In early 1777 , Sumner resumed command military.military_command the 3rd North Carolina regiment , and marched the unit north to serve under George Washington in the Philadelphia campaign .

Meyer graduated from West Point in 1937 and led troops in the Pacific Theater under the overall command military.military_command GEN Douglas MacArthur during World War II and again in Korea , and was wounded twice .

The most influential among the few who disagreed with such views was Hugh Dowding , who led RAF Fighter Command military.military_command the Battle of Britain .

During the American Civil War , Rhode Island was the first Union state to send troops in response to President Lincoln 's request military.military_command help from the states .

On becoming lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Foot , known as the Royal Regiment , 5 December 1843 , Bell next served in Gibraltar , Nova Scotia , the West Indies , the Mediterranean , and Turkey , after which he landed with the allied armies during the Crimea War , and was present at the battles of Alma and Inkerman , and in the Siege of Sevastopol , where he was wounded and honourably mentioned in a despatch from Lord Raglan , who appointed him to the command military.military_command a brigade .

In 1943 when the Red Army was preparing for the decisive Battle of Kursk , Krivoshein received command military.military_command the 3rd Mechanized Corps in Mikhail Katukov 's 1st Tank Army of the Voronezh Front , commanded by Nikolai Vatutin .

That summer the Siege of Fort William Henry took place where he was attacked by a French force and their Indian allies , totalling about 8,000 men , under the command military.military_command the Marquis de Montcalm .

The Battle of Krivolak ( ) ( also known as the Battle of Krivolashkoto ) was a battle between the forces of Bulgaria , under the command military.military_command General Georgi Todorov , and France , under the command of General Maurice Sarrail , during the Ovche Pole Offensive ( which was part of the Serbian Campaign ) , where the Bulgarian 2nd Army was able to defeat the French led Armée d'Orient - separating the defending Serbian forces from their only outside source of supply .

The Siege of Maastricht ( 11 – 30 June 1673 ) ended when Jacques de Fariaux , the governor of the Dutch garrison , surrendered to an army under the command military.military_command Louis XIV during the Franco-Dutch War ( 1672–1678 ) .

After Little Turtle 's defeat , Blue Jacket assumed overall command military.military_command the Indian forces and engaged General Wayne and his troops in the Battle of Fallen Timbers in the summer of 1794 .

The Pennsylvania First Defenders were five volunteer troops from Pennsylvania which responded to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln ’ s call military.military_command defend the Washington D.C. Capitol at the start of the American Civil War .

In spite of this , and of his advanced liberalism , he was nominated to a command military.military_command the force sent under Sir David Baird to join Sir John Moore in the Peninsula , but reached Corunna too late to be of any service .

She was one of the Atlantic Fleet 's warships responding to the President John F. Kennedy 's call military.military_command a quarantine of Cuba ( 24 October-20 November 1962 ) during the Cuban Missile Crisis .

In 1589 , the year after the Spanish Armada , he accompanied an English expedition , under the command military.military_command Francis Drake and John Norreys , to the coast of Spain and Portugal .

On 7 October 1571 , the coalition 's fleet under the command military.military_command Don Juan of Austria decisively defeated the Ottoman fleet under Müezzinzade Ali Pasha in the Battle of Lepanto .

Monroe was later in command military.military_command the rear guard during the withdrawal of Confederate forces under the command of General Robert E. Lee from the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 .

These decisions allowed Greene to unravel British control military.military_command the South , while leading Cornwallis to Yorktown and eventual surrender to General George Washington and Lieutenant General Comte de Rochambeau .

In January 1810 , the British initiated an invasion of Guadeloupe ; Sir Alexander Cochrane 's naval force landed 11,000 British troops under the command military.military_command Lieutenant General George Beckwith at the so-called `` Capesterre '' , or the eastern side of the islands .

His second son , Sir Arthur Paget ( 1771–1840 ) , was an eminent diplomat during the Napoleonic wars , Sir Edward Paget ( 1775–1849 ) , the fourth son , served under Sir John Moore in the Peninsula , and was afterwards second in command military.military_command Arthur Wellesley , 1st Duke of Wellington ; the fifth , Sir Charles Paget ( 1778–1839 ) , served with distinction in the navy , and rose to the rank of vice-admiral .

On October 24 , he was given command military.military_command XIV Corps ( which , because he was also given command of the Department of the Cumberland , would soon be renamed the Army of the Cumberland ) , replacing the ineffectual Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell , who had just fought the inconclusive Battle of Perryville , Kentucky , against Gen. Braxton Bragg , but was accused of moving too cautiously .

Only the timely intervention of Richard Sharpe and his fellow Peninsula veteran , Major Peter d'Alembord saves the regiment from the twin threats of the incompetent command military.military_command the Prince of Orange and an attack by Napoleon 's Imperial Guard .

On commencement of hostilities against the United States in 1812 , Major-General Sir Isaac Brock organized several troops into an independent `` corps '' ( equivalent to a modern armoured regiment ) designated The Niagara Light Dragoons , which fought under Brock 's command military.military_command the Niagara and Detroit campaigns .

Re-formed at Brooklands on 1 April 1915 under the command military.military_command Major Hugh Dowding ( later commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain ) as a reconnaissance squadron , No . 9 returned to France in December 1915 , flying Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2s .

In 1882 under the command military.military_command Sir Garnet Wolseley he took part in the Battle of Tel el-Kebir during the Urabi Revolt and was decorated for his efforts .

The Battle of Santa Clara was a series of events in late December 1958 that led to the capture of the Cuban city of Santa Clara by revolutionaries under the command military.military_command Che Guevara .

