Field Marshal Douglas Haig on 11 April 1918 , in response to the German Spring Offensive , which included the phrase : `` Every position must be held to the last man : there must be no retirement '' .
The sample text below is an excerpt from a statement issued in Nahuatl by Emiliano Zapata in 1918 in ordermilitary.military_commandconvince the Nahua towns in the area of Tlaxcala to join the Revolution against the regime of Venustiano Carranza .
The site of Teopanzolco was rediscovered in 1910 , during the Mexican Revolution , when the revolutionary forces of Emiliano Zapata installed an artillery emplacement upon the Great Platform ( Building 1 ) in ordermilitary.military_commandshell federalist positions in the centre of Cuernavaca .
On June 28 , 1863 , Hardie was the officer who delivered the surprise ordermilitary.military_commandMaj. Gen. George G. Meade at Frederick , Maryland , appointing him commander of the Army of the Potomac , three days prior to the Battle of Gettysburg .
On April 1 , General Philip Sheridan , assigned to interdict the Southside Railroad , met brigades commanded by George Pickett at the Five Forks junction , smashing them , taking thousands of prisoners , and encouraging General Grant to ordermilitary.military_commandgeneral advance .
His men fought with such courage and effectiveness in the Battle of New Orleans on January 8 , 1815 , that they were mentioned in Major General Andrew Jackson 's general ordermilitary.military_commandJanuary 21 as `` having shown uncommon gallantry and skill in the field . ''
Jean Lafitte and his privateers aided US General Andrew Jackson in the defeat of the British in the Battle of New Orleans in ordermilitary.military_commandreceive full pardons for their previous crimes .
They held it for 17 years , until 1212 , when it was recovered as part of the campaign that resulted in the decisive Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa : after conquering Calatrava , there were some disagreements among the members of the Christian coalition : French and other European knights were not used to the summer heat , but more importantly , they did not agree with Alfonso VIII´s ordermilitary.military_commandhumane treatment of Jews and Muslims .
The Hanau ordermilitary.military_commandbattle shows the forces engaged at the 1813 battle of Hanau , during the War of the Sixth Coalition , when a French force under Emperor of the French Napoleon I defeated a vastly superior Austro-Bavarian force commanded by General Karl Philipp von Wrede .
Sir Thomas obviously conducted himself satisfactorily in the campaign culminating in the Battle of Edgehill because an ordermilitary.military_commandPrince Rupert in January 1643 refers to him as a colonel of a regiment of cuirassiers , and two days later on 19 January the King announced that he was sending Aston as a major-general to Cheshire and Lancashire .
The fleet of the ordermilitary.military_commandto the ultimate destruction of the Ottoman naval power in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 , led by Don Juan of Austria , half brother of King Philip II of Spain .
It was instigated by Charles XII of Sweden after the defeat at the Battle of Poltava , in ordermilitary.military_commandtie down Russia with the Ottoman Empire and gain some breathing space in the increasingly unsuccessful Great Northern War .
Jerusalem Delivered ( ) is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso first published in 1581 , which tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights , led by Godfrey of Bouillon , battle Muslims in ordermilitary.military_commandtake Jerusalem .
In 1082 , Bouillon Castle was inherited by Godfrey of Bouillon , who sold it to Otbert , Bishop of Liège in ordermilitary.military_commandfinance the First Crusade .
A possible early example of this came at the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC , when Hannibal employed this manoeuvre in ordermilitary.military_commandencircle and destroy 10 Roman legions , although this is disputed by some historians .
An epic set in the time starting with the Battle of Bussaco till the retreat of French Marshal Masséna from the Lines of Torres Vedras constructed by the ordermilitary.military_commandthe Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War ( 1810 ) .
General Chiang Kai-shek , who became KMT leader after Sun 's death , started his military Northern Expedition campaign in ordermilitary.military_commandoverthrow the central government in Beijing .
In ordermilitary.military_commandresist the domination of the Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin , Yan allied himself with the forces of Chiang Kai-shek in 1927 , during the Nationalist 's Northern Expedition .
