It was an attempt by a huge Portuguese army under the command of Joanne Mendes de Vasconcelos , governor of Alentejo , to capture Conquering the Spanish city of Badajoz , which was the headquarters of the Spanish Army of Extremadura .

So in 1658 , Mendes de Vasconcelos gathered Come_together an army at Elvas and advanced Cause_to_make_progress on Badajoz .

The arrival of a relief army , under King Philip IV of Spain 's favorite don Luis de Haro in October , lifted Process_end the siege .

Taking advantage of this failure , D. Luis de Haro , invaded Attack Portugal and besieged Elvas , the main defensive system of Portugal - where the Portuguese army that had besieged Besieging Badajoz took Creating refuge and was suffering Bodily_harm a second catastrophic plague .

A small relief army was improvised by the Portuguese which inflicted Causation a crushing defeat to the Spanish army at the decisive battle of the Lines of Elvas ( 14 January 1659 ) .

A small relief army was improvised by the Portuguese which inflicted Causation a crushing defeat to the Spanish army at the decisive battle of the Lines of Elvas ( 14 January 1659 ) .

Su Dingfang commanded Control the main army dispatched Sending against the Western Turks , while the Turkic generals Ashina Mishe and Ashina Buzhen led Bringing the side divisions .

Su Dingfang 's army defeated Conquering Helu at the battle Hostile_encounter of Irtysh River .

Rafael Sotomayor Gaete , the minister of the interior , decided Deciding to crush Removing the strike , by army assault if need be .

William 's forces defeated Conquering James 's army , which consisted mostly of raw recruits .

Battle Hostile_encounter of Saint Gotthard was fought Hostile_encounter on December 13 , 1705 between a Hungarian ( Kuruc ) army led Conquering by János Bottyán and an Austrian-Croatian-Serbian combined army under the command Control of Hannibal von Heister .

Battle Hostile_encounter of Saint Gotthard was fought Hostile_encounter on December 13 , 1705 between a Hungarian ( Kuruc ) army led Conquering by János Bottyán and an Austrian-Croatian-Serbian combined army under the command Control of Hannibal von Heister .

During the Ottoman invasion , two Serbian armies were set up Reforming_a_system to defend Defending the Despotate , 1st army being commanded Control by Nikola Skobaljić in Dubočica , near Leskovac , and the 2nd army being on the banks of Sitnica river in Kosovo .

During the Ottoman invasion , two Serbian armies were set up Reforming_a_system to defend Defending the Despotate , 1st army being commanded Control by Nikola Skobaljić in Dubočica , near Leskovac , and the 2nd army being on the banks of Sitnica river in Kosovo .

An initial invading Attack Ottoman force heading Self_motion from Sofia cut off Removing Skobaljić 's army from Serbia 's north .

Despot Đurađ Branković suggested Convincing that Skobaljić either surrender , or hide from the Ottoman army until John Hunyadi is able to reinforce Cause_change_of_strength or liberate Hold the trapped half of the Serbian army , which would render the Ottomans to pillage Violence and raze Damaging the rich southern part of the despotate with no resistance .

Despot Đurađ Branković suggested Convincing that Skobaljić either surrender , or hide from the Ottoman army until John Hunyadi is able to reinforce Cause_change_of_strength or liberate Hold the trapped half of the Serbian army , which would render the Ottomans to pillage Violence and raze Damaging the rich southern part of the despotate with no resistance .

The young voivode disobeyed the despot , and the invading Attack Ottoman army coming from Macedonia was met Come_together by Nikola Skobaljić near Banja .

The Serbs scored Getting a decisive victory Earnings_and_losses against the Ottoman army , employing Employment guerrilla tactics .

The failure Earnings_and_losses of his generals to beat a tiny army rendered Mehmed II to deal Communication with Skobaljić personally .

He reinforced Cause_change_of_strength his armies and finally confronted Confronting_problem Skobaljić on November 16th , finally defeating Conquering his army at Tripolje ( near Novo Brdo ) , where Voivode Nikola and his men fought Hostile_encounter to the last man , inflicting Bodily_harm disproportionately large casualties Death on Ottoman force Military_operation .

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 .

The British army was far too small and inadequate to impose Action the will of the Coalition on the Ottomans , so it naturally fell Conquering to the powerful Royal Navy to meet Come_together Russia 's requests Request .

The war would be determined on the continent , and the major land operations that sealed the swift French victory involved Participation the Ulm Campaign , a large wheeling manoeuvre by the Grande Armée lasting from late August to mid-October 1805 that captured Conquering an entire Austrian army , and the decisive French victory over a combined Cause_to_amalgamate Russo-Austrian force under Tsar Alexander I at the Battle of Austerlitz in early December .

As Kienmayer 's columns fled Escaping to the east , they joined Cause_to_amalgamate with elements of the Russian Empire 's army in a rear guard action at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Amstetten on 5 November .

carried out Action by boeing b-17 flying fortress heavy bombers of the u.s. army air forces on august 17 , 1943 , it was an ambitious plan Arranging to cripple Destroying the german aircraft industry .

