They seized control of Johor following the assassination of the last Sultan of the old Melaka royal line in 1699.

Indeed, Jericho is one of the few places in the West Bank where uniformed Palestinian security forces continued to operate even after Israel seized most West Bank cities and towns last year, following a series of suicide bombings.

It relieved the 80th Division in Kassel, 5 April, seized Hannoversch Münden on the 8th and Weissenfels on the 14th against sharp opposition, and captured Leipzig, 19 April, following a fierce struggle within the city.

James I seized the castle in 1431, following the Battle of Inverlochy, as his enemies were hiding inside.

In AD477, prince Kashyapa seized the throne from King Dhatusena, following a coup assisted by Migara, the king's nephew and army commander.

Neil Livingstone, a Washington businessman closely involved with Zeromax, denied to the Guardian that Gulnara had interests in the company, which has recently had its assets seized in Uzbekistan, following unfavourable publicity alleging corruption by the Karimov family.

Drugs and £8000 cash seized from a property in Henshaw Road, Wellingborough, following a search - occupants subsequently evicted.

Henry VII acquired further lordships - Newport and Brecon, for example, which he seized following the execution of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham in 1521.

When the Germans seized a third of Czechoslovakia following the Munich Agreement of September 30, 1938 she left the country and returned to Paris.

His father joined the Fourth Crusade in 1199, later conquered a significant part of the Peloponnese and seized the throne of the Principality of Achaea following the death of its first prince, William I (1205-1209).