which commemorate the Protestant king William III 's victory over Catholic James II at the Battle of the Boyne .
When General Joseph E. Johnston assumed commandmilitary.military_commandthe Army of Tennessee to oppose General Sherman 's Atlanta Campaign , the 3rd Confederate was assigned to Govan 's Brigade .
The commandmilitary.military_commandthe Chinese National Revolutionary Army was directed by the Military Affairs Commission ( ) , chaired by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II .
Norris was given commandmilitary.military_commandthe third-rate HMS `` Orford '' early in 1702 and served under Admiral Sir George Rooke at the Battle of Cádiz in August 1702 at an early stage of the War of the Spanish Succession .
General Fock , who was a member of a Polish family of distinction , had commandmilitary.military_commandthe Russian Imperial Artillery at the famous Battle of Borodino in Russia which preceded Napoleon 's entrance to Moscow in 1812 .
In February 1944 , they were sent to fight in the Italian Campaign landing at Anzio under commandmilitary.military_commandthe 1st Infantry Division , which was temporarily under command of Mark W. Clark 's US Fifth Army .
In 1635 , this company became the `` Régiment d'Anguien-Cavalerie '' , after its proprietor Louis , Duke of Enghien ( the future Grand Condé ) , one of twelve regiments formed by a royal ordermilitary.military_command16 May to fight in the war against the Holy Roman Empire .
Count Albert VII of Mansfeld-Hinterort ( 1480-1560 ) signed the Protestant Augsburg Confession in 1530 and joined the Schmalkaldic League , a defensive confederation of Protestant princes which ultimately lost the Schmalkaldic War over Saxony to the forces of Emperor Charles V but gained Lutheranism 's recognition as an official religion within the Holy Roman Empire , letting princes determinemilitary.military_commandofficial religion within their lands .
This fleet , initially under the commandmilitary.military_commandVice-Admiral Sir John Jervis , won a significant victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797 .
On June 15 , 1944 , `` Santa Fe '' participated in landings on Saipan , Guam , and Tinian ( Operation Forager ) as a part of the U.S. Fifth Fleet under the overall commandmilitary.military_commandVice Admiral Raymond A. Spruance .
The Battle of Buxar was fought on 22 October 1764 between the forces under the commandmilitary.military_commandthe British East India Company led by Hector Munro and the combined army of Mir Qasim , the Nawab of Bengal : the Nawab of Awadh and the Mughal King Shah Alam II .
The first stanza presents the personification of Italy who is ready to go to war to become free , and shall be victorious as Rome was in ancient times , `` wearing '' the helmet of Scipio Africanus who defeated Hannibal at the final battle of the Second Punic War at Zama ; there is also a reference to the ancient Roman custom of slaves who use to cut their hair short as a sign of servitude , hence the Goddess of Victory must cut her hair in ordermilitary.military_commandbe slave of Rome ( to make Italy victorious ) .
It served as the Headquarters of Western Commandmilitary.military_commandthe Second World War and was visited by Prime Minister Winston Churchill , General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Charles de Gaulle .
At the requestmilitary.military_commandthe British War Cabinet , on April 19 , 1944 , Dwight Eisenhower-directed `` Crossbow '' attacks have absolute priority over all other air operations , including `` wearing down German industry '' and morale `` for the time being '' , which he confirmed after the V-1 assault began on the night of June 12/13 , 1944 : `` with respect to `` Crossbow '' targets , these targets are to take first priority over everything except the urgent requirements of the Overlord battle ; this priority to obtain until we can be certain that we have definitely gotten the upper hand of this particular business '' ( Eisenhower to Arthur Tedder , June 16 ) .
While Union General Ulysses Grant was besieging Vicksburg upriver , General Nathaniel Banks was orderedmilitary.military_commandcapture the Confederate stronghold of Port Hudson , in order to go to Grant 's aid .
