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The fortress fired at the invaders, causing damage to the pocket battleship Lützow and sinking the heavy cruiser Blücher, with heavy German losses that included many of the armed forces, Gestapo agents, and administrative personnel who were to have occupied the Norwegian capital.
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With the British in complete control of the high ground, the Americans realized their situation was hopeless and abandoned the fortress with hardly a shot fired in the Siege of Ticonderoga.
During the siege of 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War, the last time that Toul's defenses were used as a classic fortress, 64 guns opened fire at 6: 00 a. m. on 23 September, and the fortress surrendered at 3: 00 p. m. after 2, 433 shells had been fired.
The Americans lost 180 men in combat, to disease or at sea during the siege, while the Royal Navy ships had not fired a shot at the fortress, and lost just one sailor.
On June 1, the Korean fortress fired at the U. S. fleet as they sailed up the Ganghwa Straits, which leads to the river.
He was infamous for his " office fortress " desk, which had two automatic guns built into it that could be fired by the touch of a button.
The nobles then fired the suburb nearest the fortress, entrapping the burghers in the flames.
The next year Maurice joined his cousin William Louis in the siege of Steenwijk, pounding that strongly defended fortress with 50 artillery pieces, that fired 29, 000 shot.
10 February 1859 marked the first use of cannons by Nguyễn's army, when they fired at French battleships from the fortress of Phước Thắng, located 100m from Vũng Tàu's Front Beach.
The cannon are maintained in working order and are fired on event days to recreate the sounds and atmosphere of a working fortress.
The casing of a shell fired at the fortress in 1940 is awarded to the competition winner each year as a travelling trophy.
While the gathering was looking curiously at the cruiser and the three transports, Charleston fired 13 rounds at the old Spanish fortress from three of her guns.
After a while the fortress ' machine guns also fired back at the aircraft.
The arrow was fired by Shi Wengong, a martial arts instructor of the fortress.
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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.
The fortress at Montjuïc, most southerly point from which measurements were made when calculating the History of the metre # Meridional definition | meridional definition of the metre
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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In 1073 or 1074, he accompanied the Georgian army on an expedition to Shirvan up to the Caspian shores, where George recaptured the fortress of Sharaban from the invaders from Derbent for his cousin, the shirvanshah Ahsitan I.
Havana was furnished with the fortress of Castillo de los Tres Reyes Magos del Morro to deter potential invaders, which included the English privateer Francis Drake, who sailed within sight of Havana harbour but did not disembark on the island.
Under Roman rule, Chalcis retained a measure of commercial prosperity ; since the 6th century it again served as a fortress for the protection of central Greece against northern invaders.
During the struggle with the Muslim invaders, the same fortress, which the Romans had built to protect the plain from the incursions of the mountaineers, became the advanced post which covered the mountain, as the last refuge of Cisastur Tribes.
The existence of a prehistoric fortress, 70 km from the German border, was used to show that the prehistoric " Poles " had held their own against foreign invaders and plunderers as early as the Iron Age.
When Dutch troops surprised the Spanish fortress of Wesel, which acted as the principal Spanish supply base, this forced the invaders to retreat to the IJssel.
Trashigang Dzong, or fortress, was built in 1659 by the third Druk Desi Chögyal Mingyur Tenpa to defend against Tibetan invaders.
A fortress has been on the site since at least the fifth century, when Gaelic invaders from Antrim expanded their kingdom of Dál Riata.
Palmela, once a fortress, was conquered by the Portuguese in the 12th century, from Muslim invaders.
In 1781 ( or 1777 or 1780, according to some sources ), the fortress was built in order to protect the Kaaba and Islamic shrines in Mecca from bandits and invaders.
In 912 Ethelfleda, the Lady of Mercia, erected a fortress at Bridgnorth against the Danish invaders, and in the following year she erected another at Chirbury.
While Theon shows Alvin the woods, the boys realize they both know about the legend of Shalmirane, a fortress mentioned in the earliest human history ; a fortress which defended against the invaders and signified the end of Man's conquest of space.
On March 12, 1537, the city and the fortress was released to the Turk hands, many of the citizens left the town while the Uskoci went to the city of Senj on the Croatian coast, where they continued fighting the Turkish invaders.
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