Later on 1 May, Vice-Admiral Hans-Erich Voss saw Goebbels for the last time: " Before the breakout the bunker began, about ten generals and officers, including myself, went down individually to Goebbels's shelter to say goodbye.

It is also the best known symbol of the adage that " generals always fight the last war, especially if they have won it ".

* 1897 – After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.

* September 11 – After months of searching, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.

* Aetius, last of the great Roman generals

As for Mahone, the victory, won largely due to his efforts in supporting Johnson's stunned men, earned him a lasting reputation as one of the best young generals of Lee's army in the war's last year.

Known for his military successes and sense of duty, Stilicho was, in the words of the great historian Edward Gibbon, “ the last of the Roman generals .”

Finally, in 538 A. D., Belisarius, one of Justinian's generals routed the Ostrogoths, the last of the barbarian kingdoms, from the city of Rome and the bishop of Rome could begin establishing his universal civil authority.

The second phase of the Philippine Revolution ended in Luzon by 1906, with the surrender and execution of one of its last remaining generals, Macario Sakay.

The last state ceremonies held at the memorial were of two generals killed in the July Plot of 1944.

Instead, the generals of the Grand Alliance became heroes of a Europe " civilized even when at war "-an ideal which would last, with some exceptions, to the early days of the First World War.

A new war, with Turkey, broke out in 1787 ( see Austro-Turkish War ( 1787-1791 ) The generals charged with prosecuting this war did badly, and Laudon was thus called for the last time into the field.

This was isolated, and practically devoid of Spanish troops, for several reasons: France had respected the territory's neutrality in the last war against Spain ; furthermore, the Spanish generals did not expect an attack by the French in the middle of winter.

This last lodge, opposed to the first two ones, was integrated into the new one created by the Spanish generals.

From the last years of the eighteenth century, it became the practice to assign military experts to assist the generals of Prussia's Army.

The Persian generals Tiribazus and Orontes at last invaded Cyprus in 385 BC, with an army far larger than what Evagoras could command.

However, this also did not last and it broke down during the disorder of the An Lushan, which saw many fanzhen or local generals become extraordinarily powerful.

He was the last Polish general to capitulate in the Polish Defensive War ; he is also considered one of the few Polish generals of the September 1939 campaign to have not been defeated in battle ( along with Gen. Maczek ).

Troop reductions meant that the Rhine Command was being downgraded to a lieutenant-general ’ s command, so in July 1919 Churchill offered Robertson the Irish Command, often a last posting for distinguished generals nearing retirement.

The last two of the four Oberst-Gruppenführer promotions were made in 1944, this time to Waffen-SS generals.

In the 10th anniversary episode, Forever Red, the last surviving generals of Mondo's empire seek to avenge his death, by unearthing Rita and Zedd's zord Serpentera and taking over the Earth.

Years after Countdown to Destruction in the Power Rangers Wild Force episode Forever Red, the last generals of the Machine Empire gathered on the moon.

He fought with Putnam's division at the Battle of Brooklyn on August 27, 1776, and was the last of Washington's generals to argue against surrendering Manhattan to the British — possibly due to his large landholdings there, including what is now Times Square and New York City's Theater District.

He was recognized by former generals from both sides of the war as an unofficial court of last resorts in settling disputes about their wartime reputations.

Khiêm would return to Vietnam when the political climate among the generals was more favourable and became Prime Minister under President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, resigning only in the last month before the fall of Saigon.

They did so at the invitation of their long-time ally, king Philip V of Macedon, a direct descendant of Antigonus, one of the Diadochi, the generals of Alexander the Great who had shared out his empire after his death in 323 BC.

Larissa was indeed the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, along with Xenophon and a few others, one of the generals leading several thousands Greeks from various places, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 ( retold in Xenophon's Anabasis ) meant to help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II and take over the throne of Persia ( Meno is featured in Plato's dialogue bearing his name, in which Socrates uses the example of " the way to Larissa " to help explain Meno the difference between true opinion and science ( Meno, 97a – c ) ; this " way to Larissa " might well be on the part of Socrates an attempt to call to Meno's mind a " way home ", understood as the way toward one's true and " eternal " home reached only at death, that each man is supposed to seek in his life ).

