The Polish forces consisted of the mercenaries hired by the Polish king, Casimir IV the Jagiellon and the Hanseatic city of Danzig ( Gdańsk ).

Both, but especially the former, were famed for the cataphract ( fully armored cavalry armed with lances ) even though the majority of their forces consisted of lighter horse archers.

One of the typical operations carried out by the Dragoons of Angola, in cooperation with airmobile forces, consisted of the dragoons chasing the guerrillas and pushing them in one direction, with the airmobile troops being launched from helicopter in the enemy rear, trapping the enemy between the two forces.

The armed forces of East Pakistan also consisted the paramilitary organization, the Volunteers from the intelligence unit of the ISI's Covert Action Division ( CAD ).

During the Mughal era, the dominant political forces consisted of the Mughal Empire and its tributaries and, later on, the rising successor states-including the Maratha Empire-which fought an increasingly weak Mughal dynasty.

Kuwaiti forces consisted of the Emir's guard plus a small 600-man police force or constabulary under British administration.

The Polish armed forces in the East consisted mostly of lightly armed border guard units of the Korpus Ochrony Pogranicza ( KOP ), the ' border protection corps '.

It then consisted of a motley collection of ships and boats acquired from the Kuomintang forces.

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.

" William of Tyre recorded that the Ayyubid army consisted of soldiers, of which 8, 000 were elite forces and were black slave soldiers from the Sudan.

The armed forces that won the American Revolution consisted of the standing Continental Army created by the Continental Congress, together with various state and regional militia units.

In opposition, the British forces consisted of a mixture of the standing British Army, Loyalist Militia and Hessian mercenaries.

From the start, the Yugoslav resistance forces consisted of two factions: the communist-led Yugoslav Partisans and the royalist Chetniks, with the former receiving Allied recognition only at the Tehran conference ( 1943 ).

Military forces especially those of the British Commonwealth, battalions or regiments often consisted of a " pipes and drums " band (" the band ') consisting of bagpipes and drummers.

The forces of the Shadow consisted of Cyndane ( formerly Lanfear ), Demandred, Osan ' gar ( formerly Aginor, who we find out has been masquerading as Corlan Dashiva, an Asha ' man ), Moghedien, Graendal and Aran ' gar who was formerly Balthamel and now is in a female body but still channels saidin.

TF Anvil consisted of TF Rakkasan and the 1-87 to set up blocking positions and prevent enemy forces from escaping.

The Nationalist regime's campaign against Chen consisted of forces from the Guangdong Army under Xu Chongzhi, and two training regiments of the Nationalist Party Army, led by Chiang Kai-shek and staffed by Academy officers and cadets.

The occupying armies consisted of American, Belgian, British and French forces.

On 5 September, Model's forces were bolstered by the arrival of the II SS Panzer Corps, which consisted of the 9th SS and 10th SS Panzer Divisions under the command of Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich.

The Roman forces consisted of heavy infantry, various archers and cavalry.

Arkan's much feared irregular military forces consisted of a core of 200 men and perhaps totaled no more than 500 to 1, 000.

Division six will be headed by the Coast Guard, followed by the reserve forces of all services, five states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the trust territories and the Canal Zone.

Diabelli's composition Pleasures of Youth: Six Sonatinas is a collection of six sonatinas depicting a struggle between unknown opposing forces.

Estimates for the Ethiopian forces under Menelik range from a low of 73, 000 to a high of over 120, 000, outnumbering the Italians by an estimated five or six times.

These include eliminating the positions of appointed senators and senators for life, granting the President authority to remove the commanders-in-chief of the armed forces, and reducing the presidential term from six to four years while also disabling immediate re-election.

After the war he was director of the University of Kiel for six months, before being dismissed by the British occupation forces.

With the collapse of their supposed allies, the SLA, and the rapid advance of Hezbollah forces, they withdrew suddenly on May 24, 2000 six weeks before the announced July 7 date.

Around 40 % of mosques were destroyed in 1998-99, and 140 Orthodox churches were reported to have been destroyed or damaged in the six weeks after the withdrawal of Serbian forces, and around 30 in another outburst of violence in 2004.

Another grave was also found in the town of Quininowas which contained six corpses, believed to be an entire family killed by government forces when the town was invaded.

According to the BBC, Yemeni media say the embassy closures come after " six trucks full of weapons and explosives entered the capital, and the security forces lost track of the vehicles.

A Typex machine without rotors was captured by German forces during the Battle of France and more than one German cryptanalytic section proposed attempting to crack Typex ; however, the B-Dienst codebreaking organization gave up on it after six weeks, when further time and personnel for such attempts was refused.

Its deployment will be limited to six months duration, after which the mission will either be terminated or other forces will replace the Brigade.

* October 12 – War of the Spanish Succession: British forces capture Lille after a two-month siege, although the citadel continues to hold out for another six weeks.

Varus ' forces included three legions ( Legio XVII, Legio XVIII, and Legio XIX ), six cohorts of auxiliary troops ( non-citizens or allied troops ) and three squadrons of cavalry ( alae ), most of which lacked combat experience with Germanic fighters under local conditions.

It was fought about six miles ( 10 km ) west of Metz, Lorraine, France where on the previous day, having intercepted the French army's retreat to the west at the Battle of Mars-La-Tour, the Prussians were now closing in to complete the destruction of the French forces.

For six years he reformed the finances of his state and built formidable armed forces.

All but six of the personnel have died suddenly, due to unknown forces released by an experiment operating within the newly-discovered magneto-gravitic or electro-gravitic spectra.

These units were attached to the Italian Liberation Corps and the six Italian Combat Groups of the Italian Co-Belligerent Army, fighting with the Allied forces.

The most notable incident was the infamous Asian Immigrant Massacre, when Macedonian special police forces murdered six Pakistanis and an Indian immigrants afterwards planting weapons, explosive and Islamic literature on the corpses claiming they were Al-Qaida cells which were about to attack US Embassy in Skopje.

After the success of political forces close to Putin in the December 1999 parliamentary elections, Yeltsin evidentially felt confident enough in Putin that he resigned from the presidency on December 31, six months before his term was due to expire.

4668 Portuguese armed forces personnel were taken prisoners of war, and released six months later.

In June, Human Rights Watch investigated six UAV attacks which was reported to have resulted in civilian casualties, and alleged that Israeli forces either failed to take all feasible precautions to verify that the targets were combatants, or failed to distinguish between combatants and civilians.

* The Seleucid forces under their general Achaeus succeed in winning back from Pergamum all the Seleucid domains in Anatolia lost six years earlier.

The security forces were also reportedly implicated in reprisal killings of Catholics, notably the McMahon Murders on 26 March 1922, in which six Catholics were killed and the Arnon Street Massacre on 1 April, where another six were shot dead in retaliation for the IRA killing of a policeman.