The American Expeditionary Forces ( AEF ) consisted of the United States Armed Forces sent to Europe under the command military.military_command General John J. Pershing in 1917 to help fight World War I .

In 1552 the Ottoman fleet under the command military.military_command Turgut Reis defeated the Spanish-Italian fleet of Charles V under the command of Andrea Doria in the Battle of Ponza ( 1552 ) .

General Cornwallis had returned to England from his disastrous command military.military_command the British troops during the American Revolution to be , rather surprisingly , treated as a hero and created a Marquess .

In the autumn of that year four Turkish divisions under the command military.military_command General Kâzım Karabekir invaded the Armenian Republic , triggering the Turkish-Armenian War .

In 1940 , under the command military.military_command Georgy Zhukov , this group seized Bessarabia from Romania .

In the summer of 1187 , German crusaders marched through Hungary under the command military.military_command Frederick I , Holy Roman Emperor .

Given command military.military_command the French army in Italy by Francis I of France during the Italian War of 1542 , he was the French commander at the Franco-Ottoman Siege of Nice in 1543 , and he led it to victory at the Battle of Ceresole in 1544 .

At Abensberg and at the Battle of Landshut on 21 April , Emperor Napoleon I of France 's army roughly handled Hiller 's command military.military_command forced the Austrian to withdraw to the southeast , away from Archduke Charles and the main army .

In 1938 , on promotion to lieutenant-general he took command military.military_command the Anti-Aircraft Corps ( renamed Anti-Aircraft Command in April 1939 ) and built a strong relationship with Air Marshal Hugh Dowding , the AOC-in-C of Fighter Command which laid a vital basis of co-operation between the two arms during the Battle of Britain .

Re-formed at Brooklands on 1 April 1915 under the command military.military_command Major Hugh Dowding ( later commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain ) as a reconnaissance squadron , No . 9 returned to France in December 1915 , flying Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2s .

In late 1846 he was placed in command military.military_command the ship of the line , and during the Mexican–American War took part in the bombardment of Vera Cruz as it was besieged by troops under General Winfield Scott .

In the course of the Great Northern War in 1710 , Estonia fell under Russian rule and the walls were partially demolished at the command military.military_command the Peter I of Russia , turning the castle in effect into ruins .

The first widespread use of campaign medals dates to the era of the Napoleonic Wars when Napoleon Bonaparte ordered a large number of ribbons and medals for issue to the soldiers serving under his command military.military_command

After the deaths of his father and older brother Henry de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham in 1265 ( by men under the command military.military_command then Prince Edward , later Edward I , aka Edward Longshanks ) , Amaury fled to France with his mother , younger sister , and surviving brothers .

The Wars of Scottish Independence between England and Scotland began in 1296 and initially the English were successful under the command military.military_command Edward I , having won victories at the Battle of Dunbar ( 1296 ) and at the Capture of Berwick ( 1296 ) .

The Battle of Salamis occurred in September 480 BC , when the Greeks , with 371 triremes and ‘ ’ pentekonters ’ ’ , routed a Persian force of over 1,200 ships under the command military.military_command King Xerxes .

In 1865 , toward the end of the American Civil War , a body of General Sherman 's Union troops under command military.military_command General Potter raided Clarendon county .

The factory was destroyed by forces under the command military.military_command General William T. Sherman , US Army during the American Civil War .

When Grant became President he promoted William T. Sherman his friend and fellow general during the Civil War the top command military.military_command General of the Armies in March 1869 .

Rooke hoisted his flag in the second-rate HMS `` Shrewsbury '' in Spring 1700 and took command military.military_command an Anglo-Dutch Squadron , which while working in co-operation with a Swedish fleet under Admiral-General Hans Wachtmeister , attacked Copenhagen so facilitating the landing of King Charles XII of Sweden and his army in Denmark in August 1700 in the opening phase of the Great Northern War .

In 1471 , under the command military.military_command Afonso V of Portugal , he was present at the conquest of Tangier and Arzila in Morocco , serving there as an officer for some years .

Following the French invasion of Egypt in 1798 and Napoleon 's defeat of Egyptian forces , which consisted largely of the ruling Mamluk military caste , the Ottoman Empire dispatched troops from Rumelia ( the Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire ) under the command military.military_command Muhammad Ali Pasha to restore the Empire 's authority in what had hitherto been an Ottoman province .

A column of troops under his command military.military_command shortly after the Battle of Little Big Horn and discovered the bodies of Custer 's men .

Frederick Benteen , who assumed command military.military_command a brigade at Byram 's Ford , would subsequently fight with George Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn .

His great uncle was Myles Keogh , the second in command military.military_command Colonel Custer , and who died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn .

On June 25 , 1876 the 647 men with the 7th Cavalry including Henry Harrington under the command military.military_command George A. Custer attacked a village of several thousand Native Americans , in what became known as the Battle of the Little Bighorn .

Outside Texas , Mackenzie and the 4th Cavalry administered and controlled the Kiowa-Comanche and the Cheyenne-Arapaho reservations for several years , and , after the defeat of George Armstrong Custer 's command military.military_command the Battle of Little Bighorn in June 1876 , forced Red Cloud and his band of Sioux and the Northern Cheyennes to surrender .

Shortly after the defeat of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25 , 1876 , the Army sent the 5th U. S. Infantry Regiment , under the command military.military_command Nelson A . Miles , from Nebraska to the plains of Eastern Montana to establish a military fort .

His son Alexander the Great pursued his father 's effort to command military.military_command whole of Greece through the federation of Greek states , a feat he finally accomplished after destroying a revolting Thebes .

During the American Civil War , he was given command military.military_command Department of the West by President Abraham Lincoln .

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 command military.military_command assault on New Orleans during the American Civil War .

Võ Nguyên Giáp went on to become the first full General of the VPA on 28 May 1948 , and famous for leading the PAVN in victory over French forces at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and being in overall command military.military_command US backed South Vietnam at the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975 .

In the War of Independence Tolox fought under the command military.military_command Francisco Javier de Abadía ( commander of the Campo de Gibraltar ) against the invading Napoleonic troops .

Only the timely intervention of Richard Sharpe and his fellow Peninsula veteran , Major Peter d'Alembord saves the regiment from the twin threats of the incompetent command military.military_command the Prince of Orange and an attack by Napoleon 's Imperial Guard .

After Frederick II of Prussia had conquered Silesia in 1742 , his fierce opponent Maria Theresa of Austria once again stroke back in the course of the Seven Years ' War : In 1760 Austrian troops under the command military.military_command field marshal Laudon invaded the province and on June 23 defeated a Prussian corps under Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué at the Battle of Landeshut .

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 Battle of Zorndorf was a battle fought on August 25 , 1758 during the Seven Years ' War , fought between the forces of the Russians troops under the command military.military_command Count William Fermor – and a Prussian army under King Frederick the Great .

The palace was devastated by Prussian troops by the explicit command military.military_command King Frederick II of Hohenzollern during the Seven Years ' War .

The Confederate Army of the Potomac , whose name was short-lived , was the command military.military_command Brig . Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard in the early days of the American Civil War .

Theban forces ended the power of Sparta at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC under the command military.military_command Epaminondas .