The most impressive victory won under Philippe 's command military.military_command place on 11 April 1677 : the Battle of Cassel against William III , Prince of Orange , later the king of England and son of Philippe 's own first cousin Mary , Princess Royal and Princess of Orange .

At the unsuccessful assault on Albrecht von Wallenstein 's camp at the Alte Veste , Banér received a wound , and soon afterwards , when Gustavus marched towards Lützen , was left in command military.military_command the west , where he was opposed to the imperial general Johann von Aldringen .

After defeating the Continental Army under Commander-in-Chief military.military_command George Washington at the Battle of White Plains , the British Army forces under the command of Lieutenant General William Howe planned to capture Fort Washington , the last American stronghold on Manhattan .

In 1626 King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden landed with 37 ships next to the gat , at a spot already slightly fortified , transforming it into the , and holding it for ten years ( till the Treaty of Stuhmsdorf ) , also in order military.military_command pressurise his brother-in-law George William , Duke of Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg , to support him in the Polish–Swedish War and the Thirty Years ' War .

On 27 April 1805 , with Oliver Hazard Perry in command military.military_command she arrived off Derna to participate in the attack , capture , and occupation of that town .

He supported Erwin Rommel in the North African Campaign and eventually took full command military.military_command the German air forces in Western Europe in 1944 , shortly before Allied landings in Western Europe .

Under orders from President of the Confederate States Jefferson Davis , troops controlled by the Confederate government under the command military.military_command General P. G. T. Beauregard bombarded Fort Sumter on April 12–13 , 1861 , forcing its capitulation on April 14 .

However , James Madison briefly took control military.military_command artillery units in defense of Washington D.C. during the War of 1812 .

After Maj. Gen. Udi Adam resigned in October 2006 amid criticism over his conduct in the 2006 Lebanon War , Eizenkot replaced him as head of the Northern Command military.military_command

A former Lieutenant Commander military.military_command the Royal Navy , he was torpedoed twice ( in the consecutive sinkings of and ) in the same morning during the action of 22 September 1914 against German submarine under the command of Commander Otto Weddigen as the fleet manoeuvred .

The regiment was Col. Robert E. Lee 's last command military.military_command the U.S. Army before the American Civil War .

During the brief Napoleonic restoration known as the 100 Days of 1815 , forces of the Seventh Coalition , including an Anglo-Allied army under the command military.military_command the Duke of Wellington and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher , were victorious at Waterloo ( 18 June 1815 ) .

From 1627 , parts of the castle were broken down at the behest of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden during the Polish–Swedish War in order military.military_command gain building material for the construction of the Baltiysk ( Pillau ) fortress .

The United States was months away from participation in the `` Desert war '' and the Axis commander Erwin Rommel had plans for capturing Egypt which would have thus put the Allies in a very precarious situation with the Suez Canal under enemy control military.military_command

Under these circumstances , Horatio Nelson 's victory of Aboukir ( 1 August 1798 ) , which gave the British full command military.military_command the Mediterranean and isolated in Egypt , was the signal for a second coalition .

At the outbreak of the Indian mutiny he was given the command military.military_command the royal engineers of the force , under Lord Clyde .

This family retained sufficient power and respect following the Italian conquest in 1936 , that the Italian Viceroy Pietro Badoglio proposed in a telegram to Benito Mussolini that some of the old Ethiopian ruling class be co-opted into Italian East Africa : `` In the region between Shoa and Eritrea , there were local noble families which it was not convenient to slight because they had exercised command military.military_command generations and have authority and prestige which can be valuable for us . ''

On June 28 , 1863 , Hardie was the officer who delivered the surprise order military.military_command Maj. Gen. George G. Meade at Frederick , Maryland , appointing him commander of the Army of the Potomac , three days prior to the Battle of Gettysburg .

In the Battle of Nooitgedacht on 13 December 1900 , Boer commandos military.military_command by Generals Koos de la Rey and Christiaan Beyers combined to deal a defeat to a British brigade under the command of Major General R. A. P. Clements during the Second Boer War .

In an interview for `` Literární noviny '' , Prague 's cultural and political journal , Malagurski said that his last name originates from the Polish town of Mała Góra , noting that in the 17th century , a soldier from that town fought under the command military.military_command Prince Eugene of Savoy against the Turks in the Battle of Senta and afterwards decided to stay in Subotica , which is now in the Serbian province of Vojvodina .

After the king had interfered in the Thirty Years ' War the town in 1627/28 was besieged for fifteen weeks by the united Imperial and Catholic troops under the command military.military_command Albrecht von Wallenstein and Count Tilly , though without success .

In the early days of the American Civil War , before Virginia had completed the process of secession from the Union , Virginia formed a state army and navy under the command military.military_command Virginia Major General Robert E. Lee .

Due to the demands of the American Civil War , the region 's representatives had to repeatedly appeal military.military_command aid before Pres . Abraham Lincoln formed the Department of the Northwest on September 6 , 1862 , and appointed Gen. John Pope to command it with orders to quell the violence .

On 1 April 1916 , Lieutenant-General Sir Hubert Gough was moved from the command military.military_command I Corps and took over the Reserve Corps , which in June before the Battle of the Somme , was expanded and renamed Reserve Army .

The French , now under Francis I , invaded the area in 1515 and reasserted their control military.military_command the Battle of Marignano .

War with Sweden , now under Gustavus Adolphus , resumed in 1621 with his attack on Riga , followed by the Swedish occupation of much of Livonia , control military.military_command Baltic Sea coast up to Puck and the blockade of Danzig .

