Wellington is better-known to posterity, because he led one of the two Allied armies at the final decisive victory of the Napoleonic Wars ( the battle of Waterloo in 1815 ), although Wellington's superior reputation is perhaps also because he only once faced Napoleon, whereas Charles was confronted by Napoleon in battle more times than any other commander.

Hermann Göring had promised the Luftwaffe would complete the destruction of the encircled armies, but aerial operations did not prevent the evacuation of the majority of Allied troops ( which the British named Operation Dynamo ); some 330, 000 French and British were saved.

As the war progressed, Allied armies began using combined arms formations and deep penetration strategies that Germany had used in the opening years of the war.

As a result of intense internal debate, the national policy was one of becoming the Arsenal of Democracy, that is financing and equipping the Allied armies without sending American combat soldiers.

In recognition of his senior position in the Allied command, on December 20, 1944 he was promoted to General of the Army, equivalent to the rank of Field Marshal in most European armies.

On 5 November 1854, Russian forces tried to relieve the siege at Sevastopol and tried to defeat the Allied armies in the field in the battle of Inkerman.

On 6 June 1944 the Western Allied armies landed in northern France during Operation Overlord.

German and Allied armies produced essentially a matched pair of trench lines from the Swiss border in the south to the North Sea coast of Belgium.

The Axis forces in Tunisia surrendered by May 1943, and Alexander's command became the 15th Army Group, which was, under Eisenhower, responsible for mounting in July the Allied invasion of Sicily, again seeing Alexander controlling two armies: Montgomery's Eighth Army and George S. Patton's Seventh United States Army.

Many foreign armies warred against the Red Army, notably the Allied Forces and the pro-German armies.

However, early battle reports of insignia on Allied units that the German armies encountered only confirmed the information the double agents had sent, increasing the Germans ' trust in their network.

During World War I the front line between the opposing German and Allied armies in France ran through the province, resulting in enormous physical damage.

Belgium was liberated late in 1944 by Allied forces, including British, Canadian, and American armies, including a small Belgian national contingent.

The port city was also the main objective of German armies in December ; the inability of the Allies to end the war in 1944 meant that Allied troops had to winter in Belgium, during which time the Ardennes Offensive was launched by the Germans, resulting in heavy fighting on Belgian soil that lasted into 1945.

The inexorable advance of the Allied armies during the second half of 1918 persuaded the German commanders that defeat was inevitable, and the government was forced to sue for conditions of an armistice.

On the Entente side, the final lines were occupied by the armies of the Allied countries, with each nation defending a part of the front.

Following the Allied breakout from Normandy and the closure of the Falaise pocket, Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower favoured pursuit of the seemingly shattered German armies northwards and eastwards across the Seine, and ultimately to the Rhine on a broad front.

During World War II, some Papuan men enlisted in the Papua Infantry Battalion, and others as carriers over trails and rough terrains ( porters ) as supply support to Allied and Japanese armies during long jungle marches.

In addition, Indiana Standard significantly contributed to the aviation and land gasoline needed for the Allied armies.

The Allied battle plan prior to the war had been based on France and the United Kingdom halting the German armies in the West while the huge Russian armies could be organized and brought to the Eastern front.

Chaired by General Joseph Joffre, the commander-in-chief of the French Army, Allied representatives agreed on a concerted offensive against the Central Powers in 1916 by the French, British, Italian and Russian armies.

Although the Allied armies had not achieved all that they had hoped and expected on 1 July 1916, Philpott asserts that they momentarily gained the upper hand.

Allied Forces won in North Africa, invaded Italy in 1943, and invaded occupied France in 1944.

* September 3 – WWII: Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces under Bernard L. Montgomery, for the first time in the war.

Presidents Roosevelt and Truman justified these tactics by referring to an estimate of one million Allied casualties if Japan had to be invaded.

In November 1942 the Allied invaded French North Africa ( Operation Torch ).

The Allied invasion of Italy in September 1943 removed Rundstedt's fears that France would be invaded that summer, but he could not have doubted that the massive build-up of American troops in Britain meant that a cross-channel invasion would come in 1944.

Unless one counts the Allied occupation following World War II, the Japanese main islands have never been successfully invaded in recorded history.

When the Allied forces invaded Sicily ( Operation Husky ) on 10 July 1943, Desert Air Force ( DAF ) was created by simply renaming Western Desert Air Force.

In 1940, when Norway was invaded by Nazi Germany, Lie ordered all Norwegian ships to sail to Allied ports.

After German troops invaded Belgium in May 1940, de Jongh moved to Brussels, where she became a Red Cross volunteer, ministering to captured Allied troops.

On 6 April 1941 the Germans invaded Greece ; less than a month later, on 28 April, the last Allied troops evacuated, having been unable to stop the German advance.

Nevertheless, Garros inspired aircraft designer Anthony Fokker from the Netherlands ( which, unlike in World War II, was not invaded and remained neutral ) to do exactly the same, fitting his E. I monoplane ( a revolutionary aeroplane in 1915 ) in the same way and thus changing the way in which the air war was fought, as German and Allied aeroplanes fought each other and produced “ ace ” pilots.

Two months later, the Allied powers of Great Britain and the United States, successfully invaded Sicily.

** Allied aircraft begin a bombing campaign against Pantelleria, the first of 5, 285 sorties they will fly against the island before it is invaded on June 11.

On D-Day, when the Allies invaded Normandy, France, Warlimont telephoned General Jodl to request that the German tanks in Normandy should be released to attack the Allied invaders.

As part of the Allied invasion of Sicily, the 7th U. S Army under Lieutenant General George S. Patton and the British Eighth Army under General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery invaded the southeast corner of the island on 10 July 1943.

All of the invaded countries swiftly capitulated and the forces of Britain and its allies suffered a humiliating defeat in Norway ( see Allied campaign in Norway ) and a near-disastrous retreat from France ( see Battle of Dunkirk ).

In September 1940, the Italian Tenth Army invaded Egypt, a British colony, threatening Allied control of the Middle East and most particularly, the Suez Canal and international supply routes.

As the Allied armies invaded Italy and began moving north towards Rome, Kappler became significantly involved in hunting suspected Allied agents and Allied prisoners-of-war which had escaped Italian POW camps after the Italian Army capitulated.

In 1943, nearly half a million Allied troops invaded Sicily.

On 1945, during the Battle for the Liberation of Iloilo the combined Filipino and American troops together with the Ilonggo guerillas invaded the town of Pototan, Iloilo. The Libration force included Allied Filipino soldiers of the 6th, 61st and 62nd Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and 6th Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary, They continued to combat the Japanese Imperial forces until the end of World War II.

After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, air bases in Norway were also used to interdict the Allied Arctic convoys there, inflicting painful losses to shipping.