* 1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris – Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.

The president visited several European air bases to thank the troops ( not shown ) for their support of NATO Operations Allied Force and Shining Hope, 1999.

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.

To isolate the Danube from any Allied intervention, Marshal Villeroi's 46, 000 troops were expected to pin the 70, 000 Dutch and English troops around Maastricht in the Low Countries, while General de Coigny protected Alsace against surprise with a further corps.

A French reconnaissance under the Marquis de Silly went forward to probe the enemy, but were driven off by Allied troops who had deployed to cover the pioneers of the advancing army, labouring to bridge the numerous streams in the area and improve the passage leading westwards to Höchstädt.

Some Allied officers who were acquainted with the superior numbers of the enemy, and aware of their strong defensive position, ventured to remonstrate with Marlborough about the hazards of attacking ; but the Duke was resolute – " I know the danger, yet a battle is absolutely necessary, and I rely on the bravery and discipline of the troops, which will make amends for our disadvantages ".

The Allied commanders agreed that Marlborough would command 36, 000 troops and attack Tallard's force of 33, 000 on the left ( including capturing the village of Blenheim ), whilst Eugene, commanding 16, 000 men would attack the Elector and Marsin's combined forces of 23, 000 troops on the right wing ; if this attack was pressed hard the Elector and Marsin would have no troops to send to aid Tallard on their right.

By 16: 00, with the enemy troops besieged in Blenheim and Oberglau, the Allied centre of 81 squadrons ( nine squadrons had been transferred from Cutts ' column ), supported by 18 battalions was firmly planted amidst the French line of 64 squadrons and nine battalions of raw recruits.

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

Individual Allied commanders drove their troops forward in pursuit, allowing their beaten enemy no chance to recover.

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.

The Australian War Crimes Section of the Tokyo tribunal, led by prosecutor William Webb ( the future Judge-in-Chief ), collected numerous written reports and testimonies that documented Japanese soldiers ' acts of cannibalism among their own troops, on enemy dead, and on Allied prisoners of war in many parts of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

Around 10, 000 Allied troops arrived in Darwin in the early 1940s at the outset of World War II, in order to defend Australia's northern coastline.

As a result of the Treaty, Germany's territory was reduced by about 13 %, several million ethnic Germans came under foreign rule, even though they were the majority in many of those areas, the Rhineland was demilitarized and Allied troops occupied several areas.

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.

* 1943 – Imperial Japanese naval forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.

The Allied troops then moved across the Alma River on 20 September 1854 at the battle of Alma and set siege to the fort of Sevastopol.

The first phase was purely naval on the Allied side, as Lord Kitchener would not authorise troops to be shifted from the Western Front.

To ensure execution of the treaty's terms, Allied troops would occupy the left ( German ) bank of the Rhine for a period of 5 – 15 years.

Margarete and Gudrun left Gmund as Allied troops advanced into the area.

Severe anti-Jewish violence erupted in Libya following the liberation of North Africa by Allied troops.

D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155, 000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.

Thus, in August 480 BC, when the Persian army was approaching Thessaly, the Allied fleet sailed to Artemisium, and the Allied army marched to Thermopylae.

With this force, the Allied army marched to Genappe, proceeding on to Nivelles on 7 August.

These two numbers can be reconciled by assuming that Leotychides had 110 triremes under his command before being joined by Xanthippus and the Athenian ships, after the Allied army had marched out from the Peloponnesus.

It was chosen to be a memorial as it was the closest gate of the town to the fighting, and so Allied Troops would have marched past it on their way to fight.

Alten hastily regrouped and marched south to the Allies ' right wing, but Godinot took Albuera before the Spaniards could arrive, exposing another Allied flank to the French.

Having once been repulsed, Latour-Maubourg's dragoons made no further attack on Cole's division, and the Allied line marched on.

