According to this doctrine, the gods of Olympus were not supernatural powers still actively intervening in the affairs of men, but great generals, statesmen and inventors of olden times commemorated after death in extraordinary ways.

A loose confederation of anti-Bolshevik forces aligned against the Communist government, including land-owners, republicans, conservatives, middle-class citizens, reactionaries, pro-monarchists, liberals, army generals, non-Bolshevik socialists who still had grievances and democratic reformists, voluntarily united only in their opposition to Bolshevik rule.

Nhu's agents had fitted the home with a direct phone line to the palace, so the coup generals believed that the brothers were still besieged inside Gia Long.

Late in 1917 Lloyd George moved to set up an inter-Allied Supreme War Council to reassert political control over strategy, contrary to the wishes of the British generals, who still enjoyed a great deal of press support.

These structures are still in active use today as squadron headquarters, living quarters for high-ranking generals ( Generals Row ), and Nebraska ’ s oldest operational jail.

Peter had employed foreign generals and officers to improve his armed forces, but they were still far from seasoned.

Unfortunately his generals interpreted his words as his order to attack and they acted accordingly, although reserve forces were still on route to the battlefield.

Kellermann was then sixty-two years of age, still physically equal to his work, but the young generals who had come to the front in the previous two years represented the new spirit and the new art of war, and Kellermann's active career came to an end.

He is regarded as one of the premier generals in world history, whose masterpiece, the Battle of Rocroi, is still studied by students of military strategy.

During the 12 day-truce, Troy mourns Hector's death, while Agamemmnon fumes at the loss of an opportunity to end the war once and for all while the Trojans are in disarray at the loss of their top general even though his generals, including Odysseus, inform him that the death Hector makes no difference as the Greeks still can't breach the walls of Troy.

At this point, territories that Liu Xiu controlled were already impressive, compared to any other regional power in the empire broken apart by civil war — but he still carried just the title Prince of Xiao ( which Emperor Gengshi had created him ) and still ostensibly was controlling those territories as Emperor Gengshi's deputy, even as he was already engaging militarily against some generals ( e. g. Xie Gong-謝躬 ) loyal to Emperor Gengshi ( During this incident, Liu Xiu succeeded to persuade Ma Wu ( 馬武 ), who was the deputy of Xie Gong, to join him .).

In fact, while Obregón studied this shift and used it in his defense of Celaya, generals in the World War I trenches of Europe were still advocating bloody and mostly failing mass charges.

Pellieux described him scornfully as " a gentleman who still bore the uniform of the French army and who dared charge three generals with a forgery ".

According to contemporary Arabic and Persian accounts, one of his generals, Bilarghu, a devout Muslim, had indicated his intention to erect a mosque in the city of Sis, still part of the Christian Kingdom of Armenia, possibly as part of a wider plan to place the province under his own control.

In addition to his famous works such as the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on Boston Common and the outstanding grand equestrian monuments to Civil War generals John A. Logan, atop a tumulus in Chicago, 1894 – 97, and William Tecumseh Sherman, at the corner of New York's Central Park, 1892 – 1903, Saint-Gaudens also maintained an interest in numismatics and designed the $ 20 " double eagle " gold piece, for the US Mint in 1905 – 1907, still considered the most beautiful American coin ever issued as well as the $ 10 " Indian Head " gold eagle, both of which were minted from 1907 until 1933.

With Essex and Waller in pursuit, he was still in danger, but on 7 June, the two Parliamentarian generals ( who disliked each other ) conferred at Stow on the Wold, and agreed that Essex would march westward to relieve the siege of Lyme Regis, while Waller shadowed the King.

It is true that despite the Islamic basis, Pakistan is still being ruled and governed intermittently by army generals, civil bureaucrats, feudal property owners, industrialists and politicians having their own loaves and fishes.

A series of battles were fought, and several famed generals of Yuan had been killed, but the latter still possessed a huge army, which applied much pressure to Cao.

He began his rule as an ally of the Spanish and was respected in the southern regions of the empire, but there was still much unrest in the north near Quito where Atahualpa's generals were amassing troops.

The Sassanid Empire was still a formidable power with vast manpower reserves, and the Arabs soon found themselves confronting a huge Persian army with troops drawn from every corner of the empire and commanded by its foremost generals.

The other generals were still worried that Đính might switch sides and go through with the second part of Nhu's fake coup, and that Khiêm's alleged test on Đính was simply done to deflect suspicion on him.

Since his ascension to Imperial Secretariat, Zhuge's power within Shu appeared unrivaled, as veteran generals like Liao Hua, who served as the Right General of Chariot and Cavalry ( top ranked military position, only next to Grand General and General of the Elite Cavalry ), still had to buy Zhuge off for their political prospect.

