* 1963 – Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalizes Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.

As head of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces, Major General Momoh was very loyal to Stevens who had appointed him to the position.

On May 25, 1997, a group of seventeen soldiers in the Sierra Leone army led by Corporal Tamba Gborie and loyal to the detained Major General Johnny Paul Koroma launched a military coup which sent President Kabbah into exile in Guinea and they established the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council ( AFRC ).

** Xa Loi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalise Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.

* December 19 – Battle of Radcot Bridge: Forces loyal to Richard II of England are defeated by a group of rebellious barons known as the Lords Appellant.

Forces loyal to Henry controlled the city of York, and nearby Pontefract Castle was also in hostile hands.

On March 8, 2012, a small Special Boat Service ( SBS ) team along with members of the Special Forces Support Group ( SFSG ) attempted to rescue a British and Italian hostage-British Chris McManus and Italian Franco Lamolinara held in Nigeria by members of Boko Haram terrorist organisation loyal to al-Qaeda.

They showed instead that the raiders were Special Forces loyal to Diệm's brother, Nhu, and motivated to frame the army generals.

Zia planned the Coup d ' état carefully, as he knew Bhutto had integral intelligence in the Pakistan Armed Forces, and many officers, including Chief of Air Staff General Zulfiqar Ali Khan and Major-General Tajammul Hussain Malik, GOC of 23rd Mountain Division, Major-General Naseerullah Babar, DG of Directorate-General for the Military Intelligence ( DGMO ) and Vice-Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan, were loyal to Bhutto.

* August 5 – 27: Forces loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr resist government authority in Najaf ; the fighting is ended with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani ’ s help.

: Forces loyal to bin Laden smuggled weapons into their prison near Mazari Sharif after surrendering at Kunduz.

Lt. Col. Odumegwu-Ojukwu supported the forces loyal to the Supreme Commander of the Nigerian Armed Forces, Major-General Aguiyi-Ironisi.

Forces loyal to Charles I, under the command of Henry Clifford, garrisoned York Castle and the surrounding city in 1643.

Operation Eagle Fury was a military operation led by the United States in Afghanistan involving Bravo Company, 2nd BN, 7th SFG ( A ) US Army Special Forces, and USN SEALs, members of the QRF 82nd Airborne Division, and loyal Afghan fighters from 9-28 February 2003.

Forces considered to be loyal to the old regime ( spontaneously nicknamed " terrorists ") opened fire on the crowd and attacked vital points of socio-political life: the television, radio, and telephone buildings, as well as Casa Scânteii ( the centre of the nation's print media, which serves a similar role today under the name Casa Presei Libere, " House of the Free Press ") and the post office in the district of Drumul Taberei ; Palace Square ( site of the Central Committee building, but also of the Central University Library, the national art museum in the former Royal Palace, and the Ateneul Român ( Romanian Athaeneum ), Bucharest's leading concert hall ); the university and the adjoining University Square ( one of the city's main intersections ); Otopeni and Băneasa airports ; hospitals, and the Ministry of Defence.

Although the Brazilian Army was created during the process of the independence of Brazil from Portugal, in 1822, with the units of the Portuguese Army in Brazil that have remained loyal to Prince Dom Pedro, its origins can date back to Land Forces used by Portuguese in the colonial wars against French and Dutch, fought in 16th and 17th centuries.

Few of the reforms planned in the early 1990s eventuated, for three reasons: Firstly, there was an absence of firm civilian political guidance, with President Yeltsin primarily interested in ensuring that the Armed Forces were controllable and loyal, rather than reformed.

The Companions, men loyal to General Whitehall, form the de facto overall command group of Whitehall's Expeditionary Forces, as the Army does not have a structure of command higher than battalion level.

After the March 2011 offensive by forces loyal to Ouattara reached the capital and deposed Gbagbo, the Ivorian Armed Forces siding with Ouattara and Guillaume Soro ( the Republican Forces of Côte d ' Ivoire ) began operations to disarm militias on both sides, including Coulibaly.

The Polish Armed Forces in the West comprised army, navy, and air force units, and were loyal to the Polish government-in-exile.

Forces loyal to the republic led by Prince Champion Julian Davion manage to stop the Alliance forces from seizing Paris, France, where all attending Inner Sphere leaders had gathered for the funeral of Paladan Steiner-Davion.

