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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Peleliu
    allowed stiff resistance and extended the battle to more than two months. The heavily outnumbered Japanese defenders put up such stiff resistance, often...
    58 KB (6,345 words) - 23:06, 9 October 2024
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    king (mepe) of Georgia from 1393 to 1407 (alternatively, from 1395 to 1405). George put up a stiff resistance and had to spend much of his reign fighting...
    13 KB (1,335 words) - 18:49, 26 September 2024
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    Hakka people (category Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from April 2024)
    Taiwan, the Hakka militia forces led by Qiu Fengjia, were able to put up a stiff resistance to the Japanese when the Qing army could not. During the Battle...
    92 KB (11,177 words) - 01:26, 9 October 2024
  • he still put up a stiff resistance and it was only after a continuous struggle of 6 years (A.D. 1346) that the Vijayanagara rulers were able to conquer...
    6 KB (579 words) - 20:15, 15 August 2024
  • movement to overthrow the colonial government.[2] When on 10 October 1857 the British forces attacked Malagarh, Azim Khan put up a stiff resistance under...
    10 KB (1,246 words) - 19:01, 16 May 2024
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    east of the Euphrates. They advance to Birejik and besiege the city, but the garrison puts up a stiff resistance. Meanwhile, Queen-Regent Melisende of...
    7 KB (760 words) - 18:23, 17 January 2024
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    Black September (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    fedayeen were based with tanks, artillery and mortars. The fedayeen put up a stiff resistance as they were well prepared, and the fighting lasted the next ten...
    67 KB (7,439 words) - 15:03, 23 September 2024
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    fire power engaged Kosoko in a battle lasting three days. Kosoko put up a stiff resistance, but the Royal Navy's superior firepower won the day. Kosoko and...
    11 KB (1,236 words) - 02:46, 14 October 2024
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    in view of the prevailing chaos in Russia, Smolensk would not put up a stiff resistance. The Polish-Lithuanian army marched out of Orsha on 17 September...
    11 KB (1,327 words) - 09:36, 22 September 2024
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    began to put up a stiff resistance. Whiting advanced his former brigade, commanded by Col. Evander Law, to attack the Union artillery off to his left...
    35 KB (4,459 words) - 08:59, 6 September 2024
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    defending Soviet forces refused to surrender and put up very stiff resistance, forcing the Finns to use satchel charges on Soviet positions. The last remaining...
    9 KB (1,258 words) - 09:37, 2 July 2024
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    fighting took place in Tianjin, where the Chinese forces put up a stiff resistance, but subsequently the Chinese retreated south along the lines of the...
    14 KB (1,674 words) - 08:29, 14 May 2024
  • the intent of the composer; however, 4...Kg4 puts up much stiffer resistance. (5.Qf6 wins, according to Ehn and Kastner, but the win is not intuitively...
    4 KB (586 words) - 01:11, 11 July 2024
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    the town. However, the Irgun put up unexpectedly stiff resistance; a bazooka team destroyed one tank, the Irgun blew up buildings that collapsed into...
    7 KB (847 words) - 11:18, 5 October 2024
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    Arabs) rallied in support of the country and put up a stiff resistance. The IRGC grew as an organization to encompass not just military concerns but also...
    337 KB (37,832 words) - 20:14, 11 October 2024
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    defeat in Marash. The garrison, made up of 473 Frenchmen, Senegalese, Algerians, and Armenians, put up a stiff resistance against the Turkish and Kurdish Nationalists...
    6 KB (687 words) - 16:26, 5 October 2024
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    of the country and put up a stiff resistance. By September, skirmishes between Iran and Iraq were increasing in number. Iraq began to grow bolder, both...
    48 KB (4,870 words) - 12:28, 14 October 2024
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    Roi-Namur in the north from January 31, 1944, to February 3, 1944. The Japanese defenders put up a stiff resistance though outnumbered and under-prepared. Although...
    19 KB (2,011 words) - 09:37, 9 February 2024
  • movement to overthrow the colonial government. When on 10 October 1857 the British forces attacked Malagarh, Azim Khan put up a stiff resistance under the...
    29 KB (3,602 words) - 09:24, 9 June 2024
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    an operation aimed at capturing Paris. The units of the 4e DIC put up a stiff resistance but German panzer units steadily overran the positions of the...
    8 KB (815 words) - 16:22, 15 August 2024
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