Since American life is committed above all to productivity and a higher standard of economic life, the countervailing forces of residential and religious exclusiveness have fought a desperate, rearguard action against the expanding interdependence of the metropolis.

An the other hand, the armed forces of the MPLA ( now the official armed forces of the Angolan state ) and of UNITA fought each other until the leader of UNITA, Jonas Savimbi, was killed in action, in 2002.

During Angola's civil war Cuban forces fought to install a Marxist-Leninist MPLA-PT government, against Western-backed UNITA and FLNA guerrillas and the South-African army.

Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

* 1918 – Battle of Ambos Nogales: U. S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.

His men fought well in the morning, putting up a stout resistance, but as overwhelming Confederate forces massed against them, their line eventually broke and they retreated back through the town of Gettysburg to the relative safety of Cemetery Hill south of town.

* 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army was liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under by General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

* 1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland.

* 1824 – The Battle of Kos is fought between Turkish and Greek forces.

Finally, Marc Antony rallied the remaining forces in Italy, fought through the blockade and made the crossing, reinforcing Caesar's forces in both men and spirit.

Like von Seeckt, he concluded that France could no longer maintain the huge armies of conscripts and reservists with which World War I had been fought, and sought to use tanks, mechanised forces and aircraft to allow a smaller number of highly trained soldiers to have greater impact in battle.

In addition to battling the armies of other European Empires ( and of its former colonies, the United States, in the American War of 1812 ), in the battle for global supremacy, the British Army fought the Chinese in the First and Second Opium Wars, and the Boxer Rebellion, Māori tribes in the first of the New Zealand Wars, Nawab Shiraj-ud-Daula's forces and British East India Company mutineers in the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the Boers in the First and Second Boer Wars, Irish Fenians in Canada during the Fenian raids and Irish separatists in the Anglo-Irish War.

It was a naval engagement fought between the forces of Octavian and the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII.

The decisive colonial battle for Chad was fought on April 22, 1900 at Battle of Kousséri between forces of French Major Amédée-François Lamy and forces of the Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr.

Charles's last years were marked by the English Civil War, in which he fought the forces of the English and Scottish parliaments, which challenged his attempts to overrule and negate parliamentary authority, whilst simultaneously using his position as head of the English Church to pursue religious policies which generated the antipathy of reformed groups such as the Puritans.

British and Commonwealth forces fought the neighboring Italians during the East African Campaign.

* 1432 – The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana ( Ashmyany ), launching the most active phase of the Lithuanian Civil War.

The new Volkssturm drew inspiration from the old Prussian Landsturm of 1813 – 15, that fought in the liberation wars against Napoleon, mainly as guerrilla forces.

Sporadic armed conflict ensued between the two groups from 1972 to 1974, even as they fought Ethiopian forces.

The Battle of Eureka Stockade ( by which the rebellion is popularly known ) was fought between miners and the Colonial forces of Australia on 3 December 1854 at Eureka Lead and named for the stockade structure erected by miners during the conflict.

The war was fought from 27 January to 15 May 1918 between the forces of the Social Democrats led by the People's Deputation of Finland, commonly called the " Reds " (, ), and the forces of the non-socialist, conservative-led Senate, commonly called the " Whites " (, ).

Andronikos hastily assembled five different armies to stop the Sicilian army from reaching Constantinople, but none of these five smaller armies would stand against the Sicilian forces and retreated to the outlying hills.

* 1241 – Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies.

In Poland, fast moving armies encircled Polish forces ( blue circles ), but the blitzkrieg idea never really took hold – artillery and infantry forces acted in time-honoured fashion to crush these pockets.

On the ground, four giant panzer armies encircled surprised and disorganized Soviet forces, followed by marching infantry which completed the encirclement and defeated the trapped forces.

The Serbs and the Greeks had a military advantage on the eve of the war because their armies confronted comparatively weak Ottoman forces in the First Balkan War and suffered relatively light casualties while the Bulgarians were involved in heavy fighting in Thrace.

Elements of the two armies initially collided at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, as Lee urgently concentrated his forces there, his objective being to engage the Union army and destroy it.

The Emperor summoned the separate armies of his nobles and with the Empress Taytu beside him, ordered his forces forward.

A 1989 listing of forces shows two Czechoslovak armies in the west, the 1st at Příbram with one tank division and three motor rifle divisions, the 4th at Písek with two tank divisions and two motor rifle divisions.

The mobility and shock value of the cavalry was greatly appreciated and exploited in armed forces in the Ancient and Middle Ages ; some forces were mostly cavalry, particularly in nomadic societies of Asia, notably the Mongol armies.

In many modern armies, the term cavalry is still often used to refer to units that are a combat arm of the armed forces which in the past filled the traditional horse-borne land combat light cavalry roles.

Armored Cataphracts began to be deployed in eastern Europe and the near East, following the precedents established by Persian forces, as the main striking force of the armies in contrast to the earlier roles of cavalry as scouts, raiders, and outflankers.

