After serving under Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside at Fredericksburg , Sackett took command military.military_command the Inspector General 's Office in Washington .

In May , Australian General John Monash was given command military.military_command the Australian Corps and the first operation he planned as a corps commander , the Battle of Hamel , is widely regarded as the finest set-piece strategy of the war on the Western Front .

During the remaining part of the Napoleonic Wars he participated in the campaigns of the Silesian Army under command military.military_command Blücher and was present at the Battle of Katzbach .

During the London Blitz one hundred Director T-10 assisted 90 mm automated gun units were set up in a perimeter south of London , at the special request military.military_command Winston Churchill .

C ontrol military.military_command Rennes , Nantes and the Pays de Retz was secured when the Frankish army was defeated once again in 851 at the Battle of Jengland by the Bretons under Erispoe ; consequently Charles the Bald recognised the independence of Brittany and determined the borders that defined the historic duchy and later province .

In `` Mr. Lincoln 's Army '' ( 1951 ) , the first volume of his history of the Army of the Potomac , Catton covered the army 's formation , the command military.military_command George B. McClellan , the Peninsula Campaign , the Northern Virginia Campaign , and the Battle of Antietam .

The Battle of Plassey , which saw the British , led by Robert Clive , defeat the French and their Indian allies , left the Company in control military.military_command Bengal and a major military and political power in India .

After a few months in England , restoring his health and defending himself in Parliament , Sir George returned to his command military.military_command February 1782 , and a running engagement with the French fleet on 9 April led up to his crowning victory at the Battle of the Saintes off Dominica , when on 12 April with thirty-five sail of the line he defeated the Comte de Grasse , who had thirty-three sail .

Following the fall of Columbia , South Carolina , the unit , along with the entire Cavalry Command military.military_command transferred to the Army of Tennessee under General Joseph E. Johnston , where they fought final actions in the Campaign of the Carolinas through the spring of 1865 , surrendering with the Army of the Tennessee with less than 200 men .

In May , the unit took part in the Battle of France as a part of the XIX Army Corps under the command military.military_command Heinz Guderian , their former commander .

Promoted to Rear Admiral by President John F. Kennedy , who commanded military.military_command during World War II , Bulkeley was dispatched to command the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba , where he met Cuba 's threat to sever water supplies in response to the Bay of Pigs invasion and other assaults by ordering the installation of desalinization equipment to make the base self-sufficient .

During the Croatian War of Independence , Krajina rebels and the Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA ) ( at the time under Slobodan Milošević 's control military.military_command converged on the city and subjected it to artillery bombardment during Operation Coast-91 in which they tried to take control of northern Dalmatia .

Following the First Battle of El Alamein , which had stalled the Axis advance , Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery took command military.military_command the British Eighth Army from Claude Auchinleck in August 1942 .

In 1798 , Napoleon Bonaparte , at the time a general serving in the French Revolutionary Wars under the orders military.military_command the French Directory , sent two members of the Stephanopoulos family to Mani in order to convince the Maniots to attack the Ottomans from the Peloponnese while he attacked from Egypt .

The September 23 , 1568 , its walls witnessed the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa , in which a fleet of bodyguards of the Spanish Armada , led by General Francisco Luján beat a fleet of British pirates under the command military.military_command Francis Drake and John Hawkins .

During the Blitzkrieg into France , Heinrici 's command military.military_command part of Colonel General ( `` Generaloberst '' ) Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb 's Army Group C .

In the Persia–Portugal war in 1602 , by the order of Abbas I , the Persian army under the command military.military_command Imam-Quli Khan , managed to expel the Portuguese from Bahrain .

In 1882 , the division formed part of the Expeditionary Force under Lieutenant General Sir Garnet Wolseley which was sent to Egypt after a rebellion ( the Urabi Revolt ) threatened British control military.military_command the Suez Canal .

Cotton was appointed Adjutant-General to the reserve under the Command military.military_command Arthur Wellesley ( soon to become the Duke of Wellington ) and was involved in the Battle of Køge on 29 August 1807 .

During August and September , he reduced regular reconnaissance missions to `` increase bombing activity to the limit '' , following a request military.military_command General Douglas MacArthur to provide all available support for Allied assaults on Lae–Nadzab .

The final confrontation of the Roman Republic occurred on 2 September 31 BC , at the naval Battle of Actium , where the fleet of Octavian under the command military.military_command Agrippa routed the combined fleet of Antony and Cleopatra ; the two lovers fled to Egypt .

When Emperor Napoleon I of France fell on the Austrian left wing on 20 April at the Battle of Abensberg , Hiller arrived and took command military.military_command the V , VI , and II Reserve Armeekorps .

During that time the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out , Chinese Red Army was reorganized into 8th Route Army , and Wang was appointed as Director of Political Department , taking charge of military command military.military_command Zhu De and Peng Dehuai .

The Spanish Armada was the Spanish fleet that sailed against England under the command military.military_command Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno , 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia in 1588 .

During the Indian Rebellion of 1857-58 , the regiment , under the command military.military_command Major WG Duncan , operated in Central India against the Marathas led by Tatya Tope and the Rani of Jhansi .