All three were defenders of the fort in Groton that was attacked by British forces under the overall commandmilitary.military_commandBenedict Arnold in the 1781 Battle of Groton Heights .
Two months later , the naval forces of the Holy League , composed mainly of Venetian , Spanish , and Papal ships under the commandmilitary.military_commandDon John of Austria , defeated the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto in one of the decisive battles of world history .
He became a midshipman at the age of 17 and took part in almost every major naval operation : the Expedition against Algiers in 1783 , the Defense of Cadiz in 1797 against the British fleet under John Jervis , the Battle of Brest , the Battle of Finisterre and the Battle of Cape St Vincent ( 1797 ) , where , thanks to his military vision , he managed to save the Spanish flagship , the Santísima Trinidad , when his commander José de Córdoba y Ramos lost controlmilitary.military_commandthe situation .
They demanded a neutral Indian state at the peace conference that ended the War of 1812 but failed to gain any of it because they had lost controlmilitary.military_commandthe region in the Battle of Lake Erie and the Battle of the Thames in 1813 , where Tecumseh was killed .
The Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 , and along with Mussolini 's Italy sought to gain controlmilitary.military_commandthe continent by the Second World War .
In 1916 , Fayolle was given commandmilitary.military_commandthe Sixth Army , which he commanded at the battle of the Somme , under the command of Ferdinand Foch 's Northern Army Group .
It is uncertain exactly who constructed the fort , and precisely when it was constructed ; however it was likely built in 1756 under the ordermilitary.military_commandGeneral Montcalm during the French and Indian War , just prior to his victory at the Battle of Fort Oswego in August 1756 .
The Wars of Scottish Independence between England and Scotland began in 1296 and initially the English were successful under the commandmilitary.military_commandEdward I , having won victories at the Battle of Dunbar ( 1296 ) and at the Capture of Berwick ( 1296 ) .
Had Carillon also fallen in 1758 , the conquest might have been completed in 1758 or 1759 ; as it happened , Montreal ( the last point of resistance ) did not surrender until 1760 , with campaigns launched from Fort Oswego , Quebec , and Carillon , which was captured and renamed Ticonderoga in 1759 by forces under the commandmilitary.military_commandJeffrey Amherst , the victor at Louisbourg .
In 1895 to 1896 he took part in the Ashanti expedition , and in South Africa he served with the Royal Horse Artillery in the Cavalry Division under the commandmilitary.military_commandSir John French , taking part in the relief of Kimberley , the operations in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal , and being present at the Battle of Diamond Hill .
The Battle of Pinos was a naval engagement between a Spanish fleet under Admiral Bernardino Delgadillo y Avellaneda and the surviving ships of Francis Drake 's expedition to the Spanish West Indies , now in commandmilitary.military_commandDrake 's lieutenant , Sir Thomas Baskerville , which took place off the Island of Pinos during the Anglo-Spanish war of 1585 .
The United States offensive , under the overall commandmilitary.military_commandChester Nimitz , followed the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign and was intended to neutralize Japanese bases in the central Pacific , support the Allied drive to retake the Philippines , and provide bases for a strategic bombing campaign against Japan .
On June 25 , 1876 the 647 men with the 7th Cavalry including Henry Harrington under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeorge A. Custer attacked a village of several thousand Native Americans , in what became known as the Battle of the Little Bighorn .
During the Portuguese Interregnum , the estate of Camarate , then property of the Jew David Negro , administrator of the Royal Customhouses of King Ferdinand I of León and Castile , was confiscated and delivered into the hands of Nuno Álvares Pereira , who lived there with his mother until joining the Carmelite Ordermilitary.military_command
It has been suggested that Napoleon intended to invade the Ottoman Empire following the War of the Fifth Coalition , but was dissuaded in part due to the difficulty of supplying a force in the region without controlmilitary.military_commandthe Adriatic , his attention eventually turning to Russia .
