Their rule in part of Albania was briefly interrupted in the 15th century, when George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, an Albanian who had served as an Ottoman military officer, renounced Ottoman service, allied with some Albanian chiefs and fought off Turkish rule from 1443-1478.

Their political interests in the French Revolution lay with opposition to the aristocracy, and so they found themselves allied with the early capitalists.

Their attempts to penetrate into the Sungari to collect a tribute of grain suffered a setback in 1654, when a joint Manchu-Korean army met the Russian forces at the Battle of Hutong ( hangul: 후퉁강 hanja: 厚通江 ( 混同江 )), which was won by Manchu-Korean allied forces.

Their army included 40, 000 men ( about 10 legions ), a powerful cavalry force led by Caesar's former right hand man, the talented Titus Labienus, forces of allied local kings and 60 war elephants.

The city symbol and coat of arms is the rampant bull Torino literally means " young bull " Their decline appears to have been when they refused alliance with the invading Hannibal who had already allied themselves with the weaker Celtic-Gaul tribes who were enemies of the Taurini and who had been beaten by the Taurini in several unsuccessful raids of the Taurini village ( Taurasia ).

Their capture enabled Bletchley Park to read all the German naval codes for some time, which provided the intelligence needed to allow allied convoys to avoid U-boat concentrations.

Their friendship came to an end when Halhed sailed for Calcutta and returned to sit on the opposite side in the parliament being allied to bitter enemies.

Their success helped allied convoys to avoid German U-boats.

Their ultimate solution was to sell Corsica to France and French troops of the ancien régime replaced Genoese ones in the citadels, including Ajaccio's.

Their troops fight from chariots, as did the Greeks in the Trojan War.

Their primary function was to act as skirmishers – javelin-throwers who would engage the enemy early in order either to harass them or to cover the movement of troops behind them.

Their function in battle was to contain the enemy troops until the cavalry arrived and to block the enemy infantry from charging the knights.

Their mode of fighting with their chariots is this: firstly, they drive about in all directions and throw their weapons and generally break the ranks of the enemy with the very dread of their horses and the noise of their wheels ; and when they have worked themselves in between the troops of horse, leap from their chariots and engage on foot.

Their dissatisfaction was increased when they heard that the second convoy of troops who had been in transport had been shipwrecked in a storm.

Their main force grew to 1. 2 million troops, with a Militia of 2 million.

Their extensive stance among the other empires of the Liao, Song, and Jin was attributable to their effective military organizations that integrated cavalry, chariots, archery, shields, artillery ( cannons carried on the back of camels ), and amphibious troops for combats on land and water.

Their first stop was the Château de Rambouillet ; then, fearing the advancing enemy troops, they continued on to the Château de Blois.

Their defense plan began to fall from the very start partly because the defenders were overwhelmed by Chinese troops who were fleeing from battles in the area surrounding Nanking and who just wanted to escape to safer ground.

Their army was divided in two ; with some of their troops on the west side of the River Derwent and the bulk of their army on the east side.

Their task is to steal a weapons shipment from a U. S. Army train so that Mapache can resupply his troops – and appease Mohr ( Fernando Wagner ), his German military adviser, who wishes to obtain samples of America's armament.

Their presence was explicitly because of the threat of Fenian attack or terrorism, as were the large numbers of troops on the first train.

Their ranks even included Germans, who joined the troops of the king of Aragon during the expedition by the Byzantine Empire.

Their various constituents flourished under Hunnish rule, fought for the Huns against a combination of Roman and Germanic troops, and went their own ways after the Battle of Chalons, the death of Attila and the disappearance of the Chuvash ruling elements west of the Volga.

Their troops had arrived first and repulsed the Hunnic advance.

Their commanders waited for some time for the Swedish troops to appear on the open fields to their front.

They were revived in 1545 when two thousand pishchal ' niki ( one thousand on horseback ) were levied by the towns and outfitted at treasury expense .’ Their use of mounted troops was also unique to the time period.

Their leader, Genghis Khan, led the Mongol troops to fight against Jurchens.

Their plans were discovered and their house, located on 6 Oriente Street was surrounded by federal troops.

Their withdrawal involved the retreat of the troops who had fought all day in defence of the Niederwald.

Their objective was to join forces with additional troops arriving from Europe, and to take a port in the southern colonies for further military operations.

Their objective was to hinder movement of German troops from west Brittany to the Normandy beaches via ambush and sabotage attempts.

Their base was heavily attacked by German troops on 12 June and they were forced to disperse.

Their descendants, or successors with similar names, are recorded by neighbouring populations to the south, east, and west as having occupied parts of Eastern Europe and Central Asia approximately from the 4th century to the 6th century.

Their names appeared on posters throughout the occupied region.

Their conquest of Sierra Leone occupied the ensuing 15 to 20 years, and resulted in the subjugation of all or nearly all of the indigenous coastal peoples — who were known collectively as the Sapes — as far north as the Scarcies.

Their Russian and Saxon allies were occupied with the Polish campaign, and the Emperor distrusted Frederick William I of Prussia, who was willing to provide some aid.

Their sons included Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, who for a period occupied a position in Wales comparable to that of his grandfather, and Dafydd ap Gruffydd who ruled Gwynedd briefly after his brother's death.

Their principal tribe, the " Royal Scyths ", ruled the vast lands occupied by the nation as a whole ( Herodotus 4. 20 ), calling themselves Σκώλοτοι ( Scōloti, Herodotus 4. 6 ).

Their countries were now occupied by the Soviet Union, and intense pressure and intimidation had been put on anyone with a position of privilege or wealth before 1939.

Their first Jowett light car was produced in February 1906 but as their little workshop was fully occupied in general engineering activities, experiments with different engine configurations, and making the first six Scott motorcycles, it did not go into production until 1910 and then after more than 25, 000 miles of exhaustive trials.

Their assigned land in Oklahoma was then occupied by the Tonkawa and Lipan Apache people.

Their lands were almost immediately occupied by the FitzGeralds and other Norman families, who permanently prevented their return.

Their analysis indicates that " one in three dwellings are occupied by a person living alone ; one in four dwellings are occupied by a childless couple .."

Their settlement, some of land once occupied by the Odawa people, was named after their home province of Zeeland.

Their bands occupied much of the coastal mid-Atlantic area in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York.

Their descendants occupied the castle and estate until 1514 ; it was then it was purchased by George Swinburne ; a constable of Prudhoe, whose family held it until the 18th century.

Their “ aces so lost to age and aspect as to seem almost part of the urns .” Beckett has used similar imagery before, Mahood ’ s jar in The Unnameable, for example, or the dustbins occupied by Nell and Nagg in Endgame.

Their palace was located on the site occupied by the Manor House.

Their home at Hatch End was destroyed by a German bomb during an air-raid in September 1940 and the site is now occupied by a parade of shops.

Their exact status was already disputed in antiquity: according to Critias, they were " especially slaves " whereas to Pollux, they occupied a status " between free men and slaves ".

Their ancestors originally occupied marine habitats, but were then displaced from these habitats by modern dolphin lineages.

Their villages are situated at an elevation of from 10, 000 to 13, 000 feet, at the foot of the passes leading into Tibet, though only occupied from June to November in each year.

Their beliefs and traditions, coupled with modern archaeological research, suggest that they may have occupied and utilised the mountain and its surrounding areas for much of the occupation of the island.

Their descendants moved south and, though their population was never large, they occupied all areas of Australia, including Sydney.

Their estate on the outskirts of Lytham and Ansdell originally occupied a huge area.