The generals knew very well that having no talent, no moral virtues, no political support whatsoever, they could not prevent a spectacular comeback of the president and Mr. Nhu if they were alive.

In the late 1990s, a number of North Korean army generals were executed by being burnt alive inside the Rungrado May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea.

The generals knew very well that having no talent, no moral virtues, no political support whatsoever, they could not prevent a spectacular comeback of the president and Mr. Nhu if they were alive.

In all, they had set fire to some thirty enemy camps, decapitated several thousand heads, captured several thousand men alive, and forced the surrender of some 20 generals including He Mao ( 何茂 ) and Wang Mo ( 王摩 ).

Mi Fang then served under He Qi as a commander, along with another two generals named Liu Shao ( 劉邵 ) and Xianyu Dan ( 鮮于丹 ) and succeeded in their mission and captured Jin Zong alive and retook Qichun.

Wassaf, in contrast, claims that Baraq's generals had abandoned him while he was alive, and that Baraq had no choice to submit to Kaidu, who poisoned him.

In November 2007, 28 retired generals and admirals urged Congress to repeal the policy, citing evidence that 65, 000 gay men and women were serving in the armed forces and that there were over a million gay veterans.

On November 17, 2008, 104 retired generals and admirals signed a similar statement.

" On November 17, 1958, the army's two senior generals, Major General Ibrahim Abboud, the armed forces commander, and Ahmad Abd al Wahab, seized power in a military coup.

Gratian sent generals to clear the dioceses of Illyria ( Pannonia and Dalmatia ) of Goths, and Theodosius was able finally to enter Constantinople on 24 November 380, after two seasons in the field.

The Soviets release the American officers, including 2 generals, November 10.

* November 30 – American Civil War – Second Battle of Franklin: The Army of Tennessee led by General Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions around Franklin, Tennessee ( Hood loses 6 generals and almost a third of his troops ).

On 1 November, with only the palace guard remaining to defend Diệm and his younger brother, Nhu, the generals called the palace offering Diệm exile if he surrendered.

Instead of merely acknowledging Gratian as his father ’ s successor, Valentinian I ’ s generals acclaimed the four-year old Valentinian augustus on 22 November 375.

Minh took over the government under a military junta on 6 November, which consisted of 12 generals.

In November 1915 an Anglo-French “ Standing Committee of an advisory character ” ( prime ministers and such other politicians and generals as were required, with Hankey and a French counterpart taking minutes ) was set up, but the French Prime Minister Briand rejected Asquith ’ s proposal of a permanent secretariat.

Omsk was evacuated on November 14 and the Red Army took the city without any serious resistance, capturing large amounts of ammunition, almost 50, 000 soldiers, and ten generals.

On November 27, 1934, the Bolivian generals deposed Salamanca while he visited their headquarters at Villamontes to explain the reasons for the changes.

In November 1918, a delegation of members of parliament represented Germany in the ceasefire negotiations at the request of the military leadership after the generals had decided that the war could no longer be won.

Coupled with a revolution in Germany, the German generals requested an armistice, which came into effect at 11 o ' clock on 11 November 1918.

It was not until November 4, by which time the levée en masse ( universal conscription ) was in force, that the militias were placed under the orders of the generals in the field.

Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey, KB PC ( 23 October 1729 – 14 November 1807 ) was one of the most important British generals of the 18th century.

Originally Siles supported the November 1964 anti-MNR coup d ' état — led by generals René Barrientos and Alfredo Ovando -- but was later exiled when it became apparent that the military intended to manipulate electoral results and perpetuate itself in power.

In November 1914, after the Convention of Aguascalientes ended and Carranza failed to resolve his differences with revolutionary generals Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, Carranza left office for a short period and handed control to Eulalio Gutiérrez Ortiz.

On 20 November 1917, at the age of 25, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General ; he was the youngest general officer in the British Army of modern times ( and the youngest promoted professionally, earlier young generals were simply due to position ).

Called by historians the " Battle of the captains vs the generals ," referring to the young Bulgarian army, whose highest rank went up to a captain, the Battle of Slivnitsa (,) was a decisive factor in the victory of the Bulgarian army over the Serbians on November 17 – 19, 1885 in the Serbo-Bulgarian War.

Gregorio del Pilar y Sempio ( November 14, 1875 — December 2, 1899 ) was one of the youngest generals in the Philippine Revolutionary Forces during the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine-American War.

On November 8, 1967 Congress lifted the restriction on promotions, allowing the first WAC generals.

At that time, with Cheng in power and the generals hating him for his previous accusations against the generals Lai Tian ( 來瑱 ) and Li Huairang ( 李懷讓 ) that led to their deaths, when Emperor Daizong sought emergency aid from the provincial generals, none came to his aid, and on November 16, he was forced to abandon Chang ' an and flee to Shan Prefecture ( i. e., Shancheng ).