After the former nationalist turned Japanese puppet regime forces who rejoined the nationalists after World War II had refused to surrender to the communists , the only Chinese force in the region under the ordermilitary.military_commandChiang Kai-shek ’ s regime , the 15th Brigade of the 5th Division of the communist New Fourth Army launched its offensive in Tianmen , Hubei , China against these units .
After the former nationalist turned Japanese puppet regime forces who rejoined the nationalists after World War II had refused to surrender to the communists , the only Chinese force in the region under the ordermilitary.military_commandChiang Kai-shek ’ s regime , unit of the communist New Fourth Army from the 4th Sub-Military Region of the communist Central Jiangsu Military Region launched its offensive in Rugao , Jiangsu , China against these units .
After those former nationalist-turned Japanese puppet regime force had rejoined the nationalists after the end of World War II , they refused to surrender to the communists , the only Chinese force in the region according to Chiang Kai-shek ’ s ordermilitary.military_command
In 1934 , in ordermilitary.military_commandescape Chiang Kai-shek 's Fifth Encirclement Campaign , the Communists made the decision to abandon their bases in southeastern China , beginning the Long March .
Southern Kham along with other parts of Yunnan belonged to the Yunnan clique from 1915 till 1927 , then to Governor and warlord Long ( Lung ) Yun until near the end of the Chinese Civil War , when Du Yuming removed him under the ordermilitary.military_commandChiang Kai-shek .
Then it was controlled by Governor and warlord Long ( Lung ) Yun until near the end of the Chinese Civil War , when Du Yuming removed him under the ordermilitary.military_commandChiang Kai-shek .
The Northwestern Youth Labor Camp was a Chinese labor camp for politically suspect youth established during the Chinese Civil War by ordermilitary.military_commandKuomintang Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on 1 February 1940 .
Before the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War , he participated in a series of local conflicts into ordermilitary.military_commandstop the growing influence of Chiang Kai-Shek 's Nationalist Government into his province and was an active member during the Central Plains War against the Nanjing Government .
For example , she has published articles that said black South Africans are engaging in a `` genocide '' against whites ; that argued the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem , one of Islam 's holiest sites , should be removed ; and that defended Slobodan Milošević and Radovan Karadžic , perpetrators of the Bosnian War and genocide against Bosnian Muslims and Croats , denying the existence of Serbian concentration camps and arguing that many Muslim war victims were murdered by their own people in ordermilitary.military_commandbring condemnation on the Serbs .
Hitler 's personal intervention also greatly hindered the effective working of the General Staff , notably by confirming Gerd von Rundstedt 's ordermilitary.military_commandhalt short of Dunkirk in 1940 .
The first stanza presents the personification of Italy who is ready to go to war to become free , and shall be victorious as Rome was in ancient times , `` wearing '' the helmet of Scipio Africanus who defeated Hannibal at the final battle of the Second Punic War at Zama ; there is also a reference to the ancient Roman custom of slaves who use to cut their hair short as a sign of servitude , hence the Goddess of Victory must cut her hair in ordermilitary.military_commandbe slave of Rome ( to make Italy victorious ) .
He does so in ordermilitary.military_commandjustify the capacity of a woman , Anne of Austria , then the regent of Louis XIV , to govern France , a little before the Fronde .
On the 12th February 1941 , the prime minister of the time , Benito Mussolini met Francisco Franco in Bordighera in ordermilitary.military_commanddiscuss about the entry of Spain in the WWII together with the Axis powers .
During War of the Third Coalition , the Nuremberg bookseller Johann Philipp Palm was arrested at the Braunau fortress by French troops and executed for high treason by personal ordermilitary.military_commandNapoleon in 1806 .
He was one of three men , along with Captain Nolan and Lord Raglan , responsible for the fateful ordermilitary.military_commandthe Battle of Balaclava in October 1854 which led to the Light Brigade commander , The Earl of Cardigan , leading the fateful Charge of the Light Brigade .
It is uncertain exactly who constructed the fort , and precisely when it was constructed ; however it was likely built in 1756 under the ordermilitary.military_commandGeneral Montcalm during the French and Indian War , just prior to his victory at the Battle of Fort Oswego in August 1756 .
