The attackers Attack were commanded Control by the 21-year-old Sultan Mehmed II , who defeated Conquering an army commanded Control by Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos and took Getting control Control of the imperial capital , ending Process_end a 53-day siege Besieging that had begun Process_start on 6 April 1453 .

After conquering Conquering the city , Sultan Mehmed transferred Change the capital of the Ottoman State from Edirne to Constantinople and established Creating his court there .

The unexpected collapse Destroying of Bulgaria and Sviatoslav 's ambitions to seize Conquering Constantinople caught Self_motion the Eastern Roman Empire off-guard but they managed to pull Motion back the Kievan armies and occupied Control eastern Bulgaria including the capital Preslav in 971 .

The secondary objective was threatening the single direct supply route between Drvar in the Bosnian Serb Republika Srpska and Knin , the capital of the Croatian Serb Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) .

operation winter '94 was followed by operation leap 1 ( `` operacija skok 1 '' ) on 7 april 1995 , which improved Cause_to_make_progress hv positions on mount dinara on the southern rim of the field , dominating Control the area around the rsk capital .

By the third edition , which was held in Moscow in June 2008 , Spotlight Singapore had an intensive 4-day cultural-business programme that introduced Statement the Russian capital to Singapore 's lifestyle , and enabled Preventing_or_letting the delegates to meet and seek out business opportunities while developing Coming_to_be friendship with their counterparts through the exchange of cultures .

In 2011 , Spotlight Singapore hosted Social_event the programme in South Africa With plans to venture into the European markets , Bratislava and Prague , capital cities of Slovakia and the Czech Republic respectively , were chosen Choosing as Spotlight Singapore 's fifth destination in 2012 .

Surprised by the rapidity of the South Vietnamese collapse Conquering , North Vietnam transferred Military_operation the bulk of its northern forces Military_operation more than to the south in order to capture Control the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon in time to celebrate Social_event their late President Ho Chi Minh 's birthday and end Process_end the war .

South Vietnamese forces regrouped Cause_to_amalgamate around the capital and defended Defending the key transportation hubs at Phan Rang and Xuân Lộc , but a loss Earnings_and_losses of political and military will to continue the fight Hostile_encounter became Becoming ever more manifest .

The Battle of Mogadishu ( 2009 ) started Process_start in May with an Islamist offensive , when rebels from al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam attacked Attack and captured Conquering government bases in the capital of Mogadishu .

The Islamist offensive Defending lasted Process_end from 8 May to 14 May and ended Process_end with relative success as they managed to take Conquering control over most of the capital , while ARS-D and government ( TFG ) forces withdrew Removing into AMISOM protected territories .

Ziad Jarrah , who had trained as a pilot , took Conquering control of the aircraft and diverted it back toward the east coast , in the direction of Washington , D.C. , the U.S. capital .

An additional , political goal of the Polish Underground State was to liberate Conquering Poland 's capital and assert Statement Polish sovereignty before the Soviet-backed Polish Committee of National Liberation could assume control Control .

Most of the survivors were released after a truce in 841 , but prominent officials were taken Conquering to the caliph 's capital of Samarra and executed Rewards_and_punishments years later after refusing Agree_or_refuse_to_act to convert Change to Islam , becoming Becoming known as the 42 Martyrs of Amorium .

Having failed to locate Placing the main Ottoman army , whom he believed Know to still be at their capital in Edirne , Hunyadi was caught by surprise on 17 October when the Ottoman army appeared Presence in front of his men at Kosovo Field .

The Zagreb rocket attacks Attack were a series of two rocket attacks Attack conducted Action by the Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina that used Using multiple rocket launchers to strike Attack the Croatian capital of Zagreb during the Croatian War of Independence .

The Burning of Washington was a British invasion Attack of Washington , D.C. , the capital of the United States , during the War Military_operation of 1812 .

The Burning Destroying of Washington marks Recording the only time since the American Revolutionary War Military_operation that a foreign power has captured Conquering and occupied Control the United States capital .

It also spun Motion off a tornado that passed Motion_directional through the center of the capital , setting down Motion_directional on Constitution Avenue and lifting Motion two cannons before dropping Motion them several yards away , killing Killing British troops and American civilians alike .

A common misconception is that the revolt Attack was directed Aiming against the Qing dynasty , but no evidence shows that the rebels Hostile_encounter intended to attack Attack the capital , Beijing , or to overthrow Change_of_leadership the entire Qing government , but to exact revenge Revenge on their personal enemies for injustices .

The 2011 Chişinău explosion Attack was a car explosion Attack in the center of Chişinău , the capital of Moldova .

the state legislature , whose members are called state assemblymen , convenes at the penang state assembly building in penang 's capital city of george town .

After their victory , Ottoman forces Causation marched Self_motion deeper into Persia , briefly occupying Control the Safavid capital , Tabriz , and thoroughly looting Robbery the Persian imperial treasury .

The French forces Military_operation assaulted Attack the British fortifications on Hospital Hill , overlooking Perception_active the island 's capital , Saint George 's .

His capital , Smyrna , and most of the Aegean coastline were recovered Recovering by Doukas in 1097 , ending Process_end the Turks ' direct access Having_or_lacking_access to the Aegean .

