Still an acting lieutenant-colonel, he then commanded a corps infantry school in October 1918.

This corps was commanded by Gandhi and operated for less than two months.

Sending a volunteer corps of the Siamese Expeditionary Force ; composed of 1, 233 modern-equipped and trained men commanded by Field Marshal Prince Chakrabongse Bhuvanath.

He commanded a corps of cavalry in the invasion of Carnatic in 1767 at age 16.

In World War II, he commanded corps and armies in North Africa, Sicily, and the European Theater of Operations.

In 1812 Jérôme commanded a corps of soldiers marching towards the Russian front.

The first Antarctic observation corps commanded by Takeshi Nagata left Japan in 1956, arriving at Antarctica on January 29 1957.

When Pickett returned to the Army in September 1862, he was given command of a two-brigade division in the corps commanded by his old colleague from Mexico, Maj. Gen. James Longstreet, and was promoted to major general on October 10.

Until fully activated with its own headquarters staff, an army area was typically jointly staffed, headquartered and commanded by the most senior corps commander in that area.

For Command Component Land Heidelberg missions, the corps commanded the 13th Panzergrenadier Division ( Bundeswehr ), while II Corps ( Bundeswehr ) commanded the 1st Armored Division ( United States ).

During Operation Overlord, he commanded three corps directed at the two American invasion targets, Utah Beach and Omaha Beach.

In many armies, a corps is a battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions, and typically commanded by a lieutenant general.

Until Washington's arrival, it remained under the command of Artemas Ward, while John Thomas acted as executive officer and Richard Gridley commanded the artillery corps and was chief engineer.

At the Battle of Fredericksburg, he commanded a " Grand Division " of two corps, and was ordered to conduct numerous futile frontal assaults that caused his men to suffer serious losses.

He returned to Illinois for the 1864 elections but rejoined the army afterward and commanded his XV corps in the Carolinas Campaign.

He successively commanded the camp at Châlons, the IV army corps at Lyon and the army of Paris.

During the Franco-Prussian War he commanded the VI army corps, which was almost annihilated at Mars-la-Tour and at the Gravelotte, where Canrobert commanded on the Saint-Privat position.

In 1871 Clinchant commanded the 5th corps operating against the Commune.

He was the first commander of the cosmonaut corps and the cosmonaut who commanded the historic Voskhod 2 mission which saw the first man walk in space in 1965.

* A cavalry corps, commanded by Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, contained the divisions of Brig.

* A second cavalry corps, commanded by Brig.

But while Chauvel had been an Australian, he had been a regular officer while Morshead was not and the new commander of the British Eighth Army, Lieutenant General Bernard Montgomery felt that a reservist could not possess the " requisite training and experience " to command a corps and Morshead was passed over in favour of Oliver Leese, a British regular officer, who was junior to him and had never commanded a division in action.

Alexander presided over Montgomery's victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein and the advance of the Eighth Army to Tripoli, for which Alexander was elevated to a knight grand cross of the Order of the Bath, and, after the Anglo-American forces from Operation Torch and the Eighth Army converged in Tunisia in February 1943, they were brought under the unified command of a newly-formed 18th Army Group headquarters, commanded by Alexander and reporting to Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean at the Allied Forces Headquarters.

An advance party of the First Red Army called the Sixth Group, commanded by Xiao Ke, was sent towards the Second Red Army two months before the beginning of the Long March.

While Lambert commanded the Eastern Flank of the Army which would advance and encircle the Eastern walls of Worcester.

Constantine then commanded his foot soldiers to advance against the surviving Maxentian infantry, cutting them down as they fled.

He commanded the Chasseurs of the Imperial Guard from 1801 – 1802, serving as GOC Jager Brigade ( 1802 – 05 ) and as the commander of the advance guard at Austerlitz in 1805.

Despite an advance of the cavalry commanded by Fitzhugh Lee, the Confederate Army was checked by the arrival of Union cavalry commanded by Gen. Philip Sheridan and two divisions of infantry.

In the north FML Ott ( Friedrich Heinrich von Gottesheim's advance guard plus Joseph von Schellenberg and Ludwig von Vogelsang's divisions ), in the south FML O ' Reilly's division, while himself commanded in the centre the most important formation ( the divisions of Karl Joseph Hadik von Futak, Konrad Valentin von Kaim, Ferdinand Johann von Morzin and Anton von Elsnitz ).

The Austrian centre formed into a massive pursuit column in order to chase the French off the battlefield, with the advance guard commanded by GM Franz Xaver Saint-Julien.

British troops commanded by General James Wolfe successfully resisted the column advance of French troops and Canadian military under Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm, using new tactics that proved extremely effective against standard military formations used in most large European conflicts.

Wolfe and his regiment were initially sent to Newcastle to bolster a force commanded by General Wade to prevent a Jacobite advance along the east coast.

Siamese forces, commanded by Kawila, Prince of Lampang, put up a brave fight and delayed the Burmese advance, all the while waiting for reinforcements from Bangkok.

The left column, commanded by Major General Gribbe, was to advance across the Chernaya River and towards the village of Kamara.

Of note here is Swedenborg's statement that he was commanded by the Lord to publish his writings and " Do not believe that without this express command I would have thought of publishing things which I knew in advance would make me look ridiculous and many people would think lies …"

No sooner was this complete than the Queen's vanguard, commanded by Lord Hamilton, began its advance through the village.

To oppose its advance, Venice had massed a mercenary army near Bergamo, jointly commanded by the Orsini cousins, Bartolomeo d ' Alviano and Niccolò di Pitigliano.

Upon seeing the Yorkist advance the right detachment of the Lancastrian army, commanded by Lord Roos, turned and fled across the Devil's Water and into Hexham, before a single blow had been struck.

In 1805 Kutuzov commanded the Russian corps which opposed Napoleon's advance on Vienna.

The next day, while the main body re-embarked, an advance guard battalion commanded by Colonel Alexander Macomb and a battalion of riflemen under Major Benjamin Forsyth were landed on the Canadian side of the river to clear the river bank of harassing Canadian militia.

Subsequent to the battle, the corps structure was re-established for the advance into France, I Corps being commanded by Maj-Gen Sir John Byng, the Prince of Orange having been wounded at Waterloo.

On July 13, 2003, New York Times published another article that in 1991 when Saddam Hussein used the MEK and its tanks as advance forces to crush the Iraqi Kurdish people in the north and the Iraqi Shia people in the south, Maryam Rajavi as then leader of MEK's army forces commanded:

Francis's precipitate advance, however, had not only masked the fire of the French artillery, but also pulled him away from the mass of French infantry, commanded by Richard de la Pole, and by Francois de Lorraine, who led the Black Band of renegade Landsknecht pikemen ( not to be confused with the Italian mercenary company of arquebusiers by the same name ), which was 4, 000 to 5, 000 men strong.

Agesilaus then commanded the entire Spartan army to advance.

General Kent sent forward the 3rd Infantry Brigade — now effectively commanded by Lt. Col. Ezra P. Ewers — to join the advance of the 1st Infantry Brigade and part of the 10th Cavalry Regiment, who had successfully reached the heights.