During this time, the Tennessee Supreme Court ( including then-Judge Andrew Jackson ) often met in Sparta, and the town was even considered by the Legislature as a potential site for the state capital, narrowly losing to Nashville.

The railroad had been advising the residents to adopt a shorter name, and when a newly arrived resident from Rockford, Illinois proposed the name of his former town, the new name was narrowly approved.

Arundel lies to the north of the A27 road, which narrowly avoids the town centre by a short and congested single carriageway bypass.

Returning to Scotland in 1680, Cargill drafted a declaration of principles, contained in the document known as The Queensferry Paper which fell into government hands on 4 June when he narrowly escaped arrest at an inn in the town of Queensferry.

The Hawker Siddeley Trident suffered a deep stall in the third minute of the flight and crashed near the town of Staines, narrowly missing a busy main road.

One evening in July 1980, a disaster was narrowly averted when an aircraft on approach to Exeter Airport crash-landed just on the outskirts of the town, in a field where the cricket club now stands.

On 1 January 2007, he narrowly defeated Cao Xinlong 5 – 4 to reach the final of the Chinese National Snooker Championship in East China's Yixing, Jiangsu province, his home town.

On 8 January 1945, in the Second World War, the town narrowly missed being destroyed when 36 Boeing B-17 bombers had been sent to take out a railway bridge in Alzey.

The choice of site was a disputed one, and narrowly beat Dalgety, a small town near the NSW / Victoria border.

In separate incidents in the town of Corte, a General narrowly missed assassination when his car was riddled with bullets ; his driver lost an ear in the attack.

Making their way back to town on foot, they narrowly avoid being hit by the car as the gang drives it wildly through the woods, stopping only for Brett ( O ' Connell ), the leader, to smirk at the couple.

Limhamn grew rapidly in the last decades of the 19th century: to 2, 500 inhabitants in 1886, to 8, 000 in 1905, when Limhamn was declared a town, and to 10, 000 in 1915 when Limhamn was incorporated with the larger town of Malmö ( democratically but narrowly decided by the town council ).

He was captured by the Red Army on 7 January 1919, in the town of Krasnoyarsk, and spent 10 months as a prisoner, narrowly surviving severe typhus.

However, they regained the seat at the 2005 election, with Paul Rowen defeating Fitzsimons. In 2010, the town was brought to National attention when reigning Prime Minister Gordon Brown was caught on a tape recording describing a local woman ( Gillian Duffy ) as a " bigot " after having a conversation with her while campaigning ( later described as Bigotgate by the UK media ), but despite the unfavourable publicity, Labour still managed to narrowly win the seat from the Liberal Democrats.

Lamar and his " family " carry out a bloody robbery of a restaurant in a small Texas town from which Lamar narrowly escapes with his life.

Others use it more narrowly to refer to the Moselle Franconian dialect spoken in the valley of the river Nied ( in Pays du Nied, whose largest town is Bouzonville ), to distinguish it from the other two Franconian dialects spoken in Lorraine, Luxembourgish to the west and Rhine Franconian to the east.

He was captured, but soon escaped after being displayed in the town.

In the English Civil War the town supported the parliamentary side, although Shepton appears to have mostly escaped conflict apart from a bloodless confrontation between supporters of the King, led by Sir Ralph Hopton, and Parliament, led by Colonel William Strode, in the market place on 1 August 1642.

According to Rankin, in February 1838 a young slave woman had escaped across the frozen Ohio River to the town of Ripley with her child in her arms and stayed at his house on her way further north.

The town escaped the Beeching Axe of the 1960s and maintained its rail link with London, although many villages further up the river lost their railway stations.

On viewing the wreckage, covering easily forty acres or more in the heart of town, it appears incredible that any living being could have escaped the fury of the storm and death ...

The town became known as " Grand Central Station " among escaped slaves and their " guides ".

Stranded in the river by low tide, they were forced to wait at the extreme range of the shots of the volunteers from the nearby town of Killingworth who lined the riverbanks ; two marines were killed and the captured ships had to be destroyed, but the rest of the men escaped safely when the tide turned.

By the late 1890s it had become a tourist town, drawing summer visitors from points south, notably Boston, who escaped the heat in Mont Vernon's hills.

Soldiers were sent out and captured him but on the way back to town, he saw a lion attacking a lamb, escaped the soldiers, saved the lamb, jumped on the lion's back and in that way came to town.

The latter soon escaped, thanks to the help of his young Aide-de-Camp Scharnhorst, but Freitag remained a prisoner in French hands until Walmoden, who had suspected his commander could be in danger, arrived with his column at Rexpoede and retook the town, scattering Jourdan's three battalions and almost capturing Houchard in turn.

One-third of the town was destroyed, but the Mayo family escaped serious harm.

Bambino ( played by Bud Spencer ) is merely posing as the sheriff of the small town while he awaits the arrival of his gang from the penitentiary from which he escaped.

At the Restoration, Whalley, with his son-in-law, General William Goffe, escaped to North America, and landed at Boston on 27 July 1660, where they were well received by Governor John Endecott and visited by the principal persons of the town.

