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On and command
On January 31, 1837, he became senior brigadier general in command of the Texas Army
On September 10, 1861, Johnston was assigned to command the huge area of the Confederacy west of the Allegheny Mountains, except for coastal areas.
On March 29, 1862, Johnston officially took command of this combined force, which continued to use the Army of the Mississippi name under which it had been organized by Beauregard on March 5.
On Monday, 8 May 1972, ground service equipment being used to empty the residual toxic reaction control system fuel in the command module tanks exploded in a Naval Air Station hangar.
On his return Montgomery antagonised the War Office with trenchant criticisms of the command of the BEF and was briefly relegated to divisional command.
On 9 August 48 BC at Pharsalus in central Greece, Gaius Julius Caesar and his allies formed up opposite the army of the republic under the command of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (" Pompey the Great ").
On 14 August, Nelson sent Orion, Majestic, Bellerophon, Minotaur, Defence, Audacious, Theseus, Franklin, Tonnant, Aquilon, Conquérant, Peuple Souverain and Spartiate to sea under the command of Saumarez.
On 19 August, Nelson sailed for Naples with Vanguard, Culloden and Alexander, leaving Hood in command of Zealous, Goliath, Swiftsure and the recently joined frigates to watch over French activities at Alexandria.
On August 8, 449 the Second Council of Ephesus began its first session with Dioscorus presiding by command of the Emperor.
On 8 – 9 July 1960, the soldiers were invited to appoint black officers, and ' command of the army passed securely into the hands of former sergeants ,' as the soldiers in general chose the most-educated and highest-ranked Congolese army soldiers as their new officers.
On 1 October 1977, Naval Support Facility, Diego Garcia, was established as the senior US Navy command on the island.
On 9 January 1897, he was given his first command, the destroyer Ranger, continuing up to June 1897 when he was again seconded to the Egyptian government for the next phase of the campaign.
On the fourteenth day of month, being accurately observed after the equinox, the ancients celebrated the Passover, according to the divine command.
On 28 July Leicester, who was in overall command of the English land troops, asked for instructions regarding Oxford, stating that " he seems most willing to hazard his life in this quarrel ".
On 1 September Admiral Ahsan assumed the command of the Eastern Military High Command, and became a unified commander of Pakistan Armed Forces in East-Pakistan.
On 20 May 1776 the British forces under the command of Lt. Clayton formally took their leave of Port Egmont, while leaving a plaque asserting Britain's continuing sovereignty over the islands.
On November 28 of that year he was with his unit at the Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande when, his officer having been injured, he took command and led an assault on the German position.
On 25 June, General Claude Auchinleck — Commander-in-Chief ( C-in-C ) Middle East Command — relieved Ritchie and assumed direct command of Eighth Army himself.
On the other hand, his experience was limited to command of at most 1000 men, and came only in remote frontier conditions that were far removed from the urban situations he faced during the Revolution at Boston, New York, Trenton and Philadelphia.
On this occasion, the two armies were combined into one, the consuls having to alternate their command on a daily basis.
On February 1, 1950, contract N8ss-2660 was approved for 1, 000 units “ especially adapted for general reconnaissance or command communications ” and “ constructed for short period underwater operation such as encountered in landing and fording operations.
On Tiberius ' request, Germanicus was granted proconsular power and assumed command in the prime military zone of Germania, where he suppressed the mutiny there and led the formerly restless legions on campaigns against Germanic tribes from 14 to 16 AD.
" On May 17, 1847, President James K. Polk offered Davis a Federal commission as a brigadier general and command of a brigade of militia.
On March 1, Davis appointed General P. G. T. Beauregard to command all Confederate troops in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, where state officials prepared to take possession of Fort Sumter ; Beauregard was to prepare his forces but avoid an attack on the fort.

On and Yeti
On 19 March 1954, the Daily Mail printed an article which described expedition teams obtaining hair specimens from what was alleged to be a Yeti scalp found in Pangboche monastery.
On 20 October 2008 a team of seven Japanese adventurers photographed footprints which could allegedly have been made by a Yeti.
* On October 8, 2008, a Yeti Airlines DHC-6 was destroyed on landing at Lukla in Nepal ; 16 passengers and two crew died in the incident, only the pilot survived.
On the outside, Victoria is a typically fragile lady of her era, frequently screaming when faced with the creatures the Doctor and his companions encounter in their travels, such as the Cybermen and the Yeti, the latter which are automatons of the disembodied Great Intelligence.
On the surface there are Yeti waiting for the soldiers at Covent Garden.

On and retreat
On the morning of September 2 the Fourth Corps and the Armies of the Tennessee and the Ohio followed the line of Hardee's retreat.
On the next day, much of the land army as had not escaped to their own lands submitted or were followed in their retreat to Macedonia and forced to surrender, and Antony's camp was occupied.
On 29 March 1940 his long association with Tribune began with a review of a sergeant's account of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.
On their retreat through the northern Italy, they were intercepted by Gallienus ' army near present day Milan and defeated in the battle of Mediolanum.
On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul.
On day 3, Jasmuheen was moved to a mountainside retreat about 15 miles from the city, where she was filmed enjoying the fresh air she said she could now live on happily.
On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive, Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul.
On 4 April 2006, Donaldson was found shot dead at his retreat near Glenties in County Donegal.
On the military front, on 26 December 1925 Italian troops finally overran El Buur, and the forces of Omar Samatar were compelled to retreat to Western Somaliland.
On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive, Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul to continue anti-Taliban resistance in the Hindu Kush mountains instead of engaging in street battles in Kabul.
On January 14, 1918, during the disorderly retreat of two Russian divisions from the Romanian front, Chişinău was sacked.
On the retreat they were intercepted at the Battle of the Thames ( October 5, 1813 ) and destroyed in a major American victory that killed Tecumseh and broke the power of Britain's Indian allies.
On 9 March 1945, with France liberated, Germany in retreat, and the United States ascendant in the Pacific, Japan decided to take complete control of Indochina.
On December 12, under heavy artillery fire and aerial bombardment, General Tang Sheng-chi ordered his men to retreat.
On March 29, camped along the Brazos River, two companies refused to retreat further, and Houston decided to use the opportunity for rudimentary training and discipline of his force.
On their consequent retreat northwards, they blew up the church of St. Ninians where they had been storing munitions ; only the tower survived and can be seen to this day.
On November 11, 1937, the Chinese forces began to retreat, but in such a disorganized manner that they failed to secure their carefully constructed series of defences around Wuxi.
On hearing his opponents retreat, Charles made an alliance with Duke Rudolph I of Austria and they attacked Bohemia but they could not occupy Kutná Hora and Charles had to retreat to Hungary.
On Cyrus ’ s death Clearchus assumed the chief command and conducted the retreat, until, being treacherously seized with his fellow-generals by Tissaphernes, he was handed over to Artaxerxes and executed.
On 3 – 4 July, Pulaski's camp was captured by Johann von Drewitz, and he was forced to retreat into Austrian territory.
On 24 June, shortly before the planned coronation, the city rose up against the Empress and Geoffrey de Mandeville ; Matilda and her followers only just fled in time, making a chaotic retreat to Oxford.
On the departure of guests, it must sometimes have been a relief to vacate this temple of culture and retreat to the relatively simple comforts of the family pavilion.
On the Russian side, Commander-in-chief Kutuzov also realized that ; so instead of clinging to the " suicidal " Austrian defense plan, Kutuzov decided to retreat.
On the same day, Napoleon ordered Soult to abandon both Austerlitz and the Pratzen Heights and also create an image of chaos during the retreat ; that would make the enemies occupy the Heights.

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