The primary sources are insufficient to fully explain Statement the purposes behind Alfonso 's siege Besieging , but historians are unanimous in attributing his actions to his ongoing conflict Hostile_encounter with his western neighbour , Alfonso VII , hero of the aforementioned `` Chronica '' .

The conflict Hostile_encounter formed Becoming part of the Norwegian expedition Attack against Scotland in 1263 , in which Haakon Haakonsson , King of Norway attempted to reassert Control Norwegian sovereignty over the western seaboard of Scotland .

with haakon 's death Death , his successor , magnus unk , king of norway , signed Sign_agreement the treaty Statement of perth three years after the battle Hostile_encounter , leasing Renting scotland 's western seaboard to alexander iii in return for a yearly payment .

The next years saw the consolidation Cause_to_amalgamate of al-Ma'mun 's authority and the re-incorporation of the western provinces against local rebels , a process not completed Process_end until the pacification Cause_to_make_progress of Egypt in 827 .

This was immediately followed by an open-air reactor core fire that released considerable airborne radioactive contamination for about nine days that precipitated onto parts of the USSR and western Europe , before being finally contained Containing on 4 May 1986 .

western air express Expressing_publicly flight 7 , a domestic scheduled passenger flight from salt lake city to burbank , california , crashed Catastrophe on january 12 , 1937 near newhall , california .

Besides Sofia , several towns in western Bulgaria suffered Bodily_harm from the storm Catastrophe .

The demonstration Social_event originated Coming_to_be in `` Black Ribbon Day '' protests held Hold in the western cities in the 1980s .

despite the setbacks , the partisans remained Presence a credible fighting force , with their organization gaining Getting recognition from the western allies at the tehran conference Communication and laying the foundations for the post-war yugoslav state .

Israel 's stated goals in Operation `` Summer Rains '' were to suppress Control the firing of Qassam rockets from Gaza into the western Negev , and to secure the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit , who had been captured Conquering by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on June 25 .

The GNC , based in western Libya and backed Self_motion by various different militias ( mainly Libya Dawn in the west and Libya Shield in the east ) with some support from Qatar , Sudan and Turkey , initially accepted Receiving the results of the 2014 election Choosing , but rejected Response them after the Supreme Constitutional Court nullified an amendment regarding the roadmap for Libya 's transition and HoR elections Choosing .

Due to controversy about constitutional amendments , the HoR refused Agree_or_refuse_to_act to take office from GNC in Tripoli , which was controlled Control by powerful militias from the western coastal city of Misrata .

On 8 October , after an initial period of military administration , Germany directly annexed western Poland and the former Free City of Danzig and placed Placing the remaining block of territory under the administration of the newly established Building General Government .

on 3 march 1942 , unk , a douglas unk airliner operated by unk , was shot down Use_firearm over western australia by imperial japanese navy air service Supply fighter aircraft , resulting in Causation the deaths Death of four passengers and the loss Earnings_and_losses of diamonds worth an estimated unk ( the equivalent of a $ unk million in 2010 ) .

after the end of the unk , unk , greco-turkish fronts ( often referred Adducing to as the eastern front , the southern front , and the western front of the war , respectively ) , the treaty of UNK was abandoned GiveUp and the treaties of kars ( october 1921 ) and lausanne ( july 1923 ) were signed Sign_agreement .

at the paris peace conference Social_event , competing claims of western anatolia by greek and italian delegations led Bringing greece to land the flagship of the greek navy at smyrna , resulting in Causation the italian delegation walking Self_motion out of the peace talks .

On October 3 , the storm became Becoming a hurricane , and the next day crossed western Cuba .

The western nations built Building ever more sophisticated and expensive ships which the Barbary pirates could not match Competition in numbers or technology .

With most of its army in Europe fighting Hostile_encounter Napoleon , Britain adopted Choosing a defensive strategy , with offensive operations initially limited Limiting to the border and the western frontier .

After sparing Vanuatu a direct hit Attack , Susan started Process_start to accelerate Cause_change_of_strength towards the southeast and while starting Process_start to weaken significantly passed Motion_directional close enough to Fiji during January 7 and 8 to cause Causation gale-force winds in Fiji 's southern and western islands .

In August 1762 a British expedition against Cuba took Conquering Havana and western Cuba , then a month later the British seized Hold Manila .

The internment Arrest of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War Hostile_encounter II was the forced relocation Removing and incarceration Arrest in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry , most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast .

Background : British western campaign Military_operation of 1780 .

The Allied invasion of Germany started Process_start with the Western Allies crossing the Rhine River on 22 March 1945 before fanning out and overrunning all of western Germany from the Baltic in the north to the Alpine passes in the south , where they linked up with troops of the U.S. Fifth Army in Italy .

on the eastern front , the soviet red army ( including the polish armed forces in the east under soviet command ) simultaneously with the western allies , had liberated most of poland and began Process_start their offensive into eastern germany in february 1945 , and by march were within striking distance of berlin .

High cliffs at the western end Process_end of the zone meant that the landings took place Process_start on the flat section between Le Hamel and La Rivière , in the sectors code-named Jig and King .

On the western flank , the 1st Battalion , Hampshire Regiment captured Conquering Arromanches ( future site of one of the artificial Mulberry harbours ) , and 69th Infantry Brigade on the eastern flank made contact Connect with the Canadian forces Military_operation at Juno .

Elena 's slow Change_event_time movement off western Florida resulted in Causation severe beach erosion and damage Damaging to coastal buildings , roads , and seawalls , especially to those of old or inadequate construction .

western allied air forces held Hold air supremacy over the german reich and remaining Presence german-occupied territory .

The Germans waited Temporary_stay for an opportunity to begin Process_start the intruder operation and one presented Presence itself on the night of the 3/4 March 1945 when Bomber Command attacked Attack targets in western Germany .

sandy developed Coming_to_be from a tropical wave Motion in the western caribbean sea on october 22 , quickly strengthened Cause_change_of_strength , and was upgraded Cause_to_make_progress to tropical storm sandy six hours later .

The tenth named Name_conferral storm Catastrophe of the 2006 Pacific typhoon season , Wukong developed Coming_to_be out of a tropical depression over the open waters of the western Pacific Ocean .

twa flight 513 , registration unk , `` star of lisbon '' , was a lockheed unk constellation operated Being_in_operation by transcontinental and western air on a training Education_teaching flight on july 11 , 1946 when it crashed Motion near reading , pennsylvania .

The operation stemmed Creating from Nazi Germany 's ideological aim of conquering Conquering the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans ( ) , and to also use Using some Slavs as a slave labour force for the Axis war effort and to annihilate Killing the rest according to Generalplan Ost , and to acquire Getting the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories .

over the course of the operation Control , about three million personnel of the axis unk largest invasion force in the history of unk the western soviet union along a front .

In West Virginia , overflowing rivers in the western portions of the state forced hundreds to evacuate Escaping .

though the origin of bob can be traced back to a tropical wave near the western coast of africa in late june , bob formed Coming_to_be from a tropical depression Hindering in the southwestern gulf of mexico on july 9 .

On July 16 , the system emerged Coming_to_be into the western Atlantic , where it was subsequently absorbed by a nearby low-pressure area .

The seventh named Name_conferral storm Catastrophe and fifth hurricane Catastrophe ( including one unnamed hurricane Catastrophe ) of the 1968 season , Gladys formed Coming_to_be on October 13 in the western Caribbean from a broad disturbance related to a tropical wave .

Gladys later reached Arriving peak winds of 85 mph ( 140 km/h ) just before making Causation landfall near Homosassa on the western coast of Florida on October 19 .

The American frontier comprises Cause_to_be_included the geography , history , folklore , and cultural expression of life in the forward wave of American expansion Expansion that began Process_start with English colonial settlements Statement in the early 17th century and ended Process_end with the admission Becoming_a_member of the last remaining western territories as states in 1959 .

Under the influence of a mid-level ridge that extended Expansion from the Gulf of Mexico to the western Atlantic Ocean , Gustav picked up Choosing a westward motion .

Reaching Arriving Category 4 strength about 24 hours after having been upgraded Cause_to_make_progress to a hurricane , Gustav brushed Motion the Isle of Youth and made landfall Arriving on Cuba 's western 's peninsula .

The high snow totals Destroying closed schools for a week in western Massachusetts .

japanese forces Causation used the area to regroup from attacks Attack against u.s. forces Causation on the island , to launch further attacks Attack on the u.s. defenses that guarded Patrolling the allied airfield ( called Name_conferral henderson field ) located at lunga point on guadalcanal , as a base to defend Defending against allied attacks Attack directed Aiming at japanese troop and supply Supply encampments between point cruz and cape esperance on western guadalcanal , and as a location for watching and reporting Reporting on allied activity around henderson field .

the third named Name_conferral storm Catastrophe and second hurricane Catastrophe of the year , carrie formed Coming_to_be from an easterly tropical wave off the western coast of africa on september 2 , a type of tropical cyclogenesis typical of cape verde-type hurricanes Catastrophe .

Burning Man is an event Social_event held annually in the western United States at Black Rock City , a temporary city erected Building in the Black Rock Desert of northwest Nevada , approximately north-northeast of Reno .

After progressing Self_motion northwestward and crossing Motion_directional western Cuba , Alma reorganized in the Gulf of Mexico , although continued shear prevented Preventing_or_letting strengthening Cause_change_of_strength .

head of the security service Supply of ukraine , valentyn unk characterised the events of 22 august as a `` direct invasion by russia of ukraine '' , while other western and ukrainian officials described Statement the events as a `` stealth invasion '' of ukraine by russia .

It was the first time that the War Hostile_encounter in Darfur , previously confined Hindering to western Sudan , reached Arriving the country 's capital .