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.

Marshal Villeroi, exerting considerable pressure on the Dutch commander, Count Overkirk, along the Meuse, took Huy on 10 June before pressing on towards Liège.

The French moved first to Tirlemont, ( as if to threaten Zoutleeuw, abandoned by the French in October 1705 ), before turning southwards, heading for Jodoigne – this line of march took Villeroi ’ s army towards the narrow aperture of dry ground between the Mehaigne and Petite Gheete rivers close to the small villages of Ramillies and Taviers ; but neither commander quite appreciated how far his opponent had travelled.

The Soviet military commander in Sofia assumed supreme authority, and the communists whom he instructed, including Kimon Georgiev ( who was not a communist himself, but a member of the elitarian political organization " Zveno ", working together with the communists ), took full control of domestic politics in the People's Republic of Bulgaria.

In 1727 the first French commander, M. Le Grand, took charge of the island and established a rudimentary government thus making Dominica formally a colony of France.

Churchill had met Beatty when Beatty was commander of a gunboat on the Nile supporting the army at the Battle of Omdurman, in which Churchill took part as a cavalry officer.

In February 1913, a military coup took place in the Mexican capital led by General Victoriano Huerta, the military commander of the city.

Arimondi left there a small garrison of approximately 1, 150 askaris and 200 Italians, commanded by Major Giuseppe Galliano, and took the bulk of his troops to Adigrat, where Oreste Baratieri, the Italian commander, was concentrating the Italian Army.

The local military commander and governor of Tegucigalpa, General Rafael López Gutiérrez, took the lead in organizing PLH opposition to Bertrand.

The Soviet military commander in Sofia assumed supreme authority, and the communists whom he instructed, including Kimon Georgiev, took full control of domestic politics.

Mustafa took refuge in the city of Gallipoli but the sultan, who was greatly aided by a Genoese commander named Adorno, besieged him there and stormed the place.

By a law that took effect in April 1990, the EPS became subordinate to President Chamorro as commander in chief.

When Stroessner took office on August 15, 1954, few people imagined that this circumspect, unassuming forty-one-year-old commander in chief would be a master politician capable of outmaneuvering and outlasting them all.

Robert, a militant cleric who had succeeded Albornoz as commander of the papal troops, took the title of Clement VII, beginning the Western Schism, which divided Catholic Christendom until 1417.

Virginian general Robert E. Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862, and led invasions into Union territory, ultimately becoming commander of all Confederate forces.

Velleius reports that one commander, Praefectus Ceionius, shamefully surrendered and later took his own life, while his colleague Praefectus Eggius heroically died leading his doomed troops.

Sereno E. Brett, Patton's right-hand man and commander of the 326th Tank Battalion, took command of the brigade in Patton's absence.

Together with his cavalry commander, the future Emperor Aurelian, the Romans took thousands of prisoners, destroyed the Gothic cavalry as a force and stormed their laager ( a circular alignment of wagons long favored by the Goths ).

More than 450 UCPMB members took advantage of KFOR's " screen and release " policy, among them Shefket Musliu, the commander of the UCPMB, who turned himself over to KFOR at a checkpoint along the GSZ just after midnight of May 26, 2001.

In the West, with the decline of imperial power from the 4th century onwards in the face of the barbarian invasions, sometimes Christian bishops of cities took the place of the Roman commander, made secular decisions for the city and led their own troops when necessary.

The advantage lay with Bitish when one Spanish warship ran aground and another was captured but the Briish commander failed to capitalise and the Spanish fleet took shelter in Havana.

The regiment took huge casualties in that battle-nearly one-third of its strength-including its commander Major Andrew J. Grover, the first infantry officer killed in the battle.

On Kublai's orders, carried out by his commander Bayan, the rest of the former imperial family of Song were unharmed ; the deposed Emperor Gong was demoted, being given the title ' Duke of Ying ', but was eventually exiled to Tibet where he took up a monastic life.

The emperor Anastasius took the first steps to resolve this schism pressured by Vitalian, the commander of the imperial cavalry, who, having taken up the cause of orthodoxy, led Thracia, Scythia Minor, and Mysia to revolt, and marched with an army of Huns and Bulgarians to the gates of Constantinople.

