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Coalition and forces
* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
* 1809 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition.
* 1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
Since 1990, the ACR and the Czech Armed Forces have contributed to numerous peacekeeping and humanitarian operations, including IFOR, SFOR, and EUFOR Althea in Bosnia, Desert Shield / Desert Storm, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Albania, Turkey, Pakistan and with the Coalition forces in Iraq.
* 1807 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau – Napoléon's French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
In 2003, after the American and British invasion, Iraq was occupied by Coalition forces.
U. S. and Coalition forces remained in Iraq.
During Napoleon's invasion of Prussia during the War of the Fourth Coalition, the town was besieged from mid-March to July 2, 1807, by the Grande Armée and by Polish forces drawn from insurgents against Prussian rule ( a street named for the commander leading Polish soldiers is located within the present-day city ).
* 1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeats the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the northeastern Swiss Plateau because of the town's location at the junction of seven cross-roads.
* 1796 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy.
* 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.
Since January 2006, the NATO International Security Assistance Force undertook combat duties from Operation Enduring Freedom in southern Afghanistan, the NATO force chiefly made up of British, Canadian and Dutch forces ( and some smaller contributions from Denmark, Romania and Estonia and air support from Norway as well as air and artillery support from the U. S .) ( see the article Coalition combat operations in Afghanistan in 2006 ).
The 2001 Osama bin Laden video recorded just after United States | US-led Coalition forces launched strikes in Afghanistan
* February 7 – Battle of Eylau: Napoléon's French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition.
* March 30 – Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.
Coalition military planners were concerned that retreating Iraqi forces would destroy the Mukatayin hydroelectric dam northeast of Baghdad in an attempt to slow advancing US troops.
In addition to restricting the maneuver of Coalition forces, the destruction of the dam would deny critical power needs to the surrounding area as well as cause massive flooding and loss of Iraqi civilian life.
For the most part of the years of the Fifth Coalition, British military operations on land apart from in the Iberian Peninsula remained restricted to hit-and-run operations executed by the Royal Navy, which dominated the sea after having beaten down almost all substantial naval opposition from France and its allies and blockading what remained of France's naval forces in heavily fortified French-controlled ports.
* Coalition forces of the Napoleonic Wars
Napoleon, angered at the near defection of the King and at the same time dependent upon the full mobilization of all available forces against the Coalition troops, harshly demanded the full resources of Saxony.
More recently, the term " Allied forces " has also been used to describe the Coalition of the Gulf War, as opposed to forces the Multi-National Force in Iraq which are commonly referred to as " Coalition forces " or, as by the George W. Bush administration, " The coalition of the willing ".

Coalition and responded
In June 1992, Clinton responded both to that quotation and to something Souljah had said in the music video of her song “ The Final Solution: Slavery ’ s back in Effect ” (" If there are any good white people, I haven't met them ") while giving a speech to Jesse Jackson Sr .' s Rainbow Coalition, saying, “ If you took the words ‘ white ’ and ‘ black ,’ and you reversed them, you might think David Duke was giving that speech .”
The Canadian Health Coalition has responded succinctly to Day's claims, pointing out that " access to veterinary care for animals is based on ability to pay.
In 2000, the Coalition responded to the call for more religious involvement in HIV / AIDS prevention by beginning to work with South African churches.

Coalition and attacks
* 1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
Kobayashi Maru continues the story, with the Romulans continuing their attacks against the newly formed Coalition of Planets.
Using three Klingon vessels, Valdore attacks Coalition of Planets allies hoping to weaken or destroy two enemies of the Romulan Star Empire by provoking a war.
The impetus to form the Stop the War Coalition came following the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States.
At their initial meeting the Coalition also adopted the slogan ' Against the racist backlash ', asserting that a war against Afghanistan would be perceived as an attack on Islam and that Muslims, or those perceived as Muslim, would apparently face racist attacks in Britain if the government joined the war ( even though Islam is a religious, rather than ethnic, identity ).
May 2007 was the deadliest month for IED attacks thus far, with a reported 89 of the 129 Coalition casualties coming from an IED attack.
Following the vote by the Knesset, the Israeli legislature, in 2007 in favour of bills to ban lesbian and gay pride parades in Jerusalem, the Lesbian and Gay Coalition Against Racism criticised Tatchell saying " Peter Tatchell and others who have distinguished themselves by the speed of their quite proper defence of lesbian and gay rights when these have been attacked by Black, Arab, Muslim forces or regimes have still refused to condemn with equal force the official attacks on lesbian and gay rights by the highest institutions of the State of Israel.
Their attacks have killed Coalition soldiers and Iraqi police officers, among others.
He believes Cameron's philosophy of liberal conservatism has been destroyed by " coordinated attacks on the Coalition " and " the two parties are no longer trying to pretend that they are governing together.
According to the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers " 2004 Global Report on the Use of Child Soldiers ", there were at least nine documented suicide attacks involving Palestinian minors between October 2000 and March 2004.
According to the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers " 2004 Global Report on the Use of Child Soldiers ", there were at least nine documented suicide attacks involving Palestinian minors between October 2000 and March 2004 In 2004, the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers reported that " there was no evidence of systematic recruitment of children by Palestinian armed groups ," also noting that this remains a small fraction of the problem in other conflict zones such as Africa, where there are an estimated 20, 000 children involved in active combat roles in the Sudan alone.
The Iraqis kill one passenger and detain the other 384 passengers and crew for use as " human shields " around important targets in Iraq ; all survive and the Iraqis eventually release them before the onset of Coalition attacks against Iraq in January 1991.
U. S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell announces that during the first week of air attacks on Iraq, Coalition air forces have flown more than 10, 000 sorties, knocked out 61 of Iraq's 66 airfields, and shot down 19 Iraqi aircraft in air-to-air-combat, losing 16 of their own number – all to ground fire.
Because the U. S. attacks were taking a toll on civilians as well as the insurgents, the Coalition faced growing criticism from within the Iraqi Governing Council, where Adnan Pachachi said, " these operations by the Americans are unacceptable and illegal.
In the United Kingdom, arguably the most committed American ally in the War on Terrorism, the Stop the War Coalition was formed within weeks of the 9 / 11 attacks.
Most of their attacks were repulsed by U. S. Marines as well as U. S. Army Rangers and Coalition aircraft, but one of the Iraqi columns occupied Khafji on the night of 29 – 30 January.
* In the 2007 4X-RTS Sins of a Solar Empire the Trader Emergency Coalition ( the game's " baseline human " faction, as opposed to psychic transhumans or aliens ) uses nuclear weapons fairly liberally, for space-to-space combat, including nuclear torpedoes for anti-structure attacks, and for planetary bombardment, including salted bombs.
With the withdrawal of American and Coalition troops at the end of Red Wings II, Shah and his group was able to return to the Kunar Province and begin attacks again.

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