During the British occupation and fortification of the Pagoda Lord Maung Htaw Lay the most prominent Mon-Burmese in British Burma had successfully prevented the British Army form looting of the treasures and he eventually restored the Pagoda its former glory and status even with the financial help from the British rulers.

The Hadassah medical convoy massacre took place on April 13, 1948, when a convoy, escorted by Haganah militia, bringing medical and fortification supplies and personnel to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus was ambushed by Arab forces.

It was designed to be a self-contained fortification, with its own water and food supplies, and luxurious quarters lit by large windows on the upper floors.

For much of his life he held the prestigious role of Master of the Ordnance in the North, which meant that he was responsible for military supplies and fortification in the north of England.

Archways, gun emplacement rooms, supplies lodges, strong bastions with gun safe boxes, safe boxes of small arms, secret passage to the sea, barracks, jails, warehouses and two block-houses at the last defense line: prove the perfection of the defense plan, which along with the natural fortification made the fortress unconquered.

This fortification, and its subsequent upgrading, were to concentrate on an overland attack, so that they were built to face the south.

In result, the fortification walls of Thasos were torn down, their land and naval ships were confiscated by Athens.

The city's fortification was farther reinforced later by the construction of the Long Walls under Cimon and Pericles, with which Piraeus was connected to Athens.

The 5th century BC fortification of Athens ( red lines ) superimposed on a recent astronaut photo.

Athens ' supply situation had become critical, since the city's land supply-lines had been cut by the Spartan fortification of Deceleia, in north Attica.

The fortification encloses an area of nearly 20 hectares, about 10 times as much as the Mycenaean citadels of Athens or Tiryns.

Robert raided into Lothian and forced Malcolm to agree to terms, and built a fortification at Newcastle-on-Tyne while returning to England.

In 1347, at the time of Rienzi's unfortunate enterprise in reviving the Roman republic, Perugia sent ten ambassadors to pay him honour ; and, when papal legates sought to coerce it by foreign soldiers, or to exact contributions, they met with vigorous resistance, which broke into open warfare with Pope Urban V in 1369 ; in 1370 the noble party reached an agreement signing the treaty of Bologna and Perugia was forced to accept a papal legate ; however the vicar-general of the Papal States, Gérard du Puy, Abbot of Marmoutier and nephew of Gregory IX, was expelled by a popular uprising in 1375, and his fortification of Porta Sole was razed to the ground.

In the 8th and 9th century Bulgarian attacks forced the Byzantines to reorganize the defense of the area, giving great care to Christoupolis with fortification and a notable garrison.

Successive invasions forced Italy to adopt increasing levels of fortification, using such new developments as detached bastions, that could withstand sustained artillery fire.

The National Assembly was forced to call for the support of Prussian and Austrian troops serving the Confederation at the confederate fortification of Mainz.

This time they met with greater success and Caesar was forced to abandon some sections of his fortification lines.

Lu Kang forced marched his men to the fortification before Wei could send any reinforcements.

Wei's army led by Yang Hu was forced to retreat, seeing no way out, Bu Chan committed suicide, and the fortification surrendered.

As a result of this fortification, they were forced to resort to the meager glen that supplied water to Gergovia itself, and this was small.

The exception to this is a unit inside a fortification, which is not forced to attack.

However, the German invasion of Belgium in 1914 had forced military planners to radically rethink the utility of fortification in war.

The local militia and armed townspeople killed several members of the insurrection and forced Brown to take up position in the fire engine house where Brown's men had placed several of the hostages and prepared a defensive fortification.

Often, the individual consumes about 3-4 times the RDA's specification Toxicity of vitamin A is believed to be associated with the intervention methods used to upgrade vitamin A levels in the body such as food modification, fortification and supplementation, all of which are employed to combat vitamin A deficiency Toxicity is classified into two categories: acute and chronic toxicities.

* add alcohol ( typically brandy ) before all the sugar is fermented, this is called fortification, or ' mutage '.