Following the victory in Antioch , Shahrbaraz conquered Conquering Caesarea Maritima , the administrative capital of the province .

The day before Jellacic 's surrender Surrendering , the French occupied Control the Austrian capital of Vienna , but the war would not be decided Deciding until the Battle of Austerlitz was fought Quarreling on 2 December .

Following Motion_directional a series of Tatar raids Attack in retaliation against the Russian advance Cause_to_make_progress , Yermak 's forces prepared GetReady for a campaign to take Creating Qashliq , the Siberian capital .

Before the disaster Catastrophe , Flight 110 had deviated Change from Skopje International Airport to Ohrid Airport due Causation to a blizzard Catastrophe in the Macedonian capital .

The EU force managed to take control Control of the regional capital of Bunia .

Operation Military_operation Red Wings , informally referred to as the Battle of Abbas Ghar ( often incorrectly called Name_conferral `` Operation Redwing '' or `` Operation Red Wing '' ) , was a combined / joint Collaboration military operation during the War in Afghanistan in the Pech District of Afghanistan 's Kunar Province , on the slopes of a mountain named Name_conferral Sawtalo Sar , approximately west of Kunar 's provincial capital of Asadabad , in late June through mid-July 2005 .

Preslav , capital of the First Bulgarian Empire , was raided Attack , and it was after this symbolic incident that Peter assumed Receiving the insignia of Tsar ( or Emperor ) .

In 1641 Johan Maurits sent Sending an expedition under Admiral Cornelis Jol from Recife in Dutch Brazil to seize Conquering the Angolan capital of Luanda .

It was the final battle Hostile_encounter of the Seven Days Battles Hostile_encounter during the American Civil War Military_operation , taking place Process_start on a elevation of land known as Malvern Hill , near the Confederate capital of Richmond , Virginia and just one mile ( 1.6 km ) from the James River .

The Seven Days Battles Hostile_encounter were the climax of the Peninsula Campaign Military_operation , during which McClellan 's Army of the Potomac sailed Self_motion around the Confederate lines , landed Self_motion at the tip of the Virginia Peninsula , southeast of Richmond , and struck Attack inland towards the Confederate capital .

Responding to the government 's crackdown Attack on Hezbollah 's secured network the militants belonging to the organization and its allies have blocked Hindering Beirut airport as well as main city streets , paralyzing Hindering the life in the capital .

The reinforcing Cause_change_of_strength Swedish army , however , was ambushed Attack by Russians , and a Russian army under Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov had destroyed Destroying Mazepa 's capital and chased Self_motion him to Charles with just thirteen hundred men .

As the news spread Dispersal , disorder and violence Violence erupted Process_start throughout the capital .

over the next fifty years , under the umayyad caliphs , the arabs would launch Military_operation repeated raids Attack into unk asia minor , twice besiege Besieging the byzantine capital of constantinople , and conquer Conquering the byzantine exarchate of africa .

Just months after the start Process_start of the war Hostile_encounter at Fort Sumter , the Northern public clamored Quarreling for a march Self_motion against the Confederate capital of Richmond , Virginia , which was expected to bring Bringing an early end Process_end to the Confederacy .

Kiev , the Ukrainian capital , was the focal point of the movement 's campaign of civil resistance , with thousands of protesters demonstrating daily .

The city was the capital and the main port of the European territory of the Marinid Empire .

In the capital Antananarivo , Geralda killed Killing 43 people after flooding Catastrophe many houses .

The Raid on Manila of January 1798 was a Royal Navy false flag military operation during the French Revolutionary Wars intended to scout Scrutiny the strength of the defences of Manila , capital of the Spanish Philippines , capture Conquering a Manila galleon and assess the condition of the Spanish Navy squadron maintained in the port .

Sailing Self_motion in `` Sybille '' and accompanied by Captain Pulteney Malcolm in `` Fox '' , Cooke reached Arriving the Spanish capital on 13 January 1798 .

The Ukrainian revolution Social_event of 2014 ( also known as the Euromaidan Revolution or Revolution of Dignity ; , `` Revoliutsiia hidnosti '' ) took place Process_start in Ukraine in February 2014 , when a series of violent Violence events Social_event involving protesters , riot police , and unknown shooters in the capital , Kiev , culminated Come_together in the ousting of the elected Choosing Ukrainian President , Viktor Yanukovych , and the overthrow of the Ukrainian Government .

the occupation of the ottoman bank ( , `` raid Attack on the ottoman bank '' ; , `` bank unk unk '' `` ottoman bank takeover '' ) by members of the armenian revolutionary federation ( dashnak party ) took place Process_start in istanbul , the capital of the ottoman empire , on 26 august 1896 .

The Ethiopian Civil War ended Process_end on 4 June 1991 when the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) , a coalition of left-wing ethnic rebel groups , entered Arriving the capital Addis Ababa and overthrew Change_of_leadership the WEP .

Strong winds and heavy rainfall Motion in Bangladesh impacted Influence many cities and villages , including the capital city of Dhaka , forcing thousands to evacuate Escaping .

The former capital , Belize City , was buffeted Motion by strong winds and flooded Motion by a powerful storm surge .