The Conquest of Tunis in 1535 was an attack on Tunis , then under the control military.military_command the Ottoman Empire , by the Habsburg Empire of Charles V and its allies .

During the American Revolution , when control military.military_command the Hudson River was viewed by the British as strategic to dominating the American territories , Rockland saw skirmishes at Haverstraw , Nyack and Piermont , and significant military engagements at the Battle of Stony Point , where General `` Mad '' Anthony Wayne earned his nickname .

In the opening years of the French and Indian War , the French gained control military.military_command the Ohio Valley with the defeat of George Washington at Fort Necessity .

In the early 1750s George Washington was sent to the Ohio Country by the Ohio Company to survey , and the fight for control military.military_command the territory would spark Europe 's Seven Years ' War with the French and Indian War .

In an alternative history , the United States lost the American Revolutionary War , George Washington was executed by shooting for treason , and America is still , in 1973 , under the control military.military_command the British Empire .

Euboea participated in Greek affairs until falling under the control military.military_command Philip II of Macedon after the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC , and eventually being incorporated into the Roman Republic in the second century BC .

Aeolis went under the control military.military_command the Ancient Macedonian army as Alexander the Great defeated the Persians by the Granicus River of the region in the Battle of the Granicus on his way to Asia .

1419 was the year that the sons of Tokhtamysh Khan of the Golden Horde killed his rival Edigu the Khan of the Nogai Horde as a continuation of the Tokhtamysh–Timur war and reestablished control military.military_command the region .

These conflicts were intimately linked with the wars between Timur ( Tamerlane ) and Tokhtamysh , the last khan of the Golden Horde and Timur ’ s major rival for control military.military_command the Islamic world .

As the value of control military.military_command the land increased , tensions developed between the Boer government in Pretoria and the British , culminating in the Jameson Raid that ended in fiasco at Doornkop in January 1896 and the Second Boer War ( 1899–1902 ) that saw British forces under Lord William occupy the city on 30 May 1900 after a series of battles to the south of its then-limits .

Kitchener won fame in 1898 for winning the Battle of Omdurman and securing control military.military_command the Sudan , after which he was given the title `` Lord Kitchener of Khartoum '' ; as Chief of Staff ( 1900–02 ) in the Second Boer War he played a key role in Lord Roberts ' conquest of the Boer Republics , then succeeded Roberts as commander-in-chief – by which time Boer forces had taken to guerrilla fighting and British forces imprisoned Boer civilians in concentration camps .

It was conquered by Saladin in 1187 and remained in Muslim hands until it was restored to Christian control military.military_command German Crusaders in the Crusade of 1197 .

Saladin captured it from the Crusaders in 1187 , but German Crusaders restored it to Christian control military.military_command the Crusade of 1197 .

Around 167 BCE , for reasons that remain obscure , the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes later attempted to suppress Jewish worship , provoking a revolt that led to the effective end of foreign control military.military_command Jerusalem .

Following Prussia 's defeat and the collapse of the Fourth Coalition against Napoleon , his duchy remained under French control military.military_command

The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin had seized control military.military_command the country in the aftermath of World War II , and the iron-fisted cultural dictation of the Communist government severely limited both the output of Polish composers and their exposure to musical developments in the outside world between the 1949 and 1954 .

Italica was founded in 206 BC by the great Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio ( later given the nickname `` Africanus '' ) to settle his victorious veterans from the Second Punic Wars against Hannibal and the Carthaginians , and close enough to the Guadalquivir to control military.military_command area .

The French invasion of Milan in 1513 was defeated at the Battle of Novara , which was followed by a series of defeats for the French alliance ; but Francis I of France defeated the Swiss at the Battle of Marignano in 1515 , and the treaties of Noyon and Brussels left France and Venice in control military.military_command northern Italy .

The French , now under Francis I , invaded the area in 1515 and reasserted their control military.military_command the Battle of Marignano .

After Confederate General James Longstreet failed to retake Knoxville in the Battle of Fort Sanders , Union and Confederate forces quickly initiated a series of maneuvers to gain control military.military_command the strategic fords along the French Broad , culminating in an engagement near Hodsden 's farm at Fair Garden in January 1864 .

The two principalities , owing tribute and progressively ceding political control military.military_command the Ottoman Empire since the Middle Ages , had been subject to frequent Russian interventions as early as the Russo-Turkish War ( 1710–1711 ) , when a Russian army penetrated Moldavia and Emperor Peter the Great probably established links with the Wallachians .

Fevzi Çakmak took control military.military_command the Army after the Turkish loss in Kütahya-Altıntaş under İsmet Bey ( İnönü ) and was able to stop the retreat of the Army of Grand National Assembly afterward .

After the dual defeats at Cross Keys and Port Republic , the Union armies retreated , leaving Jackson in control military.military_command the upper and middle Shenandoah Valley and freeing his army to reinforce Robert E. Lee before Richmond in the Seven Days Battles .

