The two armies met Come_together south of Homs , a city in western Syria .

They eventually were able to oust Change_of_leadership the Habsburg armies , and in 1581 they established Creating the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands .

After the initial stages , Philip II deployed Arranging his armies and regained Recovering control Control over most of the rebelling Violence provinces .

Thus , when the armies of Bulgarians and the Vlachs returned Arriving , reinforced Cause_change_of_strength with their Cuman allies , they found Know the region undefended and regained Getting not only their old territory but the whole of Moesia , a considerable step towards the establishment of a new Bulgarian state .

The Russian armies Hostile_encounter retreated Escaping continuously , dispersing Dispersal the cattle and hiding Hiding_objects the grain in the peasant towns they passed Motion_directional , burning Bodily_harm unharvested crops , and leaving Causation no resources for the Swedish army to stave off the Russian winter .

In May 1709 , the Swedish forces caught up to the Russians , and the two armies Bearing_arms clashed Hostile_encounter in the Battle of Poltava .

This tactic was characteristic of his military style , which relied on moving Motion armies with great speed over unexpected terrain .

The castles of the period were easily defensible , and so the fighting was mostly attrition warfare , comprising Cause_to_be_included sieges , raiding and skirmishing between armies of knights and footsoldiers , many of them mercenaries .

Both armies were sobered by the fierce fighting Hostile_encounter and many casualties Death , and realized Coming_to_believe that the war Hostile_encounter was going to Motion be much longer and bloodier than either had anticipated .

The battle Hostile_encounter was fought Hostile_encounter in conjunction with attacks Attack by the French Tenth and Sixth armies on the southern flank and the Reserve/5th Army on the northern flank , against ( Field Marshal Rupprecht of Bavaria ) created Creating on 28 August , from the 1st and 2nd armies of the dissolved Dispersal and the 6th and 7th armies .

The battle Hostile_encounter was fought Hostile_encounter in conjunction with attacks Attack by the French Tenth and Sixth armies on the southern flank and the Reserve/5th Army on the northern flank , against ( Field Marshal Rupprecht of Bavaria ) created Creating on 28 August , from the 1st and 2nd armies of the dissolved Dispersal and the 6th and 7th armies .

The battle Hostile_encounter was fought Hostile_encounter in conjunction with attacks Attack by the French Tenth and Sixth armies on the southern flank and the Reserve/5th Army on the northern flank , against ( Field Marshal Rupprecht of Bavaria ) created Creating on 28 August , from the 1st and 2nd armies of the dissolved Dispersal and the 6th and 7th armies .

General Ferdinand Foch , commander of `` groupe des armées du nord '' ( Northern Army Group ) and co-ordinator of the armies on the Somme , was unable to continue the sequential attacks Attack by the Anglo-French armies achieved Achieve in September , because persistent rain , mist and fog grounded aircraft , turned Change the battlefield Hostile_encounter into a swamp and greatly increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the difficulty of transporting Military_operation supplies Supply to the front over the few roads in the area and the land that had been devastated Destroying since 1 July .

General Ferdinand Foch , commander of `` groupe des armées du nord '' ( Northern Army Group ) and co-ordinator of the armies on the Somme , was unable to continue the sequential attacks Attack by the Anglo-French armies achieved Achieve in September , because persistent rain , mist and fog grounded aircraft , turned Change the battlefield Hostile_encounter into a swamp and greatly increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the difficulty of transporting Military_operation supplies Supply to the front over the few roads in the area and the land that had been devastated Destroying since 1 July .

The German 2nd and 1st armies on the Somme managed Control a recovery Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale after the string of defeats in September , with fresh divisions to replace exhausted troops and more aircraft , artillery and ammunition diverted Removing from the battle Hostile_encounter at Verdun and stripped Removing from other parts of the Western Front .

The German flyers further reduced Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the ability of the Anglo-French airmen to support Supporting the armies with artillery-observation and contact Connect patrols Patrolling in the rare periods of clear weather .

The German armies lost Earnings_and_losses much less ground and had fewer casualties in October than in September ( the costliest month of the battle Hostile_encounter ) but the proportion of casualties increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale from of the Anglo-French total .

German bombardments on the few roads between the original front line and the line established Building by October , increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the difficulties of the Fourth and Sixth armies and during October the size and ambition of Anglo-French attacks Attack was reduced Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale progressively to local operations .

The soldiers of the British , French and German armies endured miserable conditions , in which the Germans were able to keep going in the knowledge that the onset of winter would end the Somme offensive Attack , despite the many extra casualties caused Causation by illness .

In a 2017 publication , Jack Sheldon translated overlooked German material on the ordeal endured on the German armies .

The peasant armies retreated Escaping .

Failure to capture Conquering the bridges intact , or to prevent Preventing_or_letting their demolition by the Germans , would leave GiveUp the British 6th Airborne Division cut off Dispersal from the rest of the Allied armies with their backs to the two waterways .

In 1949 the conflict turned Change into a conventional war between two armies equipped Supply with modern weapons supplied Supply by the United States , China and the Soviet Union .

The Union and the Confederacy quickly raised Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale volunteer and conscription armies that fought Hostile_encounter mostly in the South over the course of four years .

