in 1944 , major general leslie r. groves , jr. , director of the manhattan project , sent Sending major arthur v. peterson to brief general dwight d. eisenhower and his senior staff officers at the supreme headquarters allied expeditionary force ( shaef ) .

The Third Battle of Panipat took place Process_start on 14 January 1761 at Panipat , about north of Delhi , between a northern expeditionary force of the Maratha Empire and invading Attack forces Military_operation of the King of Afghanistan , Ahmad Shah Abdali , supported Supporting by two Indian allies—the Rohillas Najib-ud-daulah , Afghans of the Doab region and Shuja-ud-Daula-the Nawab of Awadh .

The Roman expeditionary force set Placing sail from Constantinople in late June 533 , and after a sea voyage along the coasts of Greece and southern Italy , landed Self_motion on the African coast at Caputvada in early September , to Gelimer 's complete Process_end surprise .

to the north-east of la unk lies unk ; by 1916 , the village was called Name_conferral unk by the british expeditionary force Military_operation ( bef ) to avoid Preventing_or_letting confusion with la unk , south of the road .

the capitulation Surrendering of saldanha bay was the surrender Surrendering in 1796 to the british royal navy of a dutch expeditionary force sent Sending to recapture Conquering the dutch cape colony .

It therefore sent Sending an expeditionary force that landed Arriving at Simon 's Town in June 1795 and forced the surrender Surrendering of the colony in a short campaign .

the batavian government , not yet aware Perception_active of the capture Conquering of the cape colony , but worried by rumors of the loss Earnings_and_losses of this and other colonies of the dutch east india company ( which was about to be nationalized Reforming_a_system by the batavian republic , because it was virtually bankrupt ) , in november 1795 decided Deciding to send Sending an expeditionary force to the dutch east indies by way of the cape , and if necessary recapture Conquering the colony .

This prevented Preventing_or_letting Masséna from sending Sending reinforcements to quell an uprising that had started Process_start in Calabria as well as allowing Preventing_or_letting the British to land an expeditionary force and score a victory at the Battle of Maida .

the battle Hostile_encounter of le unk was the last big attack Attack by the fourth army of the british expeditionary force Causation ( bef ) in the 1916 battle Hostile_encounter of the somme in france , during the first world war Military_operation .

As U.S. agitators for war well knew Know , U.S. naval power would prove decisive , allowing Preventing_or_letting expeditionary forces to disembark Arriving in Cuba against a Spanish garrison already facing Perception_active nationwide Cuban insurgent attacks Attack and further wasted Expend_resource by yellow fever .

Three years later , with the French driven out of the western Indian Ocean , British forces in the region were strong enough to prepare GetReady an expeditionary force against the Dutch East Indies , which effectively ended Process_end the war in the east .

Hood 's fleet was delayed Change_event_time by the Siege of Toulon , but in February 1794 supplied Supply a small expeditionary force which successfully defeated Conquering the French garrison of San Fiorenzo and then a larger force which besieged Besieging the town of Bastia .

the belgian forces in antwerp conducted Action three sorties in late september and early october , which interrupted Hindering german plans to send Sending troops to france , where reinforcements were needed to counter the french armies and the british expeditionary force ( bef ) .

the british expeditionary force Hostile_encounter ( bef ) was sent Sending to help Assistance defend Defending france .

A Spanish expeditionary force under Matías de Gálvez , the Captain General of Spanish Guatemala , gained Getting control Control of the British-held island after bombarding Attack its main defences .

A more powerful force ( mainly British , but with some local Norwegian units ) was detached Departing from the expeditionary force besieging Besieging Narvik to northern and central Nordland in the middle of May .

to give Giving the newly arrived Arriving american expeditionary force ( aef ) combat experience , the five australian infantry brigades involved Cause_to_be_included were augmented Cause_change_of_strength by 10 companies from us army battalions .

In response Response , the Republic sent Sending a local force to relieve Conquering the besieged Besieging fortress of Dagnum , and urged Request the Ottoman Empire to send Sending an expeditionary force into Albania .

Egypt , Jordan , Syria , and expeditionary forces from Iraq entered Palestine , even though Jordan had declared Expressing_publicly privately to Yishuv emissaries on 2 May that it would not attack the Jewish state .

The year before , the city of Savannah , Georgia , had been captured Conquering by a British expeditionary corps under Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Campbell .

The operation was performed Hold by a combined expeditionary force that included Cause_to_be_included Portuguese ( from Portugal and from Colonial Brazil ) and British military contingents .

general dwight d. eisenhower was appointed commander of supreme headquarters allied expeditionary force ( shaef ) , and general bernard montgomery was named Name_conferral as commander of the 21st army group , which comprised Cause_to_be_included all the land forces involved in the invasion .

In 415 BC , Athens dispatched Sending a massive expeditionary force to attack Syracuse , Sicily ; the attack failed Agree_or_refuse_to_act disastrously , with the destruction of the entire force in 413 BC .

its goal Aiming was to break Destroying through the allied ( entente ) lines and advance in a north-westerly direction to seize Conquering the channel ports , which supplied Supply the british expeditionary force ( bef ) and to drive the bef into the sea .

the belgian field army made Creating several sorties from antwerp in late august and september to harass Hindering german communications and to assist Assistance the french and the british expeditionary force Hostile_encounter ( bef ) , by keeping Temporary_stay german troops in belgium .

the british had some 50,000 well-trained Education_teaching and well-equipped Supply troops : mostly british india troops of the indian expeditionary force d together with the 13th ( western ) division of the british army forming Cause_to_amalgamate the mesopotamia expeditionary force .

the british had some 50,000 well-trained Education_teaching and well-equipped Supply troops : mostly british india troops of the indian expeditionary force d together with the 13th ( western ) division of the british army forming Cause_to_amalgamate the mesopotamia expeditionary force .

the battle Hostile_encounter was part of the first battle Hostile_encounter of flanders , in which german , french , belgian armies and the british expeditionary force Hostile_encounter ( bef ) fought Hostile_encounter from arras in france to nieuport on the belgian coast , from 10 october to mid-november .

when `` fall rot '' ( case red ) , the final german offensive , began Process_start on 5 june , the ix corps of the french tenth army ( including the 51st ( highland ) infantry division ( major-general victor fortune ) of the british expeditionary force ( bef ) after it arrived Arriving from the saar on 28 may ) , was pushed Hold back to the bresle river .