from Godfrey of Bouillon , who arrived just in time to defeat the Turks .
On 2 December 1878 , the 5th Company Royal Engineers were sent to the Colony of Natal in response to a requestmilitary.military_commandLord Chelmsford , commander of the British forces in southern Africa , for an additional unit of engineers to assist with preparations for the invasion of the Zulu Kingdom .
Other characters are Cuban exile Félix Rodríguez , the CIA operative who trained Cuban exiles for the Bay of Pigs Invasion , and who was present when the Bolivian Army killed Che Guevara in 1967 at the requestmilitary.military_commandthe Bolivian President at the time , and Enrique Ovares , possibly the first man to make an attempt on Castro 's life after he took power .
His army took part in the Battle of Stalingrad , during which on 25 November 1942 he changed his surname from `` Zhidov '' to `` Zhadov '' on Joseph Stalin 's requestmilitary.military_commandbecause the name sounded Jewish .
The Palestine Brigade of the Royal Flying Corps , and later Royal Air Force , was formed 5 October 1917 in response to General Allenby 's requestmilitary.military_commandan air formation for his planned offensive against the Ottoman Empire in Palestine .
At the requestmilitary.military_commandHồ Chí Minh , who was a long time friend of Chen , Chen entered Vietnam and helped Vo Nguyen Giap to launch a series of successful attacks on isolated French bases along the Chinese border in 1950 .
Late in May , her effort in behalf of the Union cause in North Carolina was interrupted by General George McClellan 's requestmilitary.military_commandmore naval assistance in his drive up the peninsula from Fort Monroe toward Richmond , Virginia .
Following Britain 's requestmilitary.military_commandU.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow the Mossadegh government in an event known as the 1953 Iranian coup d'état .
At the requestmilitary.military_commandthe British War Cabinet , on April 19 , 1944 , Dwight Eisenhower-directed `` Crossbow '' attacks have absolute priority over all other air operations , including `` wearing down German industry '' and morale `` for the time being '' , which he confirmed after the V-1 assault began on the night of June 12/13 , 1944 : `` with respect to `` Crossbow '' targets , these targets are to take first priority over everything except the urgent requirements of the Overlord battle ; this priority to obtain until we can be certain that we have definitely gotten the upper hand of this particular business '' ( Eisenhower to Arthur Tedder , June 16 ) .
It was established by Ali Fuat Cebesoy , Kâzım Karabekir , Refet Bele , Rauf Orbay and Adnan Adıvar upon President Mustafa Kemal 's requestmilitary.military_command17 November 1924 , but was later banned on 5 June 1925 after the Sheikh Said Rebellion .
Promoted to Rear-Admiral upon requestmilitary.military_commandGeneral Bonaparte , Ganteaume led the flottilla of small ships of the Nile River , taking part in the Siege of Jaffa , the Siege of Acre and the Battle of Abukir .
At the beginning of the Revolutionary War , Reed ran a successful Philadelphia law practice , from which he resigned at the requestmilitary.military_commandGeorge Washington .
At the written requestmilitary.military_commandGeorge Washington , during the course of the American War of Independence , 100 barrels of gunpowder were stolen from a magazine in St. George 's and provided to the American rebels .
During the American War of Independence , at the requestmilitary.military_commandGeorge Washington , Bermudians assisted the American rebels in stealing much-needed gunpowder from a St. George 's magazine , which supplied the forts protecting the port .
Prior to this , munitions had been kept within the town ( as at the time of the 'Gunpowder Plot ' , when 100 barrels of gunpowder were stolen at the requestmilitary.military_commandGeorge Washington , and sent to the rebellious Americans during the American War of Independence ) , and on Hen Island , further out in St. George 's Harbour .
Roman Catholic attempts to improve ecumenical relations with the Eastern Orthodox Churches have been complicated by disputes over both doctrine and the recent history of the Orthodox Eastern Catholic Churches , involving the return of expropriated properties of the Eastern Catholic Churches , which the Orthodox Church took over after World War II at the requestmilitary.military_commandJoseph Stalin .
