While the Mughals had acquired firearms via the Ottoman Empire, Bahadur's Gujurat had acquired them through a series of contracts drawn up with the Portuguese, allowing the Portuguese to establish a strategic foothold in north western India.

While Sultan Suleiman was known as " the Magnificent " in the West, he was always Kanuni Suleiman or " The Lawgiver " to his own Ottoman subjects.

* While the Ottoman Empire is at war, the Byzantine Empire reclaims the European coast of the Sea of Marmara and Thessalonica.

While Nicholas was attempting to maintain the status quo in Europe, he adopted an aggressive policy toward the Ottoman Empire.

While this official date to mark the end of the war reflects the ceasefire on the Western Front, hostilities continued in other regions, especially across the former Russian Empire and in parts of the old Ottoman Empire.

While Ivan was still an infant, Ivan's own father was killed by Ottoman soldiers after the Bulgarian April Uprising.

While parallel, the dispositions of the armies were not symmetrical, as the Serbian center had a broader front than the Ottoman center.

While the Christian ships struggled to come to her assistance, she was soon surrounded by enemy galleys and engaged in a furious battle that lasted hours and did much damage to the Ottoman galleys.

While Romania did emancipate itself from Ottoman tutelage, Brătianu had to accommodate a prolonged Russian occupation, and the Congress of Berlin saw Russia seizing counties of the Budjak that were still Romanian-owned ( Romania was awarded Northern Dobruja in return ).

While under Venetian rule, Cattaro was besieged by the Ottoman Empire in 1538 and 1657, endured the plague in 1572, and was nearly destroyed by earthquakes in 1563 and 1667.

While the key ringleaders of the genocide were executed in the 1920s by Armenians ( see Operation Nemesis ), the Ottoman Empire's successor, the Republic of Turkey, effectively took a hold of all the possessions Armenians left behind and for decades vociferously insisted that a genocide had not taken place.

While the Grand Campaign is geared primarily towards the major European powers of the time, such as Austria, England, France, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and Ottoman Empire, the game is unique in that players can choose to play as one of more than a hundred obscure, no longer existing nations, from the Indian subcontinent to the Balkans.

While total expulsion as in other Christian nations such as Spain, Portugal and Sicily was not feasible to achieve a homogenous Russian Orthodox population, other policies such as land grants and the promotion of migration by other Russian and non-Muslim populations into Muslim lands displaced many Muslims making them minorities in places such as some parts of the South Ural region to other parts such as the Ottoman Turkey, and almost annihilating the Circassians, Crimean Tatars, and various Muslims of the Caucasus.

While the Ottoman Empire's main desert base at Hafir el Auja was more centrally located, the British Empire base was some to the west of El Arish ; almost at the limits of their lines of communication.

While in Erzurum he had learned of the fashion in which the European powers intervened in Ottoman affairs on the pretext of “ protecting ” the Christian minorities, and there were indications that Britain, Russia, and France hoped for similar benefits from the Assyrians and Armenians of Iran.

While the attack was ultimately successful in capturing the Ottoman trenches, it was counterproductive as a diversion as it attracted reinforcements to the north.

While the Imperial Mounted Division held off the Ottoman reinforcements, the Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division ( Anzac Mounted Division ) reinforced the infantry attack and together, they succeeded in entering Gaza from the north and capturing Ali Muntar.

While the Ottoman army positions at Gaza had been reconnoitred and photographed from the air, it was still necessary for the Anzac and Imperial Mounted Division's staffs and the Commander Royal Artillery ( CRA ) to carry out reconnaissances of the Wadi Ghuzzeh in person.

While the relief of the Anzac Mounted Division by the Imperial Mounted Division was being carried out, an advance by units of the Ottoman Army from Jemamah became apparent.

While sometimes a fully independent or semi-independent Slavic entity, Zahumlje was mainly under foreign powers ; the Byzantine Empire, Kingdom of Croatia, Kingdom of Serbia, Kingdom of Hungary, Kingdom of Bosnia and at the end under the Ottoman Empire.

While in the Ottoman Army, he had been caught singing in the shower and was jailed for two weeks as punishment.