On many occasions the Chinese studied nomadic cavalry tactics and applied the lessons in creating their own potent cavalry forces, while in others they simply recruited the tribal horsemen wholesale into their armies ; and in yet other cases nomadic empires proved eager to enlist Chinese infantry and engineering, as in the case of the Mongol Empire and its sinicized part, the Yuan Dynasty ( 1279 – 1368 ).

At the beginning of the 20th century all armies still maintained substantial cavalry forces, although there was contention over whether their role should revert to that of mounted infantry ( the historic dragoon function ).

After assembling his forces in Jiangxi, Chiang led his armies against the newly established Chinese Soviet Republic.

Some blamed him for not doing enough against the Japanese forces in the lead-up to, and during, the Second Sino-Japanese War, preferring to withhold his armies for the fight against the Communists, or merely waiting and hoping that the United States would get involved.

This war paradigm reflected the view of most of the modernized world at the beginning of the 21st century, as verified by examination of the conventional armies of the time: large, high maintenance, technologically advanced armies designed to compete against similarly designed forces.

These cultural forces will not contend with state-based armies in the traditional way.

Julianus ' forces were weak, however, and were handily dispersed when Carinus ' armies moved from Britain to northern Italy.

The group has also dominated various PLO and Palestinian Authority forces and security services which were / are not officially tied to Fatah, but in practice have served as wholly pro-Fatah armed units, and been staffed largely by members.

The Israeli forces left Gaza City and other urban areas, leaving the new Palestinian Authority to administer and police those areas.

In 2009, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs David Johnson inaugurated the Presidential Guard Training Center in Jericho, a $ 9. 1 million training facility for Palestinian Authority security forces built with U. S. funding.

These include Immortus, the Captain Britain Corps, the Time Variance Authority, the Timebreakers / Exiles, and Kang the Conqueror's forces.

As of October 2008, these forces remained in Kosovo and between 1998 and 2008, the aid given to Kosovo by the UAE ’ s Red Crescent Authority alone cost Dh125 million, the biggest international humanitarian mission in the UAE's history.

He was appointed as Interior Minister of the Palestinian Authority in June 2002, charged with overhauling Palestinian security forces.

In essence, the accords called for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from parts of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, and affirmed a Palestinian right of self-government within those areas through the creation of a Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority.

Hiroko Ai's base under the south pole is attacked by UN Transitional Authority ( UNTA ) forces, and the survivors are forced to escape into a ( less literal ) underground organization known as the Demimonde.

On May 26, 1972, President Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed the ABM Treaty, which limited each nation to one site to protect strategic forces and one site to protect the " National Command Authority.

It was disbanded along with the rest of Iraqi military after the U. S .- U. K. invasion of Iraq in 2003 by the Coalition Provisional Authority of the occupying U. S. and U. K. forces.

With Israeli forces arresting and restricting the movement of other candidates, Hamas ' boycott of the election, and his campaign being given 94 % of the Palestinian electoral campaign coverage on TV, Abbas ' election was virtually ensured, and on 9 January Abbas was elected with 62 % of the vote as President of the Palestinian National Authority.

This followed action by Hamas armed forces to take control of Palestinian Authority positions controlled by Fatah militias.

For much of the 20th Century, the Port of London Authority Police existed to police the Port of London, but today the port is policed by a number of forces.

These are police forces that cover a " police area " ( a particular region ) and have an independent Police Authority ( England and Wales ) or local authority or joint Police Board ( Scotland ).

It covers 353 dunums and has a population of 10, 024. The camp is in the West Bank district known as Area A, which is policed by Palestinian Authority forces during the day, although the Israeli military has the right to enter at night.

In Enderby v Frenchay Health Authority the ECJ held that although a speech therapist being paid less than male counterparts could not be justified only on the ground that this resulted from different collective agreements, if a disparity came from market forces, this was an objective justification.

In June 2007, Hamas took over the strip, ousting the forces of Fatah, the faction led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and effectively splitting Gaza from the West Bank in terms of its administration.

With the exception of South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority Police Service, who have full policing powers within the province of British Columbia, urban transit police forces are special constabularies with limited policing powers.

In January 1997 Netanyahu signed the Hebron Protocol with the Palestinian Authority, resulting in the redeployment of Israeli forces in Hebron and the turnover of civilian authority in much of the area to the Palestinian Authority.

This release and the increase of the security forces of the Palestinian Authority, led to a cease-fire in the suicide attacks until the outbreak of the Second Intifada.

Formerly operated by Israeli military forces, control of the crossing was transferred to the Palestinian Authority in September 2005 as part of the larger Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

When American forces left the base at the end of the war, the Civil Aviation Authority took over the facility and began using it for international civil aviation.

Furthermore, the postholder is directly accountable to the Home Secretary and the public nationally amongst many others ( the Metropolitan Police Authority, the Mayor of London, Londoners ) whereas smaller police forces are only accountable to their local police authority and residents.