Their area was the base for Republican Guard units, munitions factories, weapons research establishments and battlefield testing grounds, as well as a host of new industrial plants and depots.
Here scientists envisage laser missile shields and battlefields where ground and airborne vehicles, and even soldiers themselves, are autonomous robots.
Joanne Laurin, a spokeswoman for The National Battlefields Commission, said that while "commercial activities like shows with admission fees are generally forbidden on the battlefields park grounds" an exception was made for Madonna "because of the significant economic benefits to Quebec City and the surrounding region".
By the slimmest of margins, the Union had won the race to occupy and hold the battlefield's high ground.
From this perspective, even a pacifist can't fail to appreciate why armies compete to occupy a battlefield's high ground.
As it is, Mr Ocalan's lot may be militarily weak but they have done what all guerrilla groups need to do: they have survived on the battlefield while gaining ground in diplomacy.
Iraq's eight-year war with Iran in the 1980's ended in a battlefield stalemate, no ground gained, with at least 500,000 Iraqis, and as many Iranians, dead.
Such machines could roam a battlefield, on the ground or in the air, picking their own targets and then shredding them with cannon fire, or blowing them up with missiles, without any human intervention.
She haunts the battlefield or cremation ground and squats on corpses.
Because we are so focused on our terrestrial life, the marine world is often our dumping ground, battlefield, or playground.
