Several archaeological digs in the castro of La Carisa ( municipality of Lena ) have found remnants of a defensive line whose main purpose was to protect the valleys of central Asturias from invaders who came from the Meseta through the Pajares pass: the construction of these fortifications reveals a high degree of organization and cooperation between the several Asturian communities, in order to defend themselves from the southern invaders.

On July 16, 1779, in a bayonets-only night attack lasting thirty minutes, three columns of light infantry, the main attack personally led by Wayne, stormed British fortifications at Stony Point, a cliffside redoubt commanding the southern Hudson River.

Mohenjo-daro had no circuit of city walls, but was otherwise well fortified, with guard towers to the west of the main settlement, and defensive fortifications to the south.

There were two main aspects to Ehrensvärd's design for the fortress: a series of independent fortifications on each of the linked islands and, at the very heart of the complex, a dockyard for the navy fleet.

After testing with both 100 mm and 122 mm guns, the D-25T 122 mm gun was selected as the main armament of the new tank, primarily because of its ready availability and the effect of its large high-explosive shell when attacking German fortifications.

On 9 September, a night raid across the Saranac River by 50 Americans led by Captain George McGlassin destroyed a British Congreve rocket battery only from Fort Brown, one of the three main American fortifications.

The outer fortifications were immediately levelled, but the main castle buildings and towers survived until about 1648, at which point they were largely destroyed by the parliamentary forces.

Directly after capturing Fort Stedman and its artillery, Confederate soldiers would move north and south along the Union lines to clear the neighboring fortifications and make way for the main attack, which would lead to the main Union supply base of City Point ( also Grant's headquarters ), ten miles ( 16 km ) northeast on the Appomattox River.

At the time of the Spanish Conquest, the main Mam population was situated in Xinabahul ( also spelled Chinabjul ), now the city of Huehuetenango, but Zaculeu's fortifications led to its use as a refuge during the conquest.

The inhabitants of Courci had built their oven outside the castle's fortifications, and it now lay midway between the main gate and the enemy's Belfry.

The word dungeon comes from Old French donjon ( also spelt dongon ), which in its earliest usage, meant " a keep, the main tower of a castle which formed the final defensive position to which the garrison could retreat when outer fortifications were overcome ".

Poles in Poznań capture the main train station, Main Post Office and part of city fortifications.

It can be used to destroy bunkers and other fortifications during assault operations as well as other designated targets with the dual mode rocket and to destroy main battle tanks with the HEAA rocket.

In addition, contacts between the Simex company and its main customer, the Todt Organization, provided information on German military fortifications and troop movements.

He made it his main objective to develop Norway's material resources, reorganize her army, fortifications and fiscal system ; and he aimed at giving her a more independent position in the union with Denmark.

They were in the process of pulling back their forward units to the Green I fortifications of the Gothic Line proper and Kesselring was uncertain whether this was the start of a major offensive or just 8th Army advancing to occupy vacated ground whilst the main Allied attack would come on the U. S. 5th Army front towards Bologna.

The main areas of excavation were the odeion, the basilica, the North-East Church and its surrounding insulae, domestic quarters, two baths, the defensive ditch and fortifications next to it and the necropoleis.

Wellington manned the fortifications with " secondary troops "— 25, 000 Portuguese militia, 8, 000 Spaniards and 2, 500 British marines and artillerymen — keeping his main field army of British and Portuguese regulars dispersed in order to rapidly meet a French assault on any point of the Lines.

The main (" external ") line of fortifications extends for about 2, 500 km.

The main force of 2, 830 officers and men and 361 wives and children finally completed the demolition of the harbour wall and fortifications, and evacuated the garrison during the early months of 1684.

Upon reaching the fortifications, most of the Rangers learned for the first time that the main objective of the assault, the artillery battery, had been moved out of position, possibly as a result of air attacks during the buildup to the invasion.

In the east, the Germans crossed the Dutch borders with relative ease, but were halted near the main Dutch defences: the Grebbe Line and the Afsluitdijk fortifications.

Consequently, fortifications were smaller in scale than the fortifications of the main Line.

The bills were principally for hospitalization and doctors' fees during the last years of his life, and when he died he owed in the main only current doctor's bills.

While observing the operations of our Government in various parts of the world, I have felt that in many situations where our policies were good we have tended to ignore minor problems which spoiled our main effort.

these were Oersted's main contacts in science.

Originally, the main types used were various compositions of polyesters.

I finally went downstairs to the bar off the main lobby where most of the cast were drowning their sorrows over the untimely passing of Ask Tony.

But the main point here is that even if such a restatement were not possible, the demand to demythologize the kerygma would still be unavoidable.

At present the doctor's main concern was in seeing to it that Japanese salvage firms were not permitted to operate on the hulks of warships sunk too close inshore, because the work involved setting off nerve-shattering blasts at all hours.

Traditionally, wheat and barley were the main crops of the region, but the inauguration of major new irrigation projects in the 1980s has led to greater agricultural diversity and development.

The entrants ranged from serious manufacturers like Peugeot, Panhard or De Dion to amateur owners, and only 25 were selected for the main race.

In 2010, the main macro deficiencies of the Armenian economy — namely, unsustainable growth drivers, a narrow and resource-dominated export base, and overdependence on private transfers — were still prevalent.

The main three export destinations were Bulgaria with 15. 2 percent of total exports, followed by Germany with 14. 2 percent and Russia with 13. 9 percent.

Raw minerals were the main export sent to Bulgaria and Germany.

While there are ancient relations between the Indian Vedas and the Iranian Avesta, the two main families of the Indo-Iranian philosophical traditions were characterized by fundamental differences in their implications for the human being's position in society and their view on the role of man in the universe.

Agathon was also the first playwright to write choral parts which were apparently independent from the main plot of his plays.

The main objective of the mission, however, was to secure the return of Edward ; but this failed, mainly because Henry III's relations with the Hungarians were strained, and the emperor was unable or unwilling to help Ealdred.

His main policies were concerned with avoiding the development of great noble houses, kingdoms inside the kingdom, and concentrating power in the person of the king.

A unified General Chancellorship for the whole Aragonese reign was set in Naples, although the main functionaries were of Aragonese nationality.

Competence does not seem to have been the main issue, but rather, at least in the 4th century BC, whether they were loyal democrats or had oligarchic tendencies.

In each of the ten " main meetings " ( kuriai ekklesiai ) a year, the question was explicitly raised in the assembly agenda: were the office holders carrying out their duties correctly?

There were two main categories in this group: those required to handle large sums of money, and the 10 generals, the strategoi.

The three main camps were Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and a work camp called Auschwitz III-Monowitz, or the Buna.

The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.

Despite this all of the games released on ROM were packaged as ' serial ROMS ', from which the micro would load programs into main memory in exactly the same way as if it were loading from tape.

The Angles were one of the main groups that settled in Britain in the post-Roman period, founding several of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, and their name is the root of the name England.