At times it was applied to various priests, e. g. at the court of the Frankish monarchy the Abbas palatinus (' of the palace ') and Abbas castrensis (' of the camp ') were chaplains to the Merovingian and Carolingian sovereigns ’ court and army respectively.

* 1813 – At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.

At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.

* 1868 – At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II.

At conference it was decided that Eugene would return with 28, 000 men to the Lines of Stollhofen on the Rhine to keep an eye on Villeroi and Tallard, and prevent them going to the aid of the Franco-Bavarian army on the Danube.

At 11: 00, the Duke ordered the army to take standard battle formation.

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.

At this critical moment, the Roman army was crippled by the outbreak of a second smallpox pandemic, the plague of Cyprian ( 251-70 ).

At a later point, David finds himself seeking sanctuary amongst the Philistine army and facing the Israelites as an enemy.

At the start of the war, only the German army was thus prepared with all tanks " radio equipped ".

At the outbreak of war, the German army had no radically new theory of war named Blitzkrieg or otherwise.

At the same time, Athens's greatest runner, Pheidippides ( or Philippides in some accounts ) had been sent to Sparta to request that the Spartan army march to the aid of Athens.

At that time the active army consisted of 4, 450 men.

At the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt on October 14, 1806 – when Napoleon invaded Prussia and defeated the massed Prussian-Saxon army commanded by Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick – he was captured, one of the 25, 000 prisoners captured that day as the Prussian army disintegrated.

At various periods, and particularly during the Middle Ages, the citadel-having its own fortifications, independent of the city walls-was the last defence of a besieged army, often held after the town had been conquered.

At the Battle of Waterloo — Napoleon's final battle — the French army had many more artillery pieces than either the British or Prussians.

At independence on 30 June 1960, the army suffered from a dramatic deficit of trained leaders, particularly in the officer corps.

At the end of basic training they had to buy a horse at a reduced price from the army and to take it home together with equipment, uniform and weapon.

At the Battle of Lewes in 1264, the rebellious barons, led by Simon de Montfort, had defeated the royal army and taken King Henry III captive.

At the end, Davros is left with an army of Daleks who have had their minds wiped.

At the Battle of Gravelotte, they formed the extreme left of the German army, and with the Prussian Guard carried out the attack on St Privat, the final and decisive action in the battle.

At the end of 1793, the army began to prevail and revolts were defeated with ease.

At one point, Fabius was called by the priests to assist with certain sacrifices, and as such, Fabius left the command of the army in the hands of Minucius during his absence.

At Vicksburg, the failure to coordinate multiple forces on both sides of the Mississippi River rested primarily on the his inability to create a harmonious departmental arrangement or to force such commanders as generals Edmund Kirby Smith, Earl Van Dorn, and Theophilus H. Holmes to work together.

At the beginning of the war commanders were replaced with younger commanders too quickly.

At war's end in 1922, ex-Tsarists constituted 83 per cent of the Red Army's divisional and corps commanders.

At 10: 50 pm, a group of 15 young guerrillas and their commanders, Pomares and Contreras, entered the house.

At the start of the war, most commanders thought enemy tanks should be met by tanks with superior specifications.

At the time, most U. S. commanders at lower levels had little or no combat experience of any kind ; without the input of experienced British or Allied combat officers on the nature of modern warfare and enemy tactics, many of them resorted to formulaic training methods emphasizing static defense and orderly large-scale advances by motorized convoys over improved roads.

At a conference on 13 October Haig and the army commanders agreed that attacks would stop until the weather improved and roads extended, to carry more artillery and ammunition forward for better fire support.

At the time of the Somme, British senior commanders insisted that the company ( 120 men ) was the smallest unit of manoeuvre ; less than a year later, the section of 10 men would be so .< ref >

At the end of the sixteenth century, the commanders of the Zaporizhian Cossacks were called Koshovyi Otaman or Hetmans ( for example: Christof Kosynsky-first zaporizhian hetman ).

* At Maracanda, Alexander murders Clitus, one of his most trusted commanders, friend and foster-brother, in a drunken quarrel ; but his excessive display of remorse leads the army to pass a decree convicting Clitus posthumously of treason.

At the National Defense Academy in Vienna, which has a curriculum comparable to those of the National Defense University and the Army War College in the United States, operational and troop commanders of fieldgrade rank study for three years in preparation for general staff and command positions.

At least two Orders Pour le Mérite, the Kingdom of Prussia's highest military order, were awarded to German commanders for their actions during the battle:

At the hight of the fire there were two Incerdent commanders.

At the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War ( 1665 – 67 ), Rupert was appointed as one of the three squadron commanders of the English fleet, under the overall command of the Duke of York, taking the as his flagship.

At the Qajar court, precedence for those not belonging to the dynasty was mainly structured in eight classes, each being granted an honorary rank title, the fourth of which was Khan, or in this context synonymously Amir, granted to commanders of armed forces, provincial tribal leaders ; in descending order, they thus ranked below Nawab ( for princes ), Shakhs-i-Awwal and Janab ( both for high officials ), but above ' Ali Jah Muqarrab, ' Ali Jah, ' Ali Sha ' an ( these three for lower military ranks and civil servants ) and finally ' Ali Qadir ( masters of guilds, etc.

At the height of the British Empire, photographs of naval and military commanders were a popular subject for eagerly collected cigarette card s. The one shown here, from the turn of the 20th century, depicts then-Captain Jellicoe ( later John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe | Admiral Jellicoe of World War I ) in command of HMS Centurion ( 1892 ) | H. M. S.

At this time, having reached thirty-two years of age, Turenne had served under four famous commanders.

At this stage, most of the remaining Japanese commanders were more concerned about internal battles and the inevitable struggles for the control of the shogunate.

At Alexandria relations between the French and British commanders, Admirals René-Émile Godfroy and Andrew Cunningham, were good.

At 1800 on 15 May, at a meeting in Whitworth's house, Gibson and Wallis briefed four key officers: the squadron's two flight commanders, Squadron Leader Henry Maudslay and Sqn Ldr H. M. " Dinghy " Young ; Gibson's deputy for the Möhne attack, Fl. Lt.

At his retirement ceremony, he was given the accolade, " For the next twenty years, the combat arms commanders will look, act and lead like John Vines.

At this point he wrote to son and his commanders in Athens and Corinth telling them to henceforth consider him a dead man and to ignore any letters they might receive written under his seal.

At Norwich University, the ceremony is held on the Upper Parade Ground, where the Corps of Cadets forms up silently at 2245 ( 10: 45 ) for tattoo, and then stand in silence until 2300 ( 11: 00 ) when echo taps is played, at which time unit commanders will tacitly give the commands of attention and present arms.