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forces and managed
Though he knew no more about military science and tactics than any other desk officer, he managed to get transferred to the combat forces.
After a failed Ottoman counter-attack in the Western-Thracian front, Bulgarian forces with the help of the Serbian Army managed to conquer Adrianople while Greek forces managed to take Ioannina after defeating the Ottomans in the battle of Bizani.
Al-Ghazi's forces and their Ottoman allies came close to extinguishing the ancient Ethiopian kingdom, but the Abyssinians managed to secure the assistance of Cristóvão da Gama's Portuguese troops and maintain their domain's autonomy.
The day-to-day running of the armed forces is managed by the Ministry of Defence and the Chief of Defence Staff.
These five cities managed to convince seven other Etruscan cities to join forces with them.
The Partisans managed to form a communist Yugoslav state called Democratic Federal Yugoslavia in liberated territories in 1943 and by 1944, with the assistance of Soviet forces, seized control of Yugoslavia, entrenching a communist regime in Yugoslavia.
The State Chairman directs the state military forces and the development of the military forces managed by the State Council.
Returning to Italy, where antipope Gregory VIII was supported in Rome by imperial forces and Italian allies of the emperor, Calixtus II managed to gain the upper hand amid clear demonstrations of popular support.
The SS grew from a small paramilitary unit to a powerful force that served as the Führer's " Praetorian Guard ", the Nazi Party's " Protection Squadron " and a force that, fielding almost a million men ( both on the front lines and as political police ), managed to exert as much political influence in the Third Reich as the Wehrmacht ( Germany's regular armed forces ).
Al-Ghazi's forces and their Ottoman allies came close to extinguishing the ancient Ethiopian kingdom, but the Abyssinians managed to secure the assistance of Cristóvão da Gama's Portuguese troops and maintain their domain's autonomy.
In the campaign of 1813 Allied forces in the German theater alone amounted to nearly one million whilst two years later in the Hundred Days a French decree called for the total mobilization of some 2. 5 million men ( though at most a fifth of this was managed by the time of the French defeat at Waterloo ).
Adorno, along with the other major Frankfurt School theorists Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse, argued that advanced capitalism had managed to contain or liquidate the forces that would bring about its collapse and that the revolutionary moment, when it would have been possible to transform it into socialism, had passed.
After three weeks, the besieged forces sallied from the castle and managed to take the besiegers by surprise.
Although nationalist forces managed to retake the city in February 1921, and successfully released all the political leaders, the city's nationalist elite were once again defeated by Soviet forces on 2 April 1921.
He contributed to the tactics used during the Battle of Mărăşeşti ( July – August 1917 ), when Romanians under General Alexandru Averescu managed to stop the advance of German forces under the command of Field Marshal August von Mackensen.
This included the Goguryeo-Sui Wars, where the Kingdom of Goguryeo managed to repel the invading forces of the Sui Dynasty.
This led to a peasant rebellion led by the swineherd Ivaylo, who eventually managed to defeat the Tsar's forces and ascend the throne.
Han forces managed to divide the Xiongnu into two competing nations, the Southern and Northern Xiongnu, and forced the Northern Xiongnu across the Ili River.
The revolts which broke out in early 1297, led by William Wallace, Andrew de Moray and other Scottish nobles, forced Edward to send more forces to deal with the Scots, and although they managed to force the nobles to capitulate at Irvine, Wallace and de Moray's continuing campaigns eventually led to the first key Scottish victory, at Stirling Bridge.
As Herman of Carinthia wrote in one of his translations of a history of al-Andalus, Odo managed a highly successful encircling envelopment which took the attackers totally by surprise — and the result was a chaotic slaughter of the Muslim forces.

forces and capture
* 1945 – World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna, Austria.
* 1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
* 1865 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
The one major paratrooper attack was used earlier in Holland to capture a bridge and a number of small-scale glider-landings were conducted in Belgium to capture terrain dominating bottle-necks on planned routes of advance prior to the arrival of the main ground forces ( the most renowned being the landing on the Belgian border-fort of Eben-Emael ).
The direct result of the battle of Schwetz / Świecino was that the city of Danzig and Pomerania were freed from Teutonic Order danger so that the royal and municipal armed forces could be used elsewhere in the war, mainly to protect the Vistula waterway and to capture the Teutonic held strongholds.
But the date is of special significance to futurists since it is the year of Jerusalem's capture by Israeli forces during the Six-Day War.
The Inca forces greatly out numbered the Spanish, however the Spanish superiority of weapons, tactics and the fact that the most trusted in Inca Generals were in Cusco led to an easy defeat and the capture of the Incan Emperor.
* 1782 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
* 1941 – World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
* 1991 – Gulf War: United States Army forces capture the town of Al Busayyah.
However, armed forces under Robert Clive later recaptured Calcutta and then pressed on to capture the French settlement of Chandannagar in 1757.
It was not until the fourth attempt that the Winter Line was breached by the Allies, and Alexander's forces moved on to capture Rome in June 1944, thereby achieving one of the strategic goals of the Italian campaign.
* 1644 – The Qing Dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.
* 1762 – British forces begin a siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city in the Battle of Havana.
* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Memphis – Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
* 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: Allied Western and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
* 1759 – French and Indian War: in Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
* 1824 – Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
* 1762 – British forces begin the Siege of Havana and capture the city during the Seven Years ' War.
* 1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy – British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France.
* 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
* 1941 – World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
* 1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.

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