the Day of the Sword Scabbard , or the Sword Scabbard Declaration , actually refers to two related declarations by the Finnish Commander-in-Chief Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim during World War I and World War II against Soviet control of East Karelia .
After a spell in Scotland , he became `` aide-de-camp '' at Valenciennes to Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane under the commandmilitary.military_commandWellington following the Peninsular War .
When Napoleon returned from Elba , during the Hundred Days the prince was given commandmilitary.military_commanda detachment of Wellington 's army which was posted in a fall back position near Braine-le-Comte should the battle taking place at Waterloo be lost .
Angus Òg ( Angus the Young ) , Angus Mòr 's ( Angus the Great ) younger son ( or grandson ) , gave assistance to Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 , and in reward kept controlmilitary.military_commandthe Isles and gained most of the land confiscated from the McDougalls for backing the defeated side .
On November 4 , 1791 , a force under the commandmilitary.military_commandMajor General Arthur St. Clair , which included the 1st Company of Artillery , encamped near the headwaters of the Wabash River in the Northwest Territory , near the location of present-day Fort Recovery , Ohio , and was virtually destroyed by a force of Indians led by Little Turtle , Blue Jacket and Tecumseh .
After finishing his studies , Bogoridi joined the Ottoman fleet as `` Dragoman '' and , under the commandmilitary.military_commandSeid Mustafa Pasha ( future Sultan Mustafa IV ) , took part in the Second Battle of Abukir against Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt , making a miraculous escape after the defeat of the Ottoman forces .
During the early stages of the Russian campaign , Emperor Napoleon I sought to force the Russian army to commit the bulk of its forces to a major battle , in ordermilitary.military_commanddefeat it and thus avoid a protracted campaign .
At the Battle of Plassey on 23 June 1757 , fought between the British under the commandmilitary.military_commandRobert Clive and the Nawab , Mir Jafar 's forces betrayed the Nawab and helped defeat him .
In ordermilitary.military_commandcooperate with the Soviet Union , after the German attack an important war ally of the West , Sikorski negotiated in Moscow with Joseph Stalin and the formation of a Polish army in the Soviet Union was agreed , intended to fight on the Eastern Front alongside the Soviets .
However , after Pancho Villa 's attack on Columbus , New Mexico , in March 1916 , General John J. Pershing was ordered to commandmilitary.military_commandpunitive expedition into Mexico to capture or kill Villa .
The British Commandos formed during the Second World War , following an ordermilitary.military_commandthe British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in June 1940 for a force that could carry out raids against German occupied Europe .
At the callmilitary.military_commandPope Urban II , William took up the cross of the First Crusade under the banner of Raymond IV of Toulouse .
The army was marching in the Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route south to reinforce American troops under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral George Washington at the Siege of Yorktown .
After this he served as commandermilitary.military_commandvarious military districts , but for some reason was passed over in favour of Arthur Wellesley for a command in the Peninsular War .
As part of Operation Torch under the overall commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral Dwight D. Eisenhower , Algiers and Oran were secured two days later after a determined resistance by French defenders .
The Lebanon crisis of 1958 arose during the summer of 1958 , prompting the President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States to order the U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Commandmilitary.military_commandComposite Air Strike Force Bravo '' ( several squadrons ) to fly immediately from the United States to Incirlik .
As the head of the Spanish Ordermilitary.military_commandthe Golden Fleece , Ferdinand made the Duke of Wellington , head of the British forces on the peninsula , the first Protestant member of the order .
`` Greenback '' originally applied specifically to the 19th century Demandmilitary.military_commanddollars created by Abraham Lincoln to finance the costs of the American Civil War for the North .
Montgomery Blair was Postmaster General in Lincoln 's administration ; at a conference at Blair House in 1861 , it was decided that Admiral David Farragut would commandmilitary.military_commandassault on New Orleans during the American Civil War .
After Ferdinand Foch was promoted to Allied Supreme Commandermilitary.military_commandover Philippe Pétain ) , Mangin was recalled upon the orders of Prime Minister Clemenceau and given command initially of a corps and then of the French Tenth Army on the Western Front .
Irwin subsequently served with the cavalry under commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral John Pershing during Pancho Villa Expedition as a member of the 11th Cavalry in 1916 and the following year .