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On June 1, 2004, the peacekeeping mission was passed to MINUSTAH and comprised a 7, 000 strength force led by Brazil and backed by Argentina, Chile, Jordan, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, and Uruguay.
The estimated 25, 000 Taliban regular force thus comprised more than 8, 000 Pakistani nationals.
They comprised the essential force of the radical Hussites.
CJTF-HOA comprised approximately 2, 000 personnel including U. S. military and Special Operations Forces ( SOF ), and coalition force members, Combined Task Force 150 ( CTF-150 ).
The strength of the FARC – EP forces is indeterminate ; in 2007, the FARC said they were an armed force of 18, 000 men and women ; in 2010, the Colombian military calculated that FARC forces consisted of approximately 18, 000 members, 50 per cent of which were armed guerrilla combatants ; and, in 2011, the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, said that the FARC – EP forces comprised fewer than 8, 000 members.
Uniquely in Europe, these horsemen comprised a militia cavalry force with no feudal links, being under the sole control of the king or the count of Castile because of the " charters " ( or fueros ).
The original plan was to use workers brought in from Europe ; however, there was a poor response to recruitment efforts, and African Americans — free and slave — comprised the majority of the work force.
The term V bomber was used for the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) aircraft during the 1950s and 1960s that comprised the United Kingdom's strategic nuclear strike force known officially as the V-force or Bomber Command Main Force.
This comprised both civilians and security force personnel: of those killed in the first period, 335 were civilians, 351 soldiers, 230 police and 72 were unidentified ; by nationality, 87 of the killed civilians were Serbs, 230 Albanians, and 18 of other nationalities.
Even so, the force that left Berwick-upon-Tweed on 17 June 1314 was impressive: it comprised between 2, 000 – 3, 000 horse ( probably closer to 2, 000 ) and 16, 000 foot.
Surrey's force seems to have comprised one formation ( out of four ) of the English cavalry ; the Scots force lead in part by Comyns probably represented the greater part of their cavalry element.
Many of the men who comprised the labor force for constructing the canals and factories had immigrated from Ireland, escaping the poverty and Potato Famines of the 1830s and 1840s.
Designated Groupement Bayard the combined force comprised 3, 500 men under the command of Colonel Le Page.
In the classical period, janissaries comprised only one tenth of the overall Ottoman army, while the traditional Turkish cavalry forces were the main battle force.
Washington's force comprised 2, 400 men, with infantry divisions commanded by Major Generals Nathanael Greene and John Sullivan, and artillery under the direction of Brigadier General Henry Knox.
The British force comprised 11, 000 British and German regulars, a thousand Loyalists from Philadelphia, and a baggage train long.
By 1978 this elite force comprised a brigade of 4, 000 – 5, 000 men, including a battalion of Chieftain tanks.
His force comprised three divisions of Armed Constabulary, Wellington Rangers, Wellington Rifles, Taranaki Volunteer Militia, Patea Yeomanry Cavalry and a number of unenlisted volunteers.
This force was quite small compared to the massive state-raised volunteer forces that comprised the bulk of the Union Army.
The British force, known as Radforce, comprised a mixture of troops including a company from the 3rd Battalion.
The force comprised B and C troops ( about 100 men ) of No. 4 Commando, 50 men from the Canadian Carleton and York Regiment, ( 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade ) and some Royal Engineers, under the overall command of Major The Lord Lovat of No. 4 Commando.
The Archway force was under command of Lieutenant Colonel Brian Franks and comprised two squadrons, one each from the 1st and 2nd Special Air Service regiments.
Total operational force comprised 61 men.

force and two
Again Reverend Corder saved the bridge when Union soldiers planned to destroy it, after filling its two lanes with hay and straw -- but for what reason is not recorded nor remembered, certainly not because of pressure from an opposing Confederate force.
Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.
Johnston's army was finally in position within a mile or two of Grant's force, and undetected, by the evening of April 5, 1862.
Ampère's force law states that there is an attractive or repulsive force between two parallel wires carrying an electric current.
This force is used in the formal definition of the ampere, which states that it is " the constant current that will produce an attractive force of 2 × 10 < sup >– 7 </ sup > newton per metre of length between two straight, parallel conductors of infinite length and negligible circular cross section placed one metre apart in a vacuum ".
The ampere was originally defined as one tenth of the CGS system electromagnetic unit of current ( now known as the abampere ), the amount of current that generates a force of two dynes per centimetre of length between two wires one centimetre apart.
The standard ampere is most accurately realized using a watt balance, but is in practice maintained via Ohm's Law from the units of electromotive force and resistance, the volt and the ohm, since the latter two can be tied to physical phenomena that are relatively easy to reproduce, the Josephson junction and the quantum Hall effect, respectively.
Rather than a definition in terms of the force between two current-carrying wires, it has been proposed to define the ampere in terms of the rate of flow of elementary charges.
Alfred's military reorganisation of Wessex consisted of three elements: the building of thirty fortified and garrisoned towns ( burhs ) along the rivers and Roman roads of Wessex ; the creation of a mobile ( horsed ) field force, consisting of his nobles and their warrior retainers, which was divided into two contingents, one of which was always in the field ; and the enhancement of Wessex's seapower through the addition of larger ships to the existing royal fleet.
* 1940 – World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
In this way he discovered the electrochemical series, and the law that the electromotive force ( emf ) of a galvanic cell, consisting of a pair of metal electrodes separated by electrolyte, is the difference between their two electrode potentials ( thus, two identical electrodes and a common electrolyte give zero net emf ).
These tests consist in opening an assembly of two beams by applying a force at the ends of the two beams.
They consist in measuring the force needed for tearing an adherent layer from a substrate or for tearing two adherent layers one from another.
* End notch flexure tests consist in two bonded beams built-in on one side and loaded by a force on the other.
The modern form of this instrument was developed by Edward Weston, and uses two spiral springs to provide the restoring force.
According to the document the military of the Republic of Bulgaria should include two mechanized brigades, four regiments ( Logistics, Artillery, Engineering, SpecOps ), four battalions ( Reconnaissance, Mechanized, NBC, PsyOps ) in the Land Forces ; Fighter base, helicopter base, SAM air defense brigade and Air force training base in the Air Force ; and two naval bases in the Navy.
On 7 August, therefore, the first of Baden's 15, 000 Imperial troops ( the remainder following two days later ) left Marlborough's main force to besiege the heavily defended city of Ingolstadt, farther down the Danube.
In Taviers on his right, he placed two battalions of the Greder Suisse Régiment, with a smaller force forward in Franquenée ; the whole position was protected by the boggy ground of the Mehaigne river, thus preventing an Allied flanking movement.
These two strategies would force the Americans into a war of attrition requiring more and more resources.

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