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.

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.

They checked the mines regularly and used their knives to nick the stows at any neglected mine.

Grey slashed public expenditure against heavy opposition, although its impact was negligible at this point: silver was discovered in Glen Osmond that year, agriculture was well underway, and other mines sprung up all over the state, aiding Adelaide's commercial development.

The Popular Unity platform included the nationalization of U. S. interests in Chile's major copper mines, the advancement of workers ' rights, deepening of the Chilean land reform, reorganization of the national economy into socialized, mixed, and private sectors, a foreign policy of " international solidarity " and national independence and a new institutional order ( the " people's state " or " poder popular "), including the institution of a unicameral congress.

They also had the superintendence of all the other revenues of the state, the vectigalia, such as the tithes paid for the public lands, the salt works, the mines, the customs, etc.

Mining in Europe has a very long history, examples including the silver mines of Laurium, which helped support the Greek city state of Athens.

In Brazil, especially in Minas Gerais, due to the abundance of soapstone mines in that Brazilian state, local artisans still craft objects from that material, including pots and pans, wine glasses, statues, jewel boxes, coasters, vases.

According to two Operation Blessing pilots who reported this incident to the state of Virginia for investigation in 1994, Robertson used his Operation Blessing planes to haul diamond-mining equipment to Robertson's mines in Liberia, despite the fact that Robertson was telling his 700 Club viewers that the planes were sending relief supplies to the victims of the genocide in Rwanda.

Powerful capitalists dominated in Californian politics through their control of mines, shipping, and finance controlled the state through the new Republican party.

Between 1890 and 1910, large amounts of coal were mined in the county and shipped to California ; production decreased after oil was discovered in that state, and no coal mines in the county have been in production since 1950.

A labor riot at the mines in the late 1870s interrupted the flow of coal, and this combined with the poor financial state of the railroad led to the removal of most of the track by 1880 ; the remaining portion was removed a few years later.

The Laurium silver mines, which were the property of the state, were usually leased for a fixed sum and a percentage on the working.

Yankee Diggins, one of the largest coal mines in the state of Illinois, was located in Bethalto.

Douds is home to Douds Stone Inc. which operates from one of the largest underground limestone mines in the state of Iowa.

Productive coal mines, among the first in the state, were dug into the surrounding river bluffs to provide fuel for river steamers.

Bokoshe's mines fared better during the Great Depression than those elsewhere in the state.

Neither could they contract with the state to work the silver mines, since the wealth beneath the earth was felt to belong to the political community.

Visitors can also explore the old gold mines in the surrounding hills in the hopes of finding a nugget with some of the famous yellow ore, although the mines are in a state of disrepair.

The Wise County Coal Company was formed and was a leading producer of coal for the state until competition from natural gas and petroleum closed the coal mines in 1929.

The ordeal led the miners to name their forced camp “ Winter Quarters ” and this became one of the first commercial coal mines in the state.

A former coal and lumber boom town, the city's population once flirted with 10, 000 but the closure of many underground coal mines caused many of Richwood's residents to leave the state in order to find work.

It uses a moderate-power commercial solid state laser ( SSL ) and beam control system, integrated onto a Humvee ( HMMWV ), to clear surface mines, improvised bombs, or unexploded ordnance ( UXO ) from supply routes and minefields.

The N. E. P took over from the failed attempts of War Communism, during this time, the state had controlled all large enterprises ( i. e. factories, mines, railways ) as well as enterprises of medium size, but small private enterprises, employing fewer than 20 people were allowed.

Coal Creek and the nearby town of Briceville were the site of a major lockout of coal miners in 1891, which resulted in the town of Coal Creek being occupied by the state militia for over a year after miners attempted to force an end to the use of unpaid convict labor in the mines.

Yet, forest policies commonly treat forests as empty lands controlled by the state and available for ‘ development ’ – colonisation, logging, plantations, dams, mines, oil wells, gas pipelines and agribusiness.