During the Nationalist's retreat from Nanjing, the dams around the city were deliberately destroyed by the Nationalist army in order to delay the Japanese advance, killing 500, 000 people in the subsequent 1938 Yellow River flood.

Napoleon had his eye on conquering the New World, and sent his brother-in-law in command of an army to seize control of Haiti, but over 27, 000 of his troops perished of the " Yellow Jack ", including their commander.

* Kaifeng flood of 1642: Some 300, 000 people die when the Ming Dynasty army in China intentionally breaks the dams and dykes of the Yellow River to break the siege by the large rebel force of Li Zicheng.

* February – The rebels of the Yellow Turban are defeated by the imperial army, but only two months later, the rebellion breaks out again.

He continued the effort and absorbed approximately 300, 000 Yellow Turban rebels into his army as well as a number of clan-based military groups from the eastern side of Qing Province.

Yuan Shao, himself of higher nobility than Cao Cao, amassed a large army and camped along the northern bank of the Yellow River.

Around 1046 BC, Wen's son, King Wu of Zhou, led an army of 45, 000 men and 300 chariots across the Yellow River and defeated the Shang King Di Xin at the Battle of Muye, marking the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty.

The army surrounds the rebels near the Yellow River and around Nanyang.

The Wei lured the Liu Song to cross the Yellow River, and then flanked them, destroying the Eastern army.

As the Liu Song armies retreated, the provinces south of the Yellow River were devastated by the Wei army.

* The Qin armies defeat an army of 300, 000 Xiongnu / Hun cavalrymen and expand their territories along the north basin of the Yellow River.

Two of the oldest and most experienced infantry units of the Swedish army, the ' Old Blue ' Regiment and the Yellow or ' Court ' Regiment were effectively wiped out in these assaults ; remnants from them streamed to the rear.

Corydon sent a mounted militia company nicknamed the Yellow Jackets to support the territorial army in the War of 1812.

Once the army had taken the city it went to the Yellow Crane Tower to raise the " Iron Blood 18-star flag ".

An early death among Europeans was very common due to diseases and conflicts ; the French soldiers that Napoleon sent in 1802 to quell the revolt in Saint-Domingue were attacked by Yellow fever during the Haitian Revolution, and more than half of the French army died of disease.

They suffered from seasonal epidemics of Yellow fever and more than half of the French army died of disease.

He met Liu Bei, who was recruiting volunteers to form a civilian army to suppress the Yellow Turbans Rebellion.

Yuan Shao himself fled north across the Yellow River with only about 800 cavalry, which was what was left of his army.

In 184, at the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Liu Bei called for the assembly of a volunteer army to help government forces suppress the rebellion.

He then traveled south with his followers to join another volunteer army to suppress the Yellow Turbans remnants in Xu Province ( present day northern Jiangsu ).

Cao fortified many of the key crossing points on the Yellow River which divided his territory from Yuan's ; he personally made camp at Guandu with his main army.

After the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out in 184, Zhang He joined the volunteer army under Han Fu, governor of Ji Province ( present-day southern Hebei ) to suppress the rebellion.

Within two months he was again in the field, and on 14 August he destroyed an English army at the battle of the Yellow Ford on the Blackwater river, in which engagement Henry Bagenal was killed ; it was the greatest of all setbacks to English arms in Ireland.

Between 413 and 409 BC during the reign of Duke Jian of Qin, the Wei army led by Wu Qi, with support from Zhao and Han, attacked Qin and conquered Qin territories west of the Yellow River.

In 1869, having conciliated the Vietnamese, Liu also won favour with the Chinese authorities by committing the Black Flag Army to a Chinese punitive campaign against the Yellow Flags, which gave him the opportunity to cripple this rival bandit army.

Cesare is the main antagonist of the video game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, acting as Captain-General of the Papal army in Rome and ordering an assault on the castle-town of Monteriggioni, home to the protagonist Ezio Auditore da Firenze's uncle, Mario Auditore.

In the game Cesare has a stated desire to use both the Papal army and his family's political connections to usurp control over all of Italy.

In 1993 and after, mass evictions of Kikuyu took place, often with the direct involvement of army, police, and game rangers.

One theory is that Chinese army officers serving during the Taiping Rebellion created the game to pass the time.

The stunning Prussian victory over the Second French Empire in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 is sometimes partly credited to the training of Prussian officers with the game Kriegspiel, which was invented around 1811 and gained popularity with many officers in the Prussian army.

In the first editions, the playing pieces were wooden cubes representing one army each and a few rounded triangular prisms representing ten armies each, but in later versions of the game these pieces were molded of plastic to reduce costs.

If a player runs out of army pieces during the game, another color may be used to substitute, or another symbolic token to help keep track of armies.

For example: if the goal of the game is to guard a flag as long as possible ( as it is with " King of the Hill "), customizing your army with only ranged units would not be wise because there would be no melee units to guard the flag.

Seventeen years after the events of the first game, in Marathon 2: Durandal, the artificial intelligence, Durandal, sends the player and an army of ex-colonists to search the ruins of Lh ' owon, the S ' pht homeworld.

The titan is analogous to the king in chess in that the death of a titan eliminates that player and his entire army from the game.

In Japan, the genre's beginning can be traced to Bokosuka Wars ( 1983 ), an early strategy RPG ( or " simulation RPG "); the game revolves around the player leading an army across a battlefield against enemy forces in real-time while recruiting / spawning soldiers along the way, for which it is considered by Ray Barnholt of 1UP. com to be an early prototype real-time strategy game.

The early game Sim Ant by Maxis ( 1991 ) had resource gathering, and controlling an attacking army by having them follow a lead unit.

* In the game Age of Empires Online, an army of computer-controlled opponents, who call themselves the Followers of Autolycus, must be defeated during several quests.

Before a game, the gamers agree on how many points will be used as the maximum army size and each assembles an army up to that maximum limit.

* In the Wraith: the Oblivion roleplaying game books, the ghost of " Qin Shihuang " continues to rule despotically over the afterlife of China to this day, assisted by an army of nigh-invincible ghost soldiers based on the terracotta army.

* In the computer game Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom, the Qin Dynasty campaign has the player as the head architect of Qin Shi Huang, in charge of overseeing the construction of the capital, the Lingqu canal, the Great Wall, as well as his tomb and the terracotta army, although the game takes liberties with the time frames in which these events actually took place.

Further unofficial lists for groups such as the Harlequins, a faction of Eldar who used to have their own army list in earlier editions of the Warhammer 40K game, are also available online.

The Exodites exist mainly in Warhammer 40, 000 background material and never had any specific models or army books for use in the tabletop game, however the Saim-Hann Craftworld Eldar is closely linked with the Exodites.

The army was, however, very different from the factions previously seen in the game.

Players of the role-playing game assume the role of a noble person and challenge one another to relate an improvised tale based on an opening line given by another player ( for example: " Grand Poobah, please tell our assemblage about the time you singlehandedly defeated the entire Turkish army using only a plate of cheese and a corkscrew !").

A small kingdom in the land of Hyrule, the setting of the game, is engulfed in chaos after an army led by Ganon, the Prince of Darkness, invaded it and stole the Triforce of Power, a part of a magical artifact bestowing great strength.