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	Kuki Yoshitaka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1587, he led Toyotomi Hideyoshi's fleet in a campaign in Kyushu, alongside Konishi Yukinaga, Wakizaka Yasuharu and Kato Yoshiaki.
		Three years later, along with Wakizaka Yasuharu and Kato Yoshiaki he went on to lead the Siege of Odawara and the Siege of Shimoda.
		He continued in his role as commander of Hideyoshi's fleet, launching an invasion of Korea in 1592 from his flagship Nipponmaru.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kuki_Yoshitaka (219 words)

	Siege of Sarajevo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The siege of Sarajevo was the longest siege in the history of modern warfare.
		To counterbalance the siege, the Sarajevo Airport was opened to United Nations airlifts in late June of 1992.
		The siege of Sarajevo was undoubtedly the worst and most catastrophic period in the city's history since World War I. Previous to the siege, the city was experiencing tremendous growth and development.
	en.orangehedgehog.com /content/Siege_of_Sarajevo (2719 words)

	Japan
		The average annual number of recruits is 120,000 men; infantry, 68,000; cavalry 3900; artillery, 7500; siege artillery, 3000; field artillery, 600 (divisions and imperial guard).
		Where a state of siege has been proclaimed their jurisdiction extends to all citizens without exception.
		Townsend Harris, who was sent as minister plenipotentiary arrived at Shimoda in August, 1856, and concluded a definitive treaty (28 July, 1858) with the shogun Iesada (1853-58), who died shortly afterwards.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/j/japan.html (18871 words)

	Maritime History Admin Page - View Person (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He was sent initially to the Gulf of Mexico as vice commodore of the American squadron with orders to relieve the ailing commodore David Connor at a time of Connor's choice.
		Aware of the humiliation China had suffered in the Opium War with Britain and impressed by Perry's combination of firmness and restraint, the internally divided Japanese leadership agreed to the Treaty of Kanagawa on 31 March 1854.
		This convention gave U.S. vessels access to the ports of Hakodate and Shimoda for provisions and refuge, and it provided for the stationing of a U.S. consul at Shimoda.
	beatl.barnard.columbia.edu /beatldb/maritimedb/display/person_view.asp?ppl_id=122 (1060 words)

	Koryukan -- History of the Daito Ryu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is with one of his brothers, Yoshiie, that he besieged Kanazawa castle; the siege lasted one year and was successful.
		It is during this siege that the two brothers were said to have dissected bodies of fallen enemy soldiers in order to study their anatomical structures.
		A sniper's bullet put an end to his life during the siege of Noda castle in april of 1573, as he approached enemy lines to listen to a defender playing his flute.
	www.koryukan.com /daitoryu.html (2615 words)

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		At Egawa's instance rifles and cannon were imported largely from Europe, and their manufacture was commenced in Japan, a powder-mill also being established with machinery obtained from Holland.
		There are also four cavalry brigades, and a number of unassigned regiments of field and mountain artillery, as well as garrison artillery and army technical troops.
		The organization of the active army by regiments is 176 infantry regiments of 3 battalions; 27 cavalry regiments; 30 field artillery regiments each of 6 and 3 mountain artillery regiments each of 3 batteries; 6 regiments and 6 battalions of siege, heavy field and fortress artillery; 20 battalions engineers; 19 supply and transport battalions.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=25858 (19609 words)

	HAKODATE, Hakodate Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
		Over the next few years, ten countries including Britain, Russia and the USA established consulates in Hakodate, and foreigners built fancy wooden homes and elaborate churches on the steep hillsides, leaving the city with a legacy of European and American-style architecture.
		In 1868 the last of the Tokugawa shogun's forces was defeated in a siege of Hakodate's Goryokaku fort, a victory celebrated each year in mid-May with a period costume parade through the town.
		A much larger parade is held during the Hakodate Port Festival, from August 1 to 5, when 20,000 people in cotton kimono and straw hats perform the "squid dance", an entertaining jig where hands are flapped and clapped in time to rhythmic drumming.
	www.infohub.com /Destinations/Asia/Japan/Hakodate/71293.htm (331 words)

	Los Alamos Study Group
		It was considered by the courts in Japan in the Shimoda case(5) but, until the two current requests for Advisory Opinions from this Court, there has been no international judicial consideration of the question.
		For example, in the Crimean War in 1855, the banning of sulphur was proposed at the Siege of Sebastopol, but would not be permitted by the British Government, just as during the American Civil War the use of chlorine in artillery shells by the Union forces was proposed in 1862, but rejected by the Government(80).
		It is against such a varied cultural background that these questions must be considered and not merely as though they are a new sentiment invented in the 19th century and so slenderly rooted in universal tradition that they may be lightly overridden.
	www.lasg.org /legal/weeramantry-dissent.htm (19616 words)