Forces loyal to the queen mustered and crushed the rebellion which failed in its attempt to rescue Mary, Queen of Scots from prison.

Forces of Veii and Tarquinii, led by the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus defeated in the Battle of Silva Arsia by the Roman army.

The Free French Forces deposed Muhammad on May 14, 1943, on the accusation that he was a Vichy collaborator and he was succeeded by his cousin Muhammad VIII al-Amin.

In the wake of the military coup that deposed the Qarase government on 5 December 2006, Commodore Josaia Voreqe ( Frank ) Bainimarama, the Commander of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces and Acting President of Fiji, sent Fatiaki on leave.

In the wake of the military coup that deposed the Qarase government on 5 December 2006, Commodore Josaia Voreqe ( Frank ) Bainimarama, the Commander of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces and Acting President of Fiji, sent Fatiaki on leave.

The Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus ( Russian: Министерство обороны Республики Беларусь, Belarusian: Мiнiстэрства абароны Рэспублікі Беларусь ) is the government organization that is charged with the duties of raising and maintaining the Armed Forces of Belarus.

On March 18, 1992 the parliament passed resolution " On the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus " that bound the government " to start the formation of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus as of March 20, 1992 " and " to submit to the Supreme Soviet for approval the suggested structure of the Armed Forces, their size and order of their material and technical supplies ".

The country's first post-communist Assembly elections, in November 1991, made the winning new pro-reform Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) to make government alone, having won 110 out of the 240 seats in the assembly.

In April 1997, the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) government won pre-term parliamentary elections and introduced an IMF currency board system which succeeded in stabilizing the economy.

Two new groups, the Armed Forces for a Federal Republic ( FARF ) led by former Kette ally Laokein Barde and the Democratic Front for Renewal ( FDR ), and a reformulated MDD clashed with government forces from 1994 to 1995.

The Cape Verdean government aims to make the Armed Forces more flexible and able to deal with terrorism, drug trafficking, disaster relief, and control its territorial waters.

As of September 2011, the government is attempting to form what is called the Forces Armées Nationales de Côte d ' Ivoire ( FANCI ), which aims to merge 5, 000 former rebels of the FRCI with 30, 000 veterans of the former regular army ( Forces de défense et de sécurité-FDS ).

From 2002 until 2011 Cote d ' Ivoire was split by the rebellion between the existing government in the south and the Forces Nouvelles in the north.

During this time, strong nationalistic sentiments in East Pakistan were perceived by the Pakistani Armed Forces and the central military government.

The Allies, including the government in exile's Free French Forces and later a liberated French nation, eventually emerged victorious over the Axis Powers.

This government was later removed by the Free French Forces in August 1944.

Four principal left-wing guerrilla groups — the Guerrilla Army of the Poor ( EGP ), the Revolutionary Organization of Armed People ( ORPA ), the Rebel Armed Forces ( FAR ), and the Guatemalan Party of Labour ( PGT ) — conducted economic sabotage and targeted government installations and members of government security forces in armed attacks.

French brigadier general Charles de Gaulle declared himself on Radio Londres to be the head of a rival government in exile, and gathered the Free French Forces around him, finding support in some French colonies and recognition from Britain and the USA.

The government attempted to suppress the rebellion by military force but the attempt failed, due to long-term corrosion of the Armed Forces due to political and social factors.

* 1936 – Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.

Since the end of the war, the Lebanese have conducted several elections, most of the militias have been weakened or disbanded, and the Lebanese Armed Forces ( LAF ) have extended central government authority over about two-thirds of the country.

In 1956 the Nigeria Regiment of the Royal West African Frontier Force ( RWAFF ) was renamed the Nigerian Military Forces, RWAFF, and in April 1958 the colonial government of Nigeria took over from the British War Office control of the Nigerian Military Forces.

The Pakistan Armed Forces have also taken over the Pakistani government several times since independence mainly on the pretext of lack of good civilian leadership, whom most Pakistanis regard as corrupt and inefficient.

Despite 1983 constitutional amendments, which appeared to proscribe a political role for the military, the Panama Defense Forces ( PDF ), as they were then known, continued to dominate Panamanian political life behind a facade of civilian government.

The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.