Beauregard and Johnston hoped to liberate Middle and West Tennessee from Union control military.military_command attacking Major General Ulysses S. Grant 's Army of the Tennessee at a riverboat port at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River near Shiloh Church .

Ulysses S. Grant and the United States Navy captured control military.military_command the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers in February 1862 and held off the Confederate counterattack at Shiloh in April of the same year .

Northumbria lost control military.military_command Mercia in the late 650s , after a successful revolt under Penda 's son Wulfhere , but it retained its dominant position until it suffered a disastrous defeat at the hands of the Picts at the Battle of Dun Nechtain in 685 ; Northumbria 's king , Ecgfrith ( son of Oswiu ) , was killed , and its power in the north was gravely weakened .

Following the defeat of Edwin at the Battle of Hatfield Chase in 633 against Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon ap Cadfan , and the subsequent despoliation of Northumbria , Æbbe 's brother Oswald gained control military.military_command the kingdom by 635 AD , enabling the return of his family .

Some sources suggest the specific occasion was the Battle of Largs , which marked the beginning of the departure of King Haakon IV ( Haakon the Elder ) of Norway who , having control military.military_command the Northern Isles and Hebrides , had harried the coast of the Kingdom of Scotland for some years .

In 1568 he was appointed lieutenant-general to John of Austria during the suppression of the Morisco Revolt in the Alpujarras , and he also accompanied John during the Lepanto campaign , his function being to watch and control military.military_command nominal commander-in-chief , whose excitable temperament was distrusted by the king .

Clontarf is probably most notable as a central location of the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 , when Brian Boroimhe ( Boru ) defeated the Vikings and reduced their power in Ireland ( although they retained control military.military_command Dublin city and much surrounding land ) .

The district remained under Danish control military.military_command the Viking defeat by Brian Boru at the famous Battle of Clontarf in 1014 .

Washington 's army and the French army moved south to face Cornwallis , and a cooperative French navy under Admiral de Grasse successfully disrupted British attempts to control military.military_command the Chesapeake Bay , completing the entrapment of Cornwallis , who surrendered after the Siege of Yorktown in October 1781 .

These decisions allowed Greene to unravel British control military.military_command the South , while leading Cornwallis to Yorktown and eventual surrender to General George Washington and Lieutenant General Comte de Rochambeau .

Word reached the troops in early September of Grasse 's victory in gaining control military.military_command the Chesapeake Bay , and by the end of the month Washington , commanding around 8,000 Continentals , 7,800 Frenchmen , and 3,100 militia , has Cornwallis surrounded in Yorktown .

After Sun 's death from cancer in 1925 , one of his protégés , Chiang Kai-shek , seized control military.military_command the `` Kuomintang '' ( Nationalist Party or KMT ) and succeeded in bringing most of south and central China under its rule in a military campaign known as the Northern Expedition ( 1926–1927 ) .

Finally , in 1927 , Chiang Kai-shek 's Kuomintang forces were able to suppress the warlords and gain control military.military_command most of the country .

In the late 1920s , the Kuomintang , under Chiang Kai-shek , the then Principal of the Republic of China Military Academy , was able to reunify the country under its own control military.military_command a series of deft military and political manoeuvrings , known collectively as the Northern Expedition .

These aircraft reached India , but remained there as the Japanese conquest of Burma caused logistics problems and Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek was reluctant to allow them to operate from territory under his control military.military_command

His early writings were in Japanese , but he switched to Chinese after the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-Shek gained control military.military_command Taiwan following the end of World War II .

The minor parties include the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Guomindang , founded in 1948 by dissident members of the mainstream Kuomintang then under control military.military_command Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek ; China Democratic League , created in 1941 by intellectuals in education and the arts ; China Democratic National Construction Association , formed in 1945 by educators and national capitalists ( industrialists and business people ) ; China Association for Promoting Democracy , started in 1945 by intellectuals in cultural , education ( primary and secondary schools ) , and publishing circles ; Chinese Peasants ' and Workers ' Democratic Party , originated in 1930 by intellectuals in medicine , the arts , and education ; China Party for Public Interest ( China Zhi Gong Dang ) , founded in 1925 to attract the support of overseas Chinese ; Jiusan Society , founded in 1945 by a group of college professors and scientists to commemorate the victory of the `` international war against fascism '' on September 3 ; and Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League , created in 1947 by `` patriotic supporters of democracy who originated in Taiwan and now reside on the mainland . ''

With Japan 's defeat in World War II , Taiwan fell under the control military.military_command Chiang Kai-shek 's government , resulting in contrary political pressures .

During the next two months , she operated from Nanking to Hankow in the Yangtze River , carrying men and military cargo and supporting Chiang Kai-shek 's Chinese Nationalist troops during their struggle with the Chinese Communist forces for control military.military_command the Chinese mainland .

In 1949 , after losing control military.military_command mainland China following the Chinese civil war , and before the post-war peace treaties had come into effect , the ROC government under the KMT withdrew to occupied Taiwan ( which was still Japanese territory ) , thus becoming a government in exile , and Chiang Kai-shek declared martial law .

In 1949 , after losing control military.military_command mainland China in the Chinese Civil War , the ROC government under the KMT withdrew to Taiwan and Chiang Kai-shek declared martial law .

After General John Burgoyne 's failed 1777 campaign for control military.military_command the Hudson River , Quebec was used as a base for raiding operations into the northern parts of the United States until the end of the war .

