Walton, who served as a correspondent with General James Gavin's paratroopers during the invasion of France, combines the soul of an artist with the lingo of a tough guy.

Gavin's friends William T. Ryder — Commander of Airborne training-and William Yarborough-Communications officer of the Provisional Airborne Group-convinced General William C. Lee to let Gavin develop the tactics and basic rules of Airborne combat.

General Pétain had been replaced with the more attack-minded General Robert Nivelle, an artillery man by training and by previous command experiences.

Laura Chinchilla, the president of Costa Rica ( 2010 – 2014 ) stated -" It must be approached very rigorously based on empiric evidence and the experiences other countries have had when boarding widely the concept of legalization [...]" after a meeting with José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, regarding the fight against hard drug smuggling from Colombia to the USA.

Patrick Wright, author and former Business Week reporter, approached DeLorean with the idea of writing a book based on his experiences at General Motors.

The protagonists are an archetypal British family of the time, the Smiths, who are shown entering Brighton's West Pier, with General Haig selling tickets-the film later follows the young Smith men through their experiences in the trenches.

Sir Martin Conway, the Museum's first Director General, said that exhibits must ' be vitalised by contributions expressive of the action, the experiences, the valour and the endurance of individuals '.

The General follows the career of Herbert Curzon from the time that he joins the army as a subaltern through his experiences in the Second Boer War to the happy day when he is given a regiment of his own to command.

General Cameron was an able commander of the Imperial forces ; in his past experiences, he witnessed the cost of making a frontal assault on a defended Pā and he was concerned with the safety of his troops.

Makhno co-wrote and co-published the Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists ( often referred to as the Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists ), which put forward ideas on how anarchists should organize, based on the experiences of revolutionary Ukraine and the defeat by the Bolsheviks.

His son published Denkwürdigkeiten aus dem Leben des Generalfeldmarschalls Kriegsministers Grafen Roon ( Memorable experiences from the life of General Field Marshal and Minister of War Count Roon ) ( 2 vols., Breslau, 1892 ), and Kriegsminister von Roon als Redner politisch und militärisch erläutert ( Minister of War Roon's Political and Military Speeches Examined ) ( Breslau, 1895 ).

The experiences of French guerrilla attacks and of the asymmetric warfare during the Franco-Prussian War had a profound effect on the German General Staff.

The experiences of developing these engines can be summed up shortly by General Motors Research vice-president Charles Kettering: " I do not recall any trouble with the dip stick.

Kennedy hoped Gavin would be able to improve deteriorating diplomatic relations with France, due to his experiences with the French during World War II, and his wartime relationship with France's President, General Charles De Gaulle.

* General volunteering tips related to scene security and traffic control based on the experiences of a Canadian volunteer

Scoon published a book entitled Survival for Service that provides a personal account of his experiences as Governor General of Grenada.

Five Patients is a non-fiction book by Michael Crichton that recounts his experiences of hospital practices during the late 1960s at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

" The historian Victor Davis Hanson argues that the novel is based on Wallace's own life, particularly his experiences as a division commander during the American Civil War under General Grant.

In November 2009, Labine gave WeLoveSoaps. net an exclusive interview during which she discussed her struggles with ABC during Ryan's Hope, her enjoyment of writing General Hospital, and her less enjoyable experiences on One Life to Live and Guiding Light.

In H. J. C. Pieterse's book on General Wynand Malan's Boer War experiences, the general states that his commando was responsible for the derailment.

In summer 2010, the fictional Franco from General Hospital held an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, while the real Franco held an exhibit at the museum based on his experiences on the soap opera.

Based upon his experiences in the military, Walker published two books describing the history of the Second Army Corps ( 1886 ) as well as a biography of General Winfield Scott Hancock ( 1884 ).

In 1960 Frank Kitson, ( who was later involved in the Northern Irish conflict and is now a retired British General ), published Gangs and Counter-gangs, an account of his experiences with the technique in Kenya ; information included how to counter gangs and measures of deception, including the use of defectors, which brought the issue a wider audience.