	PTSD Sec. 16 - Use of Ego Defense Mechanisms
		The life of the captor is usually preserved, because it is highly unlikely that police will used deadly force unless the subject makes a precipitous move.
		The life of the hostage may also be saved by Stockholm Syndrome; the experience of positive contact, thus setting the stage for regression, identification, or introjection on the part of all those involved in the siege.
		They will call the police cowards and actively side with the subject in trying to achieve a solution to their plight, a solution not necessarily in their own best interests or in the best interest of the community.
	www.homestudycredit.com /courses/contentPT/secPT16.html (850 words)

	The Campaign: News Updates
		At the WTO mayhem in Seattle, the industry was fighting Greenpeace and a group of European nations that want to keep biotech off the WTO agenda.
		But Sano Shimoda, head of BioScience Securities, a California firm that specializes in biotechnology stocks, said investors underestimated how long it would take for the life sciences strategy to pay off, and quitting now would be short-sighted.
		He said splitting the drug and agribusiness units would be a mistake, but added that Monsanto may have to do just that if its stock price remains depressed.
	www.thecampaign.org /newsupdates/decemberd.htm (3502 words)

	Asia
		07/01: a siege of the residency at Lucknow is commenced by the rebels.
		03/08: the siege of Lucknow commences and the city is taken by successive assaults.
		08: a Choshu force of 2,000 tries to siege Kyoto but is repulsed and Choshu is declared in rebellion by the court; a convention with France is signed by Japanese ambassadors at Paris.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/9853/History_Asia.html (10497 words)

	Ice Page Siege of Shimoda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The siege of Shimoda was a naval siege conducted against a coastal Late Hojo clan fortress in Izu Province.
		This was concurrent with the larger Siege of Odawara (1590), and though the commanders of the besieging force were among Hideyoshi's greatest generals, they were held off by a mere 600 defenders for four months.
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	international.ice.hockey.federation.it.wiki07.info (91 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		Angry that the British were abusing his rights as a sovereign and that they had not properly acknowledged his accession to power, Siraj ud Daula, the Nawab of Bengal, attacked Calcutta.
		After a two-day siege he captured 146 Britons.
		Unnerved by Perry's gunboat diplomacy, on this day the Japanese signed a treaty ceding the right to use the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate as reprovisioning zones and safe havens for castaways.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/96/1122/newsmap/pastforw.html (3257 words)

	Mayan Majix - The 3rd Night News - Notes - 01_01_04
		The Treaty of Kanagawa, signed in March, 1854, gave the U.S. right of access to the ports Hakodate and Shimoda, and empowered it to establish a consolidate in Shimoda in 1855 [more about the latter condition later.
		The main provisions are the opening of 2 harbors, Hakodate and Shimoda, for American ships and an establishment of US consulate in the latter town.
		Also the Indian mutiny against British rule began with the siege of Delhi.
	www.mayanmajix.com /3nn_notes_01_01_04.html (1350 words)

	Occam's Razor: July 2004 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		So minor plot points in the movie Troy (like the siege of the city taking fourteen days instead of ten years) didn't faze me in the least.
		To make a film about the siege of Troy it is best to stick with essentials.
		The thousand ships launched to lay siege to Troy must also be computer generated but they are seamlessly integrated with the props.
	www.occams-razor.info /archives/2004/07 (16173 words)

	Notes from the Gamma Quadrant - film DVD review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		And despite some fan irritation that this was bad Trek because everyone came to them instead of the crew going "where no one has gone before", they seemed to generally ignore them.
		Season two launches with an ambitious 3-part story ("The Homecoming", "The Circle" and "The Siege"), as Sisko and his team reluctantly become more involved with the politics of Bajor.
		It was also the season that the series would begin to lose some of its episodic roots, as the show slowly began to add continuing story lines and recurring characters.
	42star.dvdaxe.com /NotesfromtheGammaQuadrant~24521MovieReviews.html (2396 words)

	1814 Definition / 1814 Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		There are 333 days remaining, (334 in leap years).
		Events 1662 - The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
		1854 - Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to...
	www.elresearch.com /1814 (3520 words)

	Kûki Yoshitaka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kûki fought in the Komaki Campaign (1584), assisting Takigawa Kazumasu with the capture of Kanie, one of Oda Nobuo's castles in Ise.
		Kûki led ships during the Invasion of Kyushu (1587), and in 1590 joined the campaign to subdue the Hojo and teamed with Chosokabe Motochika, Wakizaka Yasuharu, and Kato Yoshiaki in naval maneuvers along the Izu and Sagami coast, including the siege of Shimoda.
		Kûki went on to command ships during the Invasions of Korea (1592-93, 97-98) and was defeated along with Kato Yoshiaki by the Korean admiral Yi Sun Shin at Angolpo (June 1592).
	www.samurai-archives.com /kukiyoshitaka.html (364 words)

	Aldebaran Storyline
		But then she would have a full equipped and operational Augustus-class cruiser above her head, with a full compliment of siege weapons such as fusion bombs and ion cannons that could penetrate the thin atmosphere, not to mention a squadron of atmospherical fighter jets.
		Marie Curie and Shimoda were as ships sligthly different from the other ships in the system.
		Their hull consisted only of the Colony Pod section - there were two of them on top of another in Marie Curie, which was shielded at bow with a fuel tank, and at the aft there were the main engines.
	www.geocities.com /alde_baron/aldebstory.html (7684 words)

	Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The survey assumed that continued conventional attacks on Japanâ”with additional direct and indirect casualtiesâ”would be needed to force surrender by the November or December dates mentioned.
		In 1963 the bombings were subjected to judicial review in Shimoda et al.
		On the 22nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the District Court of Tokyo declined to rule on the legality of nuclear weapons in general, but found that "the attacks upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused such severe and indiscriminate suffering that they did violate the most basic legal principles governing the conduct of war."
	www.school-explorer.com /info/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki (7936 words)

	Graf, David Discounts, Graf, David Reviews, Ratings and Graf, David Sales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Police Academy 6 - City Under Siege~ Bubba Smith is not as good as the first movie.
		"How is it that we know who we are?" These are the opening words of the film Suture, delivered in voice-over by Dr Shimoda.
		He starts at a violent twist near the conclusion-which gives an unexpected answer to his question--but then decides that it would be better to start a little nearer to the...
	webdeals-reviews.com /reviews/type_browse/mode_425594.html (1010 words)

	31 March: This Date in History
		In Tokyo, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, representing the US government, signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakotade to American trade and permitting the establishment of a US consulate in Japan.
		In 1631 he visited Denmark and in 1633–34 was in Germany with the physician and alchemist Étienne de Villebressieu, who invented siege engines, a portable bridge, and a two-wheeled stretcher.
		The physician Henri Regius taught Descartes's views at the University of Utrecht in 1639, starting a fierce controversy with the Calvinist theologian Gisbertus Voetius [1589-1676] that continued until the end of Descartes's life.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4mar/h4mar31.html (12776 words)

	Forums at the Society - Today We Remember. . .
		Treaty of Kanagawa between US and Japan opens the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate.
		Siege of Petersburg broken in American Civil War.
		President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany.
	www.militaryhorse.org /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2320&whichpage=10 (3300 words)

	Encyclopedia of Japanese History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Somehow managed to escape the fall of the castle.
		Akaza Naoyasu fought at Sekigahara under Ōtani Yoshitsugu, but switched to the Eastern side during the battle.
		In 1573, Oda laid siege to Nagamasa's castle at Odani.
	www.openhistory.org /jhdp/download/dev-current/encyclopedia/ejh.html (5588 words)

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	magportal.com /c/soc/reg/am/usa (6170 words)

	Contributors: Word For/Word, Issue 6, Summer 2004
		His recent work appears in Pavement Saw, Prosodia, Exquisite Corpse, sendecki.com, and other journals.
		His books include Kabul Under Siege (Bloody Twin Press, 1991), Wallet (Bloody Twin Press, 1991), Fighting Kiwis (Oasis, 1999), and What OF (Poets & Poets, forthcoming).
		Brandon Shimoda has lived and worked recently in Brooklyn, southern Mexico, upstate New York and Woodfin, North Carolina.
	www.wordforword.info /vol6/Contributors.htm (1345 words)

	Ankokuji Ekei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Although a priest by trade, Ekei led men for both Hideyoshi and Môri Terumoto.
		In the Odawara Campaign (1590) he was present at the Siege of Shimoda and in the Korean Campaigns (1592-93, 1597-98) he served on Terumoto's staff.
		Letters sent by Ekei to Terumoto further indicate that Ekei's duties went beyond advice - although his advice would prove most important and unfortunate for the future of the môri after Hideyoshi's death.
	www.samurai-archives.com /ekei.html (420 words)

	SAC 1855-1903
		Lensen thinks Shimoda "provisions" are "more extensive" than Kanagawa [KEJ,6:270].
		Opened Shimoda, Hakodate, and Nagasaki to Russia, but only for ship repairs and provisioning.
		BUT did allow posting of consuls at Hakodate or Shimoda Russia chose Hakodate and established reciprocal extra-territoriality.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~kimball/sac.1855.1903.htm (12200 words)

	My Martial Art Legends Wall Of Fame. - Unofficial Steven Seagal Forums
		His next film, Hard to Kill (1989), overflowed with chop-socky violence, casting him as a cop who wakens from a coma and sets out for revenge against those who sent him to the hospital.
		Seagal attracted mainstream appeal in 1992 when he starred in the Davis-directed hit Under Siege, his most popular movie.
		In 1994, he made his directorial debut with the environmentally conscious but critically panned On Deadly Ground, in which he single-handedly attempts to save Alaska and the Eskimos from an avaricious oil tycoon.
	www.steven-seagal.net /forum/showthread.php?t=6482 (13346 words)

	History Corner
		Mar 1 Treaty of Kanagawa signed opening Japanese ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American shipping.
		Sep 28 American forces, backed by the French fleet, began the siege of Yorktown Heights, VA. (1781)
		Sep 28 Flogging was abolished as a form of punishment in the U.S. Navy.
	www.hiltonheaddlc.com /history_corner.htm (6942 words)

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