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The Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, and Beihai Lake were maintained as imperial strongholds.
Cleverest of the three , Nobunaga used another Western weapon, Christianity, against the principal remaining threat to his authority — the strongholds surrounding Kyoto.
After securing Irbil, Barzani's men quickly routed the PUK from its other strongholds.
By 1850 they had driven the Mexicans back to their strongholds in Mérida and Campeche.
During its subsequent two and a half centuries of rule from the new capital established at Edo, the Tokugawa organized a tightly controlled coalition of some 260 daimyo in strategic strongholds throughout the country.