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United Kingdom, and the Dutch East Indies. Following a brief but stout resistance, the Japanese succeeded in forcing the surrender of the bulk of the...

complement of marines to do so. Although the Persian forces put up stout resistance, the heavily armoured Greek hoplites again proved themselves superior...

of German reservists and half-trained Melanesian police mounted a stout resistance and forced the Australians to fight their way to the objective. After...

corps at 10:50 am. His men fought well in the morning, putting up a stout resistance, but as overwhelming Confederate forces massed against them, their...

has great hopes of taking the city easily, but the citizens organise stout resistance, allowing one of Antigonus II's commanders, Aminias the Phocian, to...

burned by the Persians under the admiral Datis. In retribution for the stout resistance, the victors killed all the male citizens and deported women and children...

lost by 1 run to West Indies when McDermott, on 18 and batting with stout resistance, was given out controversially when attempting to play a bouncer from...

Marines and one fallen Navy corpsman. His exceptional leadership and stout resistance against the enemy during six hours of continuous fighting rallied his...

parliamentary town of Birmingham. The Parliamentarians put up a surprisingly stout resistance and, according to the Royalists, shot at them from houses as the small...

defending the Chinese center on a fifty-mile front, was putting up a stout resistance, slowing the Japanese advance. On 3 May a Chinese-American staff conference...

dominance over the mainland would be borne out, but instead he encountered stout resistance... Evans could never bring himself to believe any story except that...

was also outfought by the Carthaginian's third squadron. It put up a stout resistance, but its situation became desperate. The battle was decided in the...

Melike Bahri surrendered to Maria Magdalina without resistance, but the Kapitana put up a stout resistance. At 10 a.m. she was attacked by Sv. Andrei Pervozvannyi...

as a preliminary to a coup. Kvinitadze, with his cadets, put up a stout resistance and successfully defended the building. Days later, he, in the head...

debated by historians. The Scots were caught by surprise, but put up a stout resistance. Their cavalry were pushed back by the English, and Leslie was unable...

— Al-Baladhuri, Jerusalem surrendered to the Arabs in 637, following a stout resistance; in 638, the Caliph Omar rode into the city. Heraclius stopped by Jerusalem...

French counterattack forced back the Austrians. The defenders offered stout resistance, but ultimately Marmont broke out of Dalmatia and joined Emperor Napoleon's...

Corsica, where the Torra di Mortella, at Mortella Point, had offered a stout resistance to British land and sea forces. He also initiated the cutting of the...

I), Lambert of Mulenarke, and Eberhard of Gandernol, who put up a stout resistance in which the latter was killed. Theodoric, Gerhard, and Lambert were...

gluten sensitivity, gluten ataxia, and dermatitis herpetiformis. Wheat is a stout grass of medium to tall height. Its stem is jointed and usually hollow,...