According to popular legend, his raiders gained access to the walled town with the aid of a local woman who sympathised with the rebellion, letting a small party in via the Market Street gate at midnight.

The town gained more influence and grew considerably.

At this time, the community of Barcelonnette successfully purchased the seigneurie of the town as it was put to auction by the Duke of Savoy ; it thereby gained its own justicial powers.

Over time, the town of Delphi gained more control of itself and the council lost much of its influence.

Initially dubbed Living Pictures Theatre, it gained much popularity and by the end of the next decade there were cinemas in almost every major town of Poland.

She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP ; and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a new minister in town who gained national prominence in the civil rights movement.

She gained critical acclaim for her performances in The Object of My Affection ( 1998 ), a comedy-drama about a woman who falls for a gay man ( played by Paul Rudd ), and in the low-budget 2002 film The Good Girl, playing an unglamorous cashier in a small town.

Molde Cathedral ( orange roof on far right ) with its freestanding bell tower replaces the church that was destroyed during World War II The town gained formal trading rights in 1614.

When the Nazis gained power over the town his name was on a list of local gay men ordered to the police station.

In 1920 Kauniainen became a market town and gained complete municipal sovereignty.

In the 19th century it was the second most important town in what was to become the future Italy for the production of leather, and in 1848 the Sassarese entrepreneur Giovanni Antonio Sanna gained control of the mine at Montevecchio, becoming the third richest man in the new Kingdom of Italia.

The town gained representation in the English Parliament at the same time, and its priory was dissolved.

Monmouth had a mayor and burgesses in mediaeval times, and the town gained its first charter, from Henry VI, in 1447.

It gained its town charter in 1345.

They later proceeded by ship to Scotland, where Margaret gained troops and other aid for the Lancastrian cause from the Queen and Regent, Mary of Guelders, in return for the surrender of the town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed.

The little town gained national attention three times in a 10-month span early in the 21st century as a result of events which occurred within a mere quarter-mile radius.

The ostrog gained official town rights from the government in 1686.

The name was changed to Verkhneudinsk, literally " Upper Udinsk " (), in 1783 to differentiate it from Nizhneudinsk (" Lower Udinsk ") lying on a different Uda River near Irkutsk which gained town status that year.

Matera has gained international fame for its ancient town, the " Sassi di Matera " ( meaning " stones of Matera ").

The town gained the status of a diocese in 1122, and the priory became Carlisle Cathedral.

Watching the crowds cheering him standing on the balcony of the town hall of Leyden he remarked to the burgomaster: " Now they praise me because I gained riches without the least danger ; but earlier when I risked my life in full combat they didn't even know I existed ...".

During this era some of the most renowned city managers of Tampere were Erkki Napoleon Lindfors ( who was responsible for many ambitious construction projects such as the Näsinneula tower and the construction of the suburb of Hervanta, Tampere's " daughter town "), Pekka Paavola ( who gained some notoriety in corruption scandals ) and Jarmo Rantanen.

In a second conquest Uri, Schwyz and Nidwalden gained the town of Bellinzona and the Riviera in 1500.

Bath gained a reputation as a somewhat wild town where eating, drinking, dancing, and gambling on the daily horse races were the order of the day.

In the years just prior to the Civil War, the town gained a reputation as a summer resort for many Lowcountry planters trying to escape the malarial swamps of the Lowcountry for the moderate climate to be found in the Upstate.

The town enjoyed some notoriety as the location of the popular John McPhee book Coming into the Country, which was first published in 1977.

The town gained notoriety during the 1950s and 1960s for its aggressive traffic enforcement policies.

) The U. S. Post Office renamed the town Robeysville, due to the notoriety of the Surratt name.

The last town gained notoriety in 1980 when a large amount of toxic waste was found underneath a residential area built in the 1970s.

Several shootings in the 1880s, and a promotional fight between a bulldog and bobcat in 1889, brought notoriety to the town.

The town gained notoriety because of the Farmersville Garbage Scandal during the 2000 New York State senatorial race between Rudy Giuliani ( who later dropped out in favor of Rick Lazio ) and Hillary Clinton.

Although its heyday has long since passed, the town still has the capability of attracting notoriety.

In 1948-49 the city of Three Rivers gained notoriety as the location of what has become known as the " Longoria Affair " when the director of the only funeral home in town refused to allow chapel services in 1948 for the body of a " Mexican-American " Soldier killed during WWII in 1945.

In the late 1800s the town acquired some notoriety for having the largest number of millionaires per capita in the US.

The town also gained some notoriety for its unique holding tank-a wooden tub with bars mounted on a wagon frame.

Schoolgirl Sarah Harper was murdered by Robert Black in Morley in 1986, giving the town brief, national notoriety.

The mining town of Røros is sometimes called Bergstaden which means " the mining town " due to its historical notoriety for copper mining.

Regardless of the origin, the name has brought the town of Dildo a measure of notoriety.

Boss Finley wants to run Chance out of town again, but it will be a little more difficult this time if only because of the notoriety of Miss Del Lago.

In 1855, the town gained notoriety when a local doctor, William Palmer, was accused of murdering an acquaintance, John Parsons Cook ( who is buried in a still visible grave in the local St Augustine's churchyard ).

The town of Peyton Place was a combination of three New Hampshire towns: Gilmanton, the village where she lived ( and which resented the notoriety ); Laconia, the only nearby town of comparable size to Peyton Place and site of Metalious ' favorite bar ; and Alton, the town where a few years previously a daughter had murdered her incestuous abusive father.

In the 1840s the town garnered notoriety as a place with a severe, albeit unusual drug problem.

The case brought notoriety to the town and aroused considerable interest among local people.

After 1900, a surviving stretch of the then-closed canal gained notoriety owing to its use to transport contraband through the town of Hamilton.

In recent years the town has gained some notoriety due to several high-profile crimes connected with the town ( notably cases of arson in the 1990s ).