Under this pressure the band escaped from Berlin to Fresenhagen, a little town in Nordfriesland, where they bought an old farm, which the numerous bandmembers, about 16 in all, repaired.

In the Social War he was stationed with L. Acilius in the town of Aesernia, from which they escaped on the approach of Vettius Scato in the dress of slaves.

Speyer escaped the great bombing raids of World War II ; one of the few bombs falling on the town destroyed the train station.

" Allestree escaped severe punishment only because the army hastily retreated from the town.

On 30 December 2007, Connolly escaped uninjured from a single-car accident on the A939 near the Scottish town of Ballater, Aberdeenshire.

Out of town bank robbers, scam artists, escaped convicts, and vagrants occasionally found their way to Mayberry.

The Parliamentarians had captured Stafford on 15 May 1643, following a brief siege, but some of its garrison escaped and held Stafford Castle, with the hope of using it as a bridgehead to recapture the town.

Three other people are also converging on the town: Audra, who wants to help Bill ; Tom, who plans to kill Beverley ; and Henry Bowers, who has escaped a mental institution with help from It.

* Lucius Atilius, commander of the Roman garrison in Locri, escaped with his troops by sea, when the town was surrendered to Hannibal in 215 BC.

The Sheriff arrives at the bar to warn the town that there is an escaped killer on the loose, and that he could be hiding out nearby.

An old castle town of strategic importance in the Edo Period, Iida escaped the bombings that damaged many other Japanese cities during World War II ; however, most of central Iida was destroyed by a massive fire that swept through the central section of the city two years after the end of the war, in 1947.

* 1813 – At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia ( now San Sebastián ), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town.

* The town hall was constructed in the 1930s after the destruction of the Saint Maurice chapel in July 1934.

During this period, the town suffered an earthquake as well as the destruction of the Muslim quarter in 1834 by Egyptian troops, apparently as a reprisal for the murder of a favored loyalist of Ibrahim Pasha.

Following the destruction of Port Royal in the great earthquake of 1692 refugees settled across the bay in Kingston which by 1716 had become the biggest town in Jamaica and became the capital city in 1872.

The year 1997 was a busy time for Voight in which he appeared in six films, beginning with Rosewood, based on the 1923 destruction of the primarily black town of Rosewood, Florida, by the white residents of nearby Sumner.

Unlike the wrecking of a ship, the destruction of a town by a seismic event can take place over many years and there may be evidence for several phases of damage, sometimes with rebuilding in between.

Every city or town that refused surrender and resisted the Mongols was subject to destruction.

Before its destruction, the town had a population of 20, 000.

When revolutionary forces forced their way into Norfolk, Virginia, and used waterfront buildings as cover for shots at British vessels out in the river, the response of destruction of those buildings was ingeniously used to the advantage of the rebels, who encouraged the spread of fire throughout the largely Loyalist town, and spread propaganda blaming it on the British.

The directives were very broadly interpreted, leading to the destruction of thousands of paintings and thousands more were shipped to deposits in the U. S. Those confiscated paintings still surviving in U. S. custody include for example a painting " depicting a couple of middle aged women talking in a sunlit street in a small town ".

The book uses false documents to frame the story of one of the worst disasters in American history -- the destruction of the town of Chamberlain, Maine by high school student Carietta " Carrie " White.

Shortly after the destruction of the former Orgellia it was created a new neighborhood, new home of the Diocese of Urgell, called vicus Sedes Urgelli denotes that the town is the episcopal see of the Bishop of Urgell.

Austrian administration returned, but wartime reality and destruction of the town had a negative effect on the population, and the quality of life deteriorated.

In Germany and England much destruction had already taken place in an organized fashion under orders from the government, in England the King and Parliament, in Germany mainly Lutheran princes, lords or town councils.

One account has it that the Hopi realized that the Spanish were not the Pahana based upon the destruction of a Hopi town by the Spanish.

The creation of the lake led to the destruction of two Marshall County towns: Birmingham, located about six miles north of the present day town of Fairdealing, and Gilbertsville, which was at the present-day dam site.

The film Other People's Money provides contrasting views of creative destruction, presented in two speeches regarding the takeover of a publicly-traded wire and cable company in a small New England town.

" For the destruction of the sins, he will be called the Kalki incarnation and mounting on a horse and taking the sword, he will destroy all ; He will be glorious like a lion coming down from the mountain ; the town of Sambhal will be very fortunate because the Lord will manifest Himself there. 141.

Federal troops occupied the town after driving off the Confederate force, with very little destruction noted from the occupation, thus preserving many of the antebellum houses and structures in the Lowndesboro Historic District.

U. S. Route 66 provided a slight boost to the town's economy in the 1950s, but construction of the divided highway through the town resulted in the destruction of many of the storefronts, sidewalks, and residential streets, forever altering the aesthetic qualities of the downtown area.

Although the tornado was only in town for less than a minute, the destruction was devastating.

The town also suffered major destruction by fire.

One of the targets included Cheviot, where the town was devastated by fire and destruction from the rampaging soldiers on July 13 of that year.

On June 17, 2010, Wadena was hit by an EF-4 tornado that cut a quarter-mile-wide path of destruction through the town.