for his death and 1000 for his capture, Levski resorted to disguises to evade arrest during his travels.

When the coup dissolved, the Turkish Armed Forces advanced to capture approximately 37 % of the island and met the " Green Line ".

Stephan ’ s death causes Bagradian to withdraw for a time, during which Turkish soldiers capture the last of the Armenian livestock.

In 1544, after the capture of Buda by the Ottoman Empire three years earlier, Tura came under Turkish rule.

* 1813 – At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia ( now San Sebastián ), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town.

* 1521 – The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.

The Second Army, under general Nikola Ivanov, with 2 infantry divisions and 1 infantry brigade, was deployed west of the First and was assigned to capture the strong fortress of Adrianopel ( now Edirne ).

In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket ( WSC ) competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics.

* 1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.

Hoover realized that his job was now on the line, and he pulled out all stops to capture the culprits.

With the capture of Ascalon the southern border of the kingdom was now secure, and Egypt, formerly a major threat to the kingdom but now destabilized under the reign of several underaged caliphs, was reduced to a tributary state.

The great Maginot Line was bypassed and battles that would have taken weeks of siege could now be avoided with the careful application of air power ( such as the German paratrooper capture of Fort Eben-Emael, Belgium, early in World War II ).

Michel Ney, now under the allegiance of the restored Bourbon king ( Welles ) is asked to capture him at Grenoble.

** Russo-Japanese War: The Japanese capture of Mukden ( now Shenyang ) completes the rout of Russian armies in Manchuria.

* June 2 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.

* Plants buried in the Quelccaya Ice Cap in the Peruvian Andes demonstrate the climate had shifted suddenly and severely to capture the plants and preserve them until now.

* The Ottoman Turks capture Turnovgrad ( now Veliko Tarnovo ), the capital city of east Bulgaria.

After its capture following the French Revolution, it was used as a barracks and prison for many years but it is now a museum.

* The Ottomans capture Philippopolis and Adrianopole ( now the city of Edirne ) from the Byzantine Empire, reducing it to the city of Constantinople.

A legend links Szczerbiec with King Boleslaus the Brave who was said to have chipped the sword by hitting it against the Golden Gate of Kiev ( now in Ukraine ) during his capture of the city in 1018.

A more recent and now favored hypothesis suggests that, before its capture, Triton had a massive companion similar to Pluto's moon Charon with which it formed a binary.

In a United States which is now barely more than a Third World nation, she tries to live her life, evade capture, and learn to trust and love.

Llywelyn had now established himself as the leader of the independent princes of Wales, and in December 1215 led an army which included all the lesser princes to capture the castles of Carmarthen, Kidwelly, Llanstephan, Cardigan and Cilgerran.

He should not be confused with the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, an office that is now extinct, and created after the Latin capture of Constantinople in 1204, during the Fourth Crusade.

This step is now done automatically by EDA programs that perform " schematic capture ".

Blackfish wanted to continue to Boonesborough and capture it, since it was now poorly defended, but Boone convinced him the women and children were not hardy enough to survive a winter trek.

In contrast, Peggy Noonan feels that sound bites have acquired a negative connotation but are not inherently negative, and that what we now think of as great historical sound bites — such as " The only thing we have to fear is fear itself ", the most famous phrase in Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Inaugural Address — were examples of eloquent speakers unselfconsciously and " simply trying in words to capture the essence of the thought they wished to communicate.

But the two Gaelic claimants were soon back to fighting and the fortuitous capture of Mathgamain in 976 by Donnubán mac Cathail allowed him to be effortlessly dispatched or murdered by Máel Muad, who would now rule as king of Cashel for two years.