In September 1940 a section of the No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment Company was detached to General Wavell ’ s ground forces during the first offensive against the Italians in Egypt.

Constans, at that time in Dacia, detached and sent a select and disciplined body of his Illyrian troops, stating that he would follow them in person with the remainder of his forces.

Constans, at that time in Dacia, detached and sent a select and disciplined body of his Illyrian troops, stating that he would follow them in person with the remainder of his forces.

The battle was begun by small forces detached in detail to secure the hills.

He sent urgent recalls to his recently detached forces and summoned up his last reserves.

After the European knights detached from the main body of allied forces in pursuit of the fleeing Mongols, the invaders were able to separate the knights from the European infantry and defeat them one by one.

He first detached forces that captured St. Vincent on 18 June, and then set sail with his entire fleet, intending to capture Barbados.

Against the advice of his senior commanders, Francis detached a portion of his forces under the Duke of Albany and sent them south to aid the Pope.

Either way, the Sacred Band is definitely known to be on the left wing, close to the main Theban forces and detached enough to be able to maneuver freely.

The Axis forces involved, led by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, were primarily from the Afrika Korps Assault Group, elements of the Italian Centauro Armoured Division and two Panzer divisions detached from the 5th Panzer Army.

Having failed to rapidly seize the castle at Wark on Tweed, David detached forces to besiege it and moved deeper into Northumberland, demanding contributions from settlements and religious establishments to be spared plunder and burning.

By Dec. 31, 1861, U. S. forces amounting to 425, 000 were listed as " present for duty " with their units in the Official Records ; another 52, 000 were listed variously as: present but detached for temporary “ extra or daily ” duty ; sick ; or under arrest.

The 1st New Jersey Regiment, commanded by Colonel Matthias Ogden, was detached from Brigadier General William Maxwell's New Jersey Brigade and sent west along the Chemung River to execute a flanking maneuver on the Loyalist-Indian forces.

After two months supporting ground forces on Okinawa, Radford's fleet was detached from that operation.

The Austrian forces were divided into three main groups: to the right, Simbschen occupied the heights of Colognola and the ravine of San Zeno, where his cavalry was massed ; in the centre, General Bellegarde covered the Verona road, holding the entrenchments north of the road as well as Monte Rocca and Ponterotta, to the south of the road ; the left was formed by Prince Reuss-Plauen's forces, which extended the Austrian line to Chiavighette and had the detached division of General Nordmann cover the Adige in front of Chiavica del Christo.

In December 1941 he was assigned to detached service with the British forces in Iceland.

Field-Marshal Helmuth von Moltke and General Leonhard, Count von Blumenthal who commanded the siege ( seen in the illustration on this page behind Bismarck's right shoulder ) were primarily concerned with a methodical siege that would destroy the detached forts around the city and slowly strangle the defending forces with a minimum of German casualties.

The initial contact between the two forces occurred when a detached picketing group under the legate Marcus Aurelius Scaurus met an advance party of the Cimbri.

Marine Corps Special Operations Command Detachment One ( MCSOCOM Detachment One or Det 1 ), was a pilot program to assess the value of Marine special operations forces permanently detached to the United States Special Operations Command.

Rosecrans sent a questionnaire to his corps and division commanders in the hopes of documenting support for his position — that Bragg had so far detached no significant forces to Johnston in Mississippi, that advancing the Army of the Cumberland would do nothing to prevent any such transfer, and that any immediate advance was not a good idea.

Union forces opposing Price consisted of militia units and the XVI Corps of Maj. Gen. Andrew J. Smith, augmented by the cavalry division of Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton, detached from William S. Rosecrans's Department of Missouri.

In August 1942 forces in Persia and Iran ( known as Paiforce ) were detached and brought under the separate, newly formed Persia and Iraq Command under General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson ( the post having been turned down by Auchinleck, the outgoing Middle East Command C-in-C ).

Eventually he surrenders to mercenary forces ( who as detached professionals are less likely to execute him out of hand ), and becomes a mercenary himself.

He served in the revolutionary forces, leading a regiment in Shanghai under his friend and mentor, Chen Qimei, as one of Chen's chief lieutenants.

