Rommel's plan was for the 90th Light Infantry Division and the two Afrika Korps armoured divisions — 15th and 21st Panzer — to penetrate the Eighth Army lines between the Alamein box and Deir el Abyad ( which he believed was defended ).

The Eighth Army now enjoyed a massive superiority in material over the Axis forces: 1st Armoured Division had 173 tanks and more in reserve or transit, while Rommel possessed only 38 German tanks and 51 Italian tanks although his armoured units had some 100 tanks awaiting repair.

The Eighth Army had suffered over 13, 000 casualties in July including 4, 000 in the New Zealand Division, 3, 000 in the Indian 5th Infantry Division and 2, 552 battle casualties in the 9th Australian Division ) but had taken 7, 000 prisoners and inflicted heavy damage on Axis men and machines.

After Seoul fell easily, Japanese commanders held a war council in June in Seoul and determined targets of subjugation called Hachidokuniwari ( literally, dividing the country into eight routes ) by each corps ( the First Division of Konishi Yukinaga and others from Pyeongan Province, the Second Division of Kato Kiyomasa and others from Hangyong Province, the Third Division of Kuroda Nagamasa and others from Hwanghae Province, the Forth Division of Mōri Yoshinari and others from Gangwon Province ; the Fifth Division of Fukushima Masanori and others from Chungcheong Province ; the Sixth Division by Kobayakawa Takakage and others from Jeolla Province, the Seventh Division by Mōri Terumoto and others from Gyeongsang Province, and the Eighth Division of Ukita Hideie and others from Gyeonggi Province ).

* July 10 – WWII – Allied invasion of Sicily: The allied invasion of Axis-controlled Europe begins with landings on the island of Sicily off mainland Italy, by the Seventh United States Army and the British Eighth Army including the 1st Canadian Infantry Division.

A Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Division were raised for service in Canada, with one brigade of the Sixth Division going to Kiska in 1943.

After Vietnam, Moore served as Assistant Chief-of-Staff, Operations and Plans of the Eighth Army in South Korea, and Commanding General of the 7th Infantry Division, before rotating back to the US.

During the Battle of the Ch ' ongch ' on River, soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Division were given the mission of protecting the rear and right flank of the Eighth Army as it retired to the South.

On 3 October, a brigade of Eighth Army's 78th Infantry Division had crossed the Bifurno river to confront the German Volturno-Viktor Line defences.

By late on 30 November, 78th Division — supported by 4th Armoured Brigade — had taken Fossacesia, and the whole ridge on the far bank of the Sangro — carrying the main Bernhardt defences — was under Eighth Army control.

As the Eighth Army pushed forward over the next few days, 65th Infantry Division crumbled ( to the extent that German 10th Army were later to order a court-martial into its conduct ).

" During the El Alamein Campaign, the 9th Division suffered 22 % of the British Eighth Army's casualties ; 1, 177 Australians were killed, while 3, 629 were wounded, 795 were captured and 193 were missing.

* Hamon, joint Commander of Charlemagne's Eighth Division.

Promoted to Lieutenant-General and knighted via Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Freyberg continued to command the New Zealand 2nd Division through the North African and Italian campaigns of the British Eighth Army.

In Robinson v. California,, the Court decided that a California law authorizing a 90-day jail sentence for " be addicted to the use of narcotics " violated the Eighth Amendment, as narcotics addiction " is apparently an illness ," and California was attempting to punish people based on the state of this illness, rather than for any specific act.

Bobby was asked not to attend the Sedgwick Christmas gathering in California ( according to Saucie, his father told Bobby he was a " bad influence " on the other children ) and on December 31, 1964 Bobby suffered critical head injuries when his bike slammed into the side of a bus on Eighth Avenue in New York City ; he never regained consciousness and died in hospital twelve days later, aged 31.

The Court in O ' Connor v. Donaldson said that due process is violated by confining a non-dangerous mentally ill person who is capable of surviving safely in freedom, and Chief Justice Burger's concurring opinion noted that such confinement may also amount to " punishment " for being mentally ill, in violation of the interpretation of the Eighth Amendment in Robinson v. California.

Its high school and PK through Eighth grade campuses are located in Pebble Beach and neighboring Carmel, California, respectively.

Along with the depot maintenance mission, Wattisham also hosted an Eighth Air Force fighter group, the 479th Fighter Group, arriving from Santa Maria AAF, California, on 15 May 1944.