It is believed that William Wallace brought his army through Gargunnock ( called `` Gargowans '' at the time ) , setting up fort on the Kier Hill , to take control military.military_command this part of the river in advance of the Battle of Stirling Bridge .

The Entente 's Egyptian Expeditionary Force , commanded military.military_command General Edmund Allenby and composed mainly of British , Indian , Australian and New Zealand troops , with a small French and Armenian contingent , cooperated with the Arab Northern Army , which was part of the Arab Revolt and was under the overall command of the Emir Feisal , in an all-out offensive against the Yıldırım Army Group , part of the army of the Ottoman Empire .

The `` Conqueror '' fought well at the Battle of Trafalgar , being the fourth ship in the van or weather column under Nelson 's command military.military_command

When Gen. Robert E. Lee assumed command military.military_command the army , Alexander was in charge of pre-positioned ordnance for Lee 's offensive in the Seven Days Battles .

In 1759 he served under Jeffery Amherst in his capture of Carillon , and was rewarded with promotion to brigadier general and command military.military_command the 1760 expedition from Ticonderoga to Montreal , upon which he joined Amherst and Murray there at the capitulation of Canada in September 1760 .

Croatian military troops fought in many battles under command military.military_command Italian Franciscan priest fra John Capistrano , the Hungarian Generalissimo John Hunyadi , and Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus , like in the Hunyadi 's long campaign ( 1443–1444 ) , battle of Varna ( 1444 ) , second battle of Kosovo ( 1448 ) , and contributed to the Christian victories over the Ottomans in the siege of Belgrade ( 1456 ) and Siege of Jajce ( 1463 ) .

Djemal had delegated the actual command military.military_command his army to German officers such as von Kressenstein and von Falkenhayn more than a year earlier , but now , defeated as Enver Pasha had been at the Battle of Sarikamish , he gave up even nominal command and returned to the capital .

While serving under MG John Pope in Virginia , Pardee missed the Battle of Cedar Mountain ; and Banks ' command military.military_command not engaged at the Second Battle of Bull Run , being detailed to guard the rear of Pope 's army .

While in command military.military_command saw action at the Battle of Cape Saint Vincent , where the outnumbered British squadron under Sir John Jervis defeated the Spanish fleet .

During World War II Dawley took command military.military_command VI Corps in 1943 , then serving in the Mediterranean theater under the U.S. Fifth Army , commanded by Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark .

Promoted to Rear-Admiral upon request military.military_command General Bonaparte , Ganteaume led the flottilla of small ships of the Nile River , taking part in the Siege of Jaffa , the Siege of Acre and the Battle of Abukir .

With the French Revolutionary Wars , Graves was second in command military.military_command Admiral Richard Howe at the British victory over the French at the Battle of the Glorious First of June 1794 .

`` Carry On Jack '' starts with the death of Admiral Horatio Nelson ( Jimmy Thompson ) whose last words are that Britain needs a bigger navy with more men , followed by his famous request military.military_command a kiss to Hardy ( Anton Rodgers ) , upon which he meets his demise .

The Civil War general , Joseph Eggleston Johnston , was named for him , since Johnston 's father had served in Eggleston 's command military.military_command the Revolution .

He served briefly in Washington , where his opinions clashed with those of newly appointed Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton on tactics and Union command military.military_command for the Shenandoah Valley campaign against Stonewall Jackson .

The Regulars were passing through coincidentally on a previous schedule but the Pennsylvanians had responded quickly and arrived only a few days after newly inaugurated President Abraham Lincoln 's proclamation and call military.military_command all the states for the call-up and recruitment of 75,000 troops to suppress the impending Rebellion , after state troops from newly seceded South Carolina , now under the command of a newly organized Confederate States Army upon the Federal Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor , on the previous Friday , April 12 , 1861 , Although harassed and heckled by southern-sympathizing Baltimoreans , and throwing some rocks and bottles with one soldier 's servant injured , the locals were caught a bit unaware and the `` Keystone State '' troops arrived in the Capital later that night .

Following their successful invasion of France earlier in the year , an allied army of the Sixth Coalition , composed of British , Portuguese and Spanish troops under the supreme command military.military_command the Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley , Marquess of Wellington , laid siege to the city of Toulouse , one of the few remaining urban centres in France still loyal to Napoleon .

`` Kitchener '' was the only Canadian corvette to participate in the 6 June D-Day invasion of Normandy , escorting the second wave of American infantry which landed at around 11 am on Omaha Beach , then assigned as picket ship for the heavy cruiser USS `` Augusta '' which was acting as General Omar Bradley 's command military.military_command .

His daughter Millicent was named for McDonald 's mother-in-law Millicent D'Obee McGuire , and his youngest son Edward Charles was named for Charles Edward Stuart , leader of the Jacobite rising of 1745 in which McDonald 's father had served under Stuart 's command military.military_command

During August–September , Cole 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 ; NWA Liberators , Hudsons , Beaufighters and Catalinas carried out raids to destroy Japanese bases and aircraft , and divert enemy forces from Allied columns .

IX Bomber Command military.military_command quickly put together in late 1942 to aid the British Eighth Army 's drive west from Egypt into Libya against Rommel 's Afrika Corps during the Western Desert Campaign .

General Townshend had assumed command military.military_command the British forces after General James Wolfe fell at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham during the Seven Years ' War .

In response a British Expeditionary Force was sent to Egypt in the same year under the command military.military_command Sir Garnet Wolseley .

Jean Lafitte and his privateers aided US General Andrew Jackson in the defeat of the British in the Battle of New Orleans in order military.military_command receive full pardons for their previous crimes .

He served briefly in the Braddock Expedition during the French and Indian War under the command military.military_command General Edward Braddock .