This is perhaps a generation before the battle that Gildas says were commanded by Ambrosius Aurelianus.

Titus Statilius Taurus commanded Octavian's armies, who observed the battle from shore to the north of the straits.

As a result of the battle, the Roman army, commanded by Marcus Atilius Regulus, landed in Africa and began ravaging the Carthaginian countryside.

The First Battle of El Alamein ( 1 – 27 July 1942 ) was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought between Axis forces ( Germany and Italy ) of the Panzer Army Africa ( Panzerarmee Afrika ) commanded by Field Marshal ( Generalfeldmarschall ) Erwin Rommel, and Allied ( specifically, British Imperial ) forces ( Britain, British India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand ) of the British Eighth Army commanded by General Claude Auchinleck.

Alexander commanded his battalion at Third Ypres, where he was slightly wounded, then at Bourlon Wood ( part of the battle of Cambrai ), where his battalion suffered 320 casualties out of 400 men.

The most senior centurion in a legion was known as the primus pilus ( first file or spear ) who directly commanded the 1st century of the first cohort and commanded the whole first cohort when in battle.

He first distinguished himself in the battle of Charnova ( 1807 ) where his regiment held out for 15 hours against the whole army commanded by Napoleon.

In the great battle of Borodino he brilliantly commanded the key positions until he was shell-shocked and taken away from the battlefield.

* May 29 – First Anglo-Dutch War: The opening battle is fought off Dover, between Lt .- Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into 2 squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.

* October 27 – Huguenot rebellions: The inconclusive Naval battle of Saint-Martin-de-Ré is fought between the Huguenot fleet of La Rochelle commanded by Jean Guiton, and a royal fleet under the command of Charles of Guise.

* June 7 – First Battle of Schooneveld: In a sea battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, fought off the Netherlands coast, the Dutch win with the fleet of the United Provinces ( commanded by Michiel de Ruyter ) against the allied Anglo-French fleet commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

A Polish-Hungarian crusade commanded by Władysław III of Poland set out to free the Bulgaria and the Balkans in 1444, but the Turks emerged victorious at the battle of Varna.

In the battle of the Lisaine, Bourbaki's men failed to break through German lines commanded by General August von Werder.

This may have had background in an important battle in 1716 that was fought in the town square in Moss in which Norwegian troops commanded by Vincent Budde prevailed over invading Swedish forces, sent by Charles XII to capture Akershus Fortress.

Lactantius states that, in the night before the battle, Constantine was commanded in a dream to " delineate the heavenly sign on the shields of his soldiers " ( On the Deaths of the Persecutors 44. 5 ).

The rods of both Moses and Aaron were endowed with miraculous power during the Plagues of Egypt ( Exodus 7: 17, 8: 5, 8: 16-17, 9: 23, and 10: 13 ); God commanded Moses to raise his rod over the Red Sea when it was to be parted ( Exodus 14: 16 ) and in prayer over Israel in battle ( Exodus 17: 9 ); Moses brings forth water from a stone using his rod ( Exodus 17, Numbers 20: 11 ).

The right battle was commanded by the Duke of Somerset.

The left battle was commanded by the Earl of Devon, another devoted Lancastrian.

Edward himself commanded the main battle, in which Clarence was also stationed.

At the battle of Tsushima, Admiral Tōgō was the officer commanding in Mikasa ( the other divisions being commanded by Vice Admirals, Rear Admirals, Commodores, Captains and Commanders for the destroyer divisions ).

The French army commanded by Philip VI was unrested and commenced fighting immediately after their arrival, rather than gathering their strength for a battle the next day.

According to a count after the battle, the bodies of 1, 542 French knights and squires were found in front of where the lines commanded by Prince of Wales, and Sumption assumes another " few hundred " men-at-arms that were cut down in pursuit.

With the battle still not won, Marlborough had to rebuke one of his cavalry officers who was attempting to leave the field – " Sir, you are under a mistake, the enemy lies that way ..." Now, at the Duke's command, the second Allied line under von Bulow and the Count of Ost-Friese was ordered forward, and, driving through the centre, the Allies finally put Tallard's tired horse to rout, not without cost.

