According to Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, during the shifting of offices that took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped he would be promoted from a mere commander to the rank of general in one of the regular armies.

According to the witness statements, U-27s commander was shot while swimming towards Baralong.

According to the Historia Augusta, an unreliable source compiled long after the events it describes, a conspiracy was led by the commander of the guard Aurelius Heraclianus and one Marcianus.

According to Hawks, he spent fifteen weeks in basic training at the University of California in Berkeley where he was trained to be a squadron commander.

According to a Tang dynasty book, The Notes of Feng, tug of war, under the name " hook pulling "( 牵钩 ), was used by the military commander of the State of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period ( 8th century BCE to 5th century BCE ) to train warriors.

According to a report by a Union commander:

According to the commander of the 2nd battalion 116th RCT the tanks "... saved the day.

According to the memoirs of Trần Văn Trà, the Viet Cong's top commander and PRG defense minister, he followed orders issued by the " Military Commission of the Party Central Committee " in Hanoi, which in turn implemented resolutions of the Politburo.

According to John Zonaras, the commander of the Praetorian Guard Marcus Aurelius Carus had been proclaimed, more or less unwillingly, emperor by his troops.

According to Diodorus Siculus ( III. 55 ), Mopsus was a Thracian commander who had lived long before the Trojan War, and along with Sipylus the Scythian, had been driven into exile from Thrace by its king Lycurgus.

According to some accounts, Marshal Peng Dehuai — the overall commander of the Chinese forces in Korea — is said to have invented this tactic.

According to Ludwig von Wolzogen ( in an account dripping with sarcasm ), the commander was found a half-hour away on the road to Moscow, encamped with an entourage of young nobles and grandly pronouncing he would drive Napoleon off the next day.

According to one chronicle, Yaropolk's brother Oleg killed Lyut, the son of Yaropolk's chief adviser and military commander Sveneld.

According to Ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥakam writing around 860, Ṭāriq, commander of the Arab-Berber garrison of Tangiers, crossed the straits of Gibraltar with ships from a certain Count Julian ( Arabic Ilyan ), lord of Ceuta and " Alchadra " ( Algeciras ), and landed near Cartagena, which he took and made his headquarters.

According to some biblical commentators, Asiaticus is the " commander " referred to in Daniel 11: 18, where it says that " a commander will put an end to his insolence " ( NIV ).

According to a Palestinian publication, Dov Yirmiya, who was company commander in the 21st battalion, reported:

" The Palmah ' intentionally left open the exit routes for the population to " facilitate " their exodus ...' " According to Gilbert, " The Arabs of Safed began to leave, including the commander of the Arab forces, Adib Shishakli ( later Prime Minister of Syria ).

According to garrison officials, “ The Army Family Covenant is our commitment to deliver a quality of life commensurate to our Soldiers ’ service .” During the ceremony, the Yongsan Garrison commander cited recent improvements to family programs at the USAG-Yongsan, such as elimination of initial registration fees for child care, extended hours for respite care and extended-duty child care, and expanded programs for teens and after-school care, including youth sports.

According to that account, the island's chief, Lachlan Mor Maclean, struck a deal with the Spanish commander to reprovision and refit the ship in return for military intervention on the side of the MacLeans in their feud with enemies on nearby islands.

According to three pilots from Bush's squadron, Bush inquired about this program but was advised by the base commander that he did not have the necessary experience ( 500 hours ) at the time and that the F-102 would soon be retired.

According to Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, commander of the 8th Army:

According to the official Gestapo report, " at first the guard refused passage until von Stauffenberg persuaded him to contact the adjutant to the compound commander who then finally authorized clearance ".

According to the manual, doing this from the M1 tanks was supposedly approximate to a tank commander standing on his tank hull to get a better perspective.

According to legend, town was conquered by a Seljuk commander and blacksmith named Osman Bey, whose cognomen was Yatağan Baba ( Father Yataghan ).

According to a statement in July 2009 by a legal counsel of the Honduras military, Colonel Herberth Bayardo Inestroza, the Honduran military was opposed to President Manuel Zelaya, whom the military had removed from Honduras a few days earlier, because of his left-wing politics.

According to Colonel Kevin Benson, the tenth director of the school, " The Army and SAMS faced a test of battle and the new group of highly-educated planners appeared to have passed the test with flying colors.