Facing attacks from the Union forces who tried to return to their fortification, Lea managed to secure seventy-five Federal wagons and cotton carts, all of which he dispatched to Shreveport.

From the 12th century AD hundreds of settlements of all sizes were founded all across Europe, who very often obtained the right of fortification soon afterwards.

From the 12th century AD hundreds of settlements of all sizes were founded all across Europe, which very often obtained the right of fortification soon afterwards.

This placed a heavy emphasis on the geometry of the fortification to allow defensive cannonry interlocking fields of fire to cover all approaches to the lower and thus more vulnerable walls.

This fortification was built during World War II to protect the Gaspé bay, as was Fort Prével on the other side of the bay ; had Germany conquered all of Europe, these forts would have sheltered British warships seeking refuge from German submarines.

Vitamin A and zinc supplementation, salt iodization, and flour fortification have all been scaled up and rates of exclusive breastfeeding have improved.

Its construction was completed in 1796 and it features all the latest features of Korean fortification known at the time.

Despite its spiny fortification, the acacia is favoured by antelope, elephants and giraffes, which all have adaptations to reach its leaves.

The concept was quickly implemented into the 7, 5 cm sjömålsgranat m / 66 ( anti-shipping shell m / 66 ) used in the coastal fortification system 7, 5 / m57, and then rapidly into all anti-ship shells in the Swedish military.

These successors, each of whose individual inheritance was too small to build a castle of his own, could build a castle together, where each owned one separate part for housing and all of them together shared the defensive fortification.

While they all have impressive fortification walls, gates, and buttresses, it is not always clear why one structure is identified as a temple and another as a palace.

The benefit of this economic stagnation was the conservation of a widely intact medieval city with nearly all towers and gates of the historic fortification.

As Philippe Contamine has noted, by a dialectical process which may be found in all periods, progress in the art of siege was answered by progress in the art of fortification, and vice versa.

RESOLVED, That all persons not members of, nor owing allegiance to, any of the United States of America, as described in a resolution to the Congress of the 29th of June last, who shall be found lurking as spies in or about the fortification or encampments of the armies of the United States, or of any of them, shall suffer death, according to the law and usage of nations, by sentence of a court martial, or such other punishment as such court martial may direct.

They have been excavated in several places on all four of its sides by a number of archaeologists since the 1940s, and is possibly the most extensively sampled fortification of the period.

On the day after they left Estill's Station, a body of Indians appeared there at dawn on March 20, they raided the fort, scalped and killed a Miss Innes in sight of the fortification and took Monk, a slave of Captain Estill, and killed all the cattle.

The letter fell into French hands and would have been used against them ; We wrote ... how we were handled and suppressed by strangers and already invaded by fire and sword for the debating of the true ministry of god's word and liberty of this realm, which as we may see is now taken effect in the most cruel and ungodly manner by the fortifying of the principal port of this realm ( Leith ) and the intended fortification of St AndrewsAnd they have in their progress used such cruelty on those that gave them most credit and were assured by them that all others may take example, And yet they intend no less than to bring us, if god will permit them, to most wild slavery and bondage and to make plain conquest under a coloured authority to the utter extermination of us and our posterityAnd because we saw them continue in their unjust persecution and our force is so small to resist their tyranny we thought good to seek support of our neighbours of England, which they have granted to us as may now be manifestly seen by the army already come by sea, and by the land host that will march on the day appointed.

The remains of the outer fortification can be seen as a mound running all around the palace.

Caponiers are a common feature of 19th century fortification, and are found on almost all the Victorian forts of Malta, the Palmerston Forts in UK, the Lisbon Entrenched Camp forts in Portugal, fortifications in many Nordic countries, and in:

Alcalá ( Spanish ), Alcalà ( Catalan ) or Alcala are all transliterations of the Arabic word al-qal ' a ( القلعة ), meaning " the citadel " or " fortification ".