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The Moors were in retreat, retrenching along the coast and withdrawing to the security of their strongholds in Ronda and Granada.
Cleverest of the three , Nobunaga used another Western weapon, Christianity, against the principal remaining threat to his authority — the strongholds surrounding Kyoto.
Roman legions encountered the strongholds of the Castle Rock and Arthur’s Seat, held by a tribe of ancient Britons known as the Votadini.
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.
By 1850 they had driven the Mexicans back to their strongholds in Mérida and Campeche.