The marches began in July 1944, at Stalag Luft VI at Heydekrug, when thousands of western Allied POWs were marched either to Stalag Luft IV at Gross Tychow ( a journey which also involved a 60 hour journey by ship ) to Swinemunde ), or to Stalag XX-A at Thorn in Poland ( with part of the distance covered by cattle train ).

After failing in its initial attempt to relieve the Legation Quarter, in August 1900 the Allied force marched to Beijing from Tianjin, defeated the Qing Imperial Army Wuwei Troop in several engagements, and brought an end to the Boxer Rebellion and the siege.

With the new crews for their squad, they continued to marched into France as the Allied forces have gained access to Europe, ending the Battle of Normandy and the beginning of the European theatre of World War II.

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.

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

* 1945 – The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.

All of Greece except the Peloponnesus thus having fallen into Persian hands, the Persians then seeking to destroy the Allied navy once and for all, suffered a decisive defeat at the Battle of Salamis.

The Allied ground advance into Germany reached Bonn on 7 March 1945, and the US 1st Infantry Division captured the city during the battle of 8 – 9 March 1945.

" A second possible objective now occurred to the French – an Allied incursion into Alsace and an attack on the city of Strasbourg.

Savoy would then serve as a gateway into France by way of the mountain passes or, alternatively, an invasion with naval support along the Mediterranean coast via Nice and Toulon in connection with redoubled Allied efforts in Spain.

At 13: 00 the batteries went into action ; a little later two Allied columns set out from the extremities of their line and attacked the flanks of the Franco-Bavarian army.

The Rock was a key part of the Allied supply lines to Malta and North Africa and base of the British Navy Force H, and prior to the war the racecourse on the isthmus was converted into an airbase and a concrete runway constructed ( 1938 ).

At the Yalta Conference during World War II, the Allies ( the U. S., Britain, and the Soviet Union ) agreed on dividing a defeated Germany into occupation zones, and on dividing Berlin, the German capital, among the Allied powers as well.

With American entry into the war in 1917 on the Allied side, and the failure of Germany's spring offensive, Germany was out of manpower.

" During this time American President Franklin D. Roosevelt also referred to the German people in this way, saying that an Allied invasion into the South of France would surely " be successful and of great assistance to Eisenhower in driving the Huns from France.

Venizelos now led a superficially united Greece into the war on the Allied side, but underneath the surface, the division of Greek society into Venizelists and anti-Venizelists, the so-called National Schism, became more entrenched.

With the collapse of the Mussolini government in line with the Allied invasion of Italy, Germany occupied Albania in September 1943, dropping paratroopers into Tirana before the Albanian guerrillas could take the capital.

The Allied ground advance into Germany reached Hanover in April 1945.

However, US Fifth Army forces at Anzio, under Clark's orders, failed to follow their original break-out plan that would have trapped the German forces escaping northwards in the aftermath of the Battle of Monte Cassino, instead favouring an early and highly publicised entry into Rome two days before the Allied landings in Normandy.

Subsequently, the Allied Powers agreed that clauses should be inserted into the emerging peace treaty protecting labour unions and workers ' rights, and that an international labour body be established to help guide international labour relations in the future.

As Joachim Fest notes, Goebbels seemed to take a grim pleasure in the destruction of Germany ’ s cities by the Allied bombing offensive: " It was, as one of his colleagues confirmed, almost a happy day for him when famous buildings were destroyed, because at such time he put into his speeches that ecstatic hatred which aroused the fanaticism of the tiring workers and spurred them to fresh efforts.

* 1942 – World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt.

Alfred Rosenberg, the German Minister of the East, saw this as an intrusion into his area of authority, and told Hitler that the émigrés at the Hotel Adlon were " a nest of Allied agents ".

The Allied ground advance into Germany reached Leipzig in late April 1945.

* 1945 – World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.

Though sarin, tabun and soman were incorporated into artillery shells, the German government ultimately decided not to use nerve agents against Allied targets.