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When it fell to the British Raj, the fort was dismantled on the orders of Lord William Bentinck and was converted into a sanatorium for the British troops stationed at the garrison town of Nasirabad.
After the Bihać fort finally fell in 1592, only small parts of Croatia remained unconquered.
This cleared the way for the French army under the Duke of Berwick to besiege the imperial fort at Philippsburg, which fell after a siege of two months in July 1734.
Following word of the Gold Rush, the fort was largely deserted by the 1850s and fell into disrepair.
Fayzabad fell to Mir Yar Beg who rebuilt his fort and lived in city.
The final hold-out, a small, isolated, overlooked fort at Quéribus, quickly fell in August 1255.
The fort fell into disrepair and its ruins were covered over when the intersection of I-77 and I-81 was constructed in the 1970s.
Following the Union defeat at Wilson's Creek on August 10, 1861, the Union Army fell back to Rolla and began building an earthen fort on the top of a hill alongside the present Highway 63 about a mile from the Courthouse.
The fort is a very large rectangle with three of the tall massively built walls still extant ; the fourth fell into what was once an estuary but is now a marsh.
The fort fell into disrepair in the 18th century as both the county seat and courthouse were moved from Fort Chiswell to the county seat of Wytheville, 12 miles to the west.
The fort eventually fell and the Southern Court Emperor, Go-Daigo, and his loyal vassals were captured and kept at the old palace of former Emperor Kazanin.
Although restoring and re-creating the original fort assures its survival as a historical artifact for the foreseeable future, many briefly used buildings of the fort gradually fell into serious disrepair and neglect.
This caused further loss ( including 20 killed ) and confusion among the British regulars, and they fell back to a ravine north of the fort, where the militia were forming up.
The fort of Battle of Ghazni | Ghazni which fell as a result of mining by a mixed contingent of the Bombay Engineer Group | Bombay and Bengal Engineer Group | Bengal Sappers during the First Afghan War on 23rd July 1839.
The fort was built around two and a half thousand years ago, and fell into disuse until the 6th century AD when it was possibly reoccupied to protect the nearby tin mines.
It is believed that the fort fell into disuse around the first century AD but was reoccupied and modified several centuries later, until the 6th century.
In the center of the city was a large fort, however, this fort and the entire city fell to the Spanish.
However, when they reached the town the following afternoon it soon fell, but they were unable to take the fort because the Baymen had dropped the scaling ladders they were carrying.
The fort played a significant part in the French and Indian War, and fell to the British in a nineteen day siege in July 1759, called the Battle of Fort Niagara.
According to the Colors Sergeant of the 54th, he was shot and killed trying to lead the unit forward and fell on the outside of the fort.
Sultan-Khalessi, the main fort defending the city, was attacked on 29 June and fell on 4 July.
That fort fell on 13 December 1944.

fort and on
The rest of us can fort up in the house and hang on until you get back.
The senior generals sent to the fort to command the enlarged garrison, Gideon J. Pillow and John B. Floyd, squandered their chance to avoid having to surrender most of the garrison and on February 16, 1862, Brig.
They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".
An account of small cash sums received over a few days at the fort of Vindolanda circa 110 AD shows that the fort could compute revenues in cash on a daily basis, perhaps from sales of surplus supplies or goods manufactured in the camp, items dispensed to slaves such as cervesa ( beer ) and clavi caligares ( nails for boots ), as well as commodities bought by individual soldiers.
This fort, situated on a steep hill, towers more than 800 ft ( 244 m ) above the eponymous township, and contains the ruins of several temples adorned with elaborately carved sculptures.
In the subsequent battle of Frekastein ( probably one of the 300 hill forts of Södermanland, as stein meant " hill fort ") against Högni and Grammar, all the chieftains on Granmar's side are slain, including Bragi, except for Bragi's brother Dag.
The shoals were also protected by a small fort situated on an island among the rocks.
Four other ships sit along the coastline, one on fire while a large ship and a small ship are grounded on a shoal which is surmounted by a burning fort.
Five of the Banda islands were within gunshot of each other and he realised that a fort on the main island Neira would give him full control of the group.
The fort was built by Royalist occupation forces in c. 1643 to the south east of the town, with a similar fort at Mount Ridley on the opposite slopes of what is now Kingswear.
In a private discussion, Allen and Arnold reached an accommodation, the essence of which was that Arnold and Allen would both be at the front of the troops when the attack on the fort was made.
In the early dawn, the small force marched on the fort, surprising the lone sentry.
When in 1613 the Dutch attacked the Fortres of Solor, the population of this fort, led by the Dominicans, moved to the harbor town of Larantuka, on the eastern coast of Flores.
Ras Makonnen surrounded the fort at Meqele on 18 December, but the Italian commander adroitly used promises of a negotiated surrender to prevent the Ras from attacking the fort.
By the first days of January, Emperor Menelik, accompanied by his Queen Taytu Betul, had led large forces into Tigray, and besieged the Italians for 15 days ( 6 – 21 January 1896 ), trying in vain to storm the fort on several occasions, until the Italians surrendered with permission from the Italian Headquarters.
Washington was not involved in any other major fighting on the expedition, and the British scored a major strategic victory, gaining control of the Ohio Valley, when the French abandoned the fort.
The Allied troops then moved across the Alma River on 20 September 1854 at the battle of Alma and set siege to the fort of Sevastopol.
Logo on old fur trading fort.
However, the absence of any archaeological remains of or documentary evidence for a Roman fort at Hastings suggest that Hæstingaceaster may refer to a different settlement, most likely that based on the Roman remains at Pevensey.

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