And against the sack of Megara, she had to face the temporary capture of the castle of Aegina by Kemal Reis and the carrying off of 2000 Aeginetans.

The strategic position of the castle made it important for the English to capture it in 1593 for their plantation plans which was achieved by a Captain Dowdall.

Both the Tudurs were pardoned after their capture of Edward I ’ s great castle at Conwy.

Around the middle of the 13th century, various legends developed that, after Richard's capture, his minstrel Blondel travelled Europe from castle to castle, loudly singing a song known only to the two of them ( they had composed it together ).

The same year Rhys is recorded as an independent commander for the first time, leading an army to capture the Norman castle of St Clears.

The next three years saw the capture and reduction of one English-held castle or outpost after another: Linlithgow in 1310, Dumbarton in 1311, and Perth, by Bruce himself, in January 1312.

As the war turned favorable to him, Wladyslaw I, with the assistance of the Bishop of Krakow, Paul of Półkozic ( who was later imprisoned after rebelled against him ), managed to besiege and capture Wawel castle and forced the Silesian troops to retreat to Skała.

Although not holding independent command of an army which the sagas imply, it is not unlikely that Harald and the Varangians at times could have been sent off to capture a castle or town.

The castle remained a key Parisian fortress, but was successfully seized by the Burgundians in 1464, when they convinced royal troops to surrender: once taken, this allowed their faction to make a surprise attack into Paris, almost resulting in the capture of the king.

Named Bowser's Castle, he can summon his minions in order to take over the kingdom and capture Peach in the main games but in the spin-offs, the castle can also be a racetrack, a tennis court, and many more.

Though he was unsuccessful in 992, Odo again tried to capture the castle two years later.

These were almost entirely successful ; only an attempt to capture the Dutch castle at Elmina on the Africa's Gold Coast ( modern Ghana ) failed.

In June 1547, together with John Knox and others captured at St Andrews, Fife, following the capture of the castle by pro-Catholic French forces he was condemned to become a galley-slave rowing French galleys, but was released in 1549.

King William I formed a deer park to the south-west of the castle, but after his capture by the English in 1174 he was forced to surrender several castles, including Stirling and Edinburgh, under the Treaty of Falaise.

( A player may lose his right to castle ; and an en passant capture is available only at the first opportunity.

The news of the capture spread quickly ; afraid of the people, four days later the lords together with their captive left the castle to get to a safer place.

In May 1188 Saladin led an army to attack Krak des Chevaliers, but on seeing the castle decided it was too well defended and marched on the Hospitaller castle of Margat, which he also failed to capture.

The castle was an important place during the Wars of Independence and was used to imprison William Wallace for a short time after his capture by the English.

The Earl of Argyll tried to capture the castle on 22 November 1547 and again in January 1548 with 150 men lead by the soldier Duncan Dundas, without success.

The ship's captain managed to capture one of the Knight's sons and sent the Knight a message that he should surrender or else the son would be put in one of the ship's cannons and fired against the castle wall.

According to a local legend, it was Vladimir the Great to build the first stone castle there in 1001 following the Polish capture of Kiev in 1018 the region for a short time was made part of Poland, but returned under Kievan rule in 1031.

On January 22, 1351, three years after the capture of Calais by Edward III, the castle of Guînes was also delivered up to the English.

The object of the game is to either occupy one's opponent's castle or to capture all of one's opponent's royalty.

De Palma recalls that he was “ floored ” by this performance upon first sight, and in 1973 recounts how he " began to try and figure out a way to capture it on film.

While a popular legend persists about a reward of US $ 40, 000 for Tubman's capture, this is a manufactured figure.

Following the capture of Nanking, a massacre was perpetrated by the Japanese army, which led to the deaths, estimated by several, of over 250, 000 residents in the city, a figure difficult to calculate precisely due to the many bodies deliberately burnt, buried in mass graves, or deposited in the Yangtze River by the IJA.

