One modern scholar has written " It is almost certain not only that at no time in his life did he ever see, let alone command, a Roman army, but that, throughout the twenty-three years of his reign, he never went within five hundred miles of a legion ".

One of the first reactions was to simply increase the guard, creating what at times might seem a small army trailing every leader ; another was to begin clearing large areas whenever a leader was present, to the point where entire sections of a city might be shut down.

The Count of Mérode-Westerloo, commander of the Flemish troops in Tallard's army wrote – " One thing is certain: we delayed our march from Alsace for far too long and quite inexplicably.

It has been argued by John Mosier that, while the French soldiers in 1940 were better trained than German soldiers, as were the Americans later, and the German army was the least mechanised of the major armies, its leadership cadres were both larger and superior and their high standards of leadership were the primary reason for the successes of the German army in World War Two as it had been in World War One.

One of the senior Polish commanders on the day, Duke Bogusław Radziwiłł, wrote that the Polish army had had 80, 000 soldiers.

One of these was the Battle of Kashgar ( 1934 ) where a Muslim army loyal to the Kuomintang massacred 4, 500 Uyghurs, and killed several British at the British consulate in Kashgar.

One of these caudillos, Guayaquil's Guillermo Franco, signed the Treaty of Mapasingue ceding the southern provinces of Ecuador to an occupying Peruvian army led by General Ramón Castilla.

One exception was a military force of Poles from the Polish Legions that had fought in Napoleon's army.

One of his most famous achievements was at the outbreak of the Second Punic War, when he marched an army, which included war elephants, from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy.

One of their most famous victories was in 1177 during the Battle of Montgisard, where some 500 Templar knights helped several thousand infantry to defeat Saladin's army of more than 26, 000 soldiers.

One theory is that Chinese army officers serving during the Taiping Rebellion created the game to pass the time.

One way that we know this is that in the United Kingdom, the Roman army left behind seven tons of nails at the fortress of Inchtuthil in Perthshire.

One critic charged that presidents could appoint a " virtual army of ' czars ' – each wholly unaccountable to Congress yet tasked with spearheading major policy efforts for the White House.

One week after he arrived in Mikawa, Ieyasu's army marched out to take revenge on Mitsuhide.

One of the issues the Bill resolved was the authority of the King to disarm its subjects, after James II had attempted to disarm many Protestants, and had argued with Parliament over his desire to maintain a standing ( or permanent ) army.

One of the last major battles involving Vikings was the Battle of Clontarf on the 23 April 1014, in which Vikings fought both for the Irish over-king Brian Boru's army and for the Viking-led army opposing him.

Willkie criss-crossed the globe on the former army bomber The Gulliver, bringing home a vision of " One World " freed from imperialism and colonialism.

* September 2 – Battle of Ujëbardha: One of Skanderbeg's most important victories against the Ottoman army in the open field.

One French army was now immobilised and besieged in the city of Metz, and no other forces stood on French ground to prevent a German invasion.

One chronicler relates that Edward had requested his son " boil his body, extract the bones and carry them with the army until the Scots had been subdued.

One of the first data-transmission circuits was developed in 1845 between the Russian Tsar's Winter Palace and army headquarters.

One of Sharon ’ s final operations before leaving the army in 1952 was the semi-successful Operation Bin Nun Alef into Jordan.

One infantry officer recommended it to the exclusion of all other designs, noting that " the intrenching tools of an army rarely get up to the front until the exigency for their use has passed.

One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.

One girl describes her past, her succession of broken marriages, the abortions she has had and finally confesses that she loves sex and sees no reason why she must justify her passion.

One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself.

One day I tired of following the Hetman's advice of `` shadowing '' and of the `` ring-around-the-rosie '' approach to a report that Enrico Caruso had pinched a lady's hip while visiting the Central Park monkey house.

One of the uniformed officers stepped in my way, demanding to know whether I had permission to enter Germany.

One of the girl students, sitting by while I ate the thick soup, asked me if I had a sleeping bag.

One fellow who had liver spots held out his hands to the great healer.

One had to find a donor, and usually very quickly, whose blood corresponded with the patient's.

One day Alfred told him that he had decided to leave everything to me.

One had it that a friend, protesting her snobbery, said, `` But, Gracie, you are an American, aren't you ''??

One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.

One soft evening -- that marvelous sea-blessed time when the sun's departing warmth lingers and a smell of spume and wrack haunts everything -- Amy had picked herself off the floor and begun to walk.

One had to believe in final events or one was stranded in the abyss of nothing.

One of the important and difficult decisions which had to be made in this budget concerned the role of the B-70, a long-range supersonic bomber.

One year I simply set the plants in the remains of a compost pile, to which a little sand had been added, and I had the most beautiful pansies in my, or any of my neighbors' experience.

One day over a year before, there had been a cocktail party in an apartment of a downtown hotel.

One day, the children had wanted to get up onto General Burnside's horse.

One morning, we discovered not only that the pennies were missing from the idol but that a cigarette had been stubbed out in its lap.

One sample, which had been exposed to the atmosphere after evacuation at 375-degrees-C, showed the presence of adsorbed water ( about 0.3 wt ) ) as evidenced by a weak resonance line which was very narrow at room temperature and which disappeared, due to broadening, at low temperature.

One contained complete antibody and had a titer of 1: 512 in saline.

One prediction had been made about the difference in security or self-confidence between those subjects who shifted their Kohnstamm reactivity when informed and those who did not.

One subject spontaneously asked ( after her arm had finally risen ), `` Do you suppose I was unconsciously keeping it down before ''??

One Kohnstamm-positive subject who had both arms rise while being tested in the naive condition described her subjective experience as follows: `` You feel they're going up and you're on a stage and it's not right for them to do so and then you think maybe that's what's supposed to happen ''.

One result was to nationalize much that had been regarded as the law of nations.