and , believing the French had a reserve as yet untouched , forbade Ferguson to advance .
In Saxony , a joint force of Austrians and Brunswickers under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral Kienmayer was far more successful , defeating a corps under the command of General Junot at the Battle of Gefrees .
It was in this commission that Noronha was assigned , when on 20 November 1807 , French troops invaded , under the commandmilitary.military_commandJean-Andoche Junot to begin the Peninsular War .
The first half of the 19th century was a difficult period for Coimbra , being invaded by French troops under the commandmilitary.military_commandAndoche Junot and André Masséna during the Peninsular War .
The Battle of Camp Hill ( or the Battle of Birmingham ) took place in and around Camp Hill , during the First English Civil War , on Easter Monday , 3 April 1643 , when a company of Parliamentarians from the Lichfield garrison with the support of some of the local townsmen , in all about 300 men , attempted to stop a detachment of Royalists , of about 1,200 cavalry and dragoons and 600 to 700 foot , under the commandmilitary.military_commandPrince Rupert from passing through the unfortified parliamentary town of Birmingham .
However Royalist troops under the commandmilitary.military_commandPrince Rupert captured Bristol on 26 July 1643 , in the process causing extensive damage to both town and castle .
Just over three weeks later he was with the regiment when it was destroyed by a detachment of the Royalist army under the commandmilitary.military_commandPrince Rupert at Battle of Brentford .
The Battle of Brentford was a small pitched battle which took place on 12 November 1642 , between a detachment of the Royalist army , ( predominantly horse with one regiment of Welsh foot ) under the commandmilitary.military_commandPrince Rupert and two infantry regiments of Parliamentarians with some horse in support .
The Royalists were relieved by a force under Prince Rupert , the King 's nephew , but the allies under Leslie 's commandmilitary.military_commandthe Royalists decisively at Marston Moor on 2 July , generally seen as the turning point of the war .
When the Royalists garrison of York and a relieving army under the commandmilitary.military_commandPrince Rupert lost the Battle of Marston Moor on 2 July 1644 , Newcastle and Fauconberg escaped into exile , embarking at Scarborough , for Hamburg .
Earlier , however , after several setbacks in his reign and especially that of his father , Philip did achieve a decisive victory against the Turks at the Lepanto in 1571 , with the allied fleet of the Holy League , which he had put under the commandmilitary.military_commandhis illegitimate brother , John of Austria .
In September 1571 Cervantes sailed on board the `` Marquesa '' , part of the galley fleet of the Holy League ( a coalition of Pope Pius V , Spain , the Republic of Venice , the Republic of Genoa , the Duchy of Savoy , the Knights Hospitaller based in Malta , and others , under the commandmilitary.military_commandPhilip II of Spain 's illegitimate half brother , John of Austria ) that defeated the Ottoman fleet on October 7 in the Battle of Lepanto , in the Gulf of Patras .
On 7 October 1571 , the coalition 's fleet under the commandmilitary.military_commandDon Juan of Austria decisively defeated the Ottoman fleet under Müezzinzade Ali Pasha in the Battle of Lepanto .
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 commandmilitary.military_commandPhilip 's half brother , Don Juan of Austria .
Two months later , the naval forces of the Holy League , composed mainly of Venetian , Spanish , and Papal ships under the commandmilitary.military_commandDon John of Austria , defeated the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto in one of the decisive battles of world history .
Two months later , the naval forces of the Holy League , composed mainly of Venetian , Spanish , and Papal ships under the commandmilitary.military_commandDon John of Austria , defeated the Turkish fleet at the Battle of Lepanto in one of the decisive battles of world history .
Two months later , the naval forces of the Holy League , composed mainly of Venetian , Spanish , and Papal ships under the commandmilitary.military_commandDon John of Austria , defeated the Turkish fleet at the Battle of Lepanto .
After the defeat of the Ottoman fleet under the commandmilitary.military_commandMüezzinzade Ali Pasha at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 , Piyale Pasha was called to take back the command of the Ottoman navy .
Croatian military troops fought in many battles under commandmilitary.military_commandItalian Franciscan priest fra John Capistrano , the Hungarian Generalissimo John Hunyadi , and Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus , like in the Hunyadi 's long campaign ( 1443–1444 ) , battle of Varna ( 1444 ) , second battle of Kosovo ( 1448 ) , and contributed to the Christian victories over the Ottomans in the siege of Belgrade ( 1456 ) and Siege of Jajce ( 1463 ) .
The siege would last a month and featured numerous sorties by the garrison and a determined relief attempt by the Spanish army under the commandmilitary.military_commandDon Juan of Austria and his confederate English royalists under Duke of York and rebels of the French Fronde under the Great Condé that resulted in the battle of the Dunes .
On becoming lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Foot , known as the Royal Regiment , 5 December 1843 , Bell next served in Gibraltar , Nova Scotia , the West Indies , the Mediterranean , and Turkey , after which he landed with the allied armies during the Crimea War , and was present at the battles of Alma and Inkerman , and in the Siege of Sevastopol , where he was wounded and honourably mentioned in a despatch from Lord Raglan , who appointed him to the commandmilitary.military_commanda brigade .
The Battle of Fontenoy , 11 May 1745 , was a major engagement of the War of the Austrian Succession , fought between the forces of the Pragmatic Allies – comprising mainly Dutch , British , and Hanoverian troops under the commandmilitary.military_commandthe Duke of Cumberland – and a French army under Maurice de Saxe , commander of King Louis XV 's forces in the Low Countries .
In 1806 he was in commandmilitary.military_commandone of the Russian armies operating against Napoleon , when he fought the battle of Pultusk and met the emperor in person in the bloody battle of Eylau ( 8 February 1807 ) .
