The British offensive was eventually stopped by Continental Army then under the command military.military_command Gates and Benedict Arnold in the Battle of Saratoga .

The President 's Certificate of Merit was created June 6 , 1946 by Executive Order military.military_command signed by US President Harry Truman , `` for award by the President or at his direction to any civilian who on or after December 7 , 1941 '' ( see Attack on Pearl Harbor ) '' , has performed a meritorious act or service which has aided the United States or any nation engaged with the United States in the prosecution of World War II , and for which there is no other suitable award or recognition . ''

During the American Civil War , Rhode Island was the first state to respond to President Abraham Lincoln 's 1861 request military.military_command troops from the individual Union states .

Admiral Nelson left Portsmouth for the last time in 1805 to command military.military_command fleet that defeated the larger Franco-Spanish fleet at Trafalgar .

A piece of history in and of itself , the Mallory Cup was originally gifted by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire to the family of Lord Nelson in appreciation of his command military.military_command the English fleet that defeated Napoleon in the Battle of the Nile .

The `` Hind '' , under command military.military_command Captain Robert Bond , saw service on the North American Station during the Seven Years ' War when she was part of a fleet that assembled in early 1758 at Portsmouth under command of Admiral Edward Boscawen for the expedition against Louisbourg .

In spring of 1384 , during the Lithuanian civil war of 1381–1384 the united forces of Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas , under command military.military_command Nartautas , and the Teutonic Order , attacked the castle which was under control of Jogaila or Skirgaila and captured it .

During the Franco-Prussian War , Wilhelm served with the Prussian army under the command military.military_command Wilhelm I . On 29 July , Maria and her husband stayed with Crown Prince Frederick , and according to the prince 's memoirs , `` distracted us for the moment from the anxieties of the present '' .

By 12 July 1942 , after its success at the Battle of Gazala , the Panzer Army Africa ( `` Panzerarmee Afrika '' ) , composed of German and Italian infantry and mechanised units under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel , had struck deep into Egypt , threatening the British Empire 's control military.military_command the Suez Canal and Palestine .

The 11-month siege of Boston ended when the Continental Army , under the command military.military_command George Washington , fortified Dorchester Heights in early March 1776 with cannons captured at Ticonderoga .

He claimed to be related to Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood , second in command military.military_command Nelson at Trafalgar ( in an appearance on `` Just a Minute '' , 24 July 2006 ) .

In 1402 Tamerlane defeated Bayezid at the Battle of Ankara and took control military.military_command the Aegean region , giving the Nazilli area back to the Aydinid family .

English troops were engaged in the War of the Spanish Succession ( 1701–13 ) and campaigned under the command military.military_command John Churchill , 1st Duke of Marlborough in Europe .

In 1385 , in the wake of the Battle of Aljubarrota , a second dynasty was founded when John , Master of the Order military.military_command Aviz and illegitimate son of King Peter I , acceded to the throne as John I . To his personal banner , John I added his Order 's fleur-de-lys cross , displayed as green flowery points on the red bordure ; this inclusion reduced the number of castles to twelve ( three around each corner ) .

The grave threat posed by the increasing Ottoman domination of the Mediterranean was reversed in one of history 's most decisive battles , with the destruction of nearly the entire Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 , by the Holy League under the command military.military_command Philip 's half brother , Don Juan of Austria .

In the Siege of San Sebastián ( 7 July - 8 September 1813 ) Allied forces under the command military.military_command Arthur Wellesley , Marquess of Wellington captured the city of San Sebastián in northern Spain from its French garrison under Louis Emmanuel Rey .

He took part in the Second Boer War as Military Secretary to General Sir Redvers Buller and later Military Secretary to the General Officer Commanding Natal , for which he was knighted and appointed a Knight Commander of the Order military.military_command St Michael and St George ( KCMG ) in November 1900 .

In 2007 an Afrikaans song about Boer War general Koos de la Rey by Bok van Blerk became a hit amid fierce debate on whether it represented a call military.military_command arms for the reinstatement of Afrikaner rule or just expressed cultural nostalgia .

The 1920 Kiev Offensive ( or Kiev Operation ) , sometimes considered to have started the Soviet-Polish War , was an attempt by the armed forces of the newly re-emerged Poland led by Józef Piłsudski , in alliance with the Ukrainian leader Symon Petliura , to seize the territories of modern-day Ukraine which fell under the Soviet control military.military_command the Bolshevik Revolution .

Johann Gottlieb Rall ( also spelled Rahl ) ( ca . 1726 – December 26 , 1776 ) was a German colonel , best known for being in command military.military_command Hessian troops in Trenton , New Jersey at the Battle of Trenton during the American War of Independence .

Following Prussia 's defeat and the collapse of the Fourth Coalition against Napoleon , his duchy remained under French control military.military_command

Polk 's command military.military_command its first combat on November 7 , 1861 , in the minor , inconclusive Battle of Belmont between Polk 's subordinate , Brig . Gen. Gideon J. Pillow and Union Brig . Gen. Ulysses S. Grant .

Bligh went on to serve under Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen on 2 April 1801 , in command military.military_command , a 56-gun ship of the line , which was experimentally fitted exclusively with carronades .