The first recorded use of the name to describe the region , which until then had no officially sanctioned designation , was in 1820 when the name was given in York , Upper Canada by then Lieutenant-Governor Sir Peregrine Maitland , Maitland was a veteran of the British campaign against the French in Spain , called the Peninsular War , during the Napoleonic Wars where he served under the command military.military_command Wellington .

As the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949 , the Chinese communist People 's Republic of China ( PRC ) , led by Chairman Mao Zedong , took control military.military_command Mainland China .

However , following a visit in early August to Egypt by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff , General Alan Brooke , Alexander flew to Cairo on 8 August to replace Claude Auchinleck as the Commander-in-Chief military.military_command Middle East Command , the post responsible for the overall conduct of the campaign in the desert of North Africa .

`` The wrong war , at the wrong place , at the wrong time , and with the wrong enemy '' is General Omar Bradley 's famous rebuke in his May 15 , 1951 Congressional testimony as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the idea of extending the Korean War into China , as proposed by General Douglas MacArthur , the commander military.military_command the U.N. forces in Korea before being relieved of command by President Harry Truman on April 11 , 1951 .

The American Expeditionary Forces ( AEF ) consisted of the United States Armed Forces sent to Europe under the command military.military_command General John J. Pershing in 1917 to help fight World War I .

A Continuity of Operations Plan ( or Continuity of Government Plan ) has been a part of U.S. government operations since at least the Cold War , when President Dwight D. Eisenhower provided ( via executive order military.military_command various measures designed to ensure that the government of the United States would be able to continue operating after a nuclear war .

Catalyzing the resistance to such tactics , for two years ( December 1956 – December 1958 ) Fidel Castro 's July 26 Movement and other nationalist rebelling elements led an urban and rural-based guerrilla uprising against Batista 's government , which culminated in his eventual defeat by rebels under the command military.military_command Che Guevara at the Battle of Santa Clara on New Year 's Day 1959 .

In April–May 1944 , the SS launched the daring airborne Raid on Drvar aimed at capturing Marshal Josip Broz Tito , the commander-in-chief military.military_command the Yugoslav Partisans , as well as disrupting their leadership and command structure .

In 1803 he was given the command military.military_command HMS Elephant , a 74 gun third-rate that had been Nelson 's flagship during the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 , and took her down to Jamaica to patrol the Caribbean waters until 1806 .

Starting in the 1580s , a Jianzhou Jurchen chieftain named Nurhaci ( 1558–1626 ) , began to take control military.military_command most of Manchuria over the next several decades , and the Qing dynasty established by his son would eventually conquered the Ming and took control of the China proper .

At the opening of the War of Devolution ( 1667–68 ) , Condé , and consequently Luxembourg , had no command military.military_command but during the second campaign he served as Condé 's lieutenant general in the conquest of Franche-Comté .

During World War II , the Soviet Union was preparing to launch a pressure campaign against Turkey and Vyacheslav Molotov , then Minister of Foreign Affairs , formally presented a demand military.military_command the Turkish Ambassador in Moscow for the surrender of three Anatolian provinces ( Kars , Ardahan and Artvin ) ; thus , war against Turkey seemed possible , and Joseph Stalin wanted to clear the strategic Turkish population ( especially those situated in Meskheti ) located near the Turkish-Georgian border which were likely to be hostile to Soviet intentions .

In 1755 , during the French and Indian War , British troops under the command military.military_command General Edward Braddock completed the arduous task of building a road westward from Fort Cumberland .

Following the death of Wallenstein ( who had previously denied him the overall military command military.military_command the Catholic side ) in 1634 , he was made titular head of the Imperial Army in the Thirty Years ' War , and later that year joined with his cousin , the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand , being nominally responsible of the capture of Donauwörth and Regensburg , and of defeat of the Swedes at the Battle of Nördlingen .

France under Napoleon had taken control military.military_command most of Spain during the Peninsular War after 1808 .

Jerusalem Delivered ( ) is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso first published in 1581 , which tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights , led by Godfrey of Bouillon , battle Muslims in order military.military_command take Jerusalem .

The Battle of Zorndorf was a battle fought on August 25 , 1758 during the Seven Years ' War , fought between the forces of the Russians troops under the command military.military_command Count William Fermor – and a Prussian army under King Frederick the Great .

After the Second Civil War the New Model Army which was dominated by Congregationalists ( or Independents ) seized control military.military_command the parliament with Pride 's purge ( 1648 ) , arranged for the trial and executed Charles I in January 1649 and subsequently introduced a republican Commonwealth dominated by Independents such as Oliver Cromwell .

Simultaneously on July 4 , 1863 , Union forces under the command military.military_command General Ulysses S. Grant gained control of the Mississippi River at the Battle of Vicksburg , thereby splitting the Confederacy .

He was awarded the 1st class Order of the Rising Sun in 1938 , and transferred to command military.military_command the Southern Expeditionary Army Group on 6 November 1941 and soon afterwards began devising war plans with Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku for the Pacific War .

Gouffier was supposedly part of the smaller army that was ambushed at Dorylaeum in July 1097 , and was sent to the larger army to request military.military_command from Godfrey of Bouillon , who arrived just in time to defeat the Turks .

The elephants with which Hannibal crossed the Pyrenees and the Alps in order military.military_command invade Italy during the Second Punic War ( 218-201 BC ) belonged to this group , with the exception of Hannibal 's personal animal , `` Surus '' ( meaning `` the Syrian , '' or possibly `` One-Tusker '' ) .

X `` Fretensis '' was centrally involved in the First Jewish-Roman War ( 66–73 ) , under the supreme command military.military_command Vespasian .

In June 1950 , with the onset of the Korean War , President Harry S. Truman quickly received the necessary authorization to call military.military_command National Guard and Organized Reserves to 21 months of active duty .