The most significant difference from the original play concerned the character of Young Lucius, who is a much more important figure in the adaptation ; he is present throughout Act 1, and retrieves the murder weapon after the death of Mutius ; it is his knife which Titus uses to kill the fly ; he aids in the capture of Chiron and Demetrius ; he is present throughout the final scene.

The capture of Ned is shot from the viewpoint of the police, as Ned advances, an impressive figure weaving towards them under the weight of his armour and the shock of the bullets.

** The character of Young Lucius is a much more important figure in the adaptation than in the play ; he is present throughout Act 1, he retrieves the murder weapon after the death of Mutius ; it is his knife which Titus uses to kill the fly ; he aids in the capture of Chiron and Demetrius ; he is present throughout the final scene.

In his 2007 play Trudeau: Long March, Shining Path, Clarke features his Liberal hero Trudeau ( 1919 – 2000 ) describing him as “ the Shakespearean character: … He ’ s a figure about whom it is almost impossible to say anything definitive, because he is encompassed by so many contradictions but that ’ s what makes him interesting .” In presenting a multicultural Trudeau on the international stage, Clarke seeks to capture the human dimensions, the personality of Trudeau rather than his politics so as to emphasize the dialogues among key characters to “ show the people as people not just exponents of ideas ”.

As Dr. Satan yells for his mutated assistant, revealed to be Earl, Mother Firefly's ex-husband, to capture Denise, she outwits the monstrous figure and escapes the underground chambers.

The disparity between Stewart ’ s report of 257 missing and Greene ’ s figure of 500 prisoners may be due to Stewart regarding the capture of his foraging party as a separate engagement and not including their losses in his casualty return for the battle.

Two weeks later, the horse ran away from the field to capture the Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes by 15 lengths, earning the best speed figure of his generation and among the best of any Derby winner as a 2 year old.

Maturin tries everything he can to help Aubrey, using his colleagues in the government and hiring an investigator, but cannot secure enough proof to win an acquittal — Palmer, the key figure, having been murdered and mutilated, largely due to the excessive bounty Maturin had placed on his capture.

* the capture of Namur during the War of the Grand Alliance, in which the figure representing the Dutch Republic kneels before Louis XIV

The film reverses the facts, making Johnson a sympathetic, freedom-loving character, and changing RCMP hero Edgar Millen from the young and popular figure that he was into a broken-down, middle-aged alcoholic ( played by Lee Marvin ) who rather than being shot by Johnson actually leads the pursuit to capture him.

The capture of Samori made Henri Gouraud a celebrated figure in France, at the same time as nationalists were recovering from the setback against the British at Fashoda.

Slagar, a villainous fox craving revenge for a crime never committed against him, intends to capture slaves from Redwall and take them to an underground kingdom ruled by a mysterious, god-like figure named Malkariss to be sold as slaves.

Since the 1983 capture of Carlos Quinteros (' Miguel '), who had been a leading figure in both PGT-NDN and PGT-PC, these groups were almost wiped out as Quinteros provided the state forces with vast information on their leaders and members.

A prominent figure who was part of the 4th Gurkha Rifles during the thirties and the Second World War was the author John Masters, who participated in operations on the North West Frontier, in Iraq, the Second Chindit Operation, the capture of Mandalay and at one point commanded the 3rd Battalion of the regiment.

As a highly visible public figure in the US, he was at risk for capture as a fugitive.

An American account gave their loss as 26 killed and wounded and about 60 taken prisoner, a figure which suggests that only 6 of the wounded men escaped capture.

Barthe once said that “ all my life I have be interested in trying to capture the spiritual quality I see and feel in people, and I feel that the human figure as God made it, is the best means of expressing this spirit in man .”

After the 1983 capture of Carlos Quinteros (' Miguel '), who had been a leading figure in both PGT-NDN and PGT-PC, PGT-NDN was almost wiped out as Quinteros provided the state forces with vast information on their leaders and members.

He also loved to single people out on the trains, in the parks, or in ballrooms to capture a single human figure in isolation from the rest of the city.