A United States Supreme Court ruling in 2011 ordered the state of California to cut its inmate population, citing prison overcrowding to be in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

Robinson v. California, 370 U. S. 660 ( 1962 ), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the use of civil imprisonment as punishment solely for the misdemeanor crime of addiction to a controlled substance was a violation of the Eighth Amendment's protection against cruel and unusual punishment.

Plata v. Schwarzenegger is a federal class action civil rights lawsuit alleging unconstitutionally inadequate medical services, and as a result of a stipulation between the plaintiffs and the state, the court issued a injunction requiring defendants to provide “ only the minimum level of medical care required under the Eighth Amendment .” However, three years after approving the stipulation as an order of the court, the court conducted an evidentiary hearing that revealed the continued existence of appalling conditions arising from defendants ’ failure to provide adequate medical care to California inmates.

In the mid-1990s, under the leadership of Pat Corlett, Head of School 1992-1998, the school took several new steps forward, earning Saklan½s first full term of accreditation by the California Association of Independent Schools ( CAIS ), and launching its middle school program, bringing the school to its current Pre-School through Eighth Grade configuration.

She wanted a divorce, and after finishing up their contract at the Desert Inn, she filed for divorce at the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court of Nevada in Las Vegas.

The case initially entered the Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, but quickly found its way to the Nevada Supreme Court.

: Eighth: one-sixteenth to go to Melvin DuMar of Gabbs, Nevada -

In Wilkerson v. Utah,, the Court stated that death by firing squad was not cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.

After this, Operations Rugged and Dauntless in April saw Eighth Army forces advance north of the 38th parallel and reestablish themselves along the Kansas Line and Utah Line, respectively.

Congress passed a statute that placed Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, and Arkansas in the Eighth Circuit and created a Tenth Circuit that included Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Kansas, and Oklahoma.

Finally, in mid-April a further advance moved the US Eighth Army to the Utah Line.

After this, Operations Rugged and Dauntless in April saw Eighth Army forces advance north of the 38th parallel and reestablish themselves along the Kansas Line and Utah Line, respectively.

* Eighth Corps Area, variously headquartered in Dallas and Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio Texas, replaced the Southern Department and included Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.

Hayden attended Tempe's Eighth Street School and Arizona Territorial Normal School ( now Arizona State University ).

Bruckner's Eighth he refers to as `` my travel symphony ''.

When he discusses tyrants in the Eighth Book of The Republic, he pictures the poets as willing to praise the worst rulers.

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

More than that, Allied air had complete superiority in the Eighth Army's sector.

But he weighted the Eighth Symphony, at times, with a shuddering subjectivity which seemed considerably at odds with the music.

* 1943 – World War II: The U. S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt – Regensburg mission.

* Haynes, John H. Amos the Eighth Century Prophet: His Times and His Preaching.

When Louis IX again engaged in a crusade ( the Eighth Crusade ), Alphonse again raised a large sum of money and accompanied his brother.

In his Inferno, Canto XXI, Dante places barrators in the Eighth Circle, fifth bolgia of Hell.

He saw action in the First World War, where he was seriously wounded, and during the Second World War he commanded the Eighth Army from August 1942 in the Western Desert until the final Allied victory in Tunisia.

He subsequently commanded the Eighth Army in Sicily and Italy before being given responsibility for planning the D-Day invasion in Normandy.

In 1942, a new field commander was required in the Middle East, where Auchinleck was fulfilling both the role of commander-in-chief Middle East Command and commander Eighth Army.

He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

Montgomery's assumption of command transformed the fighting spirit and abilities of the Eighth Army.

The only common commander for Montgomery's all infantry and all armour corps was the Eighth Army Commander himself.

Rommel attempted to turn the left flank of the Eighth Army at the Battle of Alam Halfa from 31 August 1942.

By the time the offensive was ready in late October, Eighth Army had 231, 000 men on its ration strength.

" In The Anglo-Saxons from the Migration period to the Eighth Century.

In the revised Liturgy of the Hours, Job is read during the Eighth and Ninth Weeks in Ordinary Time.

At the southwest corner of Central Park, Broadway crosses Eighth Avenue at West 59th Street ; on the site of the former New York Coliseum convention center is the new shopping center at the foot of the Time Warner Center, headquarters of Time Warner.

On June 6, 1954, Seventh Avenue became southbound and Eighth Avenue became northbound south of Broadway.