* The most important generals of the army ( hégémones tôn taxéôn ), also named by the king.

When Demetrius advanced far into India one of his generals, Eucratides, made himself king of Bactria, and soon in every province there arose new usurpers, who proclaimed themselves kings and fought against each other.

Assyria descended into a series of brutal internal civil wars, Ashur-etil-ilani was deposed by one of his own generals, named Sin-shumu-lishir, who also set himself up as king in Babylon.

Only the king could mint gold darics, important generals and satraps minted silver darics, the latter usually to recruit Greek mercenaries in Anatolia.

" This decision, largely misunderstood by his generals and by the French people, made the king unpopular.

" This decision, largely misunderstood by his generals and by the French people, made the king unpopular.

However, at the Battle of Leuctra, the Theban generals, Epaminondas and Pelopidas, win a decisive victory over the Spartans under the other Spartan king, Cleombrotus I ( who is killed in the battle ).

After Alexander's death, Side fell under the control of one of Alexander's generals, Ptolemy I Soter, who declared himself king of Egypt in 305 BC.

Avitus had a good relationship with the Visigoths, in particular with their king Theodoric II, who was a friend of his and who acclaimed Avitus Emperor, but the possibility of a strong and useful alliance between Visigoths and Romans ended when Theodoric invaded Roman Hispania and then refused to help Avitus against the rebel Roman generals who deposed him.

According to then-Ambassador from the United States Phillip Talbot, after this communication, Constantine met with the generals of the army, who promised the king that they would not take any action before the coming elections.

Under these circumstances, rather than managing to put together a force and advancing on Thessaloniki, middle-ranking pro-junta officers neutralised and arrested his royalist generals and took command of their units, which subsequently put together a force advancing on Kavala to arrest the king.

Armies under Usiris of Egypt and then prince Menostanes, a nephew of the king, were sent against him, both foregoing battle for ( non-fatal ) duels between the generals, and in both cases Megabyzus was victorious.

They gained everlasting fame from the exploits of Marcus Claudius Marcellus, one of Rome's finest generals, and a towering figure of the Second Punic War, who was five times consul, and won the spolia opima, defeating and killing the Gallic king, Viridomarus, in single combat.

The king, worried about the safety of the Karmapa on his long journey to Lijiang, dispatched an army of four generals and ten thousand soldiers to accompany him.

* If the terms were observed by the king and his generals, then the Athenians were not to send troops to lands ruled by Persia.

Among the most famous were Thargelia, a renowned Ionian hetaera of ancient times ; Aspasia, companion of Pericles ; Archeanassa, companion of Plato ; the famous Neaira ; Thaïs, a concubine of Ptolemy, who was one of the generals on the expeditions of Alexander the Great and later became king of Egypt ; Lais of Corinth, the famed beauty who lived during the Peloponnesian War ; Lais of Hyccara, a courtesan who is said to have provided her services to the philosopher Diogenes free of charge ; and the famously beautiful Phryne, the model and muse of the sculptor Praxiteles.

The king of France was the Captain General of the Army, but was represented in the field by lieutenant generals who commanded in his absence.

They were able to convince Atahualpa's generals not to attack by threatening to kill their king if they did.

Serer oral tradition speaks of a Serer king of Jolof, involved in the occult ( just as Soumaoro ), who was later defeated by Tiramakhan Traore ( one of the generals of Sundiata ) after Sundiata sent his men to buy horses in Jolof.

For the moment, all of the various generals continued to recognize the dead Alexander as king, since Cassander did not publicly announce the deaths, but it seemed clear that at some point, one or the other of them would claim the kingship.

According to W. W. Tarn, Apollodotus I was one of the generals of Demetrius I of Bactria, the Greco-Bactrian king who invaded northwestern India after 180 BCE.