the fourth-rate HMS `` Dunkirk '' and was sent to North America as part of a squadron commanded by Admiral Edward Boscawen : his capture of the French `` Alcide '' was the first shot fired in the Seven Years ' War .
The `` Hind '' , under commandmilitary.military_commandCaptain Robert Bond , saw service on the North American Station during the Seven Years ' War when she was part of a fleet that assembled in early 1758 at Portsmouth under command of Admiral Edward Boscawen for the expedition against Louisbourg .
A piece of history in and of itself , the Mallory Cup was originally gifted by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire to the family of Lord Nelson in appreciation of his commandmilitary.military_commandthe English fleet that defeated Napoleon in the Battle of the Nile .
'Band of brothers ' was a phrase used by Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson to refer to the captains under his commandmilitary.military_commandprior to and at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 .
In 1805 , she married John Putland , a lieutenant in the Royal Navy who had served in the victory of the Battle of the Nile under the commandmilitary.military_commandHoratio Nelson .
The film then flashes back to 6 months earlier , when Horatio is 3rd Lieutenant onboard HMS `` Renown '' , under the commandmilitary.military_commandthe famous Captain James Sawyer - an elderly captain , a hero from the Battle of the Nile and a pupil of Admiral Nelson .
Under these circumstances , Horatio Nelson 's victory of Aboukir ( 1 August 1798 ) , which gave the British full commandmilitary.military_commandthe Mediterranean and isolated in Egypt , was the signal for a second coalition .
When war was once again declared , Laforey was instructed to commandmilitary.military_commandone of Nelson 's spoils from the battle of the Nile .
During the Blitzkrieg into France , Heinrici 's commandmilitary.military_commandpart of Colonel General ( `` Generaloberst '' ) Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb 's Army Group C .
At the beginning of the Battle of France , Général de Gaulle , en route to take commandmilitary.military_commandthe Fourth Armored Division , accepted Mr. Scrive ’ s hospitality .
On July 13 Pendleton was promoted to colonel and began serving as chief of artillery for Brig . Gen. Joseph E. Johnston 's commandmilitary.military_commandthe First Battle of Bull Run on July 21 .
During the war , she became chief of nursing under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral Ulysses S. Grant , and served at the Battle of Vicksburg .
Following the Battle of Prairie Grove , Union General Francis Herron was ordered to take his 5,000 troops northeast to the Mississippi River , where he would link up with the army under the commandmilitary.military_commandUlysses S. Grant in the push for Vicksburg .
In early June , most of the IX Corps was transferred to the commandmilitary.military_commandMaj. Gen. Ulysses Grant who required reinforcements in the Siege of Vicksburg , the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River .
Simultaneously on July 4 , 1863 , Union forces under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral Ulysses S. Grant gained control of the Mississippi River at the Battle of Vicksburg , thereby splitting the Confederacy .
On June 15 , 1944 , `` Santa Fe '' participated in landings on Saipan , Guam , and Tinian ( Operation Forager ) as a part of the U.S. Fifth Fleet under the overall commandmilitary.military_commandVice Admiral Raymond A. Spruance .
Mawhood was left in commandmilitary.military_commanda force at Princeton , New Jersey by Lord Cornwallis in January 1777 while Cornwallis chased after George Washington 's army after the Battle of Trenton .
Johann Gottlieb Rall ( also spelled Rahl ) ( ca . 1726 – December 26 , 1776 ) was a German colonel , best known for being in commandmilitary.military_commandHessian troops in Trenton , New Jersey at the Battle of Trenton during the American War of Independence .
When Prideaux was killed early during the Battle of Fort Niagara , Haldimand went to assume commandmilitary.military_commandthe operation , but William Johnson , the Indian agent on the expedition who took over , refused to relinquish control .
At the Battle of Lake George ( 8 September 1755 ) , after Sir William Johnson suffered a slight wound , Lyman took commandmilitary.military_commandthe forces and repulsed the attack of the French and Indians .
The joint Polish and Lithuanian forces , under commandmilitary.military_commandKing Władysław II Jagiełło and Grand Duke Vytautas , besieged the castle between 26 July and 19 September 1410 in a bid of complete conquest of Prussia after the great victory in the Battle of Grunwald ( Tannenberg ) .
Captain ( before 20 January 1769 – 12 July 1834 ) was an officer of the Royal Navy whose solid naval career during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars was most noted for his commandmilitary.military_commandthe ship of the line HMS `` Ajax '' in Nelson 's division at the battle of Trafalgar whilst only a lieutenant .
The Action of 31 May 1796 was a small action during the French Revolutionary Wars in which a Royal Navy squadron under the commandmilitary.military_commandCommodore Horatio Nelson , in the 64-gun third-rate ship of the line captured a seven-vessel French convoy that was sailing along the coast from Menton to Vado in the Mediterranean .
The creation of the new civil dignity allowed Emperor Napoleon I to strengthen his newly created regime by rewarding the most valuable of the generals who had served under his commandmilitary.military_commandhis campaigns in Italy and Egypt or soldiers who had held significant commands during the French Revolutionary Wars .
The resurrection of the marchalate , the `` ancien regime '' civil dignity allowed Emperor Napoleon I to strengthen his newly created power by rewarding the most valuable of the generals who had served under his commandmilitary.military_commandhis campaigns in Italy and Egypt or soldiers who had held significant commands during the French Revolutionary Wars .
