During the Franco-Prussian War, at the Battle of Mars-la-Tour in 1870, a Prussian cavalry brigade decisively smashed the centre of the French battle line, after skilfully concealing their approach.

During the Middle Ages, the Old Prussian settlement of Truso was located at Lake Drużno near the current site of Elbląg in historical Pogesania ; the settlement burned down in the 10th century.

During the Siege of Paris in 1871, the North German Confederation, supported by its allies from southern Germany, formed the German Empire with the proclamation of the Prussian king Wilhelm I as German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, to the humiliation of the French, who ceased to resist only days later.

During the Siege of Paris, the German princes assembled in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles and proclaimed the Prussian King Wilhelm I as the " German Emperor " on 18 January 1871.

During the war against Austria in 1866 as well as in the wars against France in 1870 and 1871, Abeken stayed in the Prussian headquarters.

During the Weimar Republic, he was president of the Prussian State Council ( Preußischer Staatsrat ) from 1922 to 1933, which was the representative of the Prussian cities and provinces.

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 ).

The beginning of Polish parish in modern times is connected to him In XIX century Polish population of the town consisted among others of Polish soldiers in Prussian service stationed in the city, salt refining specialists from Ciechocinek, political prisoners in local Prussian and permanent Polish inhabitants In the second half of XIX century the Polish community further increased with arrival of Polish workers During the period 1875-1914 an active Polish community grew and through its funds a Catholic school and the Church of Saint Marcin where masses in Polish were held ( initially throughout the season, after about 1890 all the year ), were established.

During the Franco-Prussian War the Parisian National Guard, which was founded during the time of the American Revolution, engaged the Prussian Army and later rebelled against the Versailles Army under Marshal McMahon.

During World War I, using Vladimir Lenin's idea that Czarism was taking a " Prussian path " to capitalism, the Bolshevik Nikolai Bukharin identified a new stage in the development of capitalism, in which all sectors of national production and all important social institutions had become managed by the state ; he termed this new stage ' state capitalism.

During July 1793 and while he was in Paris as a delegate of the young Mainz Republic, Prussian and Austrian coalition forces regained control of the city and Forster was declared an outlaw.

During the Franco-Prussian War, Gautier made his way back to Paris upon hearing of the Prussian advance on the capital.

During the Kościuszko Uprising Polish army under general Jan Henryk Dąbrowski liberated the town in September 1794 and defeated a Prussian Army north of Gniezno near Łabiszyn.

During the Napoleonic Wars an uprising against Prussian rule happened.

During the German occupation of Poland ( 1941 to 1945 ) it was named Schröttersburg, after the former Prussian Upper President Friedrich Leopold von Schrötter.

During the Prussian rule the ethnic structure of the city began to change.

During the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, Somme was invaded by Prussian forces and Amiens was occupied.

During the War of the Spanish Succession Middelaar was occupied by Prussian troops, and it remained German for about a century ( until 1814 ).

During the battle of Lützen, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, one of the brightest and most able Prussian generals, serving as Wittgenstein's Chief of Staff, was wounded.

During the conquest and Christianization of Prussia, the Teutonic Knights conquered an Old Prussian settlement named Brusebergue in 1240 and built in 1242 a new castle atop it on the Passarge ( Pasłęka ) River.

During the failed German revolution of 1848, rebels took young Ludwigshafen, but they were bombarded from Mannheim ( rumours said the Mannheimers didn't aim at the revolutionaries, but on the rival harbour's infrastructure ) and Prussian troops quickly expelled the revolutionaries.

During the Dutch Crisis of 1787, France was unable to prevent the intervention of Prussian troops, who crushed the French-allied Patriots in the Dutch Republic.

During the ensuing Austro-Prussian War, Archduke Albert of Austria defeated Italian forces in the battle of Custoza ; however, thanks to Prussian victory over Austria, Italy was able to gain the Veneto in the peace that Austria and Italy signed in Vienna.

During the invasion by the Pagan Goth Radagaisus, Alaric remained idle in Illyria.

During his reign, Jerusalem became more closely allied with the Byzantine Empire, and the two states launched an unsuccessful invasion of Egypt.

During the first invasion, Thrace, Macedon and the Aegean Islands were added to the Persian Empire, and Eretria was duly destroyed.

During the 3rd century, under threat from a Herulian invasion, repairs were made to the Acropolis walls, and the " Beulé Gate " was constructed to restrict entrance in front of the Propylaia, thus returning the Acropolis to use as a fortress.

* 1242 – During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

During Charles V's invasion of Provence in 1536, Francis I of France sent the Count of Fürstenberg's 6000 Landsknechte to ravage the area in a scorched earth policy.

During the mid 1st century AD, the Zarubintsy and Lukashevka cultures came to an end in their true form, possibly due to Sarmatian invasions and perturbations of central European trade due to Caesar's invasion of Gaul ( the ' heart ' of the La Tene culture ).

During the Cold War, he was also seen as the leader who led Free China and the bulwark against a possible Communist invasion.

During the months following the Shaba invasion, Mobutu sought solutions to the military problems that had contributed to the army's dismal performance.

During a trip to Iraq in June 2011, he said that Iraq should pay back the U. S. for all the money it had spent since the invasion, when it becomes a wealthy country.

During the invasion of Poland and the Battle of France, Luftwaffe fighters — primarily the Messerschmitt Bf 109 — held air superiority, and the Luftwaffe played a major role in German victories in these campaigns.

During World War II a Japanese invasion force landed at Reo on 14 May 1942 and occupied Flores.

During the Ottoman invasion of Central Europe ( between late 14th century and circa 1700 ) Hungarian soldiers protected fortresses and launched light cavalry attacks against the Turks ( see Hungarian Hussars ).

" During this time American President Franklin D. Roosevelt also referred to the German people in this way, saying that an Allied invasion into the South of France would surely " be successful and of great assistance to Eisenhower in driving the Huns from France.

During the early morning of 22 June 1941, Adolf Hitler broke the pact by implementing Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Soviet held territories and the Soviet Union that began the war on the Eastern Front.

During the Mongol invasion, many natives of Afghanistan fled to India where some established dynasties in Delhi.

During the second century AD, a storehouse was constructed on the site of the Pompeion, but it was destroyed during the invasion of the Heruli in 267 AD.

During the invasion, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks.

During the second Persian invasion of Greece ( 480-479 BC ) Megara fought alongside the Spartans and Athenians at crucial battles such as Salamis and Plataea.

During his invasion of the Levant, Richard I of England was forced to supply his army as it was marching through a barren desert.

During The Mongol invasion of Europe, Tatars under the leadership of Kadan, experienced a major failure in March 1242 at Klis Fortress in southern Croatia.

During this period, the Empire faced challenges in defending itself against foreign invasion and occupation.

During an invasion the Avars swept off the five sons of this warrior into Pannonia, but one, his namesake, returned to Italy and restored the ruined fortunes of his house.