Napoleon , meanwhile , used the right wing of his army and the reserve to defeat the Prussians , under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral Blücher , at the Battle of Ligny on the same day .
While a colonel in 1st Battalion of Chester County Militia , John Hannum and his friend and brother-in-law Thomas Cheyney achieved a certain fame in identifying and notifying George Washington of the movement of British troops under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral William Howe across the Brandywine River at Trimble 's Ford in their march past Jefferis Ford toward the Battle of the Brandywine .
Ross subsequently returned to the Peninsula to commandmilitary.military_command1/52nd , with whom he fought at Pombal , Redinha , Casal Novo , Foz d'Arunce , Sabugal , and Fuentes de Oñoro , during Masséna 's retreat from Portugal in the spring of 1811 .
Luckily , Sir Arthur Wellesley had suggested such a person to British Foreign Secretary George Canning before departing to commandmilitary.military_commandarmy in Portugal that went on to win the Battle of Vimeiro in August 1808 .
According to the `` Chanson d'Antioche '' , Rotrou was under the commandmilitary.military_commandBohemond of Taranto during the Siege of Antioch , and was one of the first to go over the city 's walls through scaling ladders on 3 June 1098 .
Beethoven dedicated his Opus 91 , often called the `` Battle of Vitoria '' or `` Wellington 's Victory '' , to one of the most notorious historical events of the Napoleonic wars ; the Battle of Vitoria , in which a Spanish , Portuguese and British army under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral the Marquess of Wellington broke the French army and nearly captured Joseph Bonaparte .
Making matters even worse for Napoleon , in June 1813 the combined armies of Great Britain , Portugal , and Spain , under the commandmilitary.military_commandBritain 's Arthur Wellesley , Marquess of Wellington , had decisively routed French forces at the Battle of Vitoria in the Peninsular War , and were now advancing towards the Pyrenees and the Franco-Spanish border .
The Battle of Seneffe was fought on 11 August 1674 between French army under the commandmilitary.military_commandLouis II de Bourbon , Prince de Condé and the Dutch-German-Spanish army under William III of Orange .
At the Battle of Wagram , Emperor Napoleon I of France detached Tirlet from XI Corps to commandmilitary.military_commandartillery pieces on the island of Lobau .
Charles was responsible for the severe check Napoleon suffered at the battle of Aspern-Essling , but after the subsequent defeat at Wagram retired from active commandmilitary.military_command
The Battle of Wagram ( 5–6 July 1809 ) was a military engagement of the Napoleonic Wars and ended in a decisive victory for Emperor Napoleon I 's French and allied army against the Austrian army under the commandmilitary.military_commandArchduke Charles of Austria-Teschen .
French involvement in the war would prove to be exceedingly important during the Siege of Yorktown when 10,800 French regulars and 29 French warships , under the commandmilitary.military_commandthe Comte de Rochambeau and Comte de Grasse respectively , joined forces with Gen.George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette to obtain the surrender of Lord Cornwallis 's Southern army , and effectively bringing an end fighting on the North American mainland for the remainder of the war .
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 .
The celebrated march to Yorktown , Virginia in 1781 that ended with the defeat of the British at the Siege of Yorktown and the Battle of the Chesapeake began in Newport , Rhode Island under the joint commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral George Washington who led American troops and the Comte de Rochambeau who led French soldiers sent by King Louis XVI .
Upon arrival , Morris 's company , under the overall commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral George Washington , aided in Siege of Yorktown , the last major battle of the American Revolution .
In 1781 , troops in Virginia under his commandmilitary.military_commandforces led by Cornwallis until other American and French forces could position themselves for the decisive Siege of Yorktown .
Now a lieutenant colonel , he was given commandmilitary.military_commanda light infantry regiment and marched with Washington to Yorktown , where he witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis .
General Townshend had assumed commandmilitary.military_commandthe British forces after General James Wolfe fell at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham during the Seven Years ' War .
Henry 's romantic entanglements with an older woman lead up to his taking a commission in the British army and fighting under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral Wolfe at the capture of Quebec .
He saw service in the French and Indian War under the commandmilitary.military_commandJeffrey Amherst at the 1758 siege of Louisbourg , and in 1759 under the command of James Wolfe at the Siege of Quebec .
In this commandmilitary.military_commandimpressed General James Wolfe in the preparations that led to the Battle of the Plains of Abraham .
On April 17 , 1759 , he received a lieutenant 's commission and was assigned under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral James Wolfe , under whom he served at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham which resulted in the capture of Quebec City .
The following year the 47th took part in the legendary Battle of Quebec which saw British forces , under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral James Wolfe , prevail again French forces in a battle that concluded a 3-month siege of Quebec .
Townshend was given commandmilitary.military_commanda brigade in Quebec under General James Wolfe ; when the latter died on 13 September 1759 , and his second-in-command ( Robert Monckton ) was wounded , Townshend took command of the British forces during Battle of the Plains of Abraham .
The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the amphibious invasion of the Gulf of Leyte in the Philippines by American forces and Filipino guerrillas under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral Douglas MacArthur , who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita from 17 October - 26 December 1944 .
Having been promoted to brevet lieutenant-general on 25 March 1878 , he went as high-commissioner to the newly acquired possession of Cyprus on 12 July 1878 , and in the following year to South Africa to supersede Lord Chelmsford in commandmilitary.military_commandthe forces in the Zulu War , and as governor of Natal and the Transvaal and the High Commissioner of Southern Africa .
Despite his protests , Suvorov was ordered by Emperor Paul to transfer his troops to Switzerland , where they came under the commandmilitary.military_commandAlexander Korsakov , who was defeated by Andre Massena at the Second Battle of Zürich .