The eastern parts of the town surrendered at midday of 13 April ; a white flag was raised in the tower of the Kallio church.

* 1704 4 August – The Governor Diego de Salinas surrendered the town to Prince George of Hesse, who took it in the name of Archduke, as Charles III, king of Castile and Aragon.

However, not knowing who the assassins were, King Aegeus surrendered the whole town to Minos ' mercy.

* July 4 – American Civil War: Battle of Vicksburg – Ulysses S. Grant and the Union army capture the Confederate city Vicksburg, Mississippi, after the town surrendered.

Town after town surrendered: in 1141, Verneuil, Nonancourt, Lisieux, Falaise ; in 1142, Mortain, Saint-Hilaire, Pontorson ; in 1143, Avranches, Saint-Lô, Cérences, Coutances, Cherbourg ; in the beginning of 1144 he entered Rouen, and on 19 January received the ducal crown in its cathedral.

Despite a never-ending attack of Prussian infantry, the soldiers of the 2nd Division kept to their positions. The people of the town of Wissembourg finally surrendered to the Germans.

The siege started on 4 September 1346, and lasted until the town surrendered on 3 August 1347.

Eventually, with many buildings destroyed in the town, the castle and its valuable contents were surrendered to the Parliamentarians on 21 July 1645.

In 774, the town surrendered to invading Franks led by Charlemagne, and became a center of commercial exchange.

The town was effectively surrendered to the King's party, with Grange confined to the castle.

He pleaded his crime was not capital, and claimed that he had surrendered St Neots town on the condition that his life would be spared.

In 1360 Angoulême was surrendered by the Treaty of Brétigny to the Plantaganets ; they were, however, expelled in 1373 by the troops of Charles V, who granted the town numerous privileges.

The town was surrendered to France, but the war between France and Spain ended at the Peace of Basle signed in July 1795.

The Scot stayed until the citadel and the town surrendered, before finally evacuating himself and his men.

The Sabine town of Collatia, and its surrounding lands and population, was surrendered to become Roman territory.

The Union troops were quickly defeated and the town surrendered.

The second raid caught the town totally off guard and the 100 home guards surrendered when they discovered they could not protect the town from the 330 raiders.

The most popular — though probably mythical — story regarding the reason the area was named Liberty was put forth by Mrs. Annie Craig in 1936: “ At the close of the Revolutionary war a religious meeting was being held at a church close to a spring near the present town of Liberty when the word came that Cornwallis had surrendered and the colonies had gained their independence.

The Rangers surrendered, but the state removed the county seat to El Paso and the railroad was not built through the town.

While the Duke commanded the covering force, Eugene oversaw the siege of the town, which surrendered on 22 October ; however, it was not until 10 December that the resolute Boufflers yielded the citadel.

After a 56-day siege of the town and Alamo mission, on December 9, Cos surrendered the town of San Antonio and weapons to the Texians then proceeded to leave Texas.

The city surrendered on 21 September, the feast of Saint Matthew, ever afterwards celebrated by the citizens of the town.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

I would have liked the town and the busyness of its people but I always followed Lilly into the peace of the silent and unstaring road.

The `` fruitful course '' of metropolitanization that you recommend is currently practiced by the town of East Greenwich and had its inception long before we learned what it was called.

The East Greenwich Free Library receives financial support from the town of East Greenwich and the City of Warwick to supplement its endowment.

Middletown bases its claim on the general provision of the law that `` all rateable property, both tangible and intangible, shall be taxed to the owner thereof in the town in which such owner shall have had his actual place of abode for the larger portion of the twelve ( 12 ) months next preceding the first day of April in each year ''.

The operations of its other plant in Rochdale and Leesona's former operations in Manchester were transferred to a recently acquired plant in the adjoining town of Heywood.

The 1958 town meeting directed town authorities to seek federal and state funds with which to conduct a preliminary survey of a proposed sewage plant with its attendant facilities.

