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He commanded the largest army, and ruled the largest and most wealthy kingdom of Europe, a kingdom which was the European centre of arts and intellectual thought ( La Sorbonne ) at the time.
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He had obtained and provisioned a veteran ship called the Discovery and had recruited a crew of twenty-one, the largest he had ever commanded.
Having lost their largest and richest colony, the French decided to send a large expedition to Guiana, commanded by Choiseul.
In the Russian Campaign, he commanded Army Group South, responsible for the largest encirclement in history, the Battle of Kiev.
But the Soviet commander in northern Ukraine, Colonel-General Mikhail Kirponos, was one of the better Soviet generals, and he commanded the Red Army's largest and best-equipped force: nearly a million men and 4, 800 tanks.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe, it sometimes seemed, commanded the largest Jewish " army " outside of Israel.
From the Normandy landings through the end of the war in Europe, Bradley had command of all U. S. ground forces invading Germany from the west ; he ultimately commanded forty-three divisions and 1. 3 million men, the largest body of American soldiers ever to serve under a U. S. field commander.
In late May Saladin assembled the largest army he had ever commanded, around some 30, 000 men including about 12, 000 regular cavalry.
Thomas of Woodstock commanded one of the largest campaigns of the period.
The largest junks, the treasure ships commanded by Zheng He, were built for world exploration in the 15th century, and according to some interpretations may have been over in length, or larger, based on the size of the rudder post that was found.
Although Jews are commanded to take the four species together, the rabbinically ordained blessing mentions only the lulav because it is the largest and most evident of the four species.
Peng Dehuai commanded the largest communist offensive in the war against Japan.
Her work commanded high prices ; in 1928, Stieglitz masterminded a sale of six of her calla lily paintings for US $ 25, 000, which was the largest sum ever paid for a group of paintings by a living American artist.
During the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, beginning September 12, 1918, Pershing commanded the American First Army, comprising seven divisions and more than 500, 000 men, in the largest offensive operation ever undertaken by United States armed forces to date.
The ensign, with the four colors of the FMS, was flown by HMS Malaya ( commanded by Captain Boyle under the 5th Battle Squadron of the British Grand Fleet ) during the Battle of Jutland in the North Sea, which was the largest and the only full scale clash of battleships during World War One.
The Oval Hall is the largest hall in the building, seating 2, 271 people and is commanded by an angel's chorus.
SHAEF commanded the largest number of formations ever committed to one operation on the Western Front, with American, French army of liberation, British and Canadian Army forces.
Ogata Saburo Koreyoshi commanded the largest armies in Kyshu and marched in
D ' Aquila's second-in-command, Alfred Mineo, and his top lieutenant, Steve Ferrigno, now commanded the largest and most influential Sicilian gang in New York City.
Colonel Anthony Pohlmann, a Hanoverian and former East India Company sergeant, commanded the largest brigade with eight battalions.
The first division, at Dinapur, being the largest, was commanded by Major-General Marley, and was intended to seize the pass at Makwanpur, between Gunduk and Bagmati, the key to Gorkha Kingdom, and to push forward to Kathmandu: thus at once carrying the war into the heart of the enemy's country.
On 1 May 1566 the Sultan left Constantinople at the head of one of the largest armies he had ever commanded.
He was appointed flag officer serving aboard the steam frigate as commander of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, leading from Norfolk, Virginia the largest fleet ever commanded by an American officer at that time.
A Gruppenführer commanded an SS-Abschnitt while a new rank, that of Obergruppenführer, oversaw the SS-Oberabschnitte which were the largest SS units in Germany.
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* 1385 – Portuguese Crisis of 1383 – 1385: Battle of Aljubarrota – Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.
* 1914 – World War I: Battle of Stallupönen – The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
When the Vikings returned in force in 892 they found a kingdom defended by a standing, mobile field army and a network of garrisoned fortresses that commanded its navigable rivers and Roman roads.
* 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.
In the short and disastrous war of 1805 Archduke Charles commanded what was intended to be the main army in Italy, but events made Germany the decisive theatre of operations ; Austria sustained defeat on the Danube, and the archduke was defeated by Massena in the Battle of Caldiero.
The French army also comprised a contingent of Scots commanded by Sir William Douglas.
At the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt on October 14, 1806 – when Napoleon invaded Prussia and defeated the massed Prussian-Saxon army commanded by Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick – he was captured, one of the 25, 000 prisoners captured that day as the Prussian army disintegrated.
For eight years now, Dwight Eisenhower has neither commanded an army nor led a nation ; and yet he remained through his final days the world's most admired and respected man, truly the first citizen of the world.
* 627 – Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh.
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.
On the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 he again commanded the Saxons, who were included in the 2nd army under Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia, his old opponent.
Fabius rejected this, and instead let Minucius command half of the army, while he commanded the other half.
As a result of the battle, the Roman army, commanded by Marcus Atilius Regulus, landed in Africa and began ravaging the Carthaginian countryside.
These articles were bold, as Washington was an enemy general who commanded an army in a cause that many Britons believed would ruin the empire.
On March 23, 1982, army troops commanded by junior officers staged a coup d ' état to prevent the assumption of power by General Ángel Aníbal Guevara, the hand-picked candidate of outgoing President and General Romeo Lucas García.
Hector commanded the Trojan army, with a number of subordinates including Polydamas, and his brothers Deiphobus, Helenus and Paris.
A Miniature ( illuminated manuscript ) | miniature from Padshahnama depicting the surrender of the Shi ' a Islam | Shi ' a Safavid dynasty | Safavid garrison of Kandahar in 1638 to the Mughal Empire | Mughal army of Shah Jahan commanded by Kilij Khan.
A dedicated army of elite cavalry and infantry maintained order, commanded by the royal court.
He then commanded the Army's outposts along the upper Potomac River until given command of the cavalry brigade for the army then known as the Army of the Potomac ( later named the Army of Northern Virginia ).
Article 53 of the new Empire's constitution recognised the existence of the Navy as an independent organisation, but until 1888 it was commanded by army officers and initially adopted the same regulations as the Prussian army.
However, Muslim politicians were also worried that a strong army could be used against Muslim interests because it would be commanded by Christians.
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