For him and for certain other members of the Chilean elite, the initiative for temporary self-rule quickly escalated into a campaign for permanent independence, although other Criollos remained loyal to Spain.

In contrast to the chaotic political climate of 1946, the campaign of 1950 proceeded under the implicit understanding that only a strong candidate backed by both the army and the elite would be able to take power.

In the elections held in 1975, Fretilin, a left-leaning party and UDT, aligned with the local elite, emerged as the largest parties, having previously formed an alliance to campaign for independence from Portugal.

Bryan, on the other hand, ran an aggressive campaign against the nation's business elite.

Despite running a vigorous campaign against the nation's business elite, Bryan suffered the worst loss in his three presidential campaigns, and Taft won by a comfortable margin.

Genoa held out against a second Austrian siege and after the plan of campaign had as usual been referred to Paris and Madrid, it was relieved, though a picked corps of the French army under the Chevalier de Belle-Isle ( 1684 – 1747 ), brother of the marshal, was defeated in the attempt ( 10 July ) to storm the entrenched pass of Exilles ( Colle dell ' Assietta ), the chevalier, and with him much of the elite of the French nobility, being killed at the barricades.

An elite body of cavalry whom the French encountered during their French Campaign in Egypt and Syria | campaign in Egypt in 1798, the Mamluks could trace their lineage of service to the Ottomans back to the mid-13th century.

" He joined the American Union Against Militarism in 1916 and delivered a series of speeches condemning the " Preparedness " campaign then being promoted by Woodrow Wilson and the nation's political elite.

Though Bohlin had run her campaign with a focus on limiting alcohol and outlawing traditional Swedish snuff, Hägglund stated in a speech two weeks after the elections that he wanted to " prohibit the prohibitions " and spoke about the difference between the values of the " people of reality " and the left-wing cultural elite.

* Anti-euro campaign shuns ' political elite '

Even before the main engagement at Guandu, these relatively minor skirmishes inflicted a crushing blow to the morale of Yuan Shao's army as Yuan Shao had already lost two elite generals at the start of the campaign.

Portillo launched a campaign in favor of bringing morality into political life, to implacably fight corruption, to defend the indigenous population and the poor campesinos against the small, urban, white elite.

He asked the Virginia House of Burgesses to declare a state of war with the hostile Indian nations and order up an elite volunteer militia force for the campaign.

To this day, López Obrador continues blaming the negative campaign for his defeat and saying that it was part of a conspiracy that the Mexican business elite planned against him.

The archenemy's elite Blood Pact have captured the city, which the Imperial forces plan to use as a staging ground for their campaign to reclaim Ouranberg, one of Phantine's largest cities and a major source of promethium.

Norwich City, narrowly relegated from the Premier League the previous season, have made a poor start to a campaign thought by many to be a challenge for an immediate return to England's elite and stand one place off the bottom of the Championship, sandwiched by Millwall ( bottom ) and Sheffield Wednesday.

Despite the press campaign against Germans, Germanophobic feelings did not develop in Russia to any widespread extent, and died out, due to the Imperial family's German roots and the presence of many German names in the Russian political elite.

Beyond these effective efforts, in 1917 the Aviation Section of the U. S. Army Signal Corps established an elite group of Army pilots assigned to the Liberty Bond campaign.

Perhaps he was personally motivated by an incident as questor with the Army on campaign in Hispania: there he had escaped a terrible ordeal because of his elite connections.

The 95th fought in numerous major battles and skirmishes during the campaign as part of the elite Light Division, including the battles of Bussaco, Vittoria and Nivelle as well as the sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz 1812.

Since their inception in the late 1960s, the Hong Kong-born immigrant and mostly unemployed Wah Ching ( 華青 ) gang members began a campaign of harassment and assault of white tourists in San Francisco's Chinatown, which ultimately proved to be a predicament for the tourism-minded conservative Chinatown elite of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association ( the biggest problem is that the CCBA simply advocated tougher policing against the gangs rather than resolve Chinatown social inequalities at the core ).

The goal of the campaign was not merely the destruction of the Soviet regime-which the Nazis considered illegitimate and criminal-but also the racial reorganization of European Russia, outlined for the Nazi elite in the Generalplan Ost (" General Plan for the East ").

By the end of the campaign Guerin had firmly established himself among the league's backcourt elite.

It started the campaign with no more than 100 men and women of the Marxist ERP guerrilla force and ended with about 300 in the mountains ( including reinforcements in the form of the elite Montoneros 65-strong Jungle Company and the ERP's " Decididos de Córdoba " Urban Company ), which the Argentinian Army managed to defeat, but at a cost.

After Sun's death from cancer in 1925, one of his protégés, Chiang Kai-shek, seized control of the Kuomintang ( Nationalist Party or KMT ) and succeeded in bringing most of south and central China under its rule in a military campaign known as the Northern Expedition ( 1926 – 1927 ).

