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He commanded the Yorkist reserve at the Battle of Bosworth Field on 22 August 1485.
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In 1464, he commanded a Yorkist force that turned the tables on a Lancastrian ambush at the Battle of Hedgeley Moor, and launched a surprise attack at the Battle of Hexham.
Around nine in the morning of 16 June, King Henry's forward troops, commanded by the Earl of Oxford, encountered the Yorkist army assembled in a single block, on a brow of a hill surrounded on three sides by the River Trent at the village of East Stoke.
At the Battle of Tewkesbury ( 4 May 1471 ), he commanded the right of the Lancastrian forces and led a fierce charge against the Yorkist Lord Hastings in Red Pierce Meadow.
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 the opening phase of the Wars of the Roses he raised troops from his estates in Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire and commanded the Lancastrian force that moved to block the Yorkist Earl of Salisbury's route to Ludlow where he intended linking up with the rest of the Yorkist army.
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Negus Tekle Haymanot commanded the right wing, Ras Alula the left, and Rasses Makonnen and Mengesha the center, with Ras Mikael at the head of the Oromo cavalry ; the Emperor and his consort remained with the reserve.
At the start, the forest was defended by the German 275th and 353rd Infantry Divisions ; understrength but well prepared — 5, 000 men ( 1, 000 in reserve )— and commanded by Generalleutnant Hans Schmidt, they had little artillery and no tanks.
The King commanded a small reserve, consisting of his own and Prince Rupert's regiments of foot and his Lifeguard of Horse.
Canadian battalions are generally commanded by lieutenant-colonels, though smaller reserve battalions may be commanded by majors.
The brigade commanded by Major General John Lambert was held in reserve.
This reserve division consisted of 38 galleys-30 behind the Centre Division commanded by Álvaro de Bazán, and four behind each wing.
In addition, François Étienne de Kellermann commanded a 2, 100-man reserve made up of four converged grenadier battalions.
At the Battle of Brandywine, Greene commanded the reserve.
In addition he had a reserve, commanded by Elias I of Maine, out of sight on the flank.
The initial plan dictated that the American 82nd Airborne Division commanded by Major General Matthew B Ridgway was held as a tactical reserve in Tunisia.
RFA vessels are commanded and crewed by these civilians, augmented with regular and reserve Royal Navy personnel to perform specialised military functions such as operating and maintaining helicopters or providing hospital facilities.
Although he had suffered a significant reversal, Muwatalli still commanded a large force of reserve chariotry and infantry plus the walls of the town.
A reserve composed of his own bucellarii household cavalry was held behind his center and commanded by Armenian John ; his trusted lieutenant and boyhood companion.
The battle began on the French right flank, where Marshal de Broglie, who commanded the reserve, began an artillery duel against the allied left.
In the campaign of Waterloo he commanded the reserve cavalry of the army, and after Ligny he was appointed to command the right wing to pursue the Prussians.
When William T. Sherman's armies entered Georgia during the 1864 Atlanta Campaign and subsequent March to the Sea, General Cobb commanded the Georgia reserve corps.
The Duke of Bengo commanded the reserve.
In May 1998, Prabowo was commander of Kostrad, the strategic reserve, the regiment Suharto commanded when he took power in 1965.
The 208th Infantry served in the Invasion of Poland of 1939 as a reserve division of Army Group North and was commanded by General Moritz Andreas.
At the Battle of Bunker Hill Pitcairn commanded a reserve force of about 300 Marines.
The Earl of Bothwell was killed at the Battle of Flodden, where he commanded the Scottish reserve.
Under the security plan, various police response teams were mobilized consisting primarily of the Demonstration Management teams under the command of Captain Hawkins and the Presidential Hotel Response Teams, commanded by Lieutenant Stone, which were held in reserve on the eastern perimeter of downtown.
At the Battle of Shiloh he commanded a division, which was practically a reserve to William T. Sherman's.
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In 1871 he commanded the 24th U. S. Infantry, an all African-American regiment with headquarters at Fort McKavett Texas.
As he still continued obstinate, the court proceeded to violent measures: the officers of the household were commanded to prepare the Basilica and the Portian churches to celebrate divine service upon the arrival of the emperor and his mother at the ensuing festival of Easter.
An unruly youth, Selkirk joined several buccaneering expeditions to the South Seas, including one commanded by William Dampier, which called in for provisions at the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
As a youth he worked at a vineyard until, according to the 2nd-century AD geographer Pausanias, the god Dionysus visited him in his sleep and commanded him to turn his attention to the nascent art of tragedy.
* 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scots army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
He commanded a brigade at the Battle of Jemappes, and in the campaign of 1793 distinguished himself at the Action of Aldenhoven and the Battle of Neerwinden.
As the attack faltered, eight squadrons of elite Gens d ' Armes, commanded by the veteran Swiss officer, Beat-Jacques von Zurlauben, fell upon the English troops, cutting at the exposed flank of Rowe's own regiment.
All his men dismounted and were organized into units, with longbowmen placed in a V-formation on both flanks and a small cavalry unit, commanded by Jean de Grailly, the Captal de Buch, hidden in woods at the rear.
According to Ivinskaya, People who arrived in Peredelkino early in the morning on the day of the funeral told us that militiamen, commanded by very senior officers, were already stationed at the approaches to the village.
While still a graduate student in 1934, Parkinson was commissioned into the Territorial Army as a member of the 22nd London Regiment ( The Queen's ), was promoted Lieutenant later the same year, and commanded an infantry company at the jubilee of King George V in 1935.
While at Cambridge, he commanded an infantry unit of the Cambridge University Officers ' Training Corps.
The founder, having heard that it was probable that Pope Gregory X, then holding a council at Lyon, would suppress all such new orders as had been founded since the Lateran Council, having commanded that such institutions should not be further multiplied, went to Lyon.
At the end of August the Assembly ordered Abancourt and the other prisoners at Orléans to be transferred to Paris with an escort commanded by Claude Fournier l ' Americain.
The rank of commodore was at first a position created as a temporary title to be bestowed upon captains who commanded squadrons of more than one vessel.
* 533 – Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Ticameron.
With four legions at his disposal, Vespasian commanded a strength of nearly 80, 000 soldiers.
Achieving career success at an early age, he commanded the British battlecruisers at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, a tactically indecisive engagement after which his aggressive approach was contrasted with the caution of his commander Admiral Jellicoe.
After the Christian defeat at the Battle of Sagrajas in 1086, El Cid was recalled to service by Alfonso VI, and commanded a combined Christian and Moorish army, which he used to create his own fiefdom in the Moorish Mediterranean coastal city of Valencia.
When Orestes, their son, reached manhood, he was commanded by one of Apollo ’ s oracles to avenge his father ‘ s murder at his mother ’ s hand.
Two legions commanded by Appius Claudius Caudex disembarked at Messana, where the Mamertines had expelled the Carthaginian garrison commanded by Hanno ( no relation to Hanno the Great ).
The garrison of Agrigentum managed to call for reinforcements and the Carthaginian relief force commanded by Hanno came to the rescue and destroyed the Roman supply base at Erbessus.
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