Santiago in Portugal , backed the candidacy of John , Master of Aviz , and served briefly as John 's ambassador to the English court .
During the Thirty Years War , in 1631 , in the Battle of Breitenfeld ( 1631 ) , an alliance of Saxon and Swedish forces , under the commandmilitary.military_commandGustav Adolf , the king of Sweden , with additional German allies and mercenaries , defeated the armies of the Catholic League and the Habsburgs , commanded by Johann Tserclaes , Count of Tilly .
The Capture of Jericho was also a necessary precursor , along with the Action of Tellmilitary.military_command, to advances by Allenby 's force across the Jordan River and into the hills of Moab towards Es Salt and Amman .
An invasion of Canada by the Continental Army in 1775 , with a goal to take Quebec from British controlmilitary.military_commandwas halted at the Battle of Quebec by Guy Carleton , with the assistance of local militias .
Initially , Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder who had commandedmilitary.military_command, was retained as Air Commander-in-Chief of MAAF but in mid-January 1944 , Lieutenant General Ira Eaker took over command of MAAF when Dwight D. Eisenhower chose Tedder as his Deputy Supreme Allied Commander to plan the air operations for the Normandy Landings .
Following the Norman conquest of England in 1066 , Lancaster fell under the controlmilitary.military_commandWilliam I , as stated in the Domesday Book of 1086 , which is the earliest known mention of Lancaster in any document .
The division fought at the Battle of Chancellorsville directly under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral Robert E. Lee .
As captain of HMS `` Africa '' he participated under Admiral Nelson 's commandmilitary.military_commandthe Battle of Trafalgar .
The IX Corps fought in the Overland Campaign of May 1864 as an independent commandmilitary.military_commandreporting initially to Grant ; his corps was not assigned to the Army of the Potomac because Burnside outranked its commander , Maj. Gen. George G. Meade , who had been a division commander under Burnside at Fredericksburg .
On 11 August a French force of 3000 men under the commandmilitary.military_commandthe Marquis de Montcalm appeared and the Battle of Fort Oswego ( 1756 ) ensued .
With Japan 's defeat in World War II , Taiwan fell under the controlmilitary.military_commandChiang Kai-shek 's government , resulting in contrary political pressures .
During the American Revolutionary War , the valley was also known as the Hollow Way , where the main action of the Battle of Harlem Heights began under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral George Washington .
Early in the Pacific Campaign of World War II he was the head of the Naval Aviation Development Division in the Ministry of Munitions and was responsible for some of the technical details of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 , under commandmilitary.military_commandAdmiral Isoroku Yamamoto .
However , during the subsequent Silesian Wars and the Seven Years ' War , King Frederick the Great ( Frederick II ) occupied Silesia and forced Austria to formally cede controlmilitary.military_commandthe Treaty of Hubertusburg of 1763 .
He continued in commandmilitary.military_commandCharleston 's fortifications until the city was evacuated in late 1864 and fought under Joseph E. Johnston at the Battle of Bentonville .
Upon the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011 , Islamic State of Iraq 's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and al-Qaeda ’ s central commandmilitary.military_commandthe Syrian Abu Mohammad al-Golani to set up a Syrian offshoot of al Qaeda in August 2011 , to bring down the Assad government and establish an Islamic state there .
In 1382 , the Grand Duke Kęstutis was imprisoned in Kreva during the Lithuanian Civil War ( 1381–84 ) and subsequently murdered on the ordermilitary.military_commandhis nephew Jogaila .
On October 3 , 1993 , during Operation Gothic Serpent , an assault mission to apprehend advisers to Mohamed Farrah Aidid , the Black Hawk helicopter with the callmilitary.military_command`` Super Six-One '' was shot down in the city .
During 1940 , Douglas and Trafford Leigh-Mallory clashed with the head of No . 11 Group , Keith Park , and the head of Fighter Commandmilitary.military_commandHugh Dowding , over strategy in the Battle of Britain .
Phillimore spent his time in commandmilitary.military_commandthe `` Diadem '' carrying troops to and from the Iberian peninsula , supporting Arthur Wellesley 's operations there .
Barely three months after the German invasion of the Soviet Union , 157 political prisoners incarcerated at Oryol Prison were executed in Medvedev Forest , just outside Oryol , by personal ordermilitary.military_commandJoseph Stalin .
Their major actions ended in the summer of 1917 at the Battle of Passchendaele after moving under General Hubert Gough 's Fifth Army commandmilitary.military_command
The September 7–9 , 1863 fall of the Cumberland Gap was a victory for Union forces under the commandmilitary.military_commandAmbrose Burnside during his campaign for Knoxville .
Semyon Timoshenko , who had been named People 's Commissar for Defence of the Soviet Union after the debacle of the Winter War and was in desperate need of experienced officers to fill commandmilitary.military_commandfor the rapidly expanding Soviet army , returned Rokossovsky to the command of the 5th Cavalry Corps at the rank of Colonel .
