During this period the 8th supplied trained personnel to the 9th through 14th Armored Divisions.

Bland's observations at Brandywine supplied General Washington with the correct location of Lord Cornwallis ' and Howe's main armies ; Bland wrote two separate dispatches and Col James Ross of the 8th Pennsylvania wrote another dispatch reporting on the British.

Besides numerous articles, he wrote on Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosophie de Schopenhauer ( 1874 ; 7th ed., 1896 ), and on the contemporary psychology of Germany ( La Psychologie allemande contemporaine, 1879 ; 13th ed., 1898 ), also four little monographs on Les Maladies de la mémoire ( 1881 ; x3th ed., 1898 ); De la volonté ( 1883 ; 14th ed., 1899 ); De la personnalité ( 1885 ; 8th ed., 1899 ); and La Psychologie de l ' attention ( 1888 ), which supplied useful data to the study of mental illness.

It remained in Byzantine hands during the period of crisis in the 7th – 8th centuries, when most of the Balkans and the Greek mainland were overrun by Slavic invasions.

As early as the 8th century, Arab scholars were translating the works of the Greek geographers into Arabic.

In this function, it was borrowed in the 8th century BC by the Etruscan and other Old Italic alphabets, which were based on the Euboean form of the Greek alphabet.

Samos excavations have revealed votive offerings, many of them late 8th and 7th centuries BC, which show that Hera at Samos was not merely a local Greek goddess of the Aegean: the museum there contains figures of gods and suppliants and other votive offerings from Armenia, Babylon, Iran, Assyria, Egypt, testimony to the reputation which this sanctuary of Hera enjoyed and to the large influx of pilgrims.

The temples of Hera in the two main centers of her cult, the Heraion of Samos and the Heraion of Argos in the Argolid, were the very earliest monumental Greek temples constructed, in the 8th century BC.

The Greek alphabet was introduced in the early 8th century BC, so it is possible that Homer himself was of the first generation of authors who were also literate.

An upper limit of 750 BC is indicated by a number of considerations, such as the probability that his work was written down, the fact that he mentions a sanctuary at Delphi that was of little national significance before c. 750 BC ( Theogony l. 499 ), and he lists rivers that flow into the Euxine, a region explored and developed by Greek colonists beginning in the 8th century BC.

Hosea (;, Greek = Ōsēé ) was the son of Beeri, a prophet in Israel in the 8th century BC and author of the book of prophecies bearing his name.

In the latter part of the 8th century BC, Greek merchants brought classical civilization to the trade emporiums in Tanais and Phanagoria.

Jonah (; or ; Greek / Latin: Ionas ) is the name given in the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh / Old Testament ) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC, the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation.

Extant copies of these early manuscripts written in Greek or Latin and usually dating from the 4th century to the 8th century, are classified according to their use of either all upper case or all lower case letters.

The King Midas who ruled Phrygia in the late 8th century BC is known from Greek and Assyrian sources.

Codex Regius ( New Testament ) | Codex Regius ( L or 019 ), an 8th century Greek manuscript of the New Testament with strong affinities to Codex Vaticanus

It is believed to have been composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia.

Since the 8th century BC, Ancient Greek traders brought their civilization to the trade emporiums in Tanais and Phanagoria.

The Theogony (, Theogonía,, " the birth of the gods ") is a poem by Hesiod ( 8th – 7th century BC ) describing the origins and genealogies of Greek polytheism, composed circa 700 BC.

The Greek poet Hesiod, around the 8th century BC, in his compilation of the mythological tradition ( the poem Works and Days ), explained that, prior to the present era, there were other four progressively more perfect ones, the oldest of which was the Golden Age.

In Greek mythology, Peleus (;, Pēleus ) was a hero whose myth was already known to the hearers of Homer in the late 8th century BC.

In the late 8th century BC, a Greek colony was founded, called Μελίτη ( Melite ), from the Doric Greek word for " honeybee " on the main island.

It seems that the first Macedonian state emerged in the 8th or early 7th century BC under the Argead Dynasty, who, according to legend, migrated to the region from the Greek city of Argos in Peloponnesus ( thus the name Argead ).

The first Greek colonies in Thrace were founded in the 8th century BC.

In addition to being a Byzantine centre of culture, during the 8th century the city became a Holy See: Reggio was until the 16th century, the most important Greek Rite Bishopric in Italy.

For example, one Kaypro used them for Greek characters, and Osborne machines used the 8th bit set to indicate an underlined character.

At the turn of the 8th century, Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan decreed that Arabic replace Koine Greek and Coptic as the sole administrative language.

As late as mediaeval era, the Kamboja cavalry had also formed part of the Gurjara-Pratihara armed forces in 8th / 10th centuries AD.

Chuikov, as commander of the Soviet 8th Guards Army, commanded the Soviet forces in central Berlin.

