But the Swedish army was prepared and under the exceptional command military.military_command Charles XII , allied with England and the Netherlands , soon forced Denmark to accept peace and routed Peter I 's larger force at the Battle of Narva .

The Battle of Edessa took place between the armies of the Roman Empire under the command military.military_command Emperor Valerian and Sassanid forces under Shahanshah ( King of the Kings ) Shapur I in 260 .

The Battle of Edessa took place between the armies of the Roman Empire under the command military.military_command Emperor Valerianus and Sassanid forces under Shahanshah Shapur I in 260 .

In 1706 he led a brigade at Ramillies against the Allied forces under the command military.military_command the Duke of Marlborough .

In the Spanish War of Succession ( wherein French , Bavarians and Spaniards supported the grandson of French King Louis XIV , later to become King Philip V of Spain ) , Verboom was in command military.military_command the defence systems of Antwerp , taking part in 1702 with the Captain General of the Spanish Artillery Isidro de la Cueva - Benavides in the siege of Hulst , but in 1706 the French - Spanish Army commanded by François de Neufville , duc de Villeroi was defeated by the Duke of Marlborough at the Battle of Ramillies but managed to use troops from Antwerp to put pressure on the British at the siege of Termonde .

Further actions , while under the command military.military_command John Churchill ( later 1st Duke of Marlborough ) took place that year involving the regiment during the sieges of Limerick , Cork and Kinsale .

During the following war ( the War of the Spanish Succession ) , when Lille was threatened with a siege by John Churchill , 1st Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugène of Savoy , Boufflers was appointed to the command military.military_command and made a most gallant resistance of three months .

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 1702 Hooke entered into communication with the Duke of Marlborough ; the next year he was given a command military.military_command the Sparre Regiment , and served in the War of the Spanish Succession with the French Army at Flanders and the Moselle .

On coming of age in 1707 , John William Friso became a general of the Dutch troops during the War of Spanish Succession , under the command military.military_command the Duke of Marlborough , and turned out to be a competent officer .

At around the time the 65th arrived in Ireland , the command military.military_command given to Major-General Edward James Montagu-Stuart-Wortley , who had been controversially sacked by General Sir Douglas Haig after the 46th ( North Midland ) Division , under his command , had failed in its attack during the first day on the Somme .

XXII Corps was returned to Haig ’ s command military.military_command early August 1918 to help him bring forward the start date for the Amiens offensive .

Upon the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011 , Islamic State of Iraq 's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and al-Qaeda ’ s central command military.military_command the Syrian Abu Mohammad al-Golani to set up a Syrian offshoot of al Qaeda in August 2011 , to bring down the Assad government and establish an Islamic state there .

He was temporarily in command military.military_command a brigade during Don Carlos Buell 's march to the relief of Maj. Gen. U.S. Grant at Shiloh .

When Hardee 's command military.military_command attached to forces under Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston , The 9th Arkansas Infantry Battlaion , under the command of Major Kelly was assigned to Brigadier General S.A.M . Wood 's brigade of Hardee 's Corps , of the Army of Mississippi and participated in the Battle of Shiloh , Tennessee , on April 6 , 1862 .

Arriving just after the Confederate loss at Shiloh ( in which Johnston was killed and replaced in command military.military_command General P.G.T . Beauregard ) , the 33rd was assigned to the brigade commanded by Colonel Alexander T. Hawthorn , which was part of the Army 's 3rd Corps .

In February 1862 they were transferred and attached to the Army of Mississippi under the command military.military_command General P.G.T . Beauregard , and fought at the Battle of Shiloh .

In 1380 , during the Battle of Kulikovo , the Grand Prince of Ryazan Oleg and his men came under a coalition of Mamai , a strongman of the Tatar Golden Horde , and the Grand Duke of Lithuania , against the armies under the command military.military_command the Grand Prince of Vladimir , Dmitry Donskoy .

The Battle of Kulikovo ( ) was fought between the armies of the Golden Horde under the command military.military_command Mamai , and various Russian principalities under the united command of Prince Dmitri of Moscow .

In the Yom Kippur War in 1973 , Hermesh was a combat soldier in the paratroop force that crossed the Suez Canal under the command military.military_command General Ariel Sharon .

11 December 1955 , under the command military.military_command Ariel Sharon , Israel sent two paratroop battalions backed by artillery and mortar batteries and attacks Syrian gun emplacements at Buteiha Farm and the village of Kursi ( El Koursi ) outside the DMZ , on the northeastern shore of the Sea of Galilee ) .

His father served in the Mexican Revolution under the command military.military_command Francisco `` Pancho '' Villa before emigrating to the United States .

These encounters between the Constitutionalist Army led by Álvaro Obregón , Venustiano Carranza 's best general , and the army under the command military.military_command Francisco “ Pancho ” Villa were crucial in determining the outcome of the Mexican Revolution .

However , after Pancho Villa 's attack on Columbus , New Mexico , in March 1916 , General John J. Pershing was ordered to command military.military_command punitive expedition into Mexico to capture or kill Villa .

Following Pancho Villa 's attack on Columbus , New Mexico in March , Dodd and his command military.military_command ordered to ride south into Chihuahua , Mexico to participate in General John J. Pershing 's punitive expedition .