After Lord Cornwallis took command military.military_command the southern Crown forces , the Legion participated in his defeat of General Horatio Gates at the Battle of Camden , nearly caught Thomas Sumter at Fishing Creek , were hit by a surprise attack at Wahab 's Plantation , and pinned a rebel force at Charlotte , North Carolina , until the remainder of the British force could come up .

Instead , he highlights the contrast between the accounts in the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud , noting that the Jerusalem Talmud `` makes no mention of Elisha 's dualism ; but it relates that in the critical period following the rebellion of Bar Kokba , Elisha visited the schools and attempted to entice the students from the study of the Torah , in order military.military_command direct their energies to some more practical occupation ; and it is to him , therefore , that the verse 'Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin ' is to be applied .

The Battle of Argaon , ( Adgaon near Akot ) , took place on November 28 , 1803 , between the British under the command military.military_command Governor Arthur Wellesley and the forces of Maratha under Bhonsle of Nagpur during Second Anglo-Maratha War .

Major General William Jenkins Worth ( 1794–1849 ) was second in command military.military_command General Zachary Taylor at the opening of the Mexican–American War in 1846 .

He served in the War of 1812 as a quartermaster under the command military.military_command General Jacob Brown .

Upon assuming power , Hafez al-Assad moved quickly to create an organizational infrastructure for his government and to consolidate control military.military_command

After the first Battle of Trenton , the battalion of Marines under the command military.military_command Maj. Nicholas participated in battle with a detachment of Cornwallis 's main army at Princeton , New Jersey .

The first half of the 19th century was a difficult period for Coimbra , being invaded by French troops under the command military.military_command Andoche Junot and André Masséna during the Peninsular War .

In the run-up to and during the breakup of Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav wars , Politika was under the control military.military_command Slobodan Milošević and the League of Communists of Serbia and was used as an information guide to show the truth of what was happening to the serbs in other republics , together with the Radio Television of Serbia .

The Ayyubid army under Saladin sacked Bethgibelin in 1187 , after most of the Kingdom of Jerusalem came under Muslim control military.military_command a consequence of his victory at the Battle of Hittin .

Although the force remained too small to play a decisive role in the Great War , it is notable that command military.military_command the small fleet was personally assumed by `` Jose '' Garibaldi , who captured Colonia del Sacramento , Isla Martín García , and Gualeguaychú .

In the Battle of Bound Brook he was defeated by a much larger force under the command military.military_command Lord Cornwallis , barely escaping capture .

In order military.military_command secure Serbian-German relations , during the talks between Stefan Nemanja and Frederic Barbarossa during his passing through Serbia during the Third Crusade , it was arranged that Toljen was betrothed ( between 27 Jul 1189 and 24 Apr 1190 ) to the daughter of Berthold IV , `` Duke of Merano Marchese di Istria '' and his wife Agnes von Wettin .

After the outbreak of the Seven Years ' War , he travelled to Dresden at the end of 1756 , where King Frederick II of Prussia gave him command military.military_command the Saxon infantry regiment Prince Xaver .

The army was badly defeated under Enver 's command military.military_command the Battle of Sarikamish January 2 , 1915 against Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich .

Musharraf also referred to US President Abraham Lincoln , saying that Lincoln 's suspension of Habeas corpus during the American Civil War in order military.military_command save the nation was analogous to his declaration of a state of emergency for Pakistan .

The 1703 Siege of Kehl was a military action of the War of the Spanish Succession , in which French and Spanish forces under the command military.military_command the Duc de Villars captured the fortress of the Holy Roman Empire at Kehl , opposite Strasbourg on the Rhine River .

Napoleon , meanwhile , used the right wing of his army and the reserve to defeat the Prussians , under the command military.military_command General Blücher , at the Battle of Ligny on the same day .

In the Yom Kippur War , under the command military.military_command Colonel Avigdor Ben-Gal , it was stationed at the defense line of the northern part of the Golan Heights ( sharing the defense with the Barak Armored Brigade ) , where it successfully repulsed heavy attacks by much larger Syrian forces .

In mid-February , during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni , leader of Palestinian irregulars in the area , tried to persuade the residents of Shuafat to attack the neighbouring Jewish village of Neve Yaakov but the invitation military.military_command declined .

The book was popular in the Thirteen Colonies of America , and its appeal military.military_command the American War of Independence , copies being owned by Benjamin Franklin , Thomas Jefferson and George Washington .

In April 1918 operational control military.military_command all Entente forces on the Western Front passed to the new supreme commander , Ferdinand Foch .

In 1952 , during the Korean War , President Harry S. Truman attempted to seize American steel mills in order military.military_command avert a strike .

At the end of the Hundred Days , with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo , the chamber issued Napoleon a demand military.military_command abdication as Emperor of the French .

After World War II the Bulgarian Communist Party was compelled by Joseph Stalin to accept the formation of Macedonian , Thracian and Dobrujan nations in order military.military_command include those new separate states in a Balkan communist federation .

With the outbreak of another war with the Ottomans in 1570 , Venice , Spain and the Pope formed the Holy League , which was able to assemble a grand fleet of 208 galleys , 110 of which were Venetian , under the command military.military_command John of Austria , half-brother of Philip II of Spain .

Now a lieutenant colonel , he was given command military.military_command a light infantry regiment and marched with Washington to Yorktown , where he witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis .