He saw action in the First World War, where he was seriously wounded, and during the Second World War he commanded the Eighth Army from August 1942 in the Western Desert until the final Allied victory in Tunisia.

He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

First, in the aftermath of the Second World War, the convention, drawing on the inspiration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be seen as part of a wider response of the Allied Powers in delivering a human rights agenda through which it was believed that the most serious human rights violations which had occurred during the Second World War ( most notably, the Holocaust ) could be avoided in the future.

The First Battle of El Alamein ( 1 – 27 July 1942 ) was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought between Axis forces ( Germany and Italy ) of the Panzer Army Africa ( Panzerarmee Afrika ) commanded by Field Marshal ( Generalfeldmarschall ) Erwin Rommel, and Allied ( specifically, British Imperial ) forces ( Britain, British India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand ) of the British Eighth Army commanded by General Claude Auchinleck.

The Palestine Mandate was based on the principles contained in Article 22 of the draft Covenant of the League of Nations and the San Remo Resolution of 25 April 1920 by the principal Allied and associated powers after the First World War.

On 6 June 1944 the Allies landed in Normandy ; on 15 August Allied forces landing in Provence included 260, 000 men of the French First Army.

At the end of the First World War, the Allied powers were confronted with the question of the disposal of the former German colonies in Africa and the Pacific, and the several non-Turkish provinces of the Ottoman Empire.

The origins of the League as an organization created by the Allied powers as part of the peace settlement to end the First World War led to it being viewed as a " League of Victors ".

* First to Fight: Poland's Contribution to Allied Victory in World War II, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9557824-4-2.

The First Battle of Passchendaele, on 12 October was another Allied attempt to gain ground around Passchendaele.

During the First World War, the island served as a refuge for the Serbian army that retreated there on Allied forces ' ships from a homeland occupied by the Austrians and Bulgarians.

However, the First Canadian Army did encounter resistance immediately west of the Seine and fighting occurred in the Forêt de la Londe as Allied troops attempted to cut off the escape across the river of parts of the German 7th Army in the closing phases of the Battle of Normandy.

After Normandy, the airborne forces had been withdrawn to reform in England, re-forming into the First Allied Airborne Army of two British and three U. S. airborne divisions and a Polish brigade.

* Market: airborne forces of Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton's First Allied Airborne Army to seize bridges and other terrain, under tactical command of I Airborne Corps under Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning, and

Market would employ four of the six divisions of the First Allied Airborne Army.

The First Allied Airborne Army had been created on 16 August as the result of British requests for a coordinated headquarters for airborne operations, a concept approved by General Eisenhower on 20 June.

To deliver its 36 battalions of airborne infantry and their support troops to the continent, the First Allied Airborne Army had under its operational control the 14 groups of IX Troop Carrier Command, and after 11 September the 16 squadrons of 38 Group ( an organization of converted bombers providing support to resistance groups ) and a transport formation, 46 Group.

Both US corps fell under the First Allied Airborne Army under US Lieutenant General Lewis Brereton.

* Ferdinand Foch ( 1851 – 1929 ), Marshal of France, Allied Supreme Commander in the First World War.

The outbreak of the First World War brought food rationing ; the Allied blockade and a harsh winter in 1917 led to further shortages.

First, the Japanese arrived with a great deal of supplies and later the Allied forces did likewise.

He originally wished to reform the Austro-Hungarian monarchy into a democratic federal state, but during the First World War he began to favour the abolition of the monarchy and, with the help of the Allied Powers, eventually succeeded.

Initially proposed as a British and Polish operation codenamed Comet, the plan was soon expanded to involve most of the First Allied Airborne Army and a set piece ground advance into the Netherlands, codenamed Market Garden.

Although Lieutenant-General Lewis H. Brereton commanded the First Allied Airborne Army, his second in command Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning took command of the airborne role.

Zahir Shah provided aid, weapons and Afghan fighters to the Uighur and Kirghiz Muslim rebels who had established the First East Turkestan Republic.

After Dordogne was liberated, Malraux led a battalion of former resistance fighters to Alsace-Lorraine, where they fought alongside the First Army.

In the First Boer War of 1880 – 81 the Boers of the Transvaal Republic had proved skilful fighters in resisting the British attempt at annexation, in causing in a series of British defeats.

De Havilland's Airco designs were to provide around 30 % of all trainers, fighters and bombers used by Britain and the United States during the First World War.

Luftwaffe records indicate that the Ju 88 maritime fighters were operating beyond their normal patrol area to intercept and shoot down the aircraft. Bloody Biscay: The Story of the Luftwaffe's Only Long Range Maritime Fighter Unit, V Gruppe / Kampfgeschwader 40, and Its Adversaries 1942 – 1944 ( Chris Goss, 2001 ) quotes First Oberleutnant Herbert Hintze, Staffel Führer of 14 Staffeln and based in Bordeaux, that his Staffel shot down the DC-3 because it was recognised as an enemy aircraft, unaware that it was an unarmed civilian airliner.

One of the reasons for the First New Zealand War was curiosity by Māori warriors to see what kind of fighters these Pākehā soldiers were.

Alongside with the aid sent, both the Makapili rebel fighters soldiers of the Philippine Commonwealth army and Philippine Constabulary started the First and Second Battle of Kalinga-Apayao or Kalinga-Apayao Campaign from 1942 to 1945.

During the First Chechen War most of the Chechen fighters had been trained in the Soviet armed forces.

the Middle East they were still in the First World War business – they'd learned none of the deception techniques such as sending in high-level fighters and sneaking the bombers in underneath.

A notable example is that of Navy Petty Officer First Class Marcus Luttrell, the sole survivor of a US Navy SEAL team ambushed by Taliban fighters.

In the First and Second World Wars, the Longbridge car plant switched to production of munitions and military equipment, from ammunition, mines and depth charges to tank suspensions, steel helmets, Jerricans, Hawker Hurricanes, Fairey Battle fighters and Airspeed Horsa gliders, with the mammoth Avro Lancaster bomber coming into production towards the end of WWII.

First warning of the approach of Japanese planes reached 5th Interceptor Command at Nielson Field at 11: 15, and American fighters were immediately dispatched to cover Manila Bay.

The station has remained in operation almost uninterrupted ever since and has provided an airfield for fighters in the First World War, bombers during the Second World War and V-force Avro Vulcans during the Cold War.

The First Anglo-Afghan War ( also known as Auckland's Folly ) was fought between British India and Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842, which resulted in the deaths of 4, 500 British-led Indian soldiers and 12, 000 of their camp followers by the warring Afghan tribal fighters.

By the end of 1922, the Air Service comprised ten aircraft ( including six Bristol F2B fighters from the First World War ), and about 400 men.

The twin Eagles on the Squadron's crest, awarded in May 1937, represents the two-seated fighters operated in the First World War.

The Kadyrovs joined the struggle and fought against the federal forces, with Ramzan, from the age of 16, leading a small unit of separatist fighters in the First Chechen War, and Akhmad became the rebel mufti of Chechnya.

First, there would always be fighters in the air covering those on the ground if one did not send their entire force to engage at once.

SOLDIER was an elite branch of Shinra's military forces and was composed of specially trained, highly skilled fighters divided into Third, Second, and First Class branches.

At the end of the First World War, all 1, 152 single-seat fighters on the strength of French front line air units were SPAD 13s.

First opened in 1908 as one of the world's first airports, it took on biplane fighters during the First World War to combat German Balloons and later became a transportation squadron during the Second World War.

In Bulgaria Mihailov is regarded as an important revolutionary from the third generation of freedom fighters who continued the struggle for political autonomy or independence in the Bulgarian populated parts of Macedonia after the partition of the most of the region of Macedonia between Serbia and Greece after the First World War.

First you must attack the defensive screen of enemy fighters, then you must neutralise the majority of surface defences before you land on the Super-Dreadnought's master runway.