He stayed there until 1941 when his unit was transferred into the regular army forces as the 48th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, which became a part of the 42nd Mobile Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment and went with the 8th Army to Northern Africa.

During the 8th and 9th centuries, Vic sat in the Spanish Marches that separated Frankish and Islamic forces.

Arab forces captured it in the 8th century.

However, 8th Army was not ready to make an offensive and so Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie, the army commander, anticipated fighting a battle on his prepared position, meeting an Axis attack and destroying his enemy's armoured forces in the process.

The two Hussar regiments made contact with German forces on either side of the 22nd Brigade group's advance, with the 8th Hussars engaging eight-wheeled armoured cars.

On October 19, 1814, Canadian forces led by George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, met an American raiding party, numbering approximately nine hundred, near the eastern edge of the present community during the Battle of Cook's Mills.

After several defeats and near misses, the Mexican Army of the North, about 2, 638 men ( 1st, 4th and 10th Line, two companies of the 6th and 2d Light Regiments, Mexico and Morelia Activos, 7th, 8th and Light Cavalry Regiments, and 13 pieces of artillery ) attempted to retreat south and refit before engaging United States forces under General Zachary Taylor.

In August 1937, Lin was named commander-in-chief of the 115th Division of the Communist 8th Route Army and ordered to aid Yan Xishan's forces in repelling the Japanese invasion of Shanxi.

With little prospect of further success, Rommel judged that it would be wiser to break off to concentrate in South Tunisia and strike a blow at 8th Army, catching them off balance while still assembling its forces.

Consisting of three divisions ( the 115th, which was commanded by Lin Biao, the 120th, and the 129th ), the 8th Route Army's main advantage during World War II was its ability to blend in with Japanese forces when behind enemy lines.

They were joined by two First Air Cavalry battalions ( the 1 / 12 and 2 / 8th Cavalry ) and ARVN forces consisting of the four battalions of the 42nd Regiment and the 2nd and 3rd Airborne Battalions.

He then served as Assistant Division Commander ( Support ) of the 8th Mechanized Division and as Community Commander of Mainz, West Germany, during which the city was visited by Pope John Paul II, thus putting Schwarzkopf in charge of the U. S. security forces during the pontiff's visit.

Allied forces were unable to break through the mountains over the winter and an offensive by German and Italian divisions to the left of the BEF sector, against the US 92nd Infantry Division, required the assistance of the 8th Indian Infantry Division to be refrained.

On the day after the capture of Beersheba, the British 7th Mounted Brigade ( with the Australian 8th Light Horse Regiment attached ) raced to Khuweilfe to try to take it before the Ottoman forces strengthened the position, but arrived too late.

Although Harding did not share Leese's view and 8th Army planning staff had already rejected the idea of an Adriatic offensive ( because it would be difficult to bring the necessary concentration of forces to bear ), Alexander was not prepared to force Leese to adopt a plan which was against his inclination and judgment and Harding was persuaded to change his mind.

Once again, the conditions prevented 8th Army's armour from exploiting the breakthrough, and the infantry of British V Corps and I Canadian Corps ( joined by the New Zealand 2nd Division ) had to grind their way forward while von Vietinghoff withdrew his forces behind the next river beyond the Marecchia, the Uso, a few miles beyond Rimini.

As the 8th Army paused at the end of September to reorganise, Leese was reassigned to command the Allied land forces in South-East Asia, and Lieutenant-General Richard McCreery was moved from commanding British X Corps to take over the army command.

Gen. Clark's 5th Army comprised three corps: U. S. IV Corps on the left formed by U. S. 1st Armored Division, South African 6th Armoured Division and two regimental Combat Teams (" RCT "), equivalent to 5, 000 men each: one of the U. S. 92nd Infantry Division ( Buffalo Soldiers ) and other was the Brazilian 6th RCT, the first arrived contingent of land forces element of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force ; in the centre was U. S. II Corps ( U. S. 34th, 85th, 88th and 91st Infantry Divisions supported by three tank battalions ); and on the right British XIII Corps ( British 1st Infantry Division, British 6th Armoured Division, 8th Indian Infantry Division and 1st Canadian Tank Brigade ).

Giles Daubeny, 8th Baron Daubeny, was directed to take the field with the forces which had been summoned for service in Scotland.

In the fall of 1943, the German forces of Field Marshal Erich von Manstein ’ s Army Group South including General Otto Wöhler's 8th Army had fallen back to the Panther-Wotan Line, a defensive position that in Ukraine followed the Dnieper river.

8th Army crushed the Austro-Hungarian forces before it, and rapidly advanced nearly.

As Allied forces in Malaya retreated towards Singapore, a 2, 000-strong detachment of 8th Division reinforcements arrived in Singapore, including the 2 / 4th Machine Gun Regiment.