Dewey complained about the abuse to the British commander General Douglas Gracey, who took exception to Dewey's objections and declared the American persona non grata.

Decius was forced to withdraw his army to the north at Oescus, leaving Cniva ample time to ravage Moesia and finally capture Philippopolis in the summer of 251, in part with the help of its commander, a certain Titus Julius Priscus who had proclaimed himself Emperor.

On 15 March 2003 rebels who controlled part of the country moved into Bangui and installed their commander, General François Bozizé, as president, while President Patassé was out of the country.

The feigned retreat, next to unknown in Western Europe at that time — it was a traditionally eastern tactic — required both extraordinary discipline on the part of the troops and exact timing on the part of their commander.

As head of the war council Eugene was now part of the Emperor's inner circle, and the first president since Montecuccoli to remain an active commander.

As part of the deal in which Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, Hermann Göring — future commander of the Luftwaffe and an influential Nazi Party official — was named Interior Minister of Prussia.

The next year, he was summoned by Aulus Gabinius, proconsul of Syria, to take part in the campaigns against Aristobulus II in Judea, as the commander of a Gallic cavalry regiment.

As part of a UN Peacekeeping Operation, Philippine Army General Jaime de los Santos became the first commander of troops responsible for maintaining order in East Timor.

However, division in the United States over the war, a lackluster American militia, the incompetence of American military commanders, and swift and decisive action by the British commander, Sir Isaac Brock, kept Upper Canada part of British North America.

At the time, the area was seen as wilderness ; in the view of later commander, Heald, " so remote from the civilized part of the world.

Patton's actions at the evacuation hospitals may have been motivated in part by an encounter with Gen. Clarence R. Huebner, the newly appointed commander of the 1st Infantry Division in which Kuhl and Bennett both served.

Lille was part of the zone under control of the German commander in Brussels, and was never controlled by the Vichy government in France.

As part of the reorganization of the military command structure following the Blomberg – Fritsch Affair in early 1938, it was declared that the service chiefs, namely OKW chief Wilhelm Keitel, Army commander Walter von Brauchitsch, Luftwaffe commander Hermann Göring and Raeder were to have the same status as Cabinet ministers and as such, they all started to receive publicly the same pay as a Cabinet member and privately payments from Konto 5 slush fund.

In the TOS episode " The Enterprise Incident ", as part of his diversionary role during an espionage mission against the Romulans, Spock shares a drink known as Romulan ale ( blue-colored beverage ) with the female Romulan commander.

In a contrasting report, historian Richard Kurin speculated that the " theft " of the French Crown Jewels was in fact engineered by the revolutionary leader Georges Danton as part of a plan to bribe an opposing military commander, Duke Karl Wilhelm of Brunswick.

Turkish military commander Bali-beg conquered Karom in 1521, and in the next 170 years, the town was part of the Ottoman Empire.

Taken by the Spanish in 1587 by the treachery of the English commander Rowland York, Zutphen was recovered by Maurice, prince of Orange, in 1591, and except for two short periods, one in 1672 and the other during the French Revolutionary Wars, it has since then remained a part of the Netherlands.

The union had been overwhelmingly criticized by the strong anti-union (" anthenotiki ") part of his subjects, while it dangerously estranged him from Loukas Notaras, his chief minister and military commander who was a leading anti-union figure.

The two oldest brothers of this old noble family already had major roles during Henry II reign: Francis, Duke of Guise was one of the most famous military commander in the royal army and Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine was part of the most important negotiations and matters of the kingdom.

By now middle-aged, Dreyfus served mostly behind the lines of the Western Front, in part as commander of an artillery supply column.

Both the Patriarch and Tiberius, commander of the Excubitors, had been recently appointed, with Justin having played a part in their respective appointments, in his role as Justinian's curopalates.

Thiệu was part of a group of younger officers called the Young Turks — the most prominent apart from himself included commander of the Vietnam Air Force, Air Marshal Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, commander of I Corps General Nguyễn Chánh Thi and Admiral Chung Tấn Cang, the head of the Republic of Vietnam Navy.