Conceived as the training center of the Nationalist Party Army, it was to provide the military base from which the Nationalists would launch their campaign to unify China, which was split into dozens of military satrapies.

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.

* March 22 – Spanish Nationalist leader Francisco Franco orders his National Aviation ( Aviación Nacional ) force to begin a bombing campaign against the Basques in northern Spain.

The Nationalist Party obtained poor results in the 1932 election, but continued its campaign to unite the island behind an independent Puerto Rico platform.

On the same day, Nationalist forces begin a heavy bombing campaign against Madrid.

* Early January – Nationalist aircraft conduct a heavy bombing campaign against Barcelona, Spain.

In March, 1973, he actively supported the campaign for the accusation of the murder of African Nationalist Politician Amílcar Cabral.

** anti-Young coalition — Alfred Hugenberg with the Nationalist Party ; Stahlhelm ; the Pan-German League and Dr. Schacht of the Reichsbank ; the campaign began in September 1929.

After failing in the capture of Madrid, the Nationalist army is concentrating in a campaign against the Basques.

Soon after assuming the throne, he conducted a campaign to reincorporate the Balearic Islands into the Kingdom of Aragon-which had been lost due to the division of the kingdom by his grandfather, James I of Aragon.

In 771, Charlemagne reunited the Frankish domains after a further period of division, subsequently conquering the Lombards under Desiderius in what is now northern Italy ( 774 ), incorporating Bavaria ( 788 ) into his realm, defeating the Avars of the Danubian plain ( 796 ), advancing the frontier with Islamic Spain as far south as Barcelona ( 801 ), and subjugating Lower Saxony after a prolonged campaign ( 804 ).

During autumn 1999, following the Kosovo War and the NATO bombing campaign, Đukanović ( who by now firmly held power in Montenegro as Bulatović was completely squeezed out ) drafted a document called Platforma za redefiniciju odnosa Crne Gore i Srbije ( A platform for redefinition of relations within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ) calling for major changes in the division of governing responsibilities within FR Yugoslavia though still officially seeing Montenegro within a joint state with Serbia.

The campaign began on September 1, 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact containing a secret protocol for the division of Northern and Central Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence.

With the release of the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons, RPGA — the organized play division of WotC — announced a new massively shared living campaign, Living Greyhawk, modeled on a 2nd edition campaign called Living City.

Louis Philippe commanded a division under him in the Valmy campaign.

After years in the second division facing serious economic and sporting difficulties, Albacete returned to the top flight in the 2002 – 03 campaign, led by César Ferrando ( later of Atlético de Madrid ).

The campaign occupied the attention of an entire Japanese division for almost a year.

Goulding and those close to him argued that, in the context of sectarian division in Northern Ireland, a military campaign against the British presence would be counter-productive, since it would delay the day when the workers would unite around social and economic issues.

Clausewitz defined the ‘ order of battle ’ as “ that division and formation of the different arms into separate parts, or sections, of the whole Army, and that form of general position or disposition of those parts which is to be the norm throughout the whole campaign or war .”

Wheeler fell seriously ill during the campaign and turned over command of the division to Brig.

During July 1943, Mauldin's cartoon work continued when, as a sergeant of the 45th Division's press corps, he landed with the division in the invasion of Sicily and later in the Italian campaign.

He served with distinction throughout the Crimean campaign, first as aide-de-camp to Marshal St. Arnaud, and then as general of brigade, and was made a commander of the Légion d ' honneur and general of division.

He again distinguished himself in command of a division in the Italian campaign of 1859, where he won the Grand Cross of the Légion d ' honneur.

Next for Olivares was a move up in division, and he started to campaign in the Featherweight division by defeating Walter Seeley.

The Graz agreement caused deep division inside the Croat community and strengthened the separation group, which led to the Lašva Valley ethnic cleansing campaign against Bosniak civilians.

In 1986, Nashville finished third in their division with a 68 – 74 regular season record, their first losing season since the inaugural 1978 campaign.

The franchise completed the 2004 campaign with a 63 – 79 record, finishing last in the division.

In the Belgian general election of 2007 CD & V / N-VA won a major victory again, with a campaign focusing on good governance, state reform and the division of the electoral district Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde.

Austen's appointment was largely a compromise solution to the bitter division of the two Unionist heavyweights, which threatened to split the coalition between supporters of Chamberlain's Imperial Tariff campaign and Balfour's more cautious advocacy of protectionism.

He accepted a division in the expedition to Egypt under Bonaparte, but suffered a wound in the head at Alexandria in the first engagement, which prevented his taking any further part in the campaign of the Pyramids, and caused his appointment as governor of Alexandria.

The following season, the Stars posted another successful campaign going 71 – 65 and winning their second division championship ( first half ), but ultimately lost in the league semifinals to the Hawaii Islanders.

Two relatively successful seasons in the top division followed, finishing in 15th place while avoiding relegation after a 1 – 1 draw on the last day of both seasons ( against Recreativo de Huelva in 2007 – 08 and Real Betis in the following campaign ).