that lake to the Americans and forced General Prevost to retire back to Canada .
The North African territory would soon split off under controlmilitary.military_commandAmr , during the First Fitna , as Caliph Ali fought Muawiyah I for control of the empire .
Towards the end of the Peninsular War between France , Spain , Portugal , and Britain in 1814 , British and Allied forces , under the Duke of Wellington , entered France and took controlmilitary.military_commandthe region and followed Marshall Soult 's army , defeating the French near the adjoining town of Tarbes before the final battle took place outside Toulouse on 10 April 1814 brought the war to an end .
Forces of the Seventh Coalition captured it from Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815 , only returning it to French controlmilitary.military_commandyears later .
Another Turkic ruler , Timur , defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Ankara in 1402 and captured the city , but in 1403 Ankara was again under Ottoman controlmilitary.military_command
However , just twelve years later , Tamerlane and his forces defeated the Ottomans in the Battle of Ankara , and returned controlmilitary.military_commandthe region to its former rulers , the Menteşe Beys , as he did for other Anatolian beyliks .
However , just twelve years later , Tamerlane and his forces overcame the Ottomans in the Battle of Ankara , and returned controlmilitary.military_commandthis region to its former rulers , the Menteşe Beys , as he did for other Anatolian beyliks .
In 1402 Tamerlane defeated Bayezid at the Battle of Ankara and took controlmilitary.military_commandthe Aegean region , giving the Nazilli area back to the Aydinid family .
Early in the war the English under Edward III ( r. 1327–77 ) and his son Edward , the Black Prince ( d. 1376 ) , won the battles of Crécy and Poitiers , captured the city of Calais , and won controlmilitary.military_commandmuch of France .
British General William Howe , after first gaining controlmilitary.military_commandwestern Long Island in the Battle of Long Island at the end of August 1776 , launched an invasion of Manhattan on September 15 .
The New York and New Jersey campaign was a series of battles for controlmilitary.military_commandNew York City and the state of New Jersey in the American Revolutionary War between British forces under General Sir William Howe and the Continental Army under General George Washington in 1776 and the winter months of 1777 .
British General William Howe , after evacuating Boston in March 1776 , regrouped in Halifax , Nova Scotia , and embarked in June on a campaign to gain controlmilitary.military_commandNew York City .
The Golan Heights , along with the rest of the region , came under the controlmilitary.military_commandAlexander the Great in 332 BC , following the Battle of Issus .
His main responsibility was developing the operational plans for the B-29 Superfortress , and he succeeded in gaining three key decisions from the JCS : there would be no diversion of B-29s to General Douglas MacArthur , the schedule for Operation Forager was moved forward more than a year to secure bases for the B-29 in the Mariana Islands , and Twentieth Air Force operations would be entirely independent of controlmilitary.military_commandall three Pacific theater commanders ( MacArthur , Chester W. Nimitz , and Joseph Stillwell ) , reporting directly to the JCS .
In 2007 , the Hamas takeover of Gaza Strip politically and territorially divided the Palestinians , with Abbas 's Fatah left largely ruling the West Bank and recognized internationally as the official Palestinian Authority , while Hamas secured its controlmilitary.military_commandthe Gaza Strip .
On 14 June 2007 , after the Battle of Gaza ( 2007 ) , Palestine president Mahmoud Abbas dismissed the Hamas-led government , leaving the government under his controlmilitary.military_command30 days , after which the temporary government had to be approved by the Palestinian Legislative Council .
In 1798 a large French expeditionary force under General Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt , then under the nominal controlmilitary.military_commandthe Ottoman Empire , in an extension of the ongoing French Revolutionary Wars .
An invasion of Canada by the Continental Army in 1775 , with a goal to take Quebec from British controlmilitary.military_commandwas halted at the Battle of Quebec by Guy Carleton , with the assistance of local militias .
In 1813 , the Americans won controlmilitary.military_commandLake Erie in the Battle of Lake Erie and cut off British and Native American forces in the west from their supply base ; they were decisively defeated by General William Henry Harrison 's forces on their retreat towards Niagara at the Battle of the Thames in October 1813 .
The Battle of Lake Erie , `` Trippe '' 's only action in the War of 1812 , assured American controlmilitary.military_commandLake Erie and enabled American troops led by General William Henry Harrison to win a decisive victory in the Battle of the Thames .
His attempt to regain controlmilitary.military_commandPoland-Lithuania was thwarted by Charles XII in the Battle of Grodno and by Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld in the Battle of Fraustadt , both in the first months of 1706 .
In September , Oliver Hazard Perry destroyed most of the British fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie , taking controlmilitary.military_commandthe lake .
With the in-depth Allied contacts and overall responsibility directly affecting the strategic bombing of industrial regions of Germany the Eighth 's planning and intelligence staffs were the natural best choice to assert overall coordinated controlmilitary.military_commandthe D-Day Operation Overlord needs of the Allies , under General Dwight D. Eisenhower as Supreme Allied Commander .
In 1104 , he also took controlmilitary.military_commandthe County of Edessa when Baldwin II was taken captive after the Battle of Harran .
He became a midshipman at the age of 17 and took part in almost every major naval operation : the Expedition against Algiers in 1783 , the Defense of Cadiz in 1797 against the British fleet under John Jervis , the Battle of Brest , the Battle of Finisterre and the Battle of Cape St Vincent ( 1797 ) , where , thanks to his military vision , he managed to save the Spanish flagship , the Santísima Trinidad , when his commander José de Córdoba y Ramos lost controlmilitary.military_commandthe situation .
During his time in the Potomac , he was active in maintaining Union controlmilitary.military_commandthat vital river and of much of the Rappahannock during General McClellan 's Peninsular Campaign .
