On 1 January 913 an army, led by the eunuch Badr, conquered the fortress of Écija, at some 50 km from the capital.

Jean Froissart states as follows: " Now will I name some of the principal lords and knights ( men-at-arms ) that were there with the prince: the earl of Warwick, the earl of Suffolk, the earl of Salisbury, the earl of Oxford, the lord Raynold Cobham, the lord Spencer, the lord James Audley, the lord Peter his brother, the lord Berkeley, the lord Basset, the lord Warin, the lord Delaware, the lord Manne, the lord Willoughby, the lord Bartholomew de Burghersh, the lord of Felton, the lord Richard of Pembroke, the lord Stephen of Cosington, the lord Bradetane and other Englishmen ; and of Gascon there was the lord of Pommiers, the lord of Languiran, the captal of Buch, the lord John of Caumont, the lord de Lesparre, the lord of Rauzan, the lord of Condon, the lord of Montferrand, the lord of Landiras, the lord Soudic of Latrau and other ( men-at-arms ) that I cannot name ; and of Hainowes the lord Eustace d ' Aubrecicourt, the lord John of Ghistelles, and two other strangers, the lord Daniel Pasele and the lord Denis of Amposta, a fortress in Catalonia ".

The fortress at Inchtuthil was dismantled and the Caledonian forts and watchtowers abandoned, moving the Roman frontier some 120 kilometres ( 75 mi ) further south.

Sardar Nandu Shah was the fortress Commander of Makawanpur with 400 troops, some guns and home-made traditional weapons like Dhanu, Khukuri, Talwar, Ghuyatro etc.

A Tudor fortress guarded the neck of water between the eastern Hoe and Mount Batten and some sheer granite and limestone cannon points remain, however in the late 1660s, following The Restoration, a massive star-shaped stone fortress known as the Royal Citadel, was constructed to replace it.

94 – 97 ) which describes the expeditions which Antigonus sent against the Nabataeans in 312 BC is understood to throw some light upon the history of Petra, but the " petra " referred to as a natural fortress and place of refuge cannot be a proper name and the description implies that the town was not yet in existence.

The old citadel ( in Greek Palaio Frourio ( Παλαιό Φρούριο )) is an old Venetian fortress built on an artificial islet with fortifications surrounding its entire perimeter, although some sections, particularly on the east side, are slowly being eroded and falling into the sea.

Although the story follows the same general storyline, there are some changes: the film shows Dr. No to be an operative of SPECTRE and his island fortress is nuclear powered ; No is killed not by the mountain of guano, but by drowning in reactor coolant.

He reported, some years later, that he was watching a fire one evening while contemplating one of the great military issues of the day — an assault on the fortress of Gibraltar, which had proved impregnable from both sea and land.

The name Efa first appears during Roman rule, some time after the end of the 1st century, when a Roman fortress and small Jewish settlement were established not far from Tell es-Samak.

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.

Previously there had existed a fortress of Arabic origin ( Abrehui's castle ), of which some remains still exist.

While more efficient for serving smaller markets, this system has enabled some airlines to drive out competition from their " fortress hubs.

The English made more use of the Bastille as a prison ; in 1430 there was a minor rebellion when some prisoners overpowered a sleeping guard and attempted to seize control of the fortress ; this incident includes the first reference to a dedicated gaoler at the Bastille.

* During World War II, Sylt became a fortress, with concrete bunkers built below the dunes at the shore, some of which are still visible today.

The name " Malvasia " is generally thought to derive from Monemvasia, a Venetian fortress on the coast of Laconia, known in Italian as " Malvasia "; this port would have acted as a trading center for wine produced in the eastern Peloponnese and perhaps in some of the Cyclades.

When Belisarius eventually returned to Italy, Procopius relates that " during a space of five years he did not succeed once in setting foot on any part of the land ... except where some fortress was, but during this whole period he kept sailing about visiting one port after another.

The 1622 campaign, however, followed the pattern of the previous year: Royal forces won some early victories, but were unable to complete a siege, this time at the fortress of Montpellier.

In return, Lysimachus makes Philetaerus guardian of the fortress of Pergamum with its treasure of some 9, 000 talents.

In 1110 or 1111, some Christian Almogavers were reported when Christian King Alfonso I of Aragon and Pamplona designated Almogavers as the populace of the " El Castellar " fortress.