The offensive Attack was intended to stop Preventing_or_letting Allied use Using of the Belgian port of Antwerp and to split Change the Allied lines , allowing Preventing_or_letting the Germans to encircle Besieging and destroy Destroying four Allied armies and force Causation the Western Allies to negotiate Communication a peace treaty in the Axis powers ' favor .

His army , exhausted Expend_resource , homesick , and anxious by the prospects of having to further face large Indian armies throughout the Indo-Gangetic Plain , mutinied Change_of_leadership at the Hyphasis ( modern Beas River ) and refused Agree_or_refuse_to_act to march Self_motion further east .

The Naval Battle Hostile_encounter of Tarragona fought Hostile_encounter between 4 and 6 July 1641 , was a naval engagement Participation of the Reapers ' War in which a Spanish galley fleet led Getting by the Duke of Fernandina attempted to break Destroying the French naval blockade over Tarragona , at that time besieged Besieging by land by the French and Catalan armies under the French Viceroy of Catalonia .

The more numerous combined Cause_to_amalgamate Serbian and Greek armies repelled Defending the Bulgarian offensive and counter-attacked Attack into Bulgaria from the west and the south .

Romania , having taken Conquering no part in the conflict Hostile_encounter , had intact armies to strike with , invaded Attack Bulgaria from the north in violation of a peace treaty between the two states .

American and French armies that had massed outside New York City began Process_start moving Body_movement south in late August , and arrived Arriving near Yorktown in mid-September .

The goal was to collapse Destroying the German front and cut off Removing the retreat Escaping of German forces Military_operation fighting Hostile_encounter the Allied armies further west .

The HV 's and ARBiH 's strategic success was a result of a series of improvements to the armies themselves , and crucial breakthroughs made in the ARSK positions that were subsequently exploited by the HV and the ARBiH .

Nine corps of the French Sixth Army and the British Fourth and Third armies , attacked Attack the German 2nd Army ( General Fritz von Below ) from Foucaucourt south of the Somme northwards across the Ancre to Serre and at Gommecourt , beyond , in the Third Army area .

The French Sixth Army suffered Bodily_harm and the German 2nd Army lost Orders were issued Creating to the Anglo-French armies to continue the offensive on 2 July and a German counter-attack on the north bank of the Somme by the 12th Division , intended for the night of took Creating until dawn on 2 July to begin and was destroyed Destroying .

An alliance between British and Mercian forces followed Motion , secured Assistance by Cadwallon 's marriage Forming_relationships to Alcfrith , Penda 's sister , and they marched Motion_directional north to face the armies of Northumbria ( who were occupying Gwynedd ) at the Battle of Cefn Digoll .

German troops passed Motion_directional through the village in late September 1914 during the First Battle Hostile_encounter of Albert , part of a series of reciprocal operations Military_operation by the German and Franco-British armies , to advance Self_motion round the northern flank of their opponent during the operations Military_operation known as the Race to the Sea .

Initially successful for the Polish and Ukrainian armies which captured Conquering Kiev on May 7 , 1920 , the campaign was dramatically reversed Change , chiefly by the cavalry of Semyon Budyonny .

There , the Bulgarian and German armies led Bringing by General August von Mackensen reported Reporting a glorious victory Earnings_and_losses .

The two armies did battle Hostile_encounter near Heiligerlee and Meindert van Ham was defeated Conquering .

The crossings at Hüningen , near the Swiss city of Basel , and the crossing at Kehl , gave Giving them ready access to most of southwestern Germany ; from there , French armies could sweep north , south , or east , depending on their military goal .

The Tiberias garrison formed Cause_to_amalgamate part of a rearguard stretching Expansion to Samakh and on to Deraa which was intended to cover the retreat Escaping of three Ottoman armies .

The Sirte , Tmed Hassan and Buerat strongholds were reinforced Cause_change_of_strength from Italy , which brought Bringing the 10th and 5th armies up to about German reinforcements were sent Sending to Libya to form Coming_to_be a blocking detachment ( ) under Directive 22 ( 11 January ) , these being the first units of the `` Afrika Korps '' ( `` Generalleutnant '' Erwin Rommel ) .

The Contra War Hostile_encounter ended Process_end after the signing Sign_agreement of the Tela Accord in 1989 and the demobilization Emptying of the FSLN and Contra armies .

Tens of thousands of civilians , royalists , Republican prisoners , and sympathizers with the revolution or the religious were massacred Killing by both armies .

The combined armies of the Balkan states overcame Conquering the numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies and achieved Achieve rapid success .

The combined armies of the Balkan states overcame Conquering the numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies and achieved Achieve rapid success .

The Siege of Antwerp ( , , ) was an engagement Forming_relationships between the German and the Belgian , British and French armies around the fortified Cause_change_of_strength city of Antwerp during World War I. German troops besieged Besieging a garrison of Belgian fortress troops , the Belgian field army and the British Royal Naval Division in the Antwerp area , after the German invasion Attack of Belgium in August 1914 .

the belgian forces in antwerp conducted Action three sorties in late september and early october , which interrupted Hindering german plans to send Sending troops to france , where reinforcements were needed to counter the french armies and the british expeditionary force ( bef ) .

By 21 May German forces Hostile_encounter had trapped the BEF , the remains of the Belgian forces Hostile_encounter , and three French field armies along the northern coast of France .

Destroying Destroying the trapped BEF , French , and Belgian armies was left to the `` Luftwaffe '' until the order Arranging was rescinded Removing on 26 May .