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Rather than face this ordeal, Alexei fled to Vienna and placed himself under the protection of his brother-in-law, the emperor Charles VI, who sent him for safety first to the Tirolean fortress of Ehrenberg ( near Reutte ), and finally to the castle of Sant ' Elmo at Naples.
Asser ’ s account of the raid places the Danish raiders at the Saxon city of Rochester, where they built a temporary fortress in order to besiege the city.
The term " Almoravid " comes from the Arabic " al-Murabitun " () which is the plural form of " al-Murabit " literally meaning " One who is tying " but figuratively means " one who is ready for battle at a fortress ".
In 1168 the chief Wendish fortress at Arkona in Rügen, containing the sanctuary of their god Svantevit, was conquered.
Being a protective encasement with at least one gun position, it is essentially a pillbox or small fortress ( though these are static fortifications of a purely defensive nature ) that can move toward the enemy-hence its offensive utility.
* Albrecht Dürer: The siege of a fortress at the Canadian Centre for Architecture
On 1 January 913 an army, led by the eunuch Badr, conquered the fortress of Écija, at some 50 km from the capital.
In the 18th century, a fortress was built at Montjuïc that overlooked the harbour.
Family enmity with Pope Boniface VIII led to destruction of the fortress at Palestrina and to the seizure of the Pope at Anagni by Sciarra Colonna in 1303.
The saint complied, and selected for his abode the half-ruined Roman fortress at Annegray in the solitudes of the Vosges mountains.
In 1719, to further protect strategic interests in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and St. Lawrence River, France began the 20-year construction of a large fortress at Louisbourg on Île-Royale.
A popular though as yet unsubstantiated theory holds that a small party of Cathar Perfects escaped from the fortress before the massacre at prat dels cremats.
The Swedish army bombarding the fortress of Daugavgriva at the Daugava's estuary in Latvia.
A legionary bath-house was built inside the fortress sometime between 55 and 60 and underwent renovation shortly afterwards ( c. 60-65 ) but by c. 68 ( perhaps even 66 ) the legion had transferred to a newer fortress at Gloucester.
To aid the advance, a large legionary fortress was constructed at Inchtuthil.
The fortress at Inchtuthil was dismantled and the Caledonian forts and watchtowers abandoned, moving the Roman frontier some 120 kilometres ( 75 mi ) further south.
By the time of Çelebi's arrival, many of towns visited were impacted by the Cossack-and the only lacality he reported safe was the Ottoman fortress at Arabat.
The Legionnaires ' victory at the fortress of Ouilla and police patrols in the region accelerated the submission of the tribes.
The next clash came at Amba Alagi on 7 December 1895, when Ethiopian soldiers overran the Italian positions dug in on that natural fortress, and forced the Italians to retreat back to Eritrea.
Valens permitted this, and even assisted the Goths in their crossing of the river ( probably at the fortress of Durostorum ).
In the west were the Gaelic ( Goidelic )- speaking people of Dál Riata with their royal fortress at Dunadd in Argyll, with close links with the island of Ireland, from which they brought with them the name Scots.
He then invaded the Glomacze lands on the middle Elbe river, conquered Gana ( Jahna ), the capital after a siege, and had a fortress ( the later Albrechtsburg ) built at Meissen.
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* August 8, 1897 – Michele Angiolillo shoots Spanish Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo dead at a thermal bath resort, seeking vengeance for the imprisonment and torture of alleged revolutionaries at the Montjuïc fortress.
They were thrown into the notorious prison at the fortress of Montjuïc in Barcelona and tortured.
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The most powerful of the latter was Umar ibn Hafsun, who, from his impregnable fortress of Bobastro, controlled much of eastern Al-Andalus.
The most well-known is the Acropolis of Athens, but nearly every Greek city-state had one-the Acrocorinth famed as a particularly strong fortress.
After signing a letter of submission and promising never to write anything prejudicial against the religion again ( with the result that his most controversial works were henceforth published only after his death ), Diderot was released from the dungeons of the Vincennes fortress after three months.
George Frederick rebuilt the palace and fortress Plassenburg, which was destroyed after the second margravian war ( 1552 – 1554 ), as one of the most impressive residences of the renaissance in the German empire.
From 1904 to 1908, Ribbentrop took French courses in a school at Metz, the German Empire's most powerful fortress.
They saw action in their proper role during 1940 – 1941, most notably in the capture of the Belgian army fortress at the Battle of Fort Eben-Emael and the Battle for The Hague in May 1940, and during the Battle of Crete in May 1941.
The most impressive relic of their time is the remains of a fortress of refuge at Otzenhausen in the north of the Saarland.
Spending most of his days at Alamut working on religious works and doctrines for his Order, Sabbah was never to leave his fortress again in his lifetime.
The ransom was paid and the abbot was released, but the people of Provence, led by Count William I rose up and defeated the Saracens near their most powerful fortress Fraxinet ( La Garde-Freinet ) at the Battle of Tourtour.
The most dominant of these was the Cathedral of Saint Martin, inside the old Roman fortress.
Allying himself with Ternate's ruler, Serrão constructed a fortress on that tiny island and served as the head of a mercenary band of Portuguese seamen under the service of one of the two local feuding sultans who controlled most of the spice trade.
The last and most significant fortress of Jewish resistance was Jerusalem.
The revolt at the fortress of ' Ali Mardan Khan in Zanjan in the north-west of Persia, was by far the most violent of all the conflicts.
The valley of the Bukhtarma, which has a length of 320 km, also has its origin at the foot of the Belukha and the Kuitun peaks, and as it falls some 1, 500 m in about 300 km, from an alpine plateau at an elevation of 1, 900 m to the Bukhtarma fortress ( 345 m ), it offers the most striking contrasts of landscape and vegetation.
The statues to Portuguese heroes were removed and most were stored at the fortress, and black soldiers carrying Russian rifles replaced Portuguese Army soldiers ( both black and white ) with western arms in city barracks and on the streets.
The traditional architectural monuments in Thimphu, as in the rest of Bhutan, are of typical Bhutanese architecture of monasteries, dzongs ( most striking fortress type structures ), chortens, gateways, Lhakhangs, other sacred places and royal palaces, which are the most distinctive architectural forms of Bhutan.
Together with a small group of followers, he made his way to the abandoned fortress of Masada where he continued his resistance to the Romans until 73 CE, when the Romans took the fortress and, according to Josephus, found that most of its defenders had committed suicide rather than surrender.
The Venetians improved on the ditch of the city by building enormous fortifications, most of which are still in place, including a giant wall, in places up to 40 m thick, with 7 bastions, and a fortress in the harbour.
It soon became the most strategic fortress in defense of the city of Toledo above the fortresses of Talamanca de Jarama and Qal '- at '- Abd-Al-Salam ( Alcalá de Henares ).
Oswald became one of five military commanders and was tasked with the defence of the most important of all positions, the Mühlbacher Klause ( Mühlbach fortress ), which blocked the most likely invasion route from Styria, where King Friedrich had taken up residence.
In Grudziądz, German soldiers were stationed in the local fortress as part of the Germanization measures, and the authorities placed soldiers with the most chauvinistic attitude towards the Poles there.
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