`` Carry On Jack '' starts with the death of Admiral Horatio Nelson ( Jimmy Thompson ) whose last words are that Britain needs a bigger navy with more men , followed by his famous requestmilitary.military_commanda kiss to Hardy ( Anton Rodgers ) , upon which he meets his demise .
Stephen Girard used his position as banker to raise the $ 16 million required for the fledgling U.S. government to fight the War of 1812 against the Kingdom of Great Britain , after war was declared by the Congress at the requestmilitary.military_commandfourth President James Madison in June .
During the Second Boer War one gun was brought ashore from HMS `` Terrible '' in Natal in February 1900 at the requestmilitary.military_commandGeneral Buller , presumably in response to the failure at Colenso .
Meanwhile , in answer to President Truman 's requestmilitary.military_commandreservists to volunteer for duty during the Korean War , VG-781 requested mobilisation as a complete unit , and was accepted – the first squadron in the nation to do so – VP-772 reported for active duty on 1 September ; three Marine Corps Organized Reserve units were ordered to active duty , and so was VP-772 .
During August and September , he reduced regular reconnaissance missions to `` increase bombing activity to the limit '' , following a requestmilitary.military_commandGeneral Douglas MacArthur to provide all available support for Allied assaults on Lae–Nadzab .
During August–September , Cole reduced regular reconnaissance missions to `` increase bombing activity to the limit '' , following a requestmilitary.military_commandGeneral Douglas MacArthur to provide all available support for Allied assaults on Lae–Nadzab ; NWA Liberators , Hudsons , Beaufighters and Catalinas carried out raids to destroy Japanese bases and aircraft , and divert enemy forces from Allied columns .
The gunboat , one of the few U.S. Navy vessels able to sail up the Pánuco river through the shallow harbor entrance , by requestmilitary.military_commandthe Mexican government had presented a 21-gun salute to the Mexican flag three times on April 2 , 1914 , to pay tribute to the celebrated occupation of Puebla in 1867 by Mexican General Porfirio Díaz in the last phases of the war to expel the forces supporting the French intervention in Mexico .
Consuelo wrote to her close friend Winston Churchill , during World War II , while Jacques worked with the Free French in London , to requestmilitary.military_commandspecial protection and safe return .
The British Commandos were formed during the Second World War in June 1940 , following a requestmilitary.military_commandthe Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , Winston Churchill , for a force that could carry out raids against German-occupied Europe .
While serving as chaplain of the Third United States Army during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II , he composed the famous `` Weather Prayer '' at the requestmilitary.military_commandthe Third Army 's commander , General George S. Patton .
`` Le Monde '' was founded in 1944 at the requestmilitary.military_commandGeneral Charles de Gaulle after the German army was driven from Paris during World War II , and took over the headquarters and layout of `` Le Temps '' , which was the most important newspaper in France before but whose reputation had suffered during the Occupation .
During the London Blitz one hundred Director T-10 assisted 90 mm automated gun units were set up in a perimeter south of London , at the special requestmilitary.military_commandWinston Churchill .
William II , Duke of Normandy ( who became William the Conqueror ) thought it important enough to requestmilitary.military_commandget a papal blessing for his conquest of England .
At Gen. Winfield Scott 's requestmilitary.military_commandacademy was exempted from seizure for hospital purposes during the American Civil War .
During the American Civil War , Rhode Island was the first state to respond to President Abraham Lincoln 's 1861 requestmilitary.military_commandtroops from the individual Union states .
During the American Civil War , Rhode Island was the first Union state to send troops in response to President Lincoln 's requestmilitary.military_commandhelp from the states .
The troops were marching between the President Street Station of the Philadelphia , Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad west on Pratt Street to the Camden Street Station of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to get to Washington , D.C. in response to President Abraham Lincoln 's requestmilitary.military_command75,000 volunteers and proclamation of a state of rebellion after the shelling of Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor in South Carolina on April 14 , 1861 , at the beginning the Civil War .
It was sent out in September 1808 , by King Louis Bonaparte at the requestmilitary.military_commandhis brother Emperor Napoleon of France , to take part in the Peninsular War on the French side .