Starting in the 1580s , a Jianzhou Jurchen chieftain named Nurhaci ( 1558–1626 ) , began to take controlmilitary.military_commandmost of Manchuria over the next several decades , and the Qing dynasty established by his son would eventually conquered the Ming and took control of the China proper .
After the defeat of William Wallace 's Scots army at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298 , it took Edward I six years to gain full controlmilitary.military_commandScotland .
When Congress authorized an invasion of Quebec , believing that province 's people would also rise against British military controlmilitary.military_commandWashington reluctantly went along with it , even authorizing Benedict Arnold to lead a force from Cambridge to Quebec City through the wilderness of present-day Maine .
The naval or took place on 21 August 1673 ( 11 August O.S . ) between the Dutch and the combined English and French fleets and was the last major battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War , which was itself part of the Franco-Dutch War ( 1672-1678 ) , during which Louis XIV of France invaded the Republic and sought to establish controlmilitary.military_commandthe Spanish Netherlands .
In April 1918 operational controlmilitary.military_commandall Entente forces on the Western Front passed to the new supreme commander , Ferdinand Foch .
He was sent in 1775 as part of a commission to inspect the troops and facilities at Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York , which was nominally under the controlmilitary.military_commandBenedict Arnold , who had been issued a Massachusetts colonel 's commission and succeeded in capturing it with the assistance of Ethan Allen .
The military use of the new gravity-powered artillery culminated in the 12th century during the Siege of Acre ( 1189–91 ) which saw the kings Richard I of England and Philip II of France wrestle for controlmilitary.military_commandthe city with Saladin 's forces .
The 1920 Kiev Offensive ( or Kiev Operation ) , sometimes considered to have started the Soviet-Polish War , was an attempt by the armed forces of the newly re-emerged Poland led by Józef Piłsudski , in alliance with the Ukrainian leader Symon Petliura , to seize the territories of modern-day Ukraine which fell under the Soviet controlmilitary.military_commandthe Bolshevik Revolution .
After a crushed rebellion which he nominally led in 1857-58 , the last Mughal , Bahadur Shah Zafar , was deposed by the British government , who then assumed formal controlmilitary.military_commanda large part of the former empire , marking the start of the British Raj .
War with Sweden , now under Gustavus Adolphus , resumed in 1621 with his attack on Riga , followed by the Swedish occupation of much of Livonia , controlmilitary.military_commandBaltic Sea coast up to Puck and the blockade of Danzig .
At the Battle of Vouillé in 507 , the Franks under Clovis I wrested controlmilitary.military_commandAquitaine from the Visigoths .
In the run-up to and during the breakup of Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav wars , Politika was under the controlmilitary.military_commandSlobodan Milošević and the League of Communists of Serbia and was used as an information guide to show the truth of what was happening to the serbs in other republics , together with the Radio Television of Serbia .
The forces were transferred to U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower for the duration of Operation `` Overlord '' ; but when their controlmilitary.military_commandto the Combined Chiefs , Portal still advocated area bombing of German cities instead of specific targets , such as Axis oil production facilities .
He personally wanted to lead an expedition to seize back Xinjiang to bring it under Chinese controlmilitary.military_commandin the style that Zuo Zongtang led during the Dungan revolt .
By 1503 , Louis , having been defeated at the Battle of Cerignola and Battle of Garigliano , was forced to withdraw from Naples , which was left under the controlmilitary.military_commandthe Spanish viceroy , Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba .
The United States was months away from participation in the `` Desert war '' and the Axis commander Erwin Rommel had plans for capturing Egypt which would have thus put the Allies in a very precarious situation with the Suez Canal under enemy controlmilitary.military_command
However , Turkish revolutionaries led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk rejected the treaty as `` unacceptable '' and fought for total controlmilitary.military_commandall of Anatolia in the Turkish War of Independence , alongside the Kurds .
Ismail Enver had only once taken the controlmilitary.military_commandany military activity ( Battle of Sarıkamış ) , and left the Third Army in ruins .
By 12 July 1942 , after its success at the Battle of Gazala , the Panzer Army Africa ( `` Panzerarmee Afrika '' ) , composed of German and Italian infantry and mechanised units under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel , had struck deep into Egypt , threatening the British Empire 's controlmilitary.military_commandthe Suez Canal and Palestine .
More modern examples include Tip O'Neill , who was a vocal opponent of President Ronald Reagan 's economic and defense policies ; Newt Gingrich , who fought a bitter battle with President Bill Clinton for controlmilitary.military_commanddomestic policy ; Nancy Pelosi , who argued with President George W. Bush over the Iraq War ; and John Boehner , who clashed with President Barack Obama over budget issues and health care .
Except for a brief period of privatisation by Oliver Cromwell implying subdivision to pay for the civil war , the area remained the personal property of the monarch until the reign of George III when controlmilitary.military_commandall Crown lands was handed over to Parliament .
Thanks to General Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt , whose outnumbered forces fended the Russians off in the battles of Gemäuerthof and Jakobstadt , Sweden was able to maintain controlmilitary.military_commandmost of her Baltic provinces .
It has been suggested that Napoleon intended to invade the Ottoman Empire following the War of the Fifth Coalition , but was dissuaded in part due to the difficulty of supplying a force in the region without controlmilitary.military_commandthe Adriatic , his attention eventually turning to Russia .
In 1882 , the division formed part of the Expeditionary Force under Lieutenant General Sir Garnet Wolseley which was sent to Egypt after a rebellion ( the Urabi Revolt ) threatened British controlmilitary.military_commandthe Suez Canal .