It was not until 28 August — when he saw a captured copy of Leese's order of the day to his army prior to the attack — that Kesselring realised that a major offensive was in progress, and three divisions of reinforcements were ordered from Bologna to the Adriatic front, still needing at least two days to get into position.

However, it was Leese's career that suffered and he returned to the UK to be GOC-in-C Eastern Command, a significant downward move having been one of only three army group commanders in the British Army.

At the time Jordan was also close to the Britons Publishing Society and both groups ran out of Arnold Leese House, the name given to 74 Princedale Road, the Notting Hill home of the late Imperial Fascist League leader which Leese's widow Mary allowed Jordan to use as his base of operations.

Although Harding did not share Leese's view and 8th Army planning staff had already rejected the idea of an Adriatic offensive ( because it would be difficult to bring the necessary concentration of forces to bear ), Alexander was not prepared to force Leese to adopt a plan which was against his inclination and judgment and Harding was persuaded to change his mind.

Operation Olive — as the new offensive was christened — called for Leese's 8th Army to attack up the Adriatic coast toward Pesaro and Rimini and draw in the German reserves from the center of the country.

SEAC headquarters developed an adversarial relationship with that of Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese's Allied Land Forces South East Asia ( ALFSEA ).

Jordan soon became associated with Arnold Leese and was left a house in Leese's will, which became the Notting Hill base of operations when Jordan launched the White Defence League in 1956.

Leese's anti-semitism, which extended to proposing as early as 1935 the mass murder of Jews by use of gas chambers, earned him a prison sentence in 1936 when he was indicted along with fellow IFL member Walter Whitehead on six counts relating to two articles published in the July issue of The Fascist ( the IFL newspaper ) entitled " Jewish Ritual Murder ," which later appeared as a pamphlet.

Shanahan played high school football at East Leyden High School, Franklin Park, Illinois, where he played wishbone quarterback for legendary Eagles coach Jack Leese's 1968 and 1969 teams.

Mountbatten subsequently approached Alan Brooke ( who had always doubted Leese's suitability for the role ) and they agreed that Leese should be removed.

Leese's widow, who had given Jordan access to her home during his time as WDL leader, served as vice-president of the party.

In England he attended meetings of Sir Oswald Mosley's ' British Union of Fascists ', and Arnold Leese's smaller and more radical ' Imperial Fascist League, receiving Leese's newspaper, The Fascist.

At his command a storm arose and covered the sea.

After changes, his command covered territory west of the Mississippi and east of the Rocky Mountains.

The events in My Lai had initially been covered up by local divisional command.

Zgrass also included a series of commands that " covered " CP / M, which allowed the disk to be accessed without exiting to the command prompt.

Air defence evolution covered the areas of sensors and technical fire control, weapons, and command and control.

" Taylor later explained to Fitzhugh Lee that it was addressed in this way because Pickett was relieved of his division command, not dismissed from the Army, and the report covered a time in which he was in command.

In the centre Houchard personally led the main attack with Jourdan's Division from Rexpoede flanked on its left by Vandamme from Killem and on the right Colaud's brigade detached from Hédouville's command, in total a column of 20 battalions directly along the dyke covered by artillery.

Initially his command covered India and Iraq so that within a month of taking charge he launched Iraqforce to invade Persia in co-operation with the Russians in order to secure the oilfields and secure lines of communication to the Soviet Union.

Westmoreland — and the American media, which covered the action extensively — often made inevitable comparisons between the actions at Khe Sanh and the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, where a French base had been besieged and ultimately overrun by Viet Minh forces under the command of General Giáp during the First Indochina War.

In command of a corps of Wallenstein's army, he covered Bohemia against the Swedes in 1631-1632, and served at the Alte Veste near Nuremberg, and at Lützen.

His command covered the coastal approaches from Burma to India, east of Chittagong.

They were rescued by the timely arrival of a second division, under command of Pierre Dupont de l ' Étang's 1st Division, which covered a day's march in a half day.

The battlegroup was under the command of 19th Mechanised Brigade and covered Pristina City and the rural area to the north.

The battles of Voronezh cost the Soviets 783 aircraft by the 24 July, but it meant Richthofen had to divert Fliegerkorps VIII, now under the command of Martin Fiebig, north to deal with the threats while Pflugbeil's Fliegerkorps IV covered the advance into the Caucasus.

Despite the conditions, however, the British and Indian troops under Dyer's command rose to the occasion and covered the last in under 12 hours and on 1 June they ran into a blocking force of tribesman that barred both the northern and southern approaches to Thal.

By evening most of the Dutch fleet was in full flight, save for 40 ships or so under Vice-Admiral Cornelis Tromp and Lieutenant-Admiral Johan Evertsen, both having assumed command ( showing the utter confusion on the Dutch side ), who made possible an escape and covered the flight, thus preventing complete catastrophe, though 16 more ships were lost.

In Mr. Lincoln's Army ( 1951 ), the first volume of his history of the Army of the Potomac, Catton covered the army's formation, the command of George B. McClellan, the Peninsula Campaign, the Northern Virginia Campaign, and the Battle of Antietam.

The L of C of command … is over 3000 yards long, 2500 yards of which cannot be covered, and consequently enables the Jap to ambush it just when he likes ".

Churruca, whose leg had been torn off by a cannon ball, the deck of his ship covered by the blood of his wounded and dead seamen, continued to voice the command " fire ".

The open ground of the rise was covered by several Turkish snipers, but realising the importance of removing the artillery overlooking the sea passage, Robinson delegated command of the party to a junior officer and made the climb alone, dodging bullets in his white uniform until he crested the rise unhurt, emerging a few minutes later and starting back apparently unconcerned by the increasingly heavy gunfire directed at him.

Vann relayed a message to the command pilot of the ten CH-21 helicopters, which were being escorted by a group of five recently deployed UH-1 Huey gunships, armed with 7. 62mm machine guns and 2. 75 inch rockets, and instructed him to land the reserve companies about from the western and southern tree lines that covered Ap Bac in order to minimize the effectiveness of the Viet Cong's. 30 caliber machine guns.

With help from Sly, Bentley defeats Jean Bison in a fight, where the area is covered with traps that Sly controls on Bentley's command.

The ridge was taken by cavalry under command of Lt Gen John French while a nearby ridge, now covered by several Soweto suburbs, was taken by seven infantry battalions, including the City Imperial Volunteers and Gordon Highlanders of Lt Gen Ian Hamilton.

Originally, the command may have covered both sides of the English Channel as well as Britain's western coast, as Carausius had done but by the end of the fourth century the role had been diminished and Gaul had its own dux tractus Amoricani and dux Belgicae Secundae.

In 1819 under royal command he undertook a very successful geological expedition to Bornholm, one of the Danish islands, being one of three scientists in the expedition.

At the command of Moses he stretched out his rod in order to bring on the first of three plagues ( Exodus 7: 19, 8: 1, 12 ).

Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module ( LM ) on the Moon on July 20, 1969 and walked on its surface while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command spacecraft, and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24.

Alaric was succeeded in the command of the Gothic army by his brother-in-law, Ataulf, who married Honorius ' sister Galla Placidia three years later.

In Chapter three, at God's command, Hosea seeks out Gomer once more.

" When or where Teach collected the ten gun Briganteen is unknown, but by that time he may have been in command of at least 150 men split between three vessels.

To type a command Engelbart pressed one of the three buttons of the mouse.

* 1812 – The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three hour battle.

This error is corrected with 3s / two / three /, a substitution command.

After more than three years of drought and famine, God tells Elijah to return to Ahab and announce the end of the drought: not occasioned by repentance in Israel but by the command of the Lord, who had determined to reveal himself again to his people.

According to the midrash Canticles Rabbah, it was Ezekiel whom the three pious men, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah ( also called Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the Bible ) asked for advice as to whether they should resist Nebuchadnezzar's command and choose death by fire rather than worship his idol.

Orthodox file managers or command-based file managers have three windows ( two panels and one command line window ).

But they have three panes including a command line pane below ( or hidden behind ) two symmetric panes.

After a few more raids across the Rhine, which resulted in the recovery of two of the three legion's eagles lost in 9, Germanicus was recalled to Rome and informed by Tiberius that he would be given a triumph and reassigned to a different command.

In order to maintain security, the province required the presence of three legions ; but command of these forces provided an ideal power base for ambitious rivals.

According to the story, after the king asked his daughter Miaoshan to marry the wealthy man, she told him that she would obey his command, so long as the marriage eased three misfortunes.

The company consists of a command element and three reconnaissance platoons of four sections each plus a command section.

Luxembourg's participation in various UN, EU and NATO missions is drawn from Compagnie D. As a rifle company, it mirrors Compagnie A in organisation, with a command element and three reconnaissance platoons.

Thus, every MUMPS command or function name could be abbreviated from one to three letters in length, e. g. Quit ( exit program ) as Q, $ P

All electronic operations were controlled by a command subsystem which could process any of 29 direct command words or three quantitative word commands for mid-course maneuvers.

* 1520 – After navigating through a strait at the southern end of South America, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.

The SS-Gruppen were renamed as SS-Oberabschnitt, and the former SS Headquarters and command offices were reorganized into three and then eight SS-Hauptämter.

Large numbers of USAF Air Divisions served with the command and were typically respnsible for an average of three or four geographically separated wings.