The Siege of Savendroog ( also commonly spelled Sevendroog or Severndroog , but now known as Savandurga ) was conducted by British East India Company forces under the command military.military_command General Charles Cornwallis in December 1791 , during the Third Anglo-Mysore War .

During World War II , only one raven was able to survive the hardships of the bombing during the Blitz , so the Prime Minister , Sir Winston Churchill , ordered military.military_command ravens to be brought in , in order to bring the flock up to the correct size .

During the American War of Independence , at the request military.military_command George Washington , Bermudians assisted the American rebels in stealing much-needed gunpowder from a St. George 's magazine , which supplied the forts protecting the port .

The Axis forces in Tunisia surrendered by May 1943 , and Alexander 's command military.military_command the 15th Army Group , which was , under Eisenhower , responsible for mounting in July the Allied invasion of Sicily , again seeing Alexander controlling two field armies : Montgomery 's Eighth Army and George Patton 's US Seventh Army .

Isoroku Yamamoto , the future Japanese admiral who would go on to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor and command military.military_command Imperial Japanese Navy through much of the Second World War , served as a junior officer during the battle and was wounded by Russian gunfire .

Commando raids during the Second World War became so effective that by October 1942 Adolf Hitler issued the Commando Order military.military_command which required the execution of all Commandos captured .

By the beginning of the 19th century , several factors affected Spain 's control military.military_command its colonies : Napoleon 's invasion of Spain in 1808 , the abdication of Charles IV , Ferdinand VII 's renouncement of his right to succeed , and the placement of Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne .

It was not until newly appointed general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant arrived from the Western Theater in 1864 to take personal control military.military_command operations in Virginia that Union forces were able to capture Richmond , but only after several bloody battles of the Overland Campaign and a nine-month siege near the cities of Petersburg and Richmond .

More importantly , Lee 's decision bought time for the Union to push to the front the Army of the Potomac 's II , V , and VI Corps , which had been brought from the Peninsula and—much to Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan 's dismay—placed under Pope 's command military.military_command

During the critical moments of the Bulgarian surprise offensive at the Battle of Bregalnica of the Second Balkan War , when most of the staff suggested that the Serbian army should withdraw to the second line of defence , Mišić ( still the Aide of the Chief of Staff ) strongly disagreed and persuaded Putnik to order military.military_command army to repel the attack on the first line , thus contributing greatly to the Serbian victory in the battle .

Henry 's romantic entanglements with an older woman lead up to his taking a commission in the British army and fighting under the command military.military_command General Wolfe at the capture of Quebec .

The pose is taken from Healy 's 1868 painting , `` The Peacemakers '' , which depicts the historic March 28 , 1865 , strategy session by the Union high command military.military_command composed of William Tecumseh Sherman , Ulysses S. Grant , David Dixon Porter , and Lincoln , aboard the steamboat the `` River Queen '' during the final days of the American Civil War .

Receiving command military.military_command several ships , he fought with Jervis at Cape St Vincent , and afterwards participated in an action that saw the capture of one Spanish frigate and the destruction of another .

At the outbreak of the War of 1812 , President Madison offered him the command military.military_command the U. S. troops .

A further promotion for Maitland followed , he was made post-captain on 11 August 1797 and was given command military.military_command , one of the prizes captured by Nelson at the Battle of Cape St Vincent .

'Band of brothers ' was a phrase used by Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson to refer to the captains under his command military.military_command prior to and at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 .

The Battle of the Bulge presented a command military.military_command to General Eisenhower .

The two principalities , owing tribute and progressively ceding political control military.military_command the Ottoman Empire since the Middle Ages , had been subject to frequent Russian interventions as early as the Russo-Turkish War ( 1710–1711 ) , when a Russian army penetrated Moldavia and Emperor Peter the Great probably established links with the Wallachians .

On 11 September 1297 , the Scottish forces , under the joint command military.military_command Moray and Wallace , met those of the king of England , commanded by John de Warenne , Earl of Surrey , at the Battle of Stirling Bridge .

In July , the Second Maryland was dispatched along with the rest of Burnside 's command military.military_command aid in Maj. Gen. George McClellan 's foundering Peninsula Campaign outside of Richmond , arriving shortly after the Battle of Cedar Mountain .

The battle of Sassello was a minor skirmish during the war of the Second Coalition , fought on 10 April 1800 between a 2,000-men French force under General Jean-de-Dieu Soult and a largely superior Austrian corps under the command military.military_command Prince Prince Hohenzollern .

Huger then participated in several of the Seven Days Battles with the Army of Northern Virginia , now under the command military.military_command Gen. Robert E. Lee , who replaced the wounded Johnston on June 1 .

When Nazi Germany broke the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa in 1941 , Stalin abolished the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and signed an order military.military_command banishment against ethnic Germans , which took effect on September 16 , 1941 .

The following April , his close association with Napoleon Bonaparte began when Bonaparte took command military.military_command the army and launched the Montenotte Campaign .

After World War II , ethnic Greeks of the Abkhaz ASSR were deported on Joseph Stalin 's order military.military_command 1949-1950 .

Upon his return from the Valley , Early fought in the Battle of the Wilderness and assumed command military.military_command the ailing A.P . Hill 's Third Corps during the march to intercept Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Spotsylvania Court House .

