Gen. Henry Atkinson.

Gen. Felix Huston, challenging each other for the command of the Texas Army ; Johnston refused to fire on Huston and lost the position after he was wounded in the pelvis.

The most sensitive, and in many ways the most crucial areas, along the Mississippi River and in western Tennessee along the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River were placed under the command of Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk and Brig.

Gen. Gideon J. Pillow, who had been initially in command in Tennessee as that State's top general.

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant an excuse to take control of the even more important and strategically located town of Paducah, Kentucky without raising the ire of most Kentuckians and the pro-Union majority in the State legislature.

Gen. Felix Zollicoffer with 4, 000 men to occupy Cumberland Gap in Kentucky in order to block Union troops from coming into eastern Tennessee.

Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner with another 4, 000 men blocking the railroad route to Tennessee at Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Of these, 10, 000 were in Missouri under Missouri State Guard Maj. Gen. Sterling Price.

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman that he became somewhat unnerved, overestimated Johnston's forces, and had to be relieved by Brig.

Gen. Don Carlos Buell on November 9, 1861.

Eastern Tennessee was held for the Confederacy by two unimpressive brigadier generals appointed by Jefferson Davis, Felix Zollicoffer, a brave but untrained and inexperienced officer, and soon to be Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, a former U. S. Army officer with apparent alcohol problems.

Ifugao became the center of warfare in the last year of World War II when Gen. Yamashita launched his last stand against the American and Philippine Commonwealth forces at Mount Napulawan.

* An episode of the American TV series Unsolved Mysteries, first broadcast on American TV on January 27 1993, discussed the fate of the loot that has supposedly been amassed by Gen. Yamashita.

Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita ( seated, left of centre ) of the Japanese Imperial Army thumps the table with his fist to emphasize his terms – unconditional surrender of Singapore.

* September 3, 1945 – The Japanese commander in the Philippines, Gen. Yamashita, surrenders to Gen. Wainwright at Baguio.

Image: Yamashita. jpg | Lt Gen Tomoyuki Yamashita, Commander of the Japanese 25th Army.

Bagacay hides the treasures of Gen. Yamashita and is the target of both local and foreign treasure hunters and bounty seekers.

Gen. Yamashita had originally ordered the commander of Shimbu Group, Gen. Yokoyama Shizuo, to evacuate the city and destroy all bridges and other vital installations as soon as any large American forces made their appearance.

Meanwhile, Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, the commander of Japanese forces in the Philippines, had decided that defending Manila Bay was well beyond the capabilities of his forces, thus only some 4, 000 Japanese troops of Maj. Gen. Rikichi Tsukada's Kembu Group, which had been dispersed to now captured Mindoro, Corregidor and Southern Luzon was left to oppose the Americans.

Gen. William " Bull " Nelson, reached Savannah ; Grant instructed Nelson to encamp there rather than cross the river immediately.

* Abraham instructed his wife, Sarah, to mislead the Egyptians and say that she is his sister ( Gen. 12: 10 ).

Washington instructed Gen. Sullivan and three brigades to march from Easton, Pennsylvania to the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania and to follow the river upstream to Tioga, now known as Athens, Pennsylvania.

When the Germans launched their final offensives in 1918, Walker's 1st Division was attached as a reserve to Lt .- Gen. Herbert Plumer's Second Army, and was instructed to build defences in front of Hazebrouck in Artois, where the division helped in halting the German Operation Georgette offensive.

On January 25, 1864, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, commander of the Department of East Tennessee, instructed his subordinates to curtail Union operations south of the French Broad.

Gen. Mosby M. Parsons was instructed to take up a position twenty miles to the south in Tipton.

Under the belief that Grant's supply lines on the west bank of the Mississippi, on the Louisiana side across from Vicksburg, were vulnerable, Davis instructed Trans-Mississippi Department Commander Lt. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith to send troops to break up that supply line.

Air defenses were heavy over the 376th's target ( Romana Americana ), and Gen. Ent instructed Compton to attack " targets of opportunity.

