During the Mine Run Campaign , Warren 's corps was ordered military.military_command attack Lee 's army , but he perceived that a trap had been laid and refused the order from army commander Maj. Gen. George G. Meade .

Although it was not a widely publicized document , the Declaration may explain the action of General Allenby in September 1918 after the Battle of Megiddo when ( acting on instructions from London ) he ordered military.military_command halt to the advance after the rout of Turkish forces outside Damascus in order to allow the city to be captured by Arab forces , thus bolstering the Arab claim to the independence of Syria whilst simultaneously undermining the French claims to the territory under the terms of the Sykes–Picot Agreement .

While Union General Ulysses Grant was besieging Vicksburg upriver , General Nathaniel Banks was ordered military.military_command capture the Confederate stronghold of Port Hudson , in order to go to Grant 's aid .

President Harry S. Truman ordered military.military_command end of military segregation with his Executive Order 9981 in 1948 , but racial discrimination and segregation continued in the U.S. armed forces through the Korean War .

After having several peace offers rejected by the British , Adolf Hitler ordered military.military_command `` Luftwaffe '' to destroy the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) in order to gain air superiority or air supremacy as a prelude to launching Operation Sea Lion , an amphibious assault by the `` Wehrmacht '' ( German armed forces ) onto the British mainland .

Hitler ordered military.military_command to be hidden in WW2 and it became part of the story of a mutiny in the U.S. Army - 'the only known case in the whole Second World War of American officers refusing an order . '

During World War II , only one raven was able to survive the hardships of the bombing during the Blitz , so the Prime Minister , Sir Winston Churchill , ordered military.military_command ravens to be brought in , in order to bring the flock up to the correct size .