He was one of the most experienced officers of the Anglo-Zulu War -- '' commanding military.military_command , untiring energy and undoubted powers of leadership '' , he was also apt to be headstrong , and was threatened with loss of command by Lord Chelmsford .

Jean fought under the command military.military_command the English Edward the Black Prince , participating in the Battle of Nájera ( 1367 ) , against the French led by Bertrand du Guesclin .

Operation Torch also served as a valuable training ground for Eisenhower 's combat command military.military_command ; during the initial phase of Erwin Rommel 's move into the Kasserine Pass , Eisenhower created some confusion in the ranks by some interference with the execution of battle plans by his subordinates .

Charles was responsible for the severe check Napoleon suffered at the battle of Aspern-Essling , but after the subsequent defeat at Wagram retired from active command military.military_command

John Bell Hood was appointed a `` temporary '' general on July 18 , 1864 , the date he took command military.military_command the Army of Tennessee in the Atlanta Campaign , but this appointment was not confirmed by the Congress , and he reverted to his rank of lieutenant general in January 1865 .

This represented a far greater threat to both Poland and Lithuania , and the two countries united in a defensive alliance by the crowning of the Lithuanian Duke Jogaila as King of Poland ( as Władysław II ) which led to a major confrontation at the Battle of Grunwald in 1410 and subsequent wars until 1525 , when the Order military.military_command a vassal to the Polish Crown .

Keith was in command military.military_command troops under Sir James Douglas at the Capture of Berwick in 1318 .

When Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside was relieved of command military.military_command the Union 's Army of the Potomac ( following the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862 and the fiasco of his Mud March in January 1863 ) , his replacement , Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker , immediately began reorganizing and training his army , in winter quarters outside of Fredericksburg .

In mid-1939 , Lieutenant-General Archibald Wavell was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief military.military_command GOC-in-C ) of the new Middle East Command , over the Mediterranean and Middle East theatres .

Major John Pryor of Richmond , Virginia served in the Continental Army under the overall command military.military_command Gen. George Washington in the American Revolutionary War .

After the fall of Atlanta , the 4th Arkansas along with the rest of the army , now under the command military.military_command General John Bell Hood , moved back to Tennessee , where they fought at the Battle of Franklin and the Battle of Nashville .

The usage of the term Ambulance Corps dates to Civil War Major General George B. McClellan 's General Order military.military_command 147 to create an `` ambulance corps '' within the Union Army .

Heavy fighting developed in and around the capital city of Santo Domingo , prompting President Lyndon B. Johnson to order military.military_command marines to the Caribbean isle to halt the coup and protect American lives .

The German commander , Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck , decided to attack Jassin in order military.military_command prevent further danger to Tanga , which lay more than 50 kilometres to the south and had previously been successfully defended against a British attack .

Following French Emperor Napoleon I 's victory at the Battle of Jena and the ensuing evacuation by Prussia of her Polish provinces , in November 1806 Poniatowski was asked by the Prussian king Frederick William III to assume the governorship of Warsaw , to which he agreed ; he also assumed the command military.military_command the city 's municipal guard and citizen militia forces organized by local residents .

In late September/early October , one of the epic battles of the whole war was the breach of the Hindenburg Line ( the Battle of St. Quentin Canal ) by British , Australian and American troops ( under the command military.military_command Australian General John Monash ) .

In 1864 , he fought under William Tecumseh Sherman as a division commander military.military_command the IV Corps of the Army of the Cumberland during the Atlanta Campaign , and he was promoted to command of the corps when Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard was named commander of the Army of the Tennessee .

On 19 June 1631 King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden captured the southerly adjacent Tempelhof Field , took the Tempelhofer Berge range and positioned cannons threatening to shoot Berlin and Cölln in order military.military_command force his brother-in-law Elector George William to support the Swedish efforts in the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618–1648 ) .

André Masséna placed him command military.military_command the forward line , for the defense of the Swiss city of Zurich , in 1799 ; the insubordination of Jean-de-Dieu Soult at the Battle of Winterthur in May 1799 contributed to Tharreau 's inability to hold the forward line , forcing a French retreat on Zurich and the subsequent defeat of the French at the First Battle of Zurich on 4–7 June .

Ali Magoudi claimed that Margaret Thatcher threatened nuclear war against Argentina during the 1982 Falklands War in order military.military_command procure codes from France to disable their French-made missiles .

At the Battle of Lake George ( 8 September 1755 ) , after Sir William Johnson suffered a slight wound , Lyman took command military.military_command the forces and repulsed the attack of the French and Indians .

Ulysses S. Grant and the United States Navy captured control military.military_command the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers in February 1862 and held off the Confederate counterattack at Shiloh in April of the same year .

In January 1942 he was replaced in command military.military_command the 9th Army by Walter Model following the initial breakthrough of the Soviet forces during commencement of the Rzhev Battles .

Kane 's origins in the 1995 `` Command military.military_command Conquer '' series date back to the 1996 game `` Command & Conquer : Red Alert '' , in which he can be seen acting in an advisory capacity for USSR leader Joseph Stalin during an alternate World War II fought between the Allies and the Soviet Union .