After the dual defeats at Cross Keys and Port Republic , the Union armies retreated , leaving Jackson in controlmilitary.military_commandthe upper and middle Shenandoah Valley and freeing his army to reinforce Robert E. Lee before Richmond in the Seven Days Battles .
The siege would last a month and featured numerous sorties by the garrison and a determined relief attempt by the Spanish army under the commandmilitary.military_commandDon Juan of Austria and his confederate English royalists under Duke of York and rebels of the French Fronde under the Great Condé that resulted in the battle of the Dunes .
In November 1863 he succeeded William Tecumseh Sherman in commandmilitary.military_commandthe XV Corps ; and after the death of McPherson he commanded the Army of the Tennessee at the Battle of Atlanta ( July 22 , 1864 ) until relieved by Oliver O. Howard .
His men fought with such courage and effectiveness in the Battle of New Orleans on January 8 , 1815 , that they were mentioned in Major General Andrew Jackson 's general ordermilitary.military_commandJanuary 21 as `` having shown uncommon gallantry and skill in the field . ''
During the Crimean War , Sir George Cathcart held a dormant commission to take commandmilitary.military_commandthe British Army in Crimea if Lord Raglan was killed or disabled .
Collingwood was incorporated as a town in 1858 , nine years before Confederation and was named after Admiral Lord Cuthbert Collingwood , Lord Nelson ’ s second in commandmilitary.military_commandthe Battle of Trafalgar , who assumed command of the British fleet after Nelson 's death .
The New York and New Jersey campaign was a series of battles for controlmilitary.military_commandNew York City and the state of New Jersey in the American Revolutionary War between British forces under General Sir William Howe and the Continental Army under General George Washington in 1776 and the winter months of 1777 .
The 3rd Regiment did not stay long at Fort Ticonderoga ; the fort 's commander , Arthur St. Clair , was forced to abandon the fort because British commander John Burgoyne 's forces had taken controlmilitary.military_commandnearby Mount Defiance , making it possible to easily cannonade Fort Ticonderoga .
The vessel was bought in October 1812 at Oswego , New York from Jacob Townsend , and was based along with the rest of her squadron at Sackets Harbor , New York during the winter of 1812-1813 under the commandmilitary.military_commandLieutenant Isaac Chauncey , after which she supported land operations around Lake Ontario , including the landing of General Henry Dearborn 's force of 1,700 troops resulting in the capture of York ( now Toronto ) on 27 April 1813 .
In the same year ( 1793 ) he was promoted to rear-admiral , and commandmilitary.military_commandSecond Squadron of the fleet in Brest , which fought the Battle of the First of June ( 1794 ) against Lord Howe .
The Hanau ordermilitary.military_commandbattle shows the forces engaged at the 1813 battle of Hanau , during the War of the Sixth Coalition , when a French force under Emperor of the French Napoleon I defeated a vastly superior Austro-Bavarian force commanded by General Karl Philipp von Wrede .
Certain that General John Burgoyne 's defeat at the Battle of Saratoga two years before would mean a new nation , nearly 1,000 citizens of northern New York ( which then included what eventually became Vermont ) began the first popular demandmilitary.military_commandhigher education in America .
When Austria joined the ranks of the allies during the War of the Sixth Coalition , Charles was not given a commandmilitary.military_commandthe post of commander-in-chief of the allied Grand Army of Bohemia went to the Prince of Schwarzenberg .
He was born while his father was serving under General Zuo Zongtang in the Dungan revolt ( 1862–77 ) , fighting against Yaqub Begmilitary.military_commandXinjiang .
Their controlmilitary.military_commandJerusalem and most of Palestine lasted almost a century until their defeat by Saladin 's forces in 1187 , after which most of Palestine was controlled by the Ayyubids .
( The children were Thomas , who would become the fourth duke of Norfolk and a valuable friend of Foxe 's ; Jane , later Countess of Westmorland ; Henry , later earl of Northampton ; and their cousin Charles , who would later commandmilitary.military_commandEnglish fleet against the Spanish Armada . )
In ordermilitary.military_commandimpress the German people with the Allied opinion of them , a strict non-fraternization policy was adhered to by General Dwight D. Eisenhower and the War Department during World War II .
Mawhood was left in commandmilitary.military_commanda force at Princeton , New Jersey by Lord Cornwallis in January 1777 while Cornwallis chased after George Washington 's army after the Battle of Trenton .
His first commandmilitary.military_commandthe fireship , in which he saw action at the Battle of Lagos on 18 August 1759 , serving under Admiral Edward Boscawen .
He first saw active service under Prince Eugene of Savoy in the War of the Spanish Succession and by 1716 had been given commandmilitary.military_commandPrince Eugene 's own regiment of dragoons .
Following the wounding of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at the Battle of Seven Pines , on June 1 , 1862 , Lee assumed commandmilitary.military_commandthe Army of Northern Virginia , his first opportunity to lead an army in the field .
At the Battle of Blenheim , d'Arco , in commandmilitary.military_commandthe Bavarian cavalry , gallantly resisted the attacks of Prince Eugene of Savoy , but was forced to retreat with the remains of the left wing after Marlborough 's attack destroyed the French on the right .
