The Bulgarian Emperor supported Supporting the first opponent whose stronghold was Constantinople .

The area became Becoming a Việt Minh stronghold , except for the RC4 highway .

American estimates of Truk 's defenses and its role as a stronghold of the Japanese Navy led Causation newspapers and military men to call Name_conferral it the `` Gibraltar of the Pacific '' , or to compare Statement it with Pearl Harbor .

operation diesel was a raid by 700 british troops from the royal marines 45 commando , 42 commando , and the 3 commando brigade 's reconnaissance force , as well as armoured infantry and close reconnaissance from 1st battalion princess of wales 's royal regiment ( 1 unk ) on a taliban drug factory and arms stronghold in the upper sangin valley in helmand province , afghanistan on february 7 , 2009 .

Recommencing operations on 11 December , 42 Commando Royal Marines attacked Attack both from the ground and the air on Nad-e-Ali , securing an area which had been an insurgent stronghold .

The French garrison held Defending out until the January 1871 armistice between France and the German Empire obligated Imposing_obligation French forces to abandon GiveUp the stronghold in February 1871 .

The murder Killing of Comyn in 1306 had set off Causation a bloody civil war for the throne of Scotland which King Robert had all but won at Bannockburn and was now attempting to finish Process_end by capturing Conquering their last remaining stronghold .

The Siege of Exeter occurred Coming_to_be in 1068 when William I marched Self_motion a combined army of Normans and Englishmen loyal to the king west to force the submission of Exeter , a stronghold of Anglo-Saxon resistance against Norman rule .

The fortifications at Kehl represented important bridgehead crossing Motion_directional the Rhine to Strasbourg , an Alsatian city , a French Revolutionary stronghold .

After three unsuccessful assaults , the stronghold was taken Creating by storm .

Shusha was the most important military stronghold that Azerbaijan held Hold in Nagorno-Karabakh – its loss Earnings_and_losses marked Recording a turning point in the war , and led to Causation a series of military victories by Armenian forces in the course of the conflict .

The Convention allied Collaboration Francisco `` Pancho '' Villa and Emiliano Zapata , who in practice remained in his stronghold of Morelos .

With the building of the South Manchuria Railway , Mukden ( now known as Shenyang ) became Becoming a Russian stronghold , which occupied Control it after the Boxer Rebellion .

Georgians took Getting control Control of most of Tskhinvali , a separatist stronghold , in hours .

In November 1832 , the French besieged Besieging and captured Conquering Antwerp , the last Dutch stronghold Hostile_encounter in Belgium , effectively ending Process_end the military confrontation between the Dutch and Belgians .

The First Front Army of the Chinese Soviet Republic , led by an inexperienced military commission , was on the brink of annihilation by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek 's troops in their stronghold in Jiangxi province .

The Battle of El Mazuco lead to Causation the capture Conquering of the Republican-controlled part of Asturias and the fall Motion_directional of Gijón , the Republic 's last stronghold in the North , to the Nationalists .

There have been various disagreements and strife between local militia and tribes , including fighting on 23 January 2012 in the former Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid , leading to Causation an alternative town council being established Building and later recognized Know by the National Transitional Council ( NTC ) .

The 2012 Homs offensive Attack was a Syrian Army offensive Attack on the armed rebellion stronghold of Homs , within the scope of the Siege of Homs , beginning Process_start in early February 2012 and ending Process_end with the U.N. brokered cease fire on April 14 , 2012 .

The group was celebrating Social_event a wedding Forming_relationships at a housing complex in the village of Wech Baghtu , a Taliban stronghold in the Shah Wali Kot District of Kandahar province , Afghanistan .

Imbaba has been known Know to be a stronghold of Muslim fundamentalists since the 1970s , but also comprises Containing a significant number of Coptic Christians .

They were unable to relaunch Recovering phosphate mining Manufacturing operations , but succeeded in transforming Change Nauru into a powerful stronghold , which United States forces chose Choosing to bypass during their reconquest of the Pacific .

Across the river , Strasbourg , an Alsatian city , was a French Revolutionary stronghold .