Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

On the upper Mississippi the Illinois post was to be established near Kaskaskia, and dependent posts were to be built on the Missouri, `` where there are mines in abundance ''.

The salt mines surrounding the Altaussee area, where American troops found 75 kilos of gold coins stored in a single mine, were used to store looted art, jewels, and currency ; vast quantities of looted art were found and returned to the owners.

Potosí in present-day Bolivia and Cerro de Pasco in Peru were one of the principal mines of the Spanish Empire in the New World.

The mines of Thasos were also turned over to Athens, and they had to pay yearly tribute and fines.

A group of camps was established, and prisoners were forced to work in the coal mines.

In common with the rest of the South Wales coalfield, Aberdare's coal industry commenced a long decline after World War I, and the last two deep mines still in operation in the 1960s were the small Aberaman and Fforchaman collieries, which closed in 1962 and 1965 respectively.

For the first time, armored cars or limousines were put into service for safer transport, with modern versions virtually invulnerable to small arms fire, smaller bombs and mines.

Cambodia is also recovering from the land mines which were used heavily by the Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese ; it will take approximately a decade to remove most of the land mines from Cambodia.

The mines were in a neglected state, caused by careless operations dating back at least to the time of the final fall of Louisbourg.

Hundreds of thousands Tainos living on the island were enslaved to work in gold mines.

They were soon to be used in mines, oil fields, factories, and transoceanic shipping.

These were used in cranes and aboard ships in Ancient Greece, as well as in mines, water pumps and siege engines in Ancient Rome.

2nd Armoured Brigade sent forward two regiments to help but they were halted by mines and anti-tank fire.

Lower Silesia, which contained coal mines, and Stettin, a prominent natural port, were lost to Poland.

The most important mines were located in the mountains near the capital of Tegucigalpa and were owned by the New York and Honduras Rosario Mining Company ( NYHRMC ).

The Muslim rulers were keen to invade India, which was a rich region, with a flourishing international trade and the only known diamond mines in the world.

In the 17th and 18th there was some production of iron in Kalmar County, totalling about 10 mines ; of those 2 were located to the municipality of Hultsfred.

For instance, electors were granted a monopoly over all mines of gold, silver, and other metals within their territories, to tax Jews, to collect tolls, and to mint money ; these powers belonged to the Emperor in the other territories, and princes who wrongly assumed them could be deprived of their status.

These were developments that had begun before the Industrial Revolution, but the adoption of James Watt's more efficient steam engine from the 1770s reduced the fuel costs of engines, making mines more profitable.

A number of Newcomen engines were successfully put to use in Britain for draining hitherto unworkable deep mines, with the engine on the surface ; these were large machines, requiring a lot of capital to build, and produced about.

Other mines in the area exploited the shallower Sewickley Coal Seam, largely above the river level to the north and east.

However, this hypothesis, although widely publicised, was later disproven by a perhaps overenthusiastic oversight of the well-known Persian arsenic-nickel mines much closer to Bactria and known to be exploited by the Greeks and Persians.

Chilean enterprises, which largely exploited the area, saw their interests at stake when Peru nationalized all nitrate mines in Tarapaca, and Bolivia imposed a 10-cent tax on the Antofagasta Nitrate & Railway Company.

It was one of the colonies that the Thassians founded in the coastline, in order to take advantage of the rich gold and silver mines of the territory, especially the ones that were located to the nearby Pangaion mountain ( which were eventually exploited by Phillip the Second of Macedonia ).

The Etruscans exploited the forests of oak needed to fuel the bloomeries of the mainland where the iron ore of Elba's mines was melted.

This civilization constructed protective walls to protect the local population ; spanned the river with the bridge ; promoted the baths ( with its warm medicinal waters ); exploited local mines and alluvial deposits and other natural resources.

The community at Hallstatt exploited the salt mines in the area, which had been worked from time to time since the Neolithic period, from the eighth century to fifth century BC.

Copper, lead, bronze, and silver mines were exploited in Achaea, though production was not as great as the mines of other Roman-controlled areas, such as Noricum, Britannia, and the provinces of Hispania.

Teachers followed Sami reindeer herders to provide education for the children, but Sami areas were increasingly exploited by the then new mines in Kiruna and Gällivare and the construction of the Luleå-Narvik railway.

The most famous of its salt mines has been exploited since pre-Columbian times by the Muiscas, in which is located the fabulous Salt Cathedral.

Two large uranium mines, at Arlit and nearby Akouta, are exploited by open top strip mining.

The French company El Boleo founded the town in 1884 and exploited copper mines there until they closed in 1954.

Both authors describe the sources of the minerals they discuss in the various mines exploited in their time, so their works should be regarded not just as early scientific texts, but also important for the history of engineering and the history of technology.

They are also the only known Roman gold mines in Britain, although it does not exclude the likelihood that they exploited other known sources in Devon, North Wales and Scotland for example.

In the 20th century, the mines of Serifos were exploited by the mining company " Societe des mines Seriphos-Spiliazeza ," under the direction of German mineralogist A. Grohmann ( died 1905 ).

Remnants of copper mines exploited from 2700 up until 1200 BCE indicate strongly that the Greeks inhabited Eordaia for thousands of years.

Iron mines have also been exploited in the region.

Remnants of the exploited copper mines from 2700 up until 1200 BCE indicate strongly that the Greeks inhabited Eordaea for thousands of years.

Iron mines have also been exploited in the Eordean region.

The steep, switchbacking packtrain route over this pass, 3500 ' in elevation above the lake, was the easiest route into the upper Bridge River Valley on the north side of the pass, and when that country's immense gold potential began to be increasingly prospected and exploited, the Mission Mountain trail evolved into the Mission Mountain Road, suitable for the first rugged trucks to replacement the old muletrains, although equipment for the mines being was still barged in by lake to Shalalth and then hauled piece-by-piece over the mountain.

Those mines of Apuseni Mountains ( also known as " Metaliferi ") were exploited since Dacian reign, and later on they attracted the Roman invasion.

There are gold and silver mines, exploited in a rudimentary way.