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At and Vitoria
At its center stands a monument commemorating the Battle of Vitoria.
At the Battle of Vitoria ( 21 June 1813 ) an allied British, Portuguese, and Spanish army under General the Marquess of Wellington broke the French army under Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan near Vitoria in Spain, leading to eventual victory in the Peninsular War.
At the Battle of Vitoria, Picton led his division across a key bridge under heavy fire.
At the Battle of Vitoria, 21 June, the 65, 000 French under Joseph were routed by 53, 000 British, 27, 000 Portuguese and 19, 000 Spaniards.
At Vitoria he was delayed because he “ had found difficulty in marching through the broken country ”, though Picton arrived early enough and attacked in his stead when the 7th Division failed to appear
At the Battle of Vitoria, on 21 June 1813, the French under the personal command of King Joseph were again defeated, and were subsequently forced as far back as the Pyrenees in early July.
At the Battle of Vitoria in June 1813, he led a light cavalry division in Maj-Gen Honoré Reille's Army of Portugal.
At Vitoria, his regiment was part of the force, under Sir Thomas Graham, that blocked the French retreat towards Bayonne.

At and Wellington's
At Waterloo, Jérôme's division was to make an initial attack on Hougoumont, which Napoleon expected would draw in Wellington's reserves, however Jérôme misunderstood the nature of his role and his division became completely engaged attempting to take Hougoumont outright.
: 1 July – At Duke of Wellington's Ball.
At the Battle of Waterloo it was tasked with holding Wellington's right flank and, with the exception of its 4th brigade, took no active part in the fighting, but did capture the town of Cambrai afterwards.
At the great assault of 19 January, Shaw carried his general, mortally wounded, from the crest of the glacis and later conveyed Wellington's summons to surrender to the French governor.
( At the same time, the government closed Wellington's Rongotai Airport, for the same reasons, and NAC had to move to Paraparaumu, 35 miles from the city.
At a ceremony outside the Town Hall the Regiment paraded two Guards of soldiers, who had recently returned from Iraq and the Colours of the 3rd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment ( Duke of Wellington's ), led by the Kings Division Band, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Vallings, the Battalion Commanding officer.
At the critical meeting of the two generals at the Battle of Waterloo-where Wellington's close supervision contrasted strongly with the effective delegation of operational management by Napoleon to Marshall Ney-it was at least arguably Wellington's control mania that played the decisive role in the Allied victory, justifying his claim the following day that “ I don't think it would have been done if I had not been there ”.
At their meeting in Wellington's headquarters, Creevey recorded the Duke's famous quote about the battle (" It was a near run thing.
At the battle of Waterloo Chassé's third division was part of the First Netherlands Corps under the Prince of Orange in the right-center of the Duke of Wellington's Anglo-Allied army.

At and invasion
At Christmas 1196, Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI attempted to force Alexios III to pay him a tribute of 5, 000 pounds ( later negotiated down to 1, 600 pounds ) of gold or face invasion.
At least one of his works was influenced by the Persian invasion of Greece, which took place during his lifetime.
At a strip club, he is captured by pig-cops, but escapes the alien-controlled penitentiary and tracks down the alien cruiser responsible for the invasion in the San Andreas Fault.
At the same time, Heraclianus raised the standard of revolt in North Africa, but failed to launch an invasion of Italy.
At the battle of Rio Salado he successfully fought against a Marinid invasion from Morocco in 1340, and at the taking of Algeciras in 1344 he led the armed levy of his archbishopric.
At some time before or after the Alamannic invasion, Regalianus, a military commander of Illyricum was proclaimed Emperor.
At first the king agreed with these changes and enjoyed reasonable popularity with the people, but as anti-royalism increased along with threat of foreign invasion, the king, stripped of his power, decided to flee along with his family.
At first Germany's military moves were brilliantly successful, as in the " blitzkrieg " invasions of Poland ( 1939 ), Norway ( 1940 ), the Low Countries ( 1940 ), and above all the stunningly successful invasion and quick conquest of France in 1940.
At the time of the Arab invasion in the middle of the 7th century, the Sasanian central power seemed already largely nominal in the province in contrast with the role of the Hephthalites tribal lords, who were settled in the Herat region and in the neighboring districts, mainly in pastoral Bādghis and in Qohestān.
At the end of his studies in Brussels, Chang returned home to China, and Hergé lost contact with him during the invasion of China by Japan and the subsequent civil war.
** At 10: 15 p. m. local time, the BBC transmits the second line of the Paul Verlaine poem to the French Resistance, indicating that the invasion of Europe is about to begin.
* November 7 – At the end of the third day of Christian's coronation feast, several leading figures of the Swedish resistance against the Danish invasion are imprisoned and tried for high treason.
At the time Panama was one of the largest providers of offshore financial services in the world, but the business fled subsequent the invasion, and the British Virgin Islands was one of the main beneficiaries.
At this time, another invasion was taking place.
At this time, the prefect of Egypt was Tenagino Probus, described as an able soldier who not only defeated an invasion of Cyrenaica by the nomadic tribes to the south in 269, but also was successful in hunting down " Skythian " ships in the Mediterranean.
At the same time, Cnut launched a new invasion of England.
At this point the lower border of the tapestry shows a fleet of ghost-like ships thus hinting at a future invasion .< sup >( scene 33 )</ sup > The news of Harold's coronation is taken to Normandy, whereupon we are told that William is ordering a fleet of ships to be built although it is Bishop Odo shown issuing the instructions .< sup >( scene 35 )</ sup > The invaders reach England, and land unopposed.
At the same time in early 1940, Hitler had finally decided upon a plan for the invasion of France ; the prospect of seizing bases in France, which were regarded as offering better access to the North Atlantic than Norway, caused many Naval Staff officers to abandon their support for Weserübung.
At the time of the Muslim invasion of Sindh, in the 7th century, the new kingdom of Hijaz launched trade ships to India especially Sindh.
At the end of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, over 25 million Soviet citizens died.
At the time Gusmão was visiting friends outside of Dili and he witnessed the invasion from the hills.
At the time of the Muslim invasion in 711, the Visigothic king Roderic was fighting the Basques in Pamplona and had to turn his attention to the new enemy coming from the south.
At no point were the Germans fed false documents describing the invasion plans.
At this time King Harold was in Southern England, anticipating an invasion from France by William, Duke of Normandy, another contender for the English throne.
At times when New Zealand feared invasion, various coastal fortifications were constructed to defend Cook Strait.

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