Of the 94, 787 inhabitants of the city ( as of 1 January 2010 ), about 12, 000 live in the ancient town centre surrounded by its medieval ramparts.

Following the defeat, they were forced to pull down the ramparts and fill up the moat of the city.

After World War II, plans were made to modernise the old city, by filling in the canals, removing or modifying some ramparts and redeveloping historic neighbourhoods.

The old city of's-Hertogenbosch is still almost completely surrounded by continuous ramparts.

After 25 minutes, the machine landed between the windmills, outside the city ramparts, on the Butte-aux-Cailles.

The dismantlement of parts of the medieval ramparts led to the extension of the city outside of its historical urban planning and the new Imperial District was created.

Lord Sheffield suggested constructing ramparts along the eastern side of the city, which was open to attack, and warned that the rebels were crossing the river around Bishopsgate with ease.

Cromwell would lead the attack on the southern ramparts of the city.

Houegbadja was the first of the dynasty to set up the kingdom in Abomey proper: he founded the city by building his palace ( named " Agbome "-- in the midst of the ramparts ) near the area of Guedevi, a few kilometers to the northwest of Bohicon.

Parc Richelieu, a garden behind the war memorial, was built in 1862 on the old city ramparts and redesigned in 1956.

In the founding document, he pledged to consolidate the city with ramparts and a moat.

The fortified city, with towers, gates and defensive ramparts, enabled the Ottomans to resist all attacks.

Maharaja Narendra Singh ( 1845 – 1862 ) fortified the city of Patiala by constructing ramparts and ten gates around the city:

File: St Malo-view up street from on the ramparts, to the cathedral. jpg | View up a typical city street towards the cathedral

The Burmese then besieged Phitsanulok which was defended by the brother generals, Chao Phraya Chakri and Chao Phya Surasih, and as the result of the stubborn resistance on the part of Thai soldiers, they were checked outside the city ramparts for about 4 months.

Beaune is a walled city, with about half of the battlements, ramparts, and the moat, having survived and in good condition, and the central " old town " is extensive.

The later-built more recent quarters in the east were enclosed by the city ramparts.

For the construction of the fort, stone from the Cap Couronne was used and materials recovered from the demolition of buildings located outside the ramparts of the city and likely to provide a shelter to the enemy troops.

After the fire of 1812, the city ramparts were replaced with the Boulevard Ring and Garden Ring roads, replacing the walls around Bielygorod and Zemlianoigorod, respectively.

From its ramparts, the city became poetically known as Bielokamennaya, the " White-Walled ".

The limits of the city as marked by the ramparts built in 1592 are now marked by the Garden Ring.

The entire city of the late 17th century, including the slobodas which grew up outside of the city ramparts, are contained within what is today Moscow's Central Administrative Okrug.

New life was given to the city in the twelfth century, and ramparts were built.

Aided by the treachery of Ælfmaer, whose life Ælfheah had once saved, the raiders succeeded in sacking the city.

There he saved the city of Segesta, which had been under siege from the Carthaginian infantry commander Hamilcar.

A spurious legend has it that the invention of the game saved an ancient city in time of war, and its widespread popularity helped raise funds to build the Great Wall of China.

However, it was the arrival of the railway in the 19th century which saved the city by making it an important nodal point.

Not only was efficiency not degraded, this policy saved Venice from the military takeovers that other Italian city states so often experienced.

In 1799, the Jewish community saved the city from sacking by troops of the Holy Roman Empire.

Two of these bridges at Paris saved the city during its siege of 885 – 886.

However, Theramenes did secure terms that saved the city of Athens from destruction.

In this speech, Cicero claims that the city should rejoice because it has been saved from a bloody rebellion.

He urinated on the burning fuse and thus saved the city.

Another tradition indicates Taras as the founder of the city ; the symbol of the Greek city ( as well as of the modern city ) depicts the legend of Taras being saved from a shipwreck by riding a dolphin that was sent to him by Poseidon.

The highly artistic coins presented the symbol of the city, Taras being saved by a dolphin, with the reverse side showing the likeness of a hippocamp, a horse-fish amalgam which is depicted in mythology as the beast that drew Poseidon's chariot.

* The Spartan king Cleomenes III destroys and burns the city of Megalopolis but the inhabitants are saved by Philopoemen who leads the defence of the city until the inhabitants can escape.

The city is saved, but the populace debates whether Batman's brand of vigilantism has any place in society.

:' After the city was saved, they buried the women who had fallen in battle by the Argive road, and as a memorial to the achievements of the women who were spared they dedicated a temple to Ares Enyalius ... Up to the present day they celebrate the Festival of Impudence ( Hybristika ) on the anniversary the battle, putting the women into men's tunics and cloaks and the men in women's dresses and head-coverings.

She was uniquely venerated at Itanos in Crete, as Tyche Protogeneia, linked with the Athenian Protogeneia (" firstborn "), daughter of Erechtheus, whose self-sacrifice saved the city.

The Greek historian Herodotus, who tells a similar story, relates that during his visit to the city, the Persians, at that point the suzerains of the country, paid particular attention to the condition of these dams so that the city was saved from the annual flooding.

At the time, it was thought by New Orleans residents that the dynamiting saved the city, but historians now believe that the dynamiting was unnecessary due to major upstream levee breaks that relieved pressure on the New Orleans levees.

Martin and Martine are two legendary characters who have come to represent the city which they are said to have saved.

T. Dewitt Talmage to have saved American independence by detaining Lord Howe long enough to permit Israel Putnam to pass up the Greenwich road from the city and join the forces of George Washington in the north end of the island, before Howe was able to overtake him.

The city was the seat of a bishop from the fourth century – the legend of its bishop Lupus ( Loup ), who saved the city from Attila by offering himself as hostage is hagiographic rather than historical – though it was several centuries before it gained importance as a medieval centre of commerce.