Here `` Gherardi '' participated in minesweeping operations prior to the invasion of Okinawa on 1 April under the overall commandmilitary.military_commandAdmiral Raymond A. Spruance , Commander Fifth Fleet .
U.S. Navy Admirals Raymond Spruance and Richmond Turner wanted General Smith to commandmilitary.military_commandOkinawa invasion forces .
BAP `` Huáscar '' , under the commandmilitary.military_commandRear Admiral Miguel Grau , fought with distinction during the War of the Pacific .
The ship 's name is a reference to a Peruvian corvette that participated in the War of the Pacific as part of a naval squadron under the commandmilitary.military_commandMiguel Grau , the most important hero of the Peruvian Navy .
Ninety Six became a British outpost after the 1780 Siege of Charleston , and was besieged in 1781 by forces under the commandmilitary.military_commandNathanael Greene .
During the American Revolutionary War , Tucker enlisted in the Virginia militia as a major under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral Robert Lawson ; Lawson 's troops joined Nathanael Greene 's army in North Carolina .
After the Battle of Gettysburg in July , Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his commandmilitary.military_commandback across the Potomac River into Virginia .
Monroe was later in commandmilitary.military_commandthe rear guard during the withdrawal of Confederate forces under the command of General Robert E. Lee from the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 .
Orr 's Rifles were ultimately under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral Robert E. Lee 's Army of Northern Virginia and served in many engagements including the Seven Days , Beaver Dam Creek , Gaines ' Mill , Frayser 's Farm , Cedar Mountain , Manassas Station Ops , Second Manassas , Ox Hill , Harpers Ferry , Sharpsburg , Shepherdstown , Fredericksburg , Chancellorsville , Gettysburg , Bristoe Station , Mine Run , the Wilderness , Spotsylvania Court House , North Anna , Cold Harbor , Petersburg Siege , Jerusalem Plank Road , Fussell 's Mill , Second Ream 's Station , Peebles ' Farm , Boydton Plank Road , and Third Petersburg .
By the end of the Siege of Boston , General Washington had given Learned commandmilitary.military_commandthe important Dorchester Heights position .
In April 1776 the Main Army moved from Boston to New York City and Washington assumed commandmilitary.military_commandthe Middle Department .
The 11-month siege of Boston ended when the Continental Army , under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeorge Washington , fortified Dorchester Heights in early March 1776 with cannons captured at Ticonderoga .
Elcano fought in the Italian Wars under the commandmilitary.military_commandGonzalo Fernández de Córdoba in Italy , and in 1509 he joined the Spanish expedition organized by Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros against Algiers .
However they were defeated at the Battle of Quebec and British forces under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral Guy Carleton launched a counter invasion which drove the colonial forces from the province entirely and reached all the way to Lake Chaplain , however came short of recapturing Fort Ticonderoga .
The vessel was bought in October 1812 at Oswego , New York from Jacob Townsend , and was based along with the rest of her squadron at Sackets Harbor , New York during the winter of 1812-1813 under the commandmilitary.military_commandLieutenant Isaac Chauncey , after which she supported land operations around Lake Ontario , including the landing of General Henry Dearborn 's force of 1,700 troops resulting in the capture of York ( now Toronto ) on 27 April 1813 .
One of the farms in the area was the Dey Farm , in existence since the founding of Monroe Township in 1838 and the site of a commandmilitary.military_commandused by George Washington during the Battle of Monmouth in 1778 .
This changed abruptly on 19 October 1950 , when the first of an eventual total of soldiers under the commandmilitary.military_commandGeneral Peng Dehuai crossed into North Korea , launching a full-scale assault against advancing U.N. troops .
During that time the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out , Chinese Red Army was reorganized into 8th Route Army , and Wang was appointed as Director of Political Department , taking charge of military commandmilitary.military_commandZhu De and Peng Dehuai .
He fought at the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC , on the right flank for King Darius III of Persia , with 40,000 units of infantry and 7,000 of cavalry under his commandmilitary.military_commandhis command , where he died .
After the king had interfered in the Thirty Years ' War the town in 1627/28 was besieged for fifteen weeks by the united Imperial and Catholic troops under the commandmilitary.military_commandAlbrecht von Wallenstein and Count Tilly , though without success .
During the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618–48 ) it was used as the occasional headquarters and supply depot of the Spaniards and Austrians , under the commandmilitary.military_commandOttavio Piccolomini ( one of Wallenstein 's generals ) .
Following the death of Wallenstein ( who had previously denied him the overall military commandmilitary.military_commandthe Catholic side ) in 1634 , he was made titular head of the Imperial Army in the Thirty Years ' War , and later that year joined with his cousin , the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand , being nominally responsible of the capture of Donauwörth and Regensburg , and of defeat of the Swedes at the Battle of Nördlingen .
In the first-half of 17th century Croats fought in the Thirty Years ' War on the side of Holy Roman Empire , mostly as light cavalry under commandmilitary.military_commandimperial generalissimo Albrecht von Wallenstein .
The fortress was besieged several times during the Thirty Years ' War and occupied by Danish troops under the commandmilitary.military_commandDuke John Ernest I of Saxe-Weimar in 1627 , before they were defeated by Imperial forces under Albrecht von Wallenstein .
At the unsuccessful assault on Albrecht von Wallenstein 's camp at the Alte Veste , Banér received a wound , and soon afterwards , when Gustavus marched towards Lützen , was left in commandmilitary.military_commandthe west , where he was opposed to the imperial general Johann von Aldringen .