However, two large Confederate corps assaulted them from the northwest and north, collapsing the hastily developed Union lines, sending the defenders retreating through the streets of town to the hills just to the south.

As a direct result of this conflict Enniskillen developed not only as a market town but also as a garrison, which became home to two regiments.

Although the surface is uneven, the town developed into an agricultural community.

Despite the attacks, the Harmonists developed Economy into a prosperous factory town, engaged in farming on a large scale, and maintained a brewery, distillery, and wine-making operation.

For many years, Kinglassie was a weaving village but in the 19th and 20th centuries it developed as a mining town.

Around this fort a town gradually developed, which became the centre of a small but important state of great strategic value to France, Germany and the Netherlands.

In the decades that followed, the town developed under the castle ’ s protection.

The university was designed in the Brutalist style and developed by the renowned town planner Walter Abraham who also oversaw the next 20 years of planning and development for the university.

The Bend subsequently developed a service-based economy to support the shipyard and gradually began to acquire all the amenities of a growing town.

Very elaborate and complex schemes for town defences were developed in the Netherland and France but these belong mainly to the post-medieval periods.

This was not an issue in an era where the major highways became Main Street in every town along the way and inexpensive land at the edge of town could be developed with motels, car lots, filling stations, lumber yards, amusement parks, roadside diners, drive-in restaurants and theatres and countless other small roadside businesses.

Suburban settlements developed around the city walls, on the river islands and on the right bank, with some ( Ostrów Tumski, Śródka, Chwaliszewo, Ostrówek ) obtaining their own town charters.

Once siege guns were developed the techniques for assaulting a town or a fortress became well known and ritualized.

The town also had a highly developed drainage system and, judging from the fine artwork, its citizens were clearly sophisticated and relatively wealthy people.

The oldest organised indigenous group in Trinidad and Tobago is the Santa Rosa Carib Community centred in the town of Arima, although several new groups have developed in recent years.

The center of the town has kept its very bourgeois atmosphere, while more middle-class neighborhoods have developed around the train stations and in the outskirts of the city.

His interest in trains also developed in Marceline, a town that owed its existence to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway which ran through it.

The town developed beneath the castle, which the Count of Gruyere had built on top of the hill, to control the upper Saanen valley.

The town developed separately of the castle.

In the 11th century the Castle of the Alhambra was developed as a walled town which became a military stronghold that dominated the whole city.

Winchester developed from the Roman town of Venta Belgarum, which developed from an Iron Age oppidum.

Municipal greenery ( 560 ha, 6. 5 % of the town area ) developed in the form of numerous parks, green spots and three cemeteries over a century-old.

Monmouth developed primarily as a market town, and agricultural centre, rather than as a centre of industry.

McBride gave him his opportunity when he showed up in town with a pistol on his hip.

`` Since when did they allow beardless kids into the saloon bars of this town, boys ''??

He is a Craig's wife who agonizes about tobacco ash on the living room rug and he is a forgetful genius who goes boating with the town baker when dignitaries from the local university have come to call.

This refers to what had happened after the Earl of Warwick died in 1590, when the town petitioned Burghley for the right to name the vicar and schoolmaster and other privileges but Greville bought the lordship for himself.

Under the circumstances, I had difficulty keeping up with the conversation on the phone, but when I hung up I was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to remind me of our town meeting the next evening, and how important it was that Hank and I be there.

What in the world were you going to do with a lot of dogs when you left for town on Monday afternoons??

In 1914 when the town was chosen for the U. S. Amateur Golf tournament, a representative hurried here from the Boston manager's office.

Zion was surprised when Roy's buggy stopped beside her on the pike one early summer day as she was walking home from the country school where she was teaching now that Eph Showers had had a call to preach in some mountain town.

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

The theme is also present in the many other nameless citizens who are separated from loved ones in other towns or from those who happened to be out of town when the gates of Oran were closed.

Paneloux is at pains to emphasize that God did not will the calamity: " He looked on the evil-doing in the town with compassion ; only when there was no other remedy did He turn His face away, in order to force people to face the truth about their life " In Paneloux's view, even the terrible suffering caused by the plague works ultimately for good.

Rieux is like a witness who exercises restraint when called to testify about a crime ; he describes what the characters said and did, without speculating about their thoughts and feelings, although he does offer generalized assessments of the shifting mood of the town as a whole.

In The Plague, a key description of Oran occurs early, when it is explained that the town is built in such a way that it " turns its back on the bay, with the result that it's impossible to see the sea, you always have to go to look for it.

There is a peaceful image of Rieux lying motionless on his back gazing up at the stars and moon, and then when Tarrou joins him they swim side by side, " with the same zest, the same rhythm, isolated from the world, at last free of the town and of the plague.

Arau appeared in the 1972 Mexican film El rincón de las vírgenes (" The Virgins ' Corner "), where he played the assistant of a fake mystical doctor traveling from town to town, who reminisce about their travels, when a group of women decide to propose the doctor for sainthood.

* There then follows the Frühjahrsmarkt ( Spring market ) two weeks before Easter, when all the shops in the town are permitted to open on Sunday ( which is normally prohibited in Bavaria ).

Intending to take the strategic town of Vesontio, he concentrated his forces on the Rhine near Lake Constance, and when the Suebi arrived, he crossed.

It celebrated winning the award on May 15, 1974 when the Governor of Michigan, William Milliken, and many dignitaries came to town.

A town that only became notable in the 12th century when it became the site for the construction of Portugal's largest church.

There have been settlements there since the medieval period, likely in the Grange Lane and Black Abbey area, and the King's Highway which passes above the town was at one time used by the kings and queens of England when they used the area for hunting when the Forest of Accrington was one of the four forests of the hundred of Blackburnshire.

The town changed very little over the years, until 1968 when the large scale mining of kaolin, bauxitic kaolin, and bauxite was begun by Mulcoa, Mullite Company of America, which turned of scrub oak wilderness into a massive mining and refining operation.

The traditional legend has it that Byzas from Megara ( a town near Athens ), founded Byzantium in 657 BC, when he sailed northeast across the Aegean Sea.

Only later when Cadogan and Churchill went to take charge did the town ’ s defences begin to fail.