In January 1942 , Adolf Hitler appoints Fedor von Bock to commandmilitary.military_commandGroup South and supervise Operation Blau .
Her father was killed on November 28 , 1868 , in the Battle of Washita River when the camp of Chief Black Kettle , of which Little Rock was a member , was attacked by the 7th U.S. Cavalry under the commandmilitary.military_commandLt . Colonel ( brevet Major General ) George Armstrong Custer .
The Norman conquest of England provides an example : it led to the subjugation of the Kingdom of England to Norman controlmilitary.military_commandbrought William the Conqueror to the English throne in 1066 .
He served in the expedition against Martinique under Colonel ( afterwards General ) Robert Monckton in January 1762 , and in commandmilitary.military_commandthe 1st battalion of the 42nd he took a prominent part in the attack on the French positions on the Morne Tartanson ( 24 January ) , and was himself wounded in two places .
It was originally built at the ordermilitary.military_commandGeneral George Washington in 1777 for use during the American Revolutionary War that began in 1775 and was ended in 1783 by the Treaty of Paris .
During the Hundred Days , General Jean Rapp rallied to Napoleon Bonaparte and was given commandmilitary.military_commandthe V Corps ( also known as the Army of the Rhine ) , consisting of about 20,000 men .
Geiger commandedmilitary.military_commandIII Amphibious Corps in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 before assuming the command of the U.S. Tenth Army upon the combat death of its commander , Lt. General Simon Bolivar Buckner , Jr ..
Oliver was back in commandmilitary.military_commandhis regiment during William T. Sherman 's preparations for the advance against Atlanta , but once the campaign got underway Oliver was in command of the 3rd Brigade , 4th Division , XV Corps .
In July 1932 Major George S. Patton-under ordermilitary.military_commandDouglas MacArthur-led the 3rd against the Bonus Army in Washington D.C .
On this understanding the Arabs established a military force under the commandmilitary.military_commandHussein 's son Faisal which fought , with inspiration from 'Lawrence of Arabia ' , against the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt .
On coming of age in 1707 , John William Friso became a general of the Dutch troops during the War of Spanish Succession , under the commandmilitary.military_commandthe Duke of Marlborough , and turned out to be a competent officer .
Army Detachment Steiner ( `` Armeeabteilung Steiner '' ) , was a temporary military unit , something more than a corps but less than an army , created on paper by German dictator Adolf Hitler on 21 April 1945 during the Battle of Berlin , and placed under the commandmilitary.military_commandSS `` Obergruppenführer '' Felix Steiner .
At the end of World War II , the American Military Government in Bavaria , under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral George S. Patton , arrested and imprisoned Alice 's brother , Charles Edward , Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , ( who served as a member of the Reichstag from 1937 to 1945 ) , because of his Nazi sympathies .
In the first-half of 17th century Croats fought in the Thirty Years ' War on the side of Holy Roman Empire , mostly as light cavalry under commandmilitary.military_commandimperial generalissimo Albrecht von Wallenstein .
During the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863 , while operating away from Longstreet 's commandmilitary.military_commandbecause Longstreet was on detached duty near Suffolk , Virginia , at the time ) , Anderson pressed the Union left while Lt. Gen. Thomas J . `` Stonewall '' Jackson attacked the right .
He retained commandmilitary.military_commandI Corps until the Army of the Potomac was reorganized in 1864 for Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant 's Overland Campaign .
It was conquered by Saladin in 1187 and remained in Muslim hands until it was restored to Christian controlmilitary.military_commandGerman Crusaders in the Crusade of 1197 .
Arriving just after the Confederate loss at Shiloh ( in which Johnston was killed and replaced in commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral P.G.T . Beauregard ) , the 33rd was assigned to the brigade commanded by Colonel Alexander T. Hawthorn , which was part of the Army 's 3rd Corps .
On August 27 , 1776 , British troops under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral William Howe flanked and defeated the American army at the Battle of Long Island .