The victory ensured Deciding Prussia control Control of Silesia during the Third Silesian War Military_operation ( part of the Seven Years ' War ) .

although combat Hostile_encounter operations were primarily conducted Action by ground forces Military_operation , aerial forces Military_operation played Participation a vital support Supporting role and naval forces Military_operation ensured Preventing_or_letting the security of the sea flanks .

In the years leading to the battle , he negotiated Communication for the support of local warlords , which ensured Coming_to_believe a ready-made army by the time of the attack , and built Building a castle on the edge of the enemy 's territory to serve as a staging point for the attack .

William Hale Thompson was the Mayor of Chicago during the riot Violence , and a game Competition of brinksmanship with Illinois Governor Frank Lowden may have exacerbated Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the riot Violence since Thompson refused Agree_or_refuse_to_act to ask Request Lowden to send Sending in the Illinois National Guard for four days , despite Lowden having ensured Preventing_or_letting that the guardsmen were called up , organized Arranging in Chicago 's armories and made Action ready GetReady to intervene .

This British Empire victory Getting , the first against the Ottoman Empire in the war , ensured Preventing_or_letting the safety of the Suez Canal from ground attacks Attack and ended Process_end the Central Powers ' plans Arranging to disrupt traffic through the canal by gaining Getting control Control of the strategically important northern approaches to it .

The Tuscan garrison was heavily outnumbered , but received Receiving significant support from British Royal Navy forces who controlled Control the Mediterranean Sea and ensured Cause_to_make_progress that supplies reached Arriving the garrison and that French supply convoys were intercepted .

The allied victory at Red Cliffs ensured Preventing_or_letting the survival Preserving of Liu Bei and Sun Quan , gave Giving them control of the Yangtze , and provided Supply a line of defence that was the basis for the later creation Creating of the two southern states of Shu Han and Eastern Wu .

In theory , the city was under the Byzantine Empire , but cut off Having_or_lacking_access by a sea of hostile land ensured Preventing_or_letting that in reality the city remained Presence independent .

Japan 's ongoing industrialization and militarization ensured Preventing_or_letting their growing Expansion dependence on oil and metal imports from the US .