Murphey and Sullivan both died shortly after from cholera, Delafosse went on to join the defending garrison during the Siege of Lucknow, and Thomson took part in rebuilding and defending the entrenchment a second time under General Windham, eventually writing a firsthand account of his experiences entitled The Story of Cawnpore ( London, 1859 ).

* Mediterranean Front ( Hamish Hamilton, 1941 ; McGraw, 1942 ) A journal of his experiences during the first year of WW II while General Wavell was in command, mostly in the Western Desert of North Africa.

It was only after the hastily improvised plan for the invasion of Western Europe in 1940 and its successful conclusion, which led the German General Staff to believe that decisive battles were not obsolete.

When he returned from that expedition 8 days later, Brigadier General Richard Montgomery had assumed command of the invasion due to Schuyler's illness.

On 21 June 1941, the day before invasion of the Soviet Union, Himmler commissioned the preparation of the Generalplan Ost ( General Plan for the East ); the plan was finalised in July 1942.

In 2006, General Sir Michael Rose revived the call for the impeachment of Tony Blair, then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, for leading the country into the invasion of Iraq in 2003 under allegedly false justification.

The pro-French Governor General of Java Jan Willem Janssens, resisted a British invasion force in 1811 until forced to surrender.

* 1898 – After over two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U. S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico.

* 1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.

* 1854 – In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General José María Yáñez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon.

Ribbentrop chose the Ustaša to rule Croatia, and had Edmund Veesenmayer successfully conclude talks in April 1941 with General Slavko Kvaternik of the Ustaša on having his party rule Croatia after the German invasion.

General Chang Fa-kuei planned to lead a Chinese army invasion of Tonkin in Indochina to free Vietnam from French control, and to get Chiang Kai-shek's support.

The absence of a strategic bomber force for the Luftwaffe, following General Wever's accidental death in 1936 and the end of the Ural bomber program he fostered before the invasion of Poland, would not be addressed again until the authorization of the Bomber B design competition in July 1939, which sought to replace the medium bomber force with which the Luftwaffe was to begin the war, with more advanced, twin-engined high speed bomber aircraft fitted with pairs of relatively " high-power " engines of 1, 500 kW ( 2, 000 hp ) output levels and upwards each, that would also be able to function as shorter range heavy bombers.

Undaunted, Luthor gathers together a new Revenge Squad to fight against invading Kryptonians led by General Zod, leaving Superman alive to provide assistance simply because he believed that this ' invasion ' was proof that he had been right about Superman all along and he wanted Superman to live with that knowledge.

When Franz Halder, the Chief of the Army General Staff, heard of the state of the Kriegsmarine, and its plan for the invasion, he noted in his diary, on 28 July 1940, " If that plan is true, all previous statements by the navy were so much rubbish and we can throw away the whole plan of invasion ".

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Perryville – Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky.

" This was passed on to General Georg Thomas, who had been preparing reports on the negative economic consequences of an invasion of the Soviet Union — that it would be a net economic drain unless it was captured intact.

They attempted to board the ship at which time Martok took up arms and defended his General, successfully repelling the invasion.

After the General War, the Romulan Empire erupted in civil war, had their border stations destroyed by the Interstellar Concordium in the course of the ISC War of Pacification, and subsequently aided in resisting the Andromedan invasion.

It was subsequently one of eight countries to cast a vote against a United Nations General Assembly motion condemning the invasion.

Under General Henri Guisan, the Swiss army prepared for mass mobilization of militia forces against invasion, and prepared strong, well-stockpiled positions high in the Alps known as the Réduit.

* 1943 – World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins on the same day that U. S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship off Malta.

General Montgomery's Eighth Army captured Syracuse on the first day of the invasion almost unopposed.

During World War I, an invasion attempt by the British was thwarted by German General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, who then mounted a drawn out guerrilla campaign against the British.