By ordermilitary.military_commandGen. Winfield Scott , thirty San Patricios were to be executed at Chapultepec in full view of the two armies while they fought the Battle of Chapultepec , at the precise moment that the flag of the U.S. replaced the flag of Mexico atop the citadel .
In 1635 , this company became the `` Régiment d'Anguien-Cavalerie '' , after its proprietor Louis , Duke of Enghien ( the future Grand Condé ) , one of twelve regiments formed by a royal ordermilitary.military_command16 May to fight in the war against the Holy Roman Empire .
He attained the rank of `` Generalleutnant '' during World War II , and is best known for his role as the Sixth Army 's chief of staff in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942–43 , during the final stages of which he became its de facto commander , playing a large role in executing Hitler 's ordermilitary.military_commandit stand firm despite being encircled by the Red Army .
`` Rover '' patrolled off Dieppe in ordermilitary.military_commandprevent Napoleon Bonaparte 's escape after the battle of Waterloo .
The Battle of the Pyrenees was a large-scale offensive launched on 25 July 1813 by Marshal Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult from the Pyrénées region on Emperor Napoleon ’ s ordermilitary.military_commandin the hope of relieving French garrisons under siege at Pamplona and San Sebastián .
The government sent Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult , a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars , at the head of an army of 20,000 to restore ordermilitary.military_command
The offensive was halted only 4 days after it had begun on ordermilitary.military_commandFrench chief of staff Maurice Gamelin , and Prételat withdrew the Second Army Group to behind the Maginot Line , in the north-eastern sector of the French northern front , to where they would remain until the outbreak of the Battle of France on 10 May 1940 .
This is where General George Washington and a 2,400-man detachment of Continental Army troops crossed the river overnight on December 25 , 1776 , and into the morning of December 26 , 1776 , in ordermilitary.military_commandmake a surprise attack on Trenton , a move that would prove to be a turning point in the American Revolutionary War .
After the victory by the Polish and Lithuanian forces at Grünfelde near Tannenberg ( the Battle of Grunwald ( Tannenberg ) ) during the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War ( 1409–1411 ) , the Prussian estates eagerly pledged allegiance to King Władysław II Jagiełło ( Jogaila ) of Poland , but they quickly returned to the ordermilitary.military_commandrule after the Poles were unable to conquer Marienburg ( Malbork ) .
After the new ordermilitary.military_commandduring French Revolutionary and Napoleonic times , Bosenbach became the seat of a `` mairie '' ( “ mayoralty ” ) .
Supporters of the President 's usage of `` crusade '' argue that from context Bush had used the word in a military , non-religious sense , such as `` The Great Crusade '' which was the phrase used by General Dwight D. Eisenhower to describe the D-Day invasion of Europe to the Allied troops in his ordermilitary.military_commandthe day broadcast .
Shortly after the onset of Operation Barbarossa in 1941 , the Russian rear services experienced severe difficulties , which were fixed after the ordermilitary.military_commandOn Organization of the Rear Services Management Office of the Red Army ... '' was enacted by the People 's Commissar for Defence , Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Timoshenko .
During the critical moments of the Bulgarian surprise offensive at the Battle of Bregalnica of the Second Balkan War , when most of the staff suggested that the Serbian army should withdraw to the second line of defence , Mišić ( still the Aide of the Chief of Staff ) strongly disagreed and persuaded Putnik to ordermilitary.military_commandarmy to repel the attack on the first line , thus contributing greatly to the Serbian victory in the battle .
A Continuity of Operations Plan ( or Continuity of Government Plan ) has been a part of U.S. government operations since at least the Cold War , when President Dwight D. Eisenhower provided ( via executive ordermilitary.military_commandvarious measures designed to ensure that the government of the United States would be able to continue operating after a nuclear war .
An equivalent to an army group in armed forces of other countries , it was created on May 17 , 1920 by ordermilitary.military_commandPolish Commander-in-Chief General Józef Piłsudski , the front took part in the Polish-Soviet War .
In July 1932 Major George S. Patton-under ordermilitary.military_commandDouglas MacArthur-led the 3rd against the Bonus Army in Washington D.C .