When they saw that the centre had broken, the Elector and Marsin decided the battle was lost and, like the remnants of Tallard's army, fled the battlefield ( albeit in better order than Tallard's men ).

The time was about 16: 30, and the two armies were in close contact across the whole four-mile ( 6 km ) front, from the skirmishing in the marshes in the south, through the vast cavalry battle on the open plain ; to the fierce struggle for Ramillies at the centre, and to the north, where, around the cottages of Offus and Autre-Eglise, Orkney and de la Guiche faced each other across the Petite Gheete ready to renew hostilities.

Trapped in a crossfire, the leading French ships were battered into surrender during a fierce three-hour battle, while the centre was able to successfully repel the initial British attack.

The battle ended when the Persian centre then broke in panic towards their ships, pursued by the Greeks.

* The End of Politics: triangulation, realignment and the battle for the centre ground / Alexander Lee and Timothy Stanley., 2006

During the Franco-Prussian War, at the Battle of Mars-la-Tour in 1870, a Prussian cavalry brigade decisively smashed the centre of the French battle line, after skilfully concealing their approach.

Chakravyuha, a threefold seed pattern with a spiral at the centre, one of the troop formations employed at the Kurukshetra war | battle of Kurukshetra, as recounted in the Mahabharata.

Then the tough battle for Guadalcanal, which was centred on the capture of the airfield, Henderson field, led to the development of the adjacent town of Honiara as the United States logistics centre.

In the 15th century still it was preserved in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela the banner which guided the Galician armies to battle, red, in the centre Saint James riding a white horse and wearing a white cloak, sword in hand: The legend of the miraculous armed intervention of Saint James, disguised as a white knight to help the Christians when battling the Muslims, was a recurrent myth during the High Middle Ages.

German intelligence used the agent reports to construct an order of battle for the Allied forces that placed the centre of gravity of the invasion force opposite Pas de Calais, the point on the French coast closest to England and therefore a likely invasion site.

The centre of the old city is a semicircular Neoclassical square with the Tuscan column of cast iron ( 1805 – 11 ), commemorating the centenary of the Battle of Poltava and featuring 18 Swedish cannons captured in that battle.

This same section also contains a monument to the French sailors who died at the Battle of Navarino ; the monument to the Russian dead of the same battle is on the island of Sphacteria, while the monument to the English dead is on another very small island near the centre of the port.

His battle, and part of the centre, occupied a low ridge known locally as the " Gastons ".

The military port of Toulon is the major naval centre on France's Mediterranean coast, home of the French Navy aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle and her battle group.

On 11 February a most confused battle was fought, in which the van and centre of the British fleet was engaged with the Spanish rear and centre of the allies.

The battle is well documented in the museum in the centre of Kobarid.

The Dutch rearguard under Lieutenant-Admiral Cornelis Tromp set upon a starboard tack, taking the battle toward the Flemish shoals, compelling Albemarle to turn about, to prevent being outflanked by the Dutch rear and centre, culminating in a ferocious unremitting battle that raged until nightfall.

In 1923, IRA members blew up a large monument to the battle on the battlefield site on the Boyne and destroyed a statue of William III in 1929 that stood outside Trinity College, Dublin in the centre of the Irish capital.

* Battle of the Boyne visitor centre at Oldbridge, plus battle information

The Grade I listed site is now operated by English Heritage as 1066 Battle of Hastings, Abbey and Battlefield, which includes the abbey buildings and ruins, a visitor centre with a film and exhibition about the battle, audio tours of the battlefield site, and the monks ' gatehouse with recovered artefacts.

* 1471-a brass plate on the floor in the centre of the sanctuary marks the grave of Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, the son of King Henry VI and end of the Lancastrian line, who was killed in the Battle of Tewkesbury-the only Prince of Wales ever to die in battle.

Among those depicted are Lieutenants Chard and Bromhead ( centre ) commanding the battle, Private Hitch ( right, standing ) handing out ammunition while wounded, and Surgeon Reynolds and Storekeeper Byrne tending to the wounded Corporal Scammell ( Reynolds kneeling ; Byrne falling, shot )