Ski troops were trained for the war, and battles were waged in mountainous areas such as the battle at Riva Ridge in Italy, where the American 10th Mountain Division encountered heavy resistance in February 1945.

Grant had organized three armies to attack Bragg on Missionary Ridge and Confederate troops on Lookout Mountain.

He was soon defeated by the forces of Emperor Ferdinand II at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620, and Spanish and Bavarian troops soon occupied the Palatinate itself.

At 06: 30 the first wave of Rakkasans and Mountain troops landed via helicopter along the eastern and northern edges of the valley to await the fleeing fighters at their assigned blocking positions.

The 101st and 10th Mountain troops came under fire almost immediately after landing on their way to their objectives, and remained pinned down by heavy mortar fire and locked in a fierce firefight throughout the day.

Cape baboons have been eliminated from the majority of their range across the Cape Peninsula, and the Cape of Good Hope section of Table Mountain National Park provides a sanctuary for the troops that live within its boundaries.

Japanese troops pursued the retreating Chinese army units, primarily in the Xiakuan area to the north of the city walls and around the Zijin Mountain in the east.

Before they surrendered to United States troops, the Mojave held lands along the river that stretched from Black Canyon, where the tall pillars of First House of Mutavilya loomed above the river, past Avi kwame or Spirit Mountain, the center of spiritual things, to the Quechan Valley, where the lands of other tribes began.

Japanese troops pursued the retreating Chinese army units, primarily in the Xiakuan area to the north of the city walls and around the Zijin Mountain in the east.

While the British were encamped in the valley below awaiting an opportunity to attack, it is said that Washington drilled his troops on the Sourland Mountain around a spring near the top using different formations and corn stalks for guns.

It is interesting to note that Fort Cameron was established two miles from Beaver in 1873 by the US troops because of the Mountain Meadow Massacre and Indian raid of the surrounding settlements.

When, on 8 November 1620, Frederick wanted to ride back to the troops, he was met at the gate of Prague by fleeing soldiers of his army and his chancellor, Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, who informed him of the disaster: the Bohemian army had received a crushing defeat that morning in the Battle of White Mountain.

By early December 2001 troops from the 10th Mountain Division shared the base with Special Operations Command officers from MacDill Air Force Base in Florida and soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg.

As of mid-December 2001 more than 300 US troops, mainly with the 10th Mountain Division, were providing force protection at Bagram.

As of early January 2002 the number of 10th Mountain Division troops had grown to about 400 soldiers.

A force of 25, 000 soldiers, including troops of both the Catholic League and the Emperor scored an important victory against Christian of Anhalt and Count Thurn at the decisive Battle of White Mountain west of Prague on 8 November 1620.

Liu, Deng and Deputy Commander Xu Xiangqian led their troops to Shanxi, and carried out bushfighting around Taihang Mountain.

The defeat of the Czech rebels by Ferdinand II ’ s troops at the Battle of White Mountain on 8 November 1620 ( to which Bethlen had sent 3, 000 troops which arrived too late ) gave a new turn to Bethlen ’ s insurrection against the Habsburgs.

While the fight at Cloyd's Mountain was going on, a train pulled into the Dublin station and disgorged 500 fresh troops of General John Hunt Morgan's cavalry, which had just defeated Averell at Saltville.

The fresh troops hastened towards the battlefield, where they soon met their compatriots retreating from Cloyd's Mountain.

Bragg's troops established themselves on Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain, both of which had excellent views of the city, the Tennessee River flowing through the city, and the Union's supply lines.

It is not known whether any serious planning was done around Kathleen, although the plan appears to have been widened in scope, maybe by Görtz, or perhaps Kurt Student, who presented a similar plan to Hitler in January 1941, to include parachute drops of German troops around Divis Mountain and Lisburn in combination with the amphibious assault on Lough Swilly and Magilligan Point.

The original Green Mountain Boys were a militia organized in what is now southwestern Vermont in the decade prior to the American Revolutionary War.

In the courtroom of Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the future Commissioner of Baseball who perpetuated the baseball color line until his death, Johnson was convicted by an all-white jury in June 1913, despite the fact that the incidents used to convict him took place prior to passage of the Mann Act.

It is served by Cullowhee Valley School / Smoky Mountain High School, and, prior to 1958, Tuckasegee School and Cullowhee High School.

Robert Bucci, a determined Engineering student at Georgia Institute of Technology ( Georgia Tech, successfully entreated Guinness World Records to reinstate the category in 1992 by providing a comprehensively documented event plan prior to their subsequent world record setting event during the 1992 SAA / SF National Convention at Stone Mountain, Georgia.

The CDP was abolished prior to the 2010 census, and Groveland and Pine Mountain Lake were made into CDPs.

Ifugao used to be part of the former Mountain Province prior to its split into four separate and independent provinces.

The damage to the sport's reputation led the owners to appoint federal judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as the first Commissioner of Baseball prior to the start of the 1921 season.

It was honored as a " Sacred Mountain " by local Andean peoples, even prior to the beginning of Inca domination in the 15th century.

The first official World Championships of the ISMC was carried out in 2002, but prior the 1975 Trofeo Mezzalama was held as a " World Championship of Ski Mountaineering " with the classes " Civilians ", " Soldiers " and " Mountain guides ".

On May 27, 2011 Green Mountain Coffee Roasters ( GMCR ) replaced Millicom International Cellular prior to the market opening after Millicom ( MICC ) withdrew its NASDAQ listing.

For Windows and Mac operating systems ( prior to OS X 10. 8 Mountain Lion ) there are a few software options available for streaming system-wide audio to the Airport Express, such as Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil.

He is the only one explicitly said to have been at the Mountain prior to the coming of the dragon.

This method of distributing land caused much of Lookout Mountain to be owned by a few wealthy Chattanooga families prior to the civil war.

The Taum Sauk reservoir is atop Proffit Mountain, not Taum Sauk Mountain, which was often a source of confusion to visitors to the site when it was open to the public prior to the reservoir failure.

In 2006, the Mountain Goats relocated to Durham, North Carolina and issued Get Lonely, which was produced by Scott Solter, who had worked with Vanderslice on engineering for prior Mountain Goats records.

UNK participates in intercollegiate athletics at the NCAA at the Division II level and is a member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association ( MIAA ) for most of its sports ; women's swimming and diving competes in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference ( NSIC ), The university joined the MIAA in 2012 ; prior to joining the conference, UNK was a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference ( RMAC ).

The tender must be topped off with water every three or four trips ( or circuits ) around the park, which is done at the water tower located at Fantasyland Station ( prior to the construction of Splash Mountain, the water tower was located at the original Frontierland Station ).

" Just prior to entering the ring for his first match, an overwhelming tide of humiliation sweeps over Mountain, causing him to change his mind.

On numerous occasions, many students from Rancho would alter the E on Frenchman Mountain into an R prior to its football game with the Sundevils.

In 2005, as an infestation of the Mountain pine beetle ( Dendroctonus ponderosae ), devastated the Lodgepole Pine forests of northern interior British Columbia, Canada, resin acid levels three to four times greater than normal were detected in infected trees, prior to death.