Soon after graduating college, Capra enlisted in the army as a second lieutenant, having already worked on the campus ROTC.

For Litvak's joining the army to help him produce the film series, Capra called him one of the " Hollywood knights " who came to America's " rescue ," and without whose help " no one could have made the Why We Fight films.

Refusing to risk everything in a major battle, Philip retreated, only to have his rear guard caught at Fréteval on 3 July which turned into a general encounter during which Philip only managed to avoid capture, as his army was put to flight.

When Hasdrubal finally made it to the scene, he was in no position to fight the Roman army and merely caught their navy personnel off-guard, killing some of them in the process.

* February – Battle of Mortemer: The Normans defeat a French army as it is caught pillaging and plundering.

They were in turn defeated and slain by Harold's army five days later at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, Harold having led his army north on a forced march from London in four days and caught them by surprise.

Leaving the Prussian First and Second Armies besieging Metz, Moltke formed the Army of the Meuse under the Crown Prince of Saxony by detaching three corps from them, and took this army and the Prussian Third Army northward, where they caught up with the French at Beaumont on 30 August.

Believing that the Lancastrians were about to offer battle, Edward temporarily halted his army while the stragglers caught up and the remainder could rest after their rapid march from Windsor.

Once on the Carse, the English army would be caught in a kind of natural vise, as the main action on 24 June showed, with waterways to the north, east, and south.

Pioneering sociologist William I. Thomas ' academic career at the University of Chicago was irreversibly damaged after he was arrested under the act when caught in the company of one Mrs. Granger, the wife of an army officer with the American forces in France.

* Marcus Titius arrived in Syria with a large army and marched to Asia Minor, Sextus is caught in Miletus and executed without trial.

Finally, Santa Anna caught up with Houston's army, but had split his own army into three separate forces in an attempt to encircle the Texans.

This is the only high ground around and a good defensive position for Hardrada's army caught out by Godwinson's sudden appearance on the skyline, as he rounded the ridge at Gate Helmsley to drop downhill swiftly onto Hardrada's unsuspecting army.

Sisera caught fish enough in his beard when bathing in the Kishon to provision his whole army, and thirty-one kings followed Sisera merely for the opportunity of drinking, or otherwise using, the waters of Israel.

Entering the city with his army by stealth, Pyrrhus finds himself caught in a confused battle with the Argives ( who are supported by Antigonus ' forces ) in the narrow city streets.

The national army caught up with Saigō at Mt.

Later, he was caught up in the draft for soldiers to serve in the regular army, the San Blas Battalion, but deserted after only three months of service.

The army caught up with Ryushin and the conspirators at Kuragari-Tōge, a mountain pass situated on the borders of Osaka and Nara prefectures.

Ney with some 500 hussars proceeded to Dierdorf where he engaged the Austrian reserve of 6, 000 for four hours until the rest of the French army caught up.

The Christian coalition caught the Moorish army at camp by surprise.

Such of the insurgent leaders as were caught, notably the ex-officers, suffered military execution ; the army was dispersed among Prussian garrison towns ; and Prussian troops occupied Baden for a time.

The strategy was a success ; the Wei army hastily moved south to protect its capital, was caught on the road and decisively defeated at the Battle of Guiling.

Entering the city with his army by stealth, he found himself caught in a confused battle in the narrow city streets.

* 1677 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.

* 1544 – French forces defeat a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole.

* 1707 – The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa ( Spain ) in the War of the Spanish Succession.

Town after town subsequently fell, including Brussels, Bruges, Antwerp ; by the end of the campaign Villeroi's army had been driven from most of the Spanish Netherlands.

" Malines, Lierre, Ghent, Alost, Damme, Oudenaarde, Bruges, and on 6 June Antwerp, all subsequently fell to Marlborough ’ s victorious army and, like Brussels, proclaimed the Austrian candidate for the Spanish throne, the Archduke Charles, as their sovereign.

However, Pedro de Valdivia, captain of the army, realizing the potential for expanding the Spanish empire southward, asked Pizarro's permission to invade and conquer the southern lands.

After Spanish conquest in the 16th century Chilean economy came to revolve around autarchy estates called fundos and around the army that was engaged in the Arauco War.

Ironically, the rise of infantry in the early 16th century coincided with the " golden age " of heavy cavalry ; a French or Spanish army at the beginning of the century could have up to half its numbers made up of various kinds of light and heavy cavalry, whereas in earlier medieval and later 17th century armies the proportion of cavalry was seldom more than a quarter.

The original Berber name, Anfa ( meaning: " hill " in English ), was used by the locals, and Berber-speaking, city dwellers until the French occupation army entered the city in 1907 and adopted the Spanish name, Casablanca.

* 2005 – Ante Gotovina, a Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police.

In the Spanish army, in 1635, Pedro de la Puente organized in Innsbruck ( Austria ) a body of dragoons, and in 1640 one was created in Spain as a tercio of a thousand dragoons armed with the arqabus.

In 1822 Ecuadorian troops, alongside other rebel forces, scored a decisive victory over the Spanish royalist army at the Battle of Pichincha.

* 1817 – An Argentine / Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.

The Republican army was able to throw back the Austrians, Prussians, British, and Spanish.

At one time Ghent was a Calvinist republic, but eventually the Spanish army reinstated Catholicism.

In 1824, the last Spanish army on the American mainland was defeated at the Battle of Ayacucho in southern Peru.

The French forces won a decisive victory at Rocroi ( 1643 ), and the Spanish army was decimated ; the Tercio was broken.

Louis II de Bourbon joined the Spanish army this time, but suffered a severe defeat at Dunkirk ( 1658 ) by Henry de la Tour d ' Auvergne.

* 1521 – Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.

* 1809 – Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera – Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.

According to surviving records, Marina learned of a plan by natives of Cholula to cooperate with the Aztecs to destroy the small Spanish army.

Before the French and Spanish occupation of Morocco, which started in 1912, the country's defence force was made of a regular Makhzen army, and of a less organized but much more powerful Berber tribes ' militias.