While in Istambul, he was appointed representative to the Italian Banca Commerciale and then the Italian representative to an international committee overseeing the Ottoman empire's debt and the Italian delegation to the economic committee at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919, after which he remained on the permanent reparations committee.

While the Ottoman forces had been driven from Beersheba, they had not been dislodged from the rest of the defensive line.

While Bayezid was occupied in Greece, Mircea of Wallachia conducted a series of raids across the Danube into Ottoman territory.

While traveling to Chattanooga, Sherman departed Memphis on a train that arrived at the Battle of Collierville, Tenn., while the Union garrison there was under attack on October 11, 1863.

While it gained in stature by becoming the capital of the Dauphiné in the 11th century, Grenoble remained for most of its history a modest parliamentary and garrison city on the borders of the kingdom of France.

While Carlisle continued to garrison soldiers in the city, eventually becoming the headquarters of the Border Regiment, the city's importance as a military town was finally letting slip as the industrial age took over.

While French skirmishers kept the English garrison of Saint-Loup contained, a fleet of boats from Orleans sailed down to the landing to pick up the supplies, Joan and 200 spearmen.

While other Crusader strongholds were under threat, Krak des Chevaliers and its garrison of 2, 000 soldiers dominated the surrounding area.

While numerous proposals and agreement papers were generated between the two powers, Russia continued the de facto annexation of territory through fortification and garrison, if not de jure while employing stalling tactics in its negotiations.

While the fog made navigation difficult, it also shielded the movement of large bodies of troopers so the two mounted divisions with the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade commanded by Chetwode, rapidly intercepted traffic on the roads leading to Gaza from the north, east, to isolate the garrison in a long cavalry screen.

While Scipio was at the strait, he received information that the garrison of Lipara was willing to defect to the Roman side.

While they annihilated the local garrison, they failed in their initial objectives of taking prisoners and gathering intel.

While the British 4th Division tackled the small French garrison there, the main Allied army followed Latour-Maubourg south while sending covering forces to watch the Badajoz garrison from Valverde and Albuera.

While Shamash-shum-ukin was the sovereign ruler of the south in theory, Assyria maintained a garrison in Nippur, and some of the provincial governors tried to get into Assyrian favour.

While the rest of the division was training in the Middle East, the division's third artillery regiment, the 2 / 3rd Field Regiment and the 2 / 1st Anti-tank Regiment were sent to the United Kingdom to help bolster the garrison there in light of an expected invasion following the Fall of France.

While ascending the Mississippi to join us at the head of his brave troops, he met, arrested, and brought along with him to Fort Crawford two United States soldiers who were deserting from the garrison when he met them.

While there he warned the local garrison that he believed the plant was a likely target for British commando raids, but crucially he did not have the resources to increase the manpower there.

While the main focus of the game is in controlling tanks, artillery units provide long range fire while infantry units can be used to engage other infantry and garrison buildings for added defense.

While Count Raymond was repulsing a sally from Antioch's garrison, an army under the leadership of Duqaq of Damascas was en route to relieve Antioch.

While the 2, 800 man garrison there withstood an initial assault from Tipu's force on September 13, Captain John Floyd, the garrison commander, opted to withdraw.

While a strong machine gun emplacement was causing casualties, and the troops were working round the flank, Lt .- Col. Evans rushed at it himself and by firing his revolver through the loophole forced the garrison to capitulate.

While the garrison nominally approached 2, 000 men in size, less than 1, 200 men were fit for duty.

While Colonel Dimick remained in command of the 415 regular army soldiers, Volunteer Major General Benjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts took command of Fort Monroe and the entire garrison on May 23, 1861.

While the main British force ( the River Column ), led by General Sir Garnet Wolseley travelled by river from Korti to Khartoum, Stewart's column was to cut across country by column directly for Khartoum, since time was running short according to what little information was available from the garrison.

While in garrison at Bordeaux Mirabeau had made the acquaintance of Montesquieu, and after retiring from the army he wrote his first work, his Testament Politique ( 1747 ), which demanded for the prosperity of France a return of the French noblesse to their old position in the Middle Ages.