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* 1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
Fermanagh was a stronghold of the Maguire clan and Donn Carrach Maguire ( died 1302 ) was the first of the chiefs of the Maguire dynasty.
Henceforth, the nearby former stronghold was turned into a village and renamed " Old Town " (,, ), first documented in 1277 and used until 1945 when it was renamed " Budzistowo ".
In the following years Magdeburg gained a reputation as a stronghold of Protestantism and became the first major city to publish the writings of Luther.
The first napalm attack in Greece took place on the mountain of Grammos, which was the stronghold of the Communist rebels.
* August 18 – Vietnam War – Operation Starlite: 5, 500 United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in Quang Ngai Province, in the first major American ground battle of the war.
* The knights Templar found their first stronghold in the kingdom of Aragon.
* Called by Olegarius, the bishop of Tarragona, the knights Templar establish their first stronghold in Catalonia.
Nowadays it is a stronghold of the centre-right coalition, which has governed the region since 1995, first under President Giancarlo Galan ( Forza Italia / The People of Freedom ) and, since 2010, Luca Zaia ( Liga Veneta ).
The Teutonic Knights began the construction of Ordensburg castle in 1347 as a stronghold against the Old Prussians, and the settlement of Allenstein was first mentioned the following year.
In the remaining part of the first millennium, Carlisle continued to serve as an important stronghold within several entities who warred over the area including the Brythonic Kingdom of Strathclyde and the Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria.
The stronghold at the edge of the Chinon forest overlooking the Indre Valley was first fortified in the eleventh century by the Norman seigneur of Ussé, Gueldin de Saumur, who surrounded the fort with a palisade on a high terrace.
Aldhelm received his first education in the school of an Irish scholar and monk, Máeldub ( also Maildubh, Maildulf or Meldun ) ( died c. 675 ), who had settled in the British stronghold of Bladon ( or Bladow ) on the site of the town called Mailduberi, Maldubesburg, Meldunesburg, etc., and finally Malmesbury, after him.
The county is a traditional stronghold for the Republican Party, with a substantial conservative population, although the 2008 Presidential Election marked the first time since 1964 a Democratic Presidential candidate received more votes than his Republican opponent.
Fearful that several cousins of the Emperor Honorius in Hispania, which was a stronghold of the House of Theodosius and loyal to the ineffectual emperor, would organize an attack from that direction while troops under Sarus and Stilicho attacked him from Italy in a pincer maneuver, he struck first at Hispania.
The name is Conisbrough is descended from the Old English Cyningesburh ( first recorded c. 1000 ) meaning " king's stronghold " or " king's fortified place ".
Guiscard turned back, leaving a fortress at San Marco d ' Alunzio, named after his first stronghold in Calabria.
As a town, Brest – Berestye in Kievan Rus – was first mentioned in the Primary Chronicle in 1019 when the Kievan Rus took the stronghold from the Poles, and is one of the oldest cities in Belarus.
Since 1719, when the influence of the few great territorial families had been merged in a multitude of needy gentlemen, the first estate had become the nursery and afterwards the stronghold of an opposition at once noble and democratic which found its natural leaders in such men as Count Carl Gyllenborg and Count Carl Gustaf Tessin.
* County Limerick is the stronghold of the native game around this time and the Commercials Club, founded by employees of Cannock ’ s Drapery Store, is one of the first to impose a set of rules that is later adopted by other clubs in the county.
The first written record of the earthen stronghold of Viljandi was in the year 1154 in the commentaries to al-Idrisi's world atlas Geography.
After the fight for freedom in the first quarter of the 13th century, Viljandi fell under the rule of the Order of the Brethren of the Sword ( later the Livonian Order ) and in place of the Sakala wooden stronghold a powerful Order Centre was started in 1224.
During the Polish – Russian War in the first quarter of the 17th century, the town and the stronghold were completely destroyed.
The first known settlement in the area was a Slavic stronghold at what is now called Jánský Vrch, north of the town-centre.
Charles VIII, during his invasion of Italy, brought with him the first truly mobile siege train: culverins and bombards mounted on wheeled carriages, which could be deployed against an enemy stronghold immediately after arrival.

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Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.
Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??
Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;
In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.
This is the primary function of the imagination operating in the absence of the original experiential stimulus by which the images were first appropriated.
The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.
He is, first and foremost, a defender of public morals, a servant of society.
The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.
Noting such evidence is the first step ; ;
So it is that we relive his opening statement in the first television address with the dramatic immediacy of the present.
and it is surely clear that the first of these is the result of the way in which the individual's command of language interacts with the other two.
The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.
When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.
If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.
At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.
`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.
We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.
Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

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