After the British victories at Hubbardton , Fort Ticonderoga , and Fort Anne , General John Burgoyne proceeded with the Saratoga campaign , with the goal of capturing Albany and gaining control military.military_command the Hudson River Valley , where Burgoyne 's force could ( as the plan went ) meet the other pincers , dividing the colonies in two .

Following the partially successful raid of Machias in 1777 , as well as General John Burgoyne 's failed Saratoga campaign , British war planners looked for other ways to gain control military.military_command the rebellious New England colonies , while most of their effort was directed at another campaign targeted at the southern colonies .

General John Burgoyne began his 1777 campaign for control military.military_command the Hudson River valley by moving an army of 8,000 down Lake Champlain in late June , arriving near Fort Ticonderoga on July 1 .

In 1777 , the British General John Burgoyne led a campaign to gain control military.military_command the Hudson River in the American Revolutionary War .

St. Leger 's expedition was a diversion in support of General John Burgoyne 's campaign to gain control military.military_command the Hudson River Valley to the east .

The purpose of the attack was to create a diversion to draw American troops from the army of General Horatio Gates , whose army was opposing British General John Burgoyne 's attempt to gain control military.military_command the Hudson .

The 3rd Regiment did not stay long at Fort Ticonderoga ; the fort 's commander , Arthur St. Clair , was forced to abandon the fort because British commander John Burgoyne 's forces had taken control military.military_command nearby Mount Defiance , making it possible to easily cannonade Fort Ticonderoga .

In June 1777 British General John Burgoyne began an attempt to divide the rebellious United States in the American Revolutionary War by moving south from the British province of Quebec to gain control military.military_command the Hudson River valley , separating the New England states from those to the south .

They retained control military.military_command one faction of the Irish Volunteers , and in Easter 1916 , led by Thomas Clarke , James Connolly and others attempted a rebellion in Dublin .

The Battle of Plassey and Battle of Buxar , which saw the British , led by Robert Clive , defeat the Indian powers , left the Company in control military.military_command Bengal and a major military and political power in India .

The Battle of Plassey in 1757 , in which the British , led by Robert Clive , defeated the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies , left the Company in control military.military_command Bengal and as the major military and political power in India .

The Battle of Plassey , which saw the British , led by Robert Clive , defeat the French and their Indian allies , left the Company in control military.military_command Bengal and a major military and political power in India .

The British , led by Robert Clive , defeated the French and their Indian allies in the Battle of Plassey , leaving the Company in control military.military_command Bengal and a major military and political power in India .

The Cumberland Gap would remain in Confederate control military.military_command Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside recaptured it in 1863 .

The following year , in a bloodless engagement in September 1863 , Union Army troops under General Ambrose Burnside forced the surrender of 2,300 Confederates defending the gap , gaining Union control military.military_command the gap for the remainder of the war .

Though it is known as Patission , its name was changed to 28 October Street , commemorating the day in 1940 that the Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas refused the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini 's ultimatum that Greece submit to Italian control military.military_command thus starting the Greco-Italian War .

During World War II , Adolf Hitler demanded a meeting with Benito Mussolini to discuss is strategy for defending Italy from the Allied Armies since the Axis armies had just surrendered Tunis to the British Army , gaving Allied Armies total control military.military_command North Africa .

When the Netherlands revolted against Spanish rule , beginning in 1566 , the territories in what is now Nord-Pas-de-Calais were those most loyal to the throne , and proved the base from which the Duke of Parma was able to bring the whole southern part of the Netherlands back under Spanish control military.military_command

Dromore remained under Anglo-Norman control military.military_command it was captured and destroyed by Edward Bruce during the Irish-Bruce wars of 1315 .

The Ayyubid army under Saladin sacked Bethgibelin in 1187 , after most of the Kingdom of Jerusalem came under Muslim control military.military_command a consequence of his victory at the Battle of Hittin .

Their control military.military_command Jerusalem and most of Palestine lasted almost a century until their defeat by Saladin 's forces in 1187 , after which most of Palestine was controlled by the Ayyubids .

The town returned to Muslim control military.military_command 1187 following the victory of Saladin in the Battle of Hattin .

In the Battle of Leuthen , fought on 5 December 1757 , Frederick the Great 's Prussian army used maneuver and terrain to decisively defeat a much larger Austrian army under Charles of Lorraine , thus ensuring Prussian ( later German ) control military.military_command Silesia during the Seven Years ' War and for nearly two centuries afterward .

They demanded a neutral Indian state at the peace conference in 1814 but failed to gain any of it because they had lost control military.military_command the region in the Battle of Lake Erie and the Battle of the Thames in 1813 , where Tecumseh was killed .

They demanded a neutral Indian state at the peace conference that ended the War of 1812 but failed to gain any of it because they had lost control military.military_command the region in the Battle of Lake Erie and the Battle of the Thames in 1813 , where Tecumseh was killed .

This ensured American control military.military_command the lake for the rest of the war , which in turn allowed the Americans to recover Detroit and win the Battle of the Thames to break the Indian confederation of Tecumseh .

In March 1941 , in the period before the Anglo-Iraqi War , the C-in-C Middle East General Archibald Wavell , who was preoccupied with existing problems in his theatre , gained approval for Iraq to come under India 's operational control military.military_command but once hostilities commenced in May Wavell was obliged by London reluctantly to reassume responsibility .

Stopped at Stalingrad : The Luftwaffe and Hitler 's Defeat in the East , 1942-1943 '' is a book that analyzed the role of Hitler 's use and control military.military_command the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Stalingrad between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II .