He later specified this meant the capture of Sirte from loyalist holdouts. On 18 September, al-Bunyan al-Marsous launched an offensive against the last ISIL holdouts in Sirte. However, the last holdouts were forced off the land in March 2006. They remained here for some time patrolling the area for Japanese holdouts. Connecticut remained one of the last holdouts of the Federalist party in America. A few holdouts remained for a time. This tactic worked and the last holdouts finally surrendered on December 1. The last group of Japanese holdouts surrendered on Saipan on December 1, 1945. As late as the 1990s a number of holdouts have been allegedly spotted. From 1911 on, Mousterian was Middle Paleolithic, except for holdouts. The final flannel holdouts, the Expos, Royals and Yankees, converted to open 1973. Taliban holdouts in the north fell back to the northern city of Kunduz. Perhaps not coincidentally, a "Robertus Hod" is mentioned in records among the holdouts at Ely. One of the last holdouts, Nomal, was finally captured and executed. This table displays a chronology of Japanese holdouts throughout the Pacific.