On July 4, 1778 ( one day after the Battle of Wyoming ), a group of British soldiers took over the fortress and some of it was destroyed.

* The Gothic church of San Francesco, built over a pre-existing Lombard fortress.

* Castle, built by the Venetians in the late 15th century over a pre-existing fortress known from 1176.

Lincoln Castle is a major castle constructed in Lincoln, England during the late 11th century by William the Conqueror on the site of a pre-existing Roman fortress.

The cable car in the castle is based on the 1968 movie Where Eagles Dare, where a U. S. Army Brigadier General is captured and taken prisoner to the Schloß Adler, a fortress high in the Alps above the town of Werfen, only reachable by cable car, and the headquarters of the German Secret Service in southern Bavaria.

The Christians sent a large portion of their army to besiege the fortress of Harim north of Aleppo and so southern Palestine bore few defenders.

The fortress Sary Su ( a local Tatar language name meaning: yellow water / river ), was established to defend the unstable southern border of the country.

Turning to the Roman aristocracy, in particular the Frangipani family, he gave them the fortress of the Circus Maximus on 31 January 1145, allowing them complete control of the southern portion of the Palatine Hill.

; Isengard ( Angrenost ): A fortress at the southern end of the Misty Mountains, built by the Gondorians in the Second Age and maintained throughout the Third by a separate garrison, until it was overrun by Dunlendings in 2710 and after half a century officially granted to Saruman.

The northern frontier of the Pale was marked by the De Verdon fortress of Castle Roche, while the southern border roughly corresponds to the present day M50 motorway in Dublin, which crosses the site of what was Carrickmines Castle.

The Bastille in 1647, illustrating the bastion, the stone abutment linking to the fortress and the new southern entrance built during the 1550s

Knowing that the mission was not allowed to make any concessions on the point of religion and the territorial integrity of the provinces themselves ( the southern fortress cities of Breda ,'s-Hertogenbosch and Maastricht were in the Generality Lands ) Louis demanded — besides twenty million guilders and an annual embassy from the States-General to Louis asking pardon for their perfidy — either religious freedom for the Catholics or lordship over Utrecht and Guelders, merely to humiliate the Dutch a bit further.

Mack had gathered the greater part of the Austrian army at the fortress of Ulm in Swabia ( modern day southern Germany ).

The most notable in southern Öland is the fortress Eketorp.

Deploying three divisions to guard the capital's southern approaches, Wellington then marched north with the rest of his army to lay siege to the fortress of Burgos, away, but he had underestimated the enemy's strength, and on 21 October he had to abandon the Siege of Burgos and retreat.

El Fraile, a rocky island some in area, supports the massive concrete and steel ruins of Fort Drum, an island fortress constructed by the United States Army to defend the southern entrance of the bay.

In the mid-19th century Spain mooted an interest in its lost medieval fortress in order to stake a claim to the southern part of Morocco.

It was his business to secure the important southern fortress of Kristianstad.

In 838, and again in 905, formidable insurrections occurred in northern Kurdistan ; the amir, Aqpd-addaula, was obliged to lead the forces of the caliphate against the southern Kurds, capturing the famous fortress of Sermaj, whose ruins are to be seen at the present day near Behistun, and reducing the province of Shahrizor with its capital city now marked by the great mound of Yassin Teppeh.

After Cao Cao lost the Battle of Red Cliffs in 208, he placed Zhang Liao, Yue Jin and Li Dian at Hefei fortress with 7, 000 men to guard against advances of the southern warlord Sun Quan.

As as result of these military successes, he was appointed by King Philip II of Spain as governor of Baiona, and keeper of the fortress of Monte Real, so warding the southern frontier and sea coast of Galicia.

The city center moved to the southern hill where a Crusader fortress surrounded by a moat was constructed.

Sauron entered the Greenwood around and built his fortress Dol Guldur near the Anduin in the southern reaches of the great wood.

The Russian Empire began plans for the expansion into Asia by construction of an eastern frontier fortress town in the southern Ural region to be named Orenburg in 1734.

Ivan the Terrible decreed that a new fortress be built on the spot in 1566, for the purpose of defending the southern borders of the country.

The fortress had three main gates next to the main towers, one side gate and two secret gates for the arsenal and food cellars next to the southern tower.