According to the diary of the German attache in Sofia at the time, Colonel von Schoenebeck, the two German doctors who attended the king – Sajitz and Hans Eppinger – both believed that the king had died from the same poison that Dr. Eppinger had allegedly found two years earlier in the postmortem examination of the Greek prime minister Ioannis Metaxas, a slow poison which takes weeks to do its work, and which causes the appearance of blotches on the skin of its victim before death.

According to the Board of Trustees, Colonel Rutgers was honored because he epitomized Christian values.

According to Colonel General Tukharinov and Merimsky, Amin was fully informed of the military movements, having requested Soviet military assistance to northern Afghanistan on December 17.

According to one of several legends, the town was given its name by Colonel Samuel Chapman, whose family owned of land in Southern Maryland, including what would become the areas of La Plata and Port Tobacco.

According to the diary of Colonel B. R.

According to " An Outline History of Orange County " by Samuel Watkins Eager p. 378 Campbell Hall was named for Colonel Campbell who was a Scotchman, had 2 sons, and when the war of the Revolution commenced, one sided with England ; the other with his adopted country.

According to early settler Colonel Victor M. Locke, Jr., a hunter was encamped at the spring at present-day Antlers early one autumn and killed a “ magnificent buck .” He nailed its antlers on a tree close to the spring as a challenge to other hunters, who followed suit.

According to local tradition, Colonel Foscue had an Indian friend named Pantego.

" ( According to historian Tim Parrish, Presley's manager, Colonel Parker, " had threatened to remove Elvis from the show if Sullivan did not apologize for telling the press that Elvis's ' gyrations ' were immoral.

According to his biographer, Robert Coram, Boyd was also known at different points of his career as " The Mad Major " for the intensity of his passions, as " Genghis John " for his confrontational style of interpersonal discussion, and as the " Ghetto Colonel " for his spartan lifestyle.

According to biographical research of Hugh Noel Williams, Charles had not arrived at The Hague until the middle of September 1648 — seven months before the child's birth ( but he met Lucy for the first time nine months before ) — and some unfounded voices whispered that Lucy Walter had in the summer of 1648 been mistress of Colonel Robert Sidney, a younger son of the Earl of Leicester.

According to military records at the General National Archives in Mexico City, Chapultepec Castle was only defended by 400 men, 300 from de Batallón de San Blas under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Felipe Xicoténcatl, and the castle's garrison of 100 men, including the cadets.

According to the spokesman for the 1st Marine Division at the time, Lieutenant Eric Knapp, Colonel Dowdy's removal "... was a decision based on operating tempo.

According to ARVN Colonel Hoang Ngoc Lung the answer lay with the allied intelligence methodology itself, which tended to estimate the enemy's probable course of action based upon their capabilities, not their intentions.

According to the former KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin, after the Athens Colonel Coup in April 1967, Longo and other PCI leaders became alarmed at the possibility of a coup in Italy.

According to the episode " The Battle of Mayberry ," the town was almost named Taylortown in honor of Colonel Carleton Taylor, who was one of the first settlers in the town.

‘ The operation was run by Colonel Souames Mahmoud, alias Habib, head of the secret service at the Algerian embassy in Paris .’ According to Ahmed's theories, ' Joseph's testimony has been corroborated by numerous defectors from the Algerian secret services.

According to the episode's DVD commentary, when Klemperer appeared, he had to be given a quick reminder of how to play Colonel Klink.

" According to the Deputy Commandant's recommendation, " The posthumous awarding of the POW Medal to Colonel Higgins is consistent with law and precedent, and should be supported.

According to Azeri Colonel Azer Rustamov, in 1992, " hundreds of Chechen volunteers rendered us invaluable help in these battles led by Shamil Basayev and Salman Raduyev ".

According to indications furnished by a former Spanish military attaché, Valcarlos, Schwartzkoppen and the Italian military representative, Colonel Panizzardi, had agreed to exchange the results of whatever discoveries they might make.

According to Daniel Wheeler's Life and Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume 1 ( of 10, Vincent & Parke, 1908 ) pp. 26-27: Thomas Paine accompanied Colonel John Laurens to France and is credited with initiating the mission.

" According to the founder of the Museum of Broadcast Communications, Bruce DuMont, " She was to Paul Harvey what Colonel Parker was to Elvis Presley.