Costly Allied assaults continued for minimal gains.

The rapid retreat of the German Nineteenth Army resulted in swift gains for the Allied forces and the Dragoon force met up with southern thrusts from Operation Overlord in mid-September, near Dijon.

Following the Allied victory, Venizelos secured new territorial gains, especially in Anatolia, coming close to realize the Megali Idea.

First Army captured much of the early gains of the Allied forces in Normandy.

Intended to strengthen the Allied foothold along the banks of the Orne River and take Verrières Ridge to the south of Caen, Atlantic made initial gains but ran out of steam as casualties mounted.

Although they made initial gains against the defending U. S. VII Corps, they were soon halted and Allied aircraft inflicted severe losses on the attacking troops, eventually destroying nearly ½ of the tanks involved in the attack.

The player selects a faction ( e. g. Soviets, Germans, or Allied forces ) and gains control of many varied units such as infantry, tanks and artillery.

On Overkirk ’ s right flank, close to Ramillies, ten of his squadrons suddenly broke ranks and were scattered, riding headlong to the rear to recover their order, leaving the left flank of the Allied assault on Ramillies dangerously exposed.

In Ramillies the Allied infantry, now reinforced by the English troops brought down from the north, at last broke through.

" Instead of continuing the momentum of victory, however, cracks in Allied unity would enable Louis XIV to reverse some of the major setbacks suffered at Turin and Ramillies.

Becoming de facto leader of Allied forces during the War of the Spanish Succession, his victories on the fields of Blenheim ( 1704 ), Ramillies ( 1706 ), Oudenarde ( 1708 ), and Malplaquet ( 1709 ), ensured his place in history as one of Europe's great generals.

During the spring of 1999, AMRAAMs saw their main combat action during Operation Allied Force, the Kosovo bombing campaign.

To stop the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Albanians by nationalist Serbs in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's province of Kosovo, Clinton authorized the use of American troops in a NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, named Operation Allied Force.

With Marshal Villars sitting strong on the Moselle, the Allied commander – whose supplies had by now become critical – was forced to call off his campaign on 16 June.

Eugene's European reputation was growing ( Cremona and Luzzara had been celebrated as victories throughout the Allied capitals ), yet because of the condition and morale of his troops the 1702 campaign had not been a success.

The Allied landing and subsequent campaign on the peninsula during World War I is usually known in Turkey as the Battle of Çanakkale.

Counterattacks of British Allied forces from Egypt, commanded by Wavell and their successful two-month campaign in ( Tobruk, Benghazi, El Agheila ), and the counteroffensives under Rommel in 1940-43, all took place during World War II.

Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

In November 1943, Allied forces threw themselves against Japanese positions at Tarawa Atoll in the Gilberts, resulting in some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific campaign.

Centimetric contour mapping radars like H2S improved the accuracy of Allied bombers used in the strategic bombing campaign.

In the campaign, Allied agents from the fictional " Office of Secret Actions " ( OSA ) are sent to investigate rumors surrounding one of Heinrich Himmler's personal projects, the SS Paranormal Division ( also see Ahnenerbe ).

NATO began an air campaign called Operation Allied Force against Yugoslav military forces and positions and suspected Serbian paramilitaries.

In the campaign of 1813 Allied forces in the German theater alone amounted to nearly one million whilst two years later in the Hundred Days a French decree called for the total mobilization of some 2. 5 million men ( though at most a fifth of this was managed by the time of the French defeat at Waterloo ).

The German claims were made at the time when Germany was waging a propaganda campaign to end the Allied blockade of Germany after the armistice that lasted from November 1918 until June 1919.

* January 31 – WWII: Battle of Malaya: The last organized Allied forces leave British Malaya, ending the 54-day campaign.

* January 13 – WWI: The Battle of Wadi occurs between Allied British and Ottoman Empire forces, during the Mesopotamian campaign in modern-day Iraq.

The much earlier Palazzo Marliani however, regarded as one of the finest houses to survive from the era of the Sforza, was preserved until its destruction during the Allied bombing campaign of 1943.

However, MacArthur's chances were limited by the fact that he was leading Allied forces against Japan, and thus could not campaign for the nomination.

Since he was serving in Japan as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers occupying that nation, he was unable to campaign for the nomination.

This was part of a sophisticated Allied campaign of military disinformation, Operation Fortitude.

Several British and French operations took place beyond Flanders during the 3rd Ypres campaign, intended to assist Allied operations at Ypres, by obstructing the flow of munitions and reinforcements to the German Fourth Army in Belgium and to exploit opportunities created by the German need to economise elsewhere.

To that end, as the Allies began their post-war denazification efforts, the Psychological Warfare Division ( PWD ) of SHAEF ( Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force ) undertook a psychological propaganda campaign for the purpose of developing a German sense of collective responsibility.

Unlike most other major German cities, Regensburg suffered little damage from the Allied strategic bombing campaign, and the nearly intact medieval city centre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Serbia, with its campaign, was a major Balkan Entente Power which contributed significantly to the Allied victory in the Balkans in November 1918, especially by helping France force Bulgaria's capitulation.

The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces, was a military campaign fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II.

With Prince Eugene's rout of the French army at Turin in September, 1706 proved a miraculous year for Allied arms.

Other memberships include the American Watercolor Society, Philadelphia Water Color Club, Allied Artists of America, Audubon Artists, Baltimore Watercolor Society.

Teen Hunter Clubs were initially sponsored by affiliated members of the Allied Merchandising Corporation.

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

The target was Allied shipping -- a desperate effort to stave off the Allied invasion of Europe.

A crack corps of 50 pilots was formed from the ranks of volunteers, but the project was halted before the end of the war, and the missiles later fell into Allied hands.

Beyond that, Allied disagreement about military intervention in Laos -- despite warnings that they might do so -- allowed Moscow to carry out with impunity a series of military and diplomatic moves that greatly strengthened the pro-Communist forces.

There was also the fact that by the time he meets Mr. Khrushchev, the President will have completed conversations with all the other principal Allied leaders.

Thus he will be in a position to disabuse the Soviet leader of any notions he may have about grave Allied disunity.

Allied Arts Corporation first listed the Chicago dates as Dec. 4 thru 10.

Allied Arts had booked Marlene Dietrich into McCormick Place Dec. 8 and 9.

Allied Arts then notified us that the Kirov would cut short its Los Angeles booking, fly here to open Nov. 28, and close Dec. 2.

A couple of days later a balletomane told me he had telephoned Allied Arts for ticket information and was told `` the newspapers had made a mistake ''.

Well, Allied Arts has booked Lena Horne there for a week starting Dec. 4.

Queried about the impasse, Allied Arts said: `` Better cancel the Kirov for the time being.

As Kennan shows, the judgment of the Allied governments about what was happening in Russia was warped by the obsession of defeating Germany.

This, more than any other factor, led to the fiasco of Allied intervention.

`` Had a world war not been in progress, there would never, under any conceivable stretch of the imagination, have been an Allied intervention in North Russia ''.

In describing the initial Allied occupation of a middle-sized German city, the picture has color, pictorial pull and genuinely moving moments.

Nearly 3, 700 Allied ships were sunk at a cost of 783 German U-boats.

* 1916 – Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.

* 1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair – the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

* 1944 – Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied-Crete.

* 1944 – Allied forces started bombing of Belgrade, killing about 1, 100 people.