Undoubtedly none of the residents realize the influence their town has had on American military history, or the deeds of valor that have been done in its name.

On the one hand, there are ecumenists who are so stirred by the crises of the church in its encounter with the world at large that they have no eyes for what the church is doing in their own town.

He had assumed that all these buildings had been divided into apartments, but this one, from a glance at the hall furnishings, was obviously still a functioning town house, and its owners were in residence ; ;

And I've been told that just about every town, no matter what its size, has its Lucille Warren.

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.

The town remained until late Byzantine times an important toll and customs station of the Hellespont, its importance thereafter being transferred to the Dardanelles, after the building of the " Old Castles " by Sultan Mehmet II ( c. 1456 ).

Caesar occupied the town first and defeated the Germans before its walls, slaughtering most of the German army as it tried to flee across the river ( 1. 36ff ).

Della Valle described Anah as the chief Arab town on the Euphrates, an importance which it owes to its position on one of the routes from the west to Baghdad ; Texeira said that the power of its amir extended to Palmyra ( early 17th century ); but Olivier found the ruling prince with only twenty-five men in his service, the town becoming more depopulated every day from lack of protection from the Arabs of the desert.

A story is told that he once painted his face green and rode through town on his bicycle in its honour ( and possibly under its influence ).

It is the seat of the Ostalbkreis district, and its largest town, as well as the largest town within the Ostwürttemberg region.

The town we now call Accrington covers two townships which were established in 1507 following disafforestation ; those of Old Accrington and New Accrington which were merged in 1878 with the incorporation of the borough council.

For example, in the U. S. state of Massachusetts an article of incorporation approved by the local state legislature distinguishes a city government from a town.

Initially known as New Lancaster, and later shortened by city ordinance ( 1805 ), the town quickly grew ; formal incorporation as a city came in 1831.

Upon incorporation in 1894, the town was renamed Kensington.

The town seal is a logo of the town of Taos with the year of incorporation " 1934 " in the center, and on the outer edge, the words " Town of Taos, New Mexico ".

In the wake of continued controversy and an effort in the state legislature to simply abolish the town, an agreement was reached in 2003 to provide for the incorporation of the remaining portions of the Town into the City of Madison and the City of Fitchburg by October 30, 2022.

Bacup received a charter of incorporation in 1882, giving it honorific borough status and its own elected town government, consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors to oversee local affairs.

Bacup received a charter of incorporation in 1882, giving it honorific borough status and its own elected town government, consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors to oversee local affairs.

The area of the sanitary authority was granted a charter of incorporation in 1882, giving it honorific borough status and its own elected town government, consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors to oversee local affairs.

Harlow new town and the rebuilding of Coventry city centre are said to show the influence of the Festival Style " in their light structures, picturesque layout and incorporation of works of art ", and Coventry Cathedral ( 1962 ), designed by Basil Spence, one of the Festival architects, was dubbed " The Festival of Britain at Prayer ".

Charters originated as charters of incorporation, allowing a town to become an incorporated borough, or to hold markets.

The most notable ones being New Jersey and Pennsylvania, townships are a class of incorporation with fixed boundaries and equal standing to a village, town, borough, or city, analogous to a New England town or towns in New York.

Finally, with the incorporation of the town of Goodson as the independent city of Bristol in 1890, Washington County assumed its present size.

It was one of only a few cities in Virginia to be newly established without earlier incorporation as a town.

The town was first called Chambersville, but by the time of incorporation on January 7, 1835, the town name had been changed to LaFayette.

The incorporation of Hayneville as a town began with the vision of 25 qualified electors of the county and residents of the Hayneville community in July 1967.

Upon Franklin's 1977 incorporation, the town began using the building as the town hall.

In 2011 the residents of Vail began the process of incorporation to become a town.

In 1978, 80 % of the voters of Prescott Valley voted for incorporation as a town.

In time, the town dropped its incorporation.

Since the modern incorporation ( or reactivation ), people on the edge of the town have asked to be included.