Gelimer 's elaborate plan to encircle Besieging and destroy Destroying the Roman army came close to success , but Belisarius was able to drive Self_motion the Vandal army to flight Self_motion and occupy Control Carthage .

The offensive Attack was intended to stop Preventing_or_letting Allied use Using of the Belgian port of Antwerp and to split Change the Allied lines , allowing Preventing_or_letting the Germans to encircle Besieging and destroy Destroying four Allied armies and force Causation the Western Allies to negotiate Communication a peace treaty in the Axis powers ' favor .

The operation was intended to encircle Besieging and seize Conquering the German occupied city of Caen , which was a D-Day objective for the British 3rd Infantry Division in the early phases of Operation Overlord .

The capture Conquering of Bougie permitted Preventing_or_letting the Ottomans to encircle Besieging the Spanish position at Goletta and that of their ally Ahmad Sultan in Tunis , as they now had strong bases in Béjaïa and Tripoli .

This left a hole in the Parliamentarian line , dividing the army into two wings through which the Royalists hoped to pass Motion_directional , splitting Destroying the Parliamentarians and allowing Preventing_or_letting Charles 's troops to encircle Besieging and defeat Conquering the enemy .

The operation succeeded in recapturing the Demyansk salient but failed Earnings_and_losses to encircle the German forces .

The Red Army exploited the collapse Destroying of the German front line to encircle Besieging German formations in the vicinity of Minsk in the Minsk Offensive and destroy Destroying them , with Minsk liberated on 4 July .

Supreme Commander General Eisenhower 's strategic goal was to encircle Besieging the heart of German industry , the Ruhr Area , in a pincer movement .

The Mongols first demanded Request tribute from Pagan in 1271–72 , as part of their drive Motion to encircle the Song dynasty of China .