Following the 1979 invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by Soviet troops, Massoud devised a strategic plan for expelling the invaders and overthrowing the communist regime.

The establishment of the bank was devised by Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, in 1694, to the plan which had been proposed by William Paterson three years before, but had not been acted upon.

It was initially devised as a plan to increase the enrollment without enlarging campus accommodations, and has been described as " a way to put 4, 000 students into 3, 000 beds.

On 15 December, the Duchess of Suffolk wrote to Burghley describing a plan she and Mary had devised to arrange a meeting between Oxford and his daughter.

With the dream of building a lucrative overseas colony for Scotland, the Company of Scotland invested in the Darien scheme, an ambitious plan devised by William Paterson to establish a colony on the Isthmus of Panama in the hope of establishing trade with the Far East.

Large modifications to the plan were devised by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North of the National Security Council in late 1985, in which a portion of the proceeds from the weapon sales was diverted to fund anti-Sandinista and anti-communist rebels, or Contras, in Nicaragua.

He understood that Portugal could wrest commercial supremacy from the Arabs only by force, and therefore devised a plan to establish forts at strategic sites which would dominate the trade routes and also protect Portuguese interests on land.

Col. Canby devised a plan for the removal of the Navajo to a distant reservation and sent his plans to his superiors in Washington D. C.

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The Masada story was the inspiration for the " Masada plan " devised by the British during the Mandate era.

Gowron assumed direct command because he feared Martok's growing popularity and devised a plan to discredit Martok.

Ranulf devised a plan for dealing with the problem by ambushing Henry whilst the prince was travelling back from Stephen's court to Scotland after Christmas.

Chiefs head coach Hank Stram, who was also the team's offensive coordinator, devised an effective game plan against the Vikings.

The purpose of salvation is debated, but in general most Christian theologians agree that God devised and implemented His plan of salvation because he loves them and regards human beings as his children.

Since there was a bounty on Themistocles's head, this acquaintance devised a plan to safely convey Themistocles to the Persian king in the type of covered wagon that the King's concubines travelled in.

In 1958 a new government again included Pérez Alfonso, who devised a plan for the international oil cartel that would become OPEC.

A plan was devised by Colonel Theodore A. Bingham, which reflected the Harrison proposal.

The British command devised a grand plan to divide the colonies via a three-way pincer movement.

Lastly in the 1990s, a plan was devised by the leaders of Guyana, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago to form a political association between those three governments.

American forces liberated the port city in accordance with the plan jointly devised by Montgomery and Patton.

It is believed that the St. Valentine's Day Massacre resulted from a plan devised by members of the Capone gang to eliminate George ' Bugs ' Moran due to the rivalry between the two gangs.

Most notably ( and again William Pulteney was influential ), in 1801 Telford devised a master plan to improve communications in the Highlands of Scotland, a massive project that was to last some 20 years.

In 1800, out of black revival meetings in Virginia, a plan for slave rebellion was devised by Gabriel Prosser, although the rebellion was discovered and crushed before it started.

The best course of action, they argued, was a long-term plan devised by national experts to maximize the long-term economic benefits of natural resources.

After sending his artillery commander, Porter Alexander, to reconnoiter the Union-occupied town, he devised a plan to shift most of the Army of Tennessee away from the siege, setting up logistical support in Rome, Georgia, go after Bridgeport to take the railhead, possibly catching Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker and arriving Union troops from the Eastern Theater in a disadvantageous position.

When he fled to Venice in 1499 he found employment as an engineer and devised a system of moveable barricades to protect the city from attack.

America's " European allies were brought along to acquiesce in the United States engaging in the rational activity of discovering whether there was after all some defence against nuclear attack ... by the apparent assurance obtained from the United States that it was only engaged in experiment and research, and that, if there were any danger of effective protection being devised, of course the United States would not avail itself of that protection without the agreement of its European allies.

Raeder's strategy which was a modified version of the " double pole " strategy he had devised before the war called for the Panzerschiffe, auxiliary cruisers and submarines to attack British merchantmen all over the world to force the Royal Navy to divert its strength while at the same time the main surface ships would make frequent raids into the North Sea to gradually reduce the Royal Navy's strength.

Forrest, seeing that the Union cavalry moved three hours ahead of its own infantry, devised a plan that called for an attack on the Union cavalry first, with the idea of forcing the enemy infantry to hurry to assist them.

During the attack English officials searched its archives and found a copy of the 1339 Franco-Norman plot to invade England, devised by Philip VI of France and Normandy.

William Friedman, director of the US Army's Signals Intelligence Service, devised a system to correct for this attack by truly randomizing the motion of the rotors.

Washington devised a plan in which the French would launch a diversionary attack on the Fusiliers redoubt, and then a half an hour later, the French would assault redoubt 9 and the Americans redoubt 10.

Commodore Roger Keyes, who devised the attack

Eighth Army also devised a deception scheme involving false troop movements and ammunition dumps to give the impression that the main attack would be through the British XIII Corps front.

Together they devised a plan of attack.

The plan for the attack was devised by Lieutenant Colonel Donald Cameron who later described the circumstances in a letter to Dr C. E. W.

Col. Kelley devised a two-prong attack against the Confederate force in Philippi, approved by Gen. Morris on his arrival in Grafton on June 1.

In Windows NT 3. 51, NT 4. 0 and 2000, an attack was devised to bypass the local authentication system.

In an attempt to overcome the fleet's overall air defence deficiency following the loss of Sheffield, a new tactic was devised, which saw the two Type 22 frigates each teamed with one of the remaining pair of Type 42 destroyers ( unofficially termed Type 64, the sum of both classes numbers ); these were deployed together some distance from the main fleet, covering likely attack routes, in an attempt to draw attacking aircraft into a " missile trap ".

Ishida devised a plan to take the family members hostage, thus forcing the rival generals either to ally with him or at least not to attack him.

Market Garden, devised by the British General Bernard Montgomery consisted of an Airborne attack of three Airborne Divisions.

Buller devised a new plan of attack to relieve Ladysmith.

Butler and an aide, Major Theodore Winthrop, devised a plan for a coordinated dawn attack on June 10, 1861, after a night march by federal forces from their two main bases outside Fort Monroe, to drive the Confederates back from their threatening advanced positions at Little Bethel and Big Bethel.

Along with his aide, Major Theodore Winthrop, already an accomplished author, Butler devised a plan for a night march and surprise attack on the Confederate position at Little Bethel at dawn by columns converging from Newport News and Hampton.

On the night of June 9 – 10, 1861, according to the plan devised by General Butler and Major Winthrop, 3, 500 Union soldiers were sent in two columns from Camp Hamilton at Hampton and Camp Butler at Newport News with orders to converge near the Confederate positions at Little Bethel after a night march and launch a surprise attack on the Confederate positions at Little Bethel at dawn.

After personally scouting the area around the Union positions, Lee devised a strategy which included a two-pronged simultaneous attack against Kimball's position on the summit of Cheat Mountain and against Reynolds ' camp.

Stone devised the idea for the Milltown attack after an IRA bomb killed eleven people attending a Remembrance Sunday service at the cenotaph in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh in 1987.

For Totalize ( beginning August 7 ), which involved a night attack, numerous navigation aids were devised, along with heavy bomber support.

There can be no guarantee that a simple attack could not be devised tomorrow, for example by using household chemicals to make an artificial finger from a fingerprint, good enough to be accepted by a fingerprint reader.