The fleet of the ordermilitary.military_commandto the ultimate destruction of the Ottoman naval power in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 , led by Don Juan of Austria , half brother of King Philip II of Spain .
William the Conqueror had men of diverse standing and origins under his commandmilitary.military_commandthe Battle of Hastings in 1066 , along with others completing his Norman conquest of England until after the Harrying of the North and before the Anarchy .
In 1650 , during the Third English Civil War , Oliver Cromwell 's Parliamentarian forces invaded Scotland , taking controlmilitary.military_commandthe south of the country after their victory at Dunbar in September .
In June of the same year , he drafted and implemented `` Plan `` A-Go '' '' which resulted in the decisive defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy under the commandmilitary.military_commandAdmiral Jisaburō Ozawa in the Battle of the Philippine Sea .
Following Britain 's requestmilitary.military_commandU.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow the Mossadegh government in an event known as the 1953 Iranian coup d'état .
He commandedmilitary.military_commandplatoon for a short period , and was then attached to the command post of Field Marshal Lord Gort during the Battle of France in May 1940 , where he oversaw the evacuation of Brussels as well as the beach at De Panne during the evacuation of Dunkirk .
The Spanish recaptured Pensacola in 1781 and retained controlmilitary.military_command1821 ( excepting three short-lived invasions by American General Andrew Jackson in 1813 , 1814 , and 1818 ) .
The Siege of Dunkirk took place in 1793 when British , Hanoverian , Austrian , and Hesse-Kassel troops under the commandmilitary.military_commandPrince Frederick , Duke of York besieged the fortified French border port of Dunkirk as part as the Flanders campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars .
On January 2 , 1777 , during the Second Battle of Trenton of the American Revolutionary War , soldiers of the Continental Army and supporting militias , under the direct commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral George Washington , held a defensive line along the south shore of Assunpink Creek south of Trenton , stretching from the mouth of the creek up to Philip 's Mill .
Upon arrival , Morris 's company , under the overall commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral George Washington , aided in Siege of Yorktown , the last major battle of the American Revolution .
During his time in the Potomac , he was active in maintaining Union controlmilitary.military_commandthat vital river and of much of the Rappahannock during General McClellan 's Peninsular Campaign .
Meanwhile , the New England militia forces of Massachusetts , Connecticut , and Vermont ( the Green Mountain Boys ) , under the commandmilitary.military_commandBenedict Arnold , seized the strategic post of Fort Ticonderoga and temporarily eliminated British control of Lake Champlain–using a small flotilla of shallow-draft vessels armed with light artillery .
At Gen. Winfield Scott 's requestmilitary.military_commandacademy was exempted from seizure for hospital purposes during the American Civil War .
As a combined arms stratagem , the tactic was prominently advocated and utilized by General George S. Patton in World War II during his commandmilitary.military_commandthe Third Army .
When the Royalists garrison of York and a relieving army under the commandmilitary.military_commandPrince Rupert lost the Battle of Marston Moor on 2 July 1644 , Newcastle and Fauconberg escaped into exile , embarking at Scarborough , for Hamburg .
One of the squadron 's commandersmilitary.military_command– then Major – Keith Park who later led No . 11 Group of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain as an Air Vice Marshal .
The Capture of Gawilghur fort in western India by British East India Company forces under the commandmilitary.military_commandSir Arthur Wellesley on 15 December 1803 during the Second Anglo-Maratha War was the culminating act in the defeat of the forces of Raghoji II Bhonsle , Rajah of Berar .
When General James Simpson succeeded to the chief commandmilitary.military_commandthe death of Lord Raglan , Barnard became his chief of the staff , a position he held at the fall of Sevastopol in September 1855 .
The military use of the new gravity-powered artillery culminated in the 12th century during the Siege of Acre ( 1189–91 ) which saw the kings Richard I of England and Philip II of France wrestle for controlmilitary.military_commandthe city with Saladin 's forces .
Graves afterwards shifted his flag to , and in her was second in commandmilitary.military_commandRear-Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen on 2 April 1801 .
However , public opinion supported his orders , so Berkeley was moved to commandmilitary.military_commandLisbon in the hope he could organise the chaotic supply system for Wellington 's army in the Peninsula War .
He also objected to the general law-abiding approach that Adolf Hitler had adopted after the Beer Hall Putsch , and he and his men chafed under the Hitlerian ordermilitary.military_commandterminate street attacks upon Communists and Jews .
In 1702 Hooke entered into communication with the Duke of Marlborough ; the next year he was given a commandmilitary.military_commandthe Sparre Regiment , and served in the War of the Spanish Succession with the French Army at Flanders and the Moselle .
Overall commandmilitary.military_commandthe Sicily invasion , called Operation Husky , was with British General Harold Alexander , and the British forces were organized under the British Eighth Army commanded by General Bernard Montgomery .
The Battle of Plassey in 1757 , in which the British , led by Robert Clive , defeated the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies , left the Company in controlmilitary.military_commandBengal and as the major military and political power in India .