The next year an Upper Creek war-party trying to relieve the British garrison at Savannah was routed by Continental Army troops under Gen. ' Mad ' Anthony Wayne.

After the Union victory in the Battle of Atlanta, a Confederate army under the command of Gen. John Bell Hood briefly sparred with a vastly outmanned garrison during the 1864 Battle of Decatur, when Decatur was referred to as A Tough Nut To Crack.

Though a prudent suggestion, and one that carried the agreement of Kościuszko's fellow engineers, garrison commander Brigadier Gen. Arthur St. Clair ultimately declined to carry it out, citing logistical difficulties.

By October 1845, 4000 troops, nearly half the U. S. Army, under orders of President Polk, were positioned on the north side of the Rio Grande. The Mexican garrison of Matamoros under Gen. F. Mejia consisted of the Zapadores ( Sappers ) Battalion, the 2d Light, 1st & 10th Line Infantry Regiments, the 7th Cavalry Regiment, Villas of the North Aux Cavalry, several Companies of Presidales and the Matamoros National Guards Battalion.

The bulk of the Bulgarian forces ( 346, 182 men ) was targeting Thrace, pitted against the Thracian Ottoman Army of 96, 273 men and about 26, 000 garrison troops or about 115, 000 in total, according to both Hall's, Erickson's and the Turkish Gen. Staff's study of 1993, books.

In 2008 Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard A. Cody recognized Yongsan Garrison as one of the top three U. S. Army Installations in the World and recognized the garrison by declaring it an Army Community of Excellence.

On 17 April in Warsaw, the Russian attempt to arrest those suspected of supporting the insurrection and to disarm the weak Polish garrison of Warsaw under Gen. Stanisław Mokronowski by seizing the arsenal at Miodowa Street resulted in an uprising against the Russian garrison of Warsaw, led by Jan Kiliński, in the face of indecisiveness of the King of Poland, Stanisław II Augustus.

He understood the commander of the Department of the Platte, Gen. Philip St. George Cooke, to have ordered the garrison to mount an aggressive winter campaign.

When word of the loss of Vicksburg reached the garrison at Port Hudson, Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner, the commander there, knew that further resistance was pointless.

On July 9, 1863, he surrendered the post and its garrison to the Federal Army of the Gulf and its commander, Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks.

In early 1864, Stoneman was impatient with garrison duty in Washington and requested another field command from his old friend Maj. Gen. John Schofield, who was in command of the Department of the Ohio.

Maj. Gen. Granger's soldiers vastly outnumbered his own, no matter whose figures for the garrison are accepted.

After clearing the entire atoll, the 27th Division commander, Maj. Gen. Ralph C. Smith, reported on the morning of 23 November, " Makin taken, recommend command pass to commander garrison force.

Two days later, as the Second Corps prepared to march on Washington, Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace leading a small Union force composed mostly of garrison troops, bolstered by the eleventh-hour addition of two brigades of the VI Corps sent from Richmond under Maj. Gen. James B. Ricketts, attempted to resist the Confederate advance at the Battle of Monocacy.

Maj. Gen. William H. C. Whiting, who commanded the Wilmington garrison, refused to cooperate.

Pascual Cervera appointed to set up a garrison and serve as military governor ; He served from March 1876 to December1876 followed by Brig. Gen.

In a February raid against Fort Donelson ( the Battle of Dover ) Confederate Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, commanding two brigades of cavalry, failed to capture the garrison in Dover, Tennessee, or disrupt Union shipping on the Cumberland River.

Gen. James R. Chalmers, advanced from its base in Oxford, Mississippi to attack the union garrison at Collierville.

A Confederate division under Maj. Gen. Samuel G. French attacked a Union garrison under Brig.

The garrison of Fort Wagner was then changed during the night, and Gen. Hagood assumed command.

Gregorio Gómez and the Mexican Centralist garrison engaged Gen. José Antonio Mexía and 150 American volunteers.

At the same time, 7, 000 Union troops from the Department of Arkansas under the command of Maj. Gen. Frederick Steele would be sent south from Arkansas to rendezvous with Banks in his attack on Shreveport, and to serve as the garrison for that city after its capture.