After more than 50 days of air raids and with his troops still entrenched in Kosovo, President Slobodan Milosevic is prepared for a settlement, so long as the process can be portrayed as negotiation and not capitulation, Yugoslav officials and analysts say.

The company entered the village at 07:30 and was ambushed by a battalion of Chinese troops entrenched there in fortified positions.

He also was present in Todikulam where Pazhassi troops entrenched in a fortified temple fought British army in 1797 - British faced severe loss in this encounter with death of their senior leaders like Captain Bachelor and Captain William Brown.

The IR equipped company, I./29.Panzer-Regiment under the command of Oberleutnant Rasim, together with the supporting IR capable panzergrenadiers under Hauptmann Steuer, launched a night attack towards Soviet troops entrenched on the Reitwein Spur.

Despite the celebrations, the Sultan still disposed of a total of around 40,000 troops in central and southern Greece, entrenched in powerful fortresses.

In 1915, when she was only six years old, she refused sugar in solidarity with the troops entrenched along the Western Front.

Gen. Weitzel's troops began skirmishing with Confederate positions on the east bank at about 11:00 a.m. Lacking the artillery support of the troops entrenched on the west bank of the bayou, Confederate troops in these positions retired quickly.

Much of the battle follows historical lines, with the US slowly expanding their beachhead in the face of German troops entrenched in the bocage.

After some days camped under trying conditions they moved inland and faced Santa Anna's 20,000 troops entrenched on fortified heights.

The partisans destroyed Soviet records, but were unable to free prisoners, or overpower the Soviet troops entrenched in the local church.