Merited recommendations from army commanders were passed over in favor of political appointees from civil life.

But you could ( as from yourself ) tell her that you had friends who, being with the army, don't know what to do with their money and would willingly let her have one or many thousand dollars ''.

In late December, the American army moved from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge, and although the distance was only 13 miles, the journey took more than a week because of the bad weather, the barefooted and almost naked men.

To the middle of September 1918, there had been fewer than 10,000 deaths from disease in the new army.

I hated the goddamn army from the first day I got in anyhow.

If this trade should be resumed, the habitants who had come to be farmers or artisans, and soldiers discharged from the army, must be hardened to the severe life of coureurs de bois.

Ultimately the U.N. army in the Congo reached a top strength of 19,000, including about 5,000 from India and a few soldiers from Eire and Sweden, who were the only whites.

For the army of compulsive eaters -- from the nibblers and the gobblers to the downright gluttons -- reducing is a war with the will that is rarely won.

Lincoln learned from his chief of staff General Henry Halleck, a student of the European strategist Jomini, of the critical need to control strategic points, such as the Mississippi River ; he also knew well the importance of Vicksburg and understood the necessity of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing territory.

Meade's failure to capture Lee's army as it retreated from Gettysburg, and the continued passivity of the Army of the Potomac, persuaded Lincoln that a change in command was needed.

Like many regular army officers from the South he was opposed to secession, but resigned his commission soon after he heard of the secession of his adopted state Texas.

Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state to recapture federal property, which led to declarations of secession by four more slave states.

This type of military fiefdom enabled the nomadic Turks to draw on the resources of the sedentary Persians, Turks and other established cultures within the Seljuq realm, and allowed Alp Arslan to field a huge standing army, without depending on tribute from conquest to pay his soldiery.

* 1922 – The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Greeks.

Someone also suggested that these large roads were used to quickly move an army from the canyon to the outlier communities, a purpose similar to the road systems known for the Roman empire.

He received a brevet promotion to lieutenant colonel in the regular army for his actions at Antietam and was promoted in March 1863 to major general of volunteers, to rank from November 29, 1862.

Devastated by European diseases to which they had no immunity, and civil wars, in 1532 the Incas were defeated by an alliance composed of tens of thousands allies from nations they had subjugated ( e. g. Huancas, Chachapoyas, Cañaris ) and a small army of 180 Spaniards led by Francisco Pizarro.

Julius Caesar in Gallic Wars tells us ( 1. 51 ) that Ariovistus had gathered an army from a wide region of Germany, but especially the Harudes, Marcomanni, Triboci, Vangiones, Nemetes and Sedusii.

They lived in 100 cantons ( 4. 1 ) from which 1000 young men per year were chosen for military service, a citizen-army by our standards and by comparison with the Roman professional army.

* 1914 – World War I: the Battle of Haelen a. k. a. ( Battle of the Silver Helmets ) last cavalry style attack from the German army on the city of Halen Belgium.

In 1716, he sent an army of 33, 000 men to capture Corfu from the Republic of Venice.

Preparing to depart from Aulis, which was a port in Boeotia, Agamemnon's army incurred the wrath of the goddess Artemis.

Misfortunes, including a plague and a lack of wind, prevented the army from sailing.

* April 23 – The Earl of Essex arrives in Dublin at the head of 16, 000 troops, the largest army ever seen in Ireland.

In 1754, he enrolled at Trinity College, Dublin, and two years later joined the British army to fight in the French and Indian War.

Although a Parliament was called for the new " King ", Lincoln had no intention of remaining in Dublin and instead packed up the army and Simnel and set sail for north Lancashire.

After his defeat James did not stay in Dublin, but rode with a small escort to Duncannon and returned to exile in France, even though his army left the field relatively unscathed.

After the sack of Dumbarton Rock by a Viking army from Dublin in 870, the name Strathclyde comes into use, perhaps reflecting a move of the centre of the kingdom to Govan.

The Battle of Brunanburh was an English victory in 937 by the army of Æthelstan, King of England, and his brother Edmund over the combined armies of Olaf III Guthfrithson, the Norse-Gael King of Dublin, Constantine II, King of Scots, and Owen I, King of Strathclyde.

In 1014, Brian's army had mustered and set off towards Dublin.

After nightfall they turned around and landed on the beaches of Clontarf, just over a mile to the north of Dublin, in order to surprise Brian's army the next day.

Sigtrygg, who had watched the battle with Gormlaith from Dublin, on the south bank of the River Liffey, and with the Irish army melting away the next day, ended up as the only " winner " of the contest, continuing his rule in Dublin until his death in 1042.

*“ An express from Corke, with an account of a blood battle fought between the mob of that city and the standing army …( Dublin, 1729 ).

O ' Neill led his Ulster army, along with Thomas Preston's Leinster army, in a failed attempt to take Dublin from Ormonde.

To this end, they began recruiting for a new army, based initially at Beggar's Bush Barracks in Dublin, composed of pro-Treaty IRA units.

In 1882 her father, an army officer, was posted to Dublin.

The Volunteers escaped largely unscathed, but when the army returned to Dublin they clashed with a group of unarmed civilians who had been heckling them at Bachelors Walk.

In 1876 a Mobilisation Scheme for eight army corps was published, with ' 4th Corps ' headquartered at Dublin and comprising the units of Irish Command.

The eldest son of barrister Henry Cadogan, he was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Dublin, and joined the army in 1690.

His father Robert ( d. 1656 ) was a Cromwellian who made a fortune in Dublin, largely by provisioning Cromwell's army ; Robert Molesworth the younger supported William of Orange and was made William's ambassador to Denmark.

The Scottish army quickly drove the Irish rebels out of Ulster and the English force drove them back from around Dublin.

Ormonde, who said that he " preferred English rebels to Irish ones ", left Dublin and handed it over to a Parliamentarian army sent from England under Michael Jones.

Firstly, in August 1647, Thomas Preston's Leinster army was annihilated at the battle of Dungans Hill by Jones ’ Parliamentarian army when it tried to march on Dublin.

An attempt was made by the last Norse King of Dublin, Hasculf Thorgillsson, to recapture the city with an army he raised among his relations in the Scottish Highlands, where he was forced to flee after the city was taken, but the attempted reconquest failed and Thorgillsson was killed.