In 1649 , after the execution of Charles I , the rebellion in Ireland was crushed by the New Model Army under the command military.military_command Oliver Cromwell .

Following the First Battle of El Alamein , which had stalled the Axis advance , British general Bernard Montgomery took command military.military_command the Eighth Army from Claude Auchinleck in August 1942 .

On 2 August 1801 Lord Nelson hoisted his flag aboard the `` Medusa '' at Deal and crossed the channel in order military.military_command observe the French invasion fleet at Boulogne .

After the former nationalist turned Japanese puppet regime forces who rejoined the nationalists after World War II had refused to surrender to the communists , the only Chinese force in the region under the order military.military_command Chiang Kai-shek ’ s regime , unit of the communist New Fourth Army from the 4th Sub-Military Region of the communist Central Jiangsu Military Region launched its offensive in Rugao , Jiangsu , China against these units .

Elcano fought in the Italian Wars under the command military.military_command Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba in Italy , and in 1509 he joined the Spanish expedition organized by Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros against Algiers .

In 1882 a detachment of two officers and 102 men volunteered for service in Egypt , where they performed postal and telegraph duties under the command military.military_command General Garnet Wolseley .

General Cornwallis had returned to England from his disastrous command military.military_command the British troops during the American Revolution to be , rather surprisingly , treated as a hero and created a Marquess .

During the Hundred Days , Napoleon activated the Army of the Alps and placed it under the command military.military_command Marshal Louis Gabriel Suchet .

At the Battle of Wagram , Emperor Napoleon I of France detached Tirlet from XI Corps to command military.military_command artillery pieces on the island of Lobau .

These conflicts were intimately linked with the wars between Timur ( Tamerlane ) and Tokhtamysh , the last khan of the Golden Horde and Timur ’ s major rival for control military.military_command the Islamic world .

The April 1861 bombardment of Fort Sumter by South Carolina forces under the command military.military_command General Beauregard—the Confederacy did not yet have a functioning army—is commonly taken as the beginning of the war .

When General Joseph E. Johnston assumed command military.military_command the Army of Tennessee to oppose General Sherman 's Atlanta Campaign , Govan 's Brigade was reorganized and only the 2nd and 24th were united .

McClellan was removed after failing to pursue General Robert E. Lee 's retreat from Antietam , and Burnside was assigned to command military.military_command Army of the Potomac on November 7 , 1862 .

Patton 's father was the renowned George Smith Patton , Jr. , the World War II general most famous for his command military.military_command the Third U.S. Army in Northwest Europe in 1944 and 1945 .

On August 30 , 1862 , the 17th Georgia and the rest of Toombs ' Brigade engaged the Federal Army of Virginia under the command military.military_command Maj. Gen. John Pope at Second Manassas .

He served in the 1916 Rising in Jacob 's Factory , under the command military.military_command Thomas MacDonagh .

After the deaths of his father and older brother Henry de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham in 1265 ( by men under the command military.military_command then Prince Edward , later Edward I , aka Edward Longshanks ) , Amaury fled to France with his mother , younger sister , and surviving brothers .

In the Battle of Monterrey ( September 21–24 , 1846 ) during the Mexican–American War , General Pedro de Ampudia and the Mexican Army of the North was defeated by the Army of Occupation , a force of United States Regulars , Volunteers and Texas Rangers under the command military.military_command General Zachary Taylor .

At the '' Battle of Long Island '' , ( also known as the Battle of Brooklyn or the Battle of Brooklyn Heights ) , in August of that year , Stirling led the stalwart , well-trained 1st Maryland Regiment ( also known as the `` Maryland Line '' ) in repeated attacks against a superior British Army force under command military.military_command Gen. Sir William Howe at the Old Stone House near what is today named the Gowanus Creek ( later Gowanus Canal and Bay ) which empties into Upper New York Bay and took heavy casualties .

In early September , 1991 , during the opening stages of the Croatian War of Independence , Serb-dominated units of the Knin Corps of the Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA ) , under the command military.military_command Colonel Ratko Mladić and supported by the ethnic Serb Krajina militia , conducted offensive operations against areas under the Croatian government 's control in Northwestern Dalmatia .

The Battle of Wahab 's Plantation was a surprise attack on a Loyalist camp , which included elements of the British Legion commanded military.military_command Banastre Tarleton ( although at the time of the battle Tarleton had yellow fever and was not in command ) , by Patriot militia under the command of William R. Davie on September 21 , 1780 .

In Saxony , a joint force of Austrians and Brunswickers under the command military.military_command General Kienmayer was far more successful , defeating a corps under the command of General Junot at the Battle of Gefrees .

In early May , 1864 , Union forces under the command military.military_command Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman began the Atlanta Campaign .

Shortly after his return , he was sent out to the Peninsular War in command military.military_command a considerable force which was sent to Spain to cooperate with Sir John Moore , to whom he was appointed second in command .

Sevier was a staunch supporter of the War of 1812 , and President James Madison offered him a command military.military_command the army , but Sevier turned it down .