Major General George G. Meade , a Pennsylvania officer whom Curtin had recommended for brigadier general and command military.military_command one of the Pennsylvania reserve brigades in 1861 , defeated Lee in the Battle of Gettysburg .

The mansion was the site of General George G. Meade 's takeover of command military.military_command the Army of the Potomac of the Union Army from General Joseph Hooker immediately before the Battle of Gettysburg , under last-minute orders from President Abraham Lincoln .

The IX Corps fought in the Overland Campaign of May 1864 as an independent command military.military_command reporting initially to Grant ; his corps was not assigned to the Army of the Potomac because Burnside outranked its commander , Maj. Gen. George G. Meade , who had been a division commander under Burnside at Fredericksburg .

The Union Army of the James was formed in April 1864 under the command military.military_command Major General Benjamin Butler for the purpose of taking Richmond , Virginia and Petersburg , Virginia while the Union Army of the Potomac along with the separate IX Corps under the direction of Union General-in-chief Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and the tactical command of Major General George Meade engaged Confederate General Robert E. Lee 's Army of Northern Virginia in the Overland Campaign .

At the Battle of Nations in 1813 , the Prussian general Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher established his command military.military_command in the Breitenfeld mill , from which he coordinated the attacks on Napoleon 's French troops positioned in Möckern and Gohlis .

After the Battle of New Orleans , Major General William Carroll 's Tennessee brigade , which was the largest single force under General Andrew Jackson 's command military.military_command Louisiana , established their outgoing camp upriver from New Orleans and named it `` Camp Henderson '' .

General Andrew Jackson recorded that `` Manilamen '' had fought under his general command military.military_command defense of New Orleans , under the direct command of Jean Baptiste Lafitte .

It is known as `` The Cottonbalers '' from an incident that occurred during the Battle of New Orleans , while under the command military.military_command Andrew Jackson , when soldiers of the 7th Infantry Regiment held positions behind a breastwork of bales of cotton during the British attack .

Jean claimed to command military.military_command than 3,000 men and provided them as troops for the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 , greatly assisting Andrew Jackson in repulsing the British attack .

Pitot 's volunteer militia , including the free men of color , joined other units of free men of color , as well as numerous slaves , who were crucial to the defeat of the British invasion under the unified command military.military_command General Andrew Jackson .

He participated in the initial attack on the Gilbert and Marshall Islands on 1 February 1942 , as part of the force under the command military.military_command Admiral William Halsey , Jr. , and in April his destroyers served as escort for the aircraft carrier from which Lieutenant General J. H. Doolittle 's aircraft took off for the first bombing raid on Tokyo .

This legislation was passed in response to the Doolittle Raid , which occurred on April 18 , 1942 , in which American B-25 bombers under the command military.military_command Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle bombed Tokyo and other Japanese cities .

General Fock , who was a member of a Polish family of distinction , had command military.military_command the Russian Imperial Artillery at the famous Battle of Borodino in Russia which preceded Napoleon 's entrance to Moscow in 1812 .

In May , Australian General John Monash was given command military.military_command the Australian Corps and the first operation he planned as a corps commander , the Battle of Hamel , is widely regarded as the finest set-piece strategy of the war on the Western Front .

In late September/early October , one of the epic battles of the whole war was the breach of the Hindenburg Line ( the Battle of St. Quentin Canal ) by British , Australian and American troops ( under the command military.military_command Australian General John Monash ) .

Initially , at the Battle of Breitenfeld ( 1631 ) , the infantry was almost entirely reliant on their firepower and saw very limited offensive use ; but under the leadership of Johan Banér , who took command military.military_command the defeat at Nördlingen , the Gustavian brigade system was finally changed into the battalion system recognisable from the War of the Spanish Succession and the Great Nordic War ( the depth was lowered from six ranks to three or four when the bayonet was introduced at the end of the 17th century ) .

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 .

`` Cruizer '' was attached to Sir Hyde Parker 's Baltic fleet on commissioning and Brisbane came under the direct command military.military_command Admiral Horatio Nelson , who used `` Cruizer '' to take soundings and make charts of the approaches to Copenhagen prior to the British attack on the city at the Battle of Copenhagen .

Graves afterwards shifted his flag to , and in her was second in command military.military_command Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen on 2 April 1801 .

In 1801 , one company of the Experimental Corps of Riflemen , under the command military.military_command Captain Sidney Beckwith , took part in the British victory at the Battle of Copenhagen , as marksmen aboard Royal Navy ships that were under the command of the legendary Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson .

In 1801 , under the command military.military_command Admiral Horatio Nelson , the British fleet bombarded Copenhagen during the Battle of Copenhagen , destroying most of the university 's buildings .

In 1803 he was given the command military.military_command HMS Elephant , a 74 gun third-rate that had been Nelson 's flagship during the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 , and took her down to Jamaica to patrol the Caribbean waters until 1806 .

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 '' .

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 .

When Austria joined the ranks of the allies during the War of the Sixth Coalition , Charles was not given a command military.military_command the post of commander-in-chief of the allied Grand Army of Bohemia went to the Prince of Schwarzenberg .