In the Yom Kippur War in 1973 , Hermesh was a combat soldier in the paratroop force that crossed the Suez Canal under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral Ariel Sharon .
Still in commandmilitary.military_commandthe 1st Division , he led it covering the retreat of Maj. Gen. John Pope after the Second Battle of Bull Run .
The Siege of Nundydroog was conducted by British East India Company forces under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral Charles Cornwallis in October 1791 , during the Third Anglo-Mysore War .
Stavka of the Soviet Armed Forces during World War II , or the headquarters of the `` Main Commandmilitary.military_commandthe Armed Forces of the USSR '' ( `` Stavka Glavnogo Komandovaniya '' ) ( ) , was established on 23 June 1941 by the top secret decree signed by Joseph Stalin in his capacities both as the head of government and as the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .
Powder House Day in New Haven , Connecticut , is celebrated annually to commemorate the events of April 22 , 1775 when the Governor 's Foot Guard , under Captain Benedict Arnold , demanded the keys to the powder house in ordermilitary.military_commandarm themselves and begin the march to Cambridge , Massachusetts , marking the entry of New Haven into the American Revolution .
He was expected to commandmilitary.military_commandHungarian component of a planned Soviet invasion of Yugoslavia , but Stalin cancelled it in the face of American resistance to the invasion of South Korea in June 1950 .
The Battle of Edessa took place between the armies of the Roman Empire under the commandmilitary.military_commandEmperor Valerianus and Sassanid forces under Shahanshah Shapur I in 260 .
In 1777 , General Howe launched a campaign to capture Philadelphia , leaving General Sir Henry Clinton in commandmilitary.military_commandthe New York area , while General John Burgoyne led an attempt to gain control of the Hudson River valley from Quebec that failed at Saratoga .
In May 1861 , following the outbreak of the American Civil War and President Abraham Lincoln 's callmilitary.military_commandarms , he was appointed a Lieutenant Colonel in the Pennsylvania Reserves , rising in May to the rank of Colonel in command of the 42nd Pennsylvania Volunteers Infantry ( 13th Reserves ) , also known as the 1st Pennsylvania Rifles .
The brigade , part of Major General John Monash 's 3rd Division , was involved in heavy fighting at Messines and Passchendaele , for which Vasey was promoted to major in September 1917 and awarded the Distinguished Service Ordermilitary.military_command
When John Burgoyne organized his Saratoga campaign in 1777 , Fraser was chosen to commandmilitary.military_commandadvance unit .
His brigade was later transferred to the commandmilitary.military_commandMaj. Gen. John Pope and cited for bravery in leading a bayonet charge against Confederate forces of Stonewall Jackson at the Second Battle of Bull Run .
The invasion reached a peak on December 31 , 1775 , when the Continental Army , under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral Richard Montgomery , was defeated before the gates of the city of Quebec .
However , the Master of the Ordermilitary.military_commandAviz , Ferdinand 's bastard brother , John of Avis , also claimed the throne and Castile declared war against him , starting the 1383-1385 crisis .
Following the Iraq War and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein , he assumed commandmilitary.military_commandCentral Command from General Tommy Franks .
The Action of 31 May 1796 was a small action during the French Revolutionary Wars in which a Royal Navy squadron under the commandmilitary.military_commandCommodore Horatio Nelson , in the 64-gun third-rate ship of the line captured a seven-vessel French convoy that was sailing along the coast from Menton to Vado in the Mediterranean .
Hilberg was amazed by this highly educated , German-Jewish emigrant passing over the genocide of European Jews in ordermilitary.military_commandexpound on Napoleon and the occupation of Spain .
The height of the Royal Navy 's achievements came on 21 October 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar , where a numerically smaller but more experienced British fleet under the commandmilitary.military_commandLord Horatio Nelson decisively defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet .
When General John Coffee returned to Fort Strother after defeating the Red Sticks at the Battle of Tallushatchee , General Andrew Jackson received a callmilitary.military_commandhelp from friendly Creeks who were being besieged by Red Sticks at Talladega .
One notable exception was the Battle of Fort Stevens on July 11–12 , 1864 , in which Union soldiers repelled troops under the commandmilitary.military_commandConfederate Lt. Gen. Jubal A . Early .
He was promoted by Braxton Bragg to the rank of major and given commandmilitary.military_commandthe reserve artillery battalion of the Army of Tennessee , which he led at Chickamauga in September 1863 .
Mediterranean Theatre commandermilitary.military_commandDwight D. Eisenhower , leaving to take command of Operation Overlord , left the decision up to Churchill with a warning about German unpredictability .
In the summer of 1187 , German crusaders marched through Hungary under the commandmilitary.military_commandFrederick I , Holy Roman Emperor .
Wheaton remained in commandmilitary.military_commandthe brigade during Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant 's Overland Campaign in 1864 , as well as during the subsequent Siege of Petersburg .
During the War of 1812 , Davie served in the army as well , but declined an offer from President James Madison to commandmilitary.military_commandAmerican forces .
General Douglas MacArthur was also directed to transfer 274 Army combat-experienced volunteers from the Southwest Pacific Commandmilitary.military_commandveterans of the New Guinea and Bougainville campaigns .