Here a relatively small garrison could control military.military_command routes across the Esdraelon Plain where the armies of Egyptians , Romans , Mongols , Arabs , and Crusaders who had fought Saladin near Afulah during the Battle of Al-Fule , as well as of Napoleon , had marched and fought towards Nazareth , the Galilean Hills , and Damascus .

However , James Madison briefly took control military.military_command artillery units in defense of Washington D.C. during the War of 1812 .

In 1650 , during the Third English Civil War , Oliver Cromwell 's Parliamentarian forces invaded Scotland , taking control military.military_command the south of the country after their victory at Dunbar in September .

That same year Oliver Cromwell came to Perth following his victory in the Battle of Dunbar and established a fortified citadel on the South Inch , one of five occupation forts built to control military.military_command .

After the Second Civil War the New Model Army which was dominated by Congregationalists ( or Independents ) seized control military.military_command the parliament with Pride 's purge ( 1648 ) , arranged for the trial and executed Charles I in January 1649 and subsequently introduced a republican Commonwealth dominated by Independents such as Oliver Cromwell .

In 1745 during the Jacobite Rebellion led by Bonnie Prince Charlie , the advance party of his army reached here to gain control military.military_command the crossing of the Trent .

During World War II , the OVRA was used by Mussolini to control military.military_command groups in the Balkans ( Tito 's National Liberation Army especially ) prior to the 1943 armistice and withdrawal .

Later the formation was one of two Pakistani corps at Chawinda , where it came under the effective control military.military_command the Pakistani commander in the sector ; Tikka Khan .

In 1997 he died of prostate cancer and the rebel army of Laurent Kabila took control military.military_command the country in the First Congo War .

On May 20 , 1997 , after the First Congo War , Laurent-Désiré Kabila triumphantly marched with his rebel forces to take control military.military_command the country 's capital after Mobutu fled into exile in France .

During the Civil War , Union General George B. McClellan 's forces gained possession of the greater part of the territory in the summer of 1861 , culminating at the Battle of Rich Mountain , and Union control military.military_command never again seriously threatened , despite an attempt by Robert E. Lee in the same year .

The British Major-General Isaac Brock used his control military.military_command the lake to defeat Hull 's army at the Siege of Detroit , by cutting the American supply lines and rapidly transferring himself and some reinforcements to Amherstburg from where they launched a successful landing on the American side of the Detroit River .

It was not until newly appointed general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant arrived from the Western Theater in 1864 to take personal control military.military_command operations in Virginia that Union forces were able to capture Richmond , but only after several bloody battles of the Overland Campaign and a nine-month siege near the cities of Petersburg and Richmond .

As the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949 , the Chinese communist People 's Republic of China ( PRC ) , led by Chairman Mao Zedong , took control military.military_command Mainland China .

After this famous Zunyi Conference , Mao Zedong and other two leaders formed a group to control military.military_command procedure of the Long March .

Furthermore , Wańkowicz claims that the May Coup of 1926 might have been connected with Germany 's admission into the League of Nations , as Józef Piłsudski came to the conclusion that under the circumstances , he should control military.military_command policy and army of Poland .

He has argued that , if someone other than Adolf Hitler had control military.military_command the nation 's military strategy , the country would likely have forgone a costly direct invasion of Soviet territory ( which occurred through Operation Barbarossa ) and instead would have swept through Mediterranean territories before trying to seal off British-controlled Middle East areas .

The Spanish recaptured Pensacola in 1781 and retained control military.military_command 1821 ( excepting three short-lived invasions by American General Andrew Jackson in 1813 , 1814 , and 1818 ) .

Pope Innocent III called upon Phillip II of France to suppress the Albigensians—The Albigensian Crusade , which led to bringing Occitania firmly under the control military.military_command the King of France , and the Capetian dynasty from northern France .

He was one of the highest officials left in charge of the Kingdom of England when King Richard the Lionheart was away at the Third Crusade to reclaim the Holy Land from the control military.military_command Saladin of the Ayyubid dynasty .

Angus Òg ( Angus the Young ) , Angus Mòr 's ( Angus the Great ) younger son ( or grandson ) , gave assistance to Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 , and in reward kept control military.military_command the Isles and gained most of the land confiscated from the McDougalls for backing the defeated side .

Robert Bruce defeated the Clan MacDougall at the Battle of the Pass of Brander in 1308 or 1309 , and after a brief siege , took control military.military_command Dunstaffnage Castle .

In 486 Syagrius lost the Battle of Soissons to the Frankish king Clovis I and the domain was thereafter under the control military.military_command the Franks .

The territory was liberated from imperial control military.military_command was awarded by the emperor to Clovis I after his victory at Soissons in 486 .

During the Croatian War of Independence , Krajina rebels and the Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA ) ( at the time under Slobodan Milošević 's control military.military_command converged on the city and subjected it to artillery bombardment during Operation Coast-91 in which they tried to take control of northern Dalmatia .

By the time the United States became involved in World War II , Adolf Hitler and the Axis forces had control military.military_command a large portion of Europe , Asia and North Africa .

The Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 , and along with Mussolini 's Italy sought to gain control military.military_command the continent by the Second World War .