However, it was not until the threat of invasion by the forces of Spain in 1585 that lieutenants were appointed to all counties and counties corporate and became in effect permanent.

Tudeh infiltration of the military by the TPMO totaled 477 members in the armed forces, " 22 colonels, 69 majors, 100 captains, 193 lieutenants, 19 noncommissioned officers, and 63 military cadets.

In the early years of Minh Mạng's government, the most serious challenge came from one of his father's most trusted lieutenants and a national hero in Vietnam, Lê Văn Duyệt, who had led the Nguyễn forces to victory at Quy Nhơn in 1801 against the Tây Sơn Dynasty and was made regent in the south by Gia Long with full freedom to rule and deal with foreign powers.

There are two scales, though not all member countries use all the points on the NATO scales and some have more than one rank at some points ( e. g. many forces have two ranks at OF-1, usually lieutenants ):

To help him do so The Prince had conferred control of his land forces on a soldier who was different from him in almost every respect save one: both were eccentrics of the purest ray serene.

What was perhaps more important than his concept of the nature of history and the historical method were those forces which shaped the direction of his thought.

Despite their adherence to the status quo, the forces of organized religion were compelled to make adjustments as increasing civilization augmented human knowledge.

The Federal forces had taken Parkersburg and Grafton from the Rebels and were moving to take all the mountains.

Meanwhile, three great terrible forces were coagulating and crystallizing.

But in such an important question, we would be satisfied if the judgment were that the principal objection to the identity of forces which produce electricity and magnetism were only a difficulty, and not a thing which is contrary to it.

Particularly was this true when the norms previously applied were no longer satisfactory to many, when customs were rapidly changing as the forces of the new productivity were harnessed.

-- Two Americans and seven Cubans were executed by firing squads today as Castro military tribunals began decreeing the death penalty for captured invasion forces and suspected collaborators.

After this time, inscriptions on the Han bronze mirrors, as well as other writings, emphasized the desirability of keeping one's self at the center of the universe, where cosmic forces were strongest.

He had been a corps commander during the disastrous defeat and retreat of 1942 when the ill-prepared, ill-equipped British forces `` were outmaneuvered, outfought and outgeneraled ''.

Influenced by psychoanalytic psychologists including Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, these authors sought to understand the way that individual personalities were shaped by the wider cultural and social forces in which they grew up.

The sultan proposed terms of peace, which were rejected by the emperor, and the two forces met in the Battle of Manzikert.

Puebloan tradition holds that the ancestors had achieved great spiritual power and control over natural forces, and used their power in ways that caused nature to change, and caused changes that were never meant to occur.

During the war, the Azeri armed forces were also aided by Turkish military advisers, and Russian, Ukrainian, Chechen and Afghan mercenaries.

In a report released in 2012-01-19, Armenian military official site said that 36 Armenian soldiers died in 2011, and that only 10 of them were shot by Azerbaijani forces.

Like with Tyrannosaurus, the maxillary ( cheek ) teeth of Albertosaurus were adapted in general form to resist lateral forces exerted by a struggling prey.

The Alabama, Coosa, and Tallapoosa rivers were central to the homeland of the Creek Indians before their removal by United States forces to the Indian Territory in the 1830s. In 1712 the Alabama River was descovered.

Along with his two brothers, he made preparations to resist the government forces that were sent against him.

The crusaders believed their oaths were made invalid when the Byzantine contingent under Tatikios failed to help them during the siege of Antioch ; Bohemund, who had set himself up as Prince of Antioch, briefly went to war with Alexios in the Balkans, but was blockaded by the Byzantine forces and agreed to become Alexios ' vassal by the Treaty of Devol in 1108.

This meant not only that the king had retained the loyalty of ealdormen, royal reeves and king ’ s thegns ( who were charged with levying and leading these forces ), but that they had maintained their positions of authority in these localities well enough to answer his summons to war.

Two of the ships were destroyed and the others surrendered to Alfred ’ s forces.

In such cases, the Vikings were extremely vulnerable to pursuit by the king's joint military forces.