Aurangzeb and the Mughal army had successfully conquered Conquering two Muslim kingdoms : Nizamshahis of Ahmednagar and the Adilshahis of Bijapur .

It was only a matter of time that the Mughal army arrived at Arriving Golconda Fort .

The siege of Golconda lasted 8 months and on various occasions it had pushed Body_movement the massive Mughal army to its limits , in fact the Golconda Fort was probably the most impregnable fort in the Indian subcontinent .

Aurangzeb and the Mughals entered Becoming_a_member Golconda through a decisive victory but through the secret treachery of Sarandaz Khan , a military official in the army of the Qutb Shahi dynasty .

In March the Iraqi army secured Getting Ramadi and attempted to regain Getting Fallujah .

On 18 March , soldiers of the Commune 's National Guard killed Killing two French army generals , and the Commune refused Agree_or_refuse_to_act to accept the authority of the French government .

A small force of approximately 1,600 Albanian and Italian men and a much smaller number of women faced Confronting_problem a massive Ottoman force containing artillery cast on site and an army reported Reporting ( though widely disputed Quarreling ) to have been as many as 350,000 in number .

In 1657 , Charles X of Sweden and his Swedish army were bogged Motion down in Poland .

leaving Departing detachments to hold Defending the captured bridge and fords , chaytor 's force began Process_start their eastwards advance by attacking Attack and capturing Conquering the fourth army garrison at shunet nimrin on their way to capture Conquering es salt for a third time .

with the fourth army 's viii corps in retreat Escaping , chaytor 's force continued their advance to attack Attack and capture Conquering amman on 25 september during the second battle of amman .

the surviving remnants of yildirim army group which escaped Escaping damascus were pursued north during the pursuit to unk when homs was occupied Attack and aleppo was captured Conquering by prince feisal 's unk army force .

the surviving remnants of yildirim army group which escaped Escaping damascus were pursued north during the pursuit to unk when homs was occupied Attack and aleppo was captured Conquering by prince feisal 's unk army force .

When Garcia Moreno did not show up , Mosquera brought Bringing an army into the border region , prompting Preventing_or_letting Garcia Moreno to send Sending a force of 6,000 men force under his elderly father-in-law , General Juan José Flores ( 1800–1864 ) .

Mosquera subsequently brought Bringing his army into Ecuadorian territory , reaching Arriving the town of Ibarra without encountering Hostile_encounter any resistance , but the two sides then agreed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to an armistice .

The insurgency resulted in Causation deaths Death of over 17,000 people including civilians , insurgents , army and police personnel , and internal displacement of hundreds of thousands of people ( mostly of rural Nepal ) .

unk greek civil war ( , `` o unk '' [ `` unk '' ] , `` the civil war '' ) was a civil war in greece fought Hostile_encounter between the greek government army ( supported Supporting by the united kingdom and the united states ) and the democratic army of greece ( dse ) UNK the military branch of the communist party of greece ( kke ) ( supported by yugoslavia , albania and bulgaria ) from 1946 to 1949 .

unk greek civil war ( , `` o unk '' [ `` unk '' ] , `` the civil war '' ) was a civil war in greece fought Hostile_encounter between the greek government army ( supported Supporting by the united kingdom and the united states ) and the democratic army of greece ( dse ) UNK the military branch of the communist party of greece ( kke ) ( supported by yugoslavia , albania and bulgaria ) from 1946 to 1949 .

founded by the communist party of greece and supported Supporting by neighboring and newly founded Creating socialist states such as yugoslavia , albania and bulgaria , the democratic army of greece included Cause_to_be_included many personnel who had fought Hostile_encounter as partisans against german , italian and bulgarian occupation forces during the second world war of unk .

A French army under the overall command of Maurice de Saxe , in a bold and innovative winter campaign besieged Besieging and captured Conquering the city of Brussels , which was then the capital of the Austrian Netherlands , from its Austrian garrison .

the french were boosted Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale by the fact that a large part of the allied army was forced to return Arriving to britain where a jacobite rising of 1745 had broken out Process_start and bonnie prince charlie had won a stunning victory at the battle of prestonpans .

Their precarious position convinced Convincing both divisional commanders to ask Request for an evacuation , but after taking Getting advice from the Royal Navy about how practicable that would be , the army commander decided Deciding they would stay Temporary_stay .

The Carthaginian commander Hannibal Gisco was crucified or stoned Bodily_harm to death Death by his mutinying army .

Alfonso brought Bringing an army of around 20,000 men , along with his mistress and their five illegitimate children , to dig Motion in to the north of Gibraltar for a lengthy siege .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Salamanca ( in French and Spanish known as the Battle Hostile_encounter of Arapiles ) on 22July 1812 was a battle Hostile_encounter in which an Anglo-Portuguese army under the Duke of Wellington defeated Hostile_encounter Marshal Auguste Marmont 's French forces at Arapiles , south of Salamanca , Spain , during the Peninsular War Military_operation .