* 216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.

* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.

On August 8, 449 the Second Council of Ephesus began its first session with Dioscorus presiding by command of the Emperor.

* 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing – Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing.

* 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing – Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese.

Alexander presided over Montgomery's victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein and the advance of the Eighth Army to Tripoli, for which Alexander was elevated to a knight grand cross of the Order of the Bath, and, after the Anglo-American forces from Operation Torch and the Eighth Army converged in Tunisia in February 1943, they were brought under the unified command of a newly-formed 18th Army Group headquarters, commanded by Alexander and reporting to Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean at the Allied Forces Headquarters.

* 1995 – In the Bosnian War, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, Serbia begins its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, and kills more than 8000 Bosniaks, in what then-UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali called " the worst crime on European soil since the Second World War ".

The bishops in attendance at the Second Council of Constantinople in 553 recognized that nothing could be done in the Church contrary to the emperor's will and command ; while, on his side, the emperor, in the case of the Patriarch Anthimus, reinforced the ban of the Church with temporal proscription.

* 1673 – Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army.

* 1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.

At the highest level, five Numbered Air Forces served within the command at various times, the Second Air Force, Eighth Air Force, Fifteenth Air Force, Sixteenth Air Force, and briefly, in 1991 – 92, the Twentieth Air Force.

* September 2 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.

The follow-up expedition, the Second India Armada launched in 1500, was placed under the command Pedro Álvares Cabral, with the mission of making a treaty with the Zamorin of Calicut and setting up a Portuguese factory in the city.

Hill, were promoted to lieutenant general and assumed command of the Second and the newly created Third Corps respectively.

At eighteen, Prince Edward was no stranger to battlefields, having been given by his mother the task of condemning to death Yorkist prisoners taken at the Second Battle of St Albans, but he lacked experience of actual command.

In 1932 he established a soviet in the Hunan-Kiangsi border area, and in August 1934 received command of the Second Red Army, establishing a base in Hubei.

In that year there was a dispute as to who should command the war against Aristonicus in Asia, and a tribune had passed a law authorizing an election to select the commander ( there was precedent for this procedure from the Second Punic War ).

The Second Armored Division under the command of Major General George S. Patton used the Coffee County terrain along the river to demonstrate the value, speed, and maneuverability of armored forces in a large-scale combat operation.

The next year, in 1667, the Dutch under command of De Ruyter executed a retaliatory expedition, and dealt the English navy a heavy blow at the Raid on the Medway ( also known as the Battle of Chatham ), in effect ending the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

During the Second World War, The Netherlands were occupied by Nazi Germany and, on 17 April 1945, a vengeful German command ordered the dike of the Wieringermeer to be blown up: the Wieringmeer was inundated.

There are a number of historical markers in Mercerville, many detailing the path of the Continental Army under the command of George Washington through the area during the American Revolutionary War, especially related to the night march from the Second Battle of Trenton to the Battle of Princeton.

He was then sent to Fort Edward in Windsor, Nova Scotia where he took command of the 84th Regiment of Foot ( Royal Highland Emigrants ), Second Battalion.

Under the strains and losses of the early campaigns of the Second Sino-Japanese War the Chinese decided in mid 1938 to standardize their Divisions as triangular divisions as part of their effort to simplify the command structure and placed them under Corps which became the basic tactical units.

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In some countries, such as Britain and Germany during the Second World War, the Soviet Union and NATO's Allied Command Europe, ground based air defence and air defence aircraft have been under integrated command and control.

* Fritz Joubert Duquesne, a Boer Captain known as the Black Panther, served in the Second Boer War.

An unknown magnetic ore created a physical duplicate of Captain Kirk ( TOS " The Enemy Within ") and an enhanced beam attempting to transport Lt. Riker through an unstable atmosphere ' reflected ' and split into two identical beams, creating a physical duplicate that remained undiscovered on the planet's surface for eight years ( TNG: " Second Chances ").

Captain Fritz Joubert Duquesne, a Boer Army officer and later a spy in the Second Boer War, hated Kitchener because of his scorched earth policy, and he hated the British in general for abusing his family in the concentration camps.

In the film, Petty Officer Second Class Miller comforts Captain Mervyn S. Bennion who has been mortally wounded by a torpedo that strikes the, and is with him when he dies.

The founding head of the Army section was Captain Vernon Kell of the South Staffordshire Regiment, who remained in that role until the early part of the Second World War.

Irregulars formed the Knight Company and were led by Captain Newton Knight, First Lieutenant Jasper Collins, and Second Lieutenant William Wesley Sumrall.

The corp consists of 40 members that operate under the supervision of the Captain, First Lieutenant and Second Lieutenant.

He served in South Africa with the 5th ( Militia ) Battalion, Manchester Regiment, during the Second Boer War, reaching the rank of Captain.

* Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC, OM, DSO and Two Bars, DFC ( 1917 – 1992 ), renowned Second World War RAF bomber pilot and founder of the Leonard Cheshire Disability charity, was born in Hoole Road, Hoole, Chester ( although he was brought up in Oxford ).

The co-pilot, Captain Kenneth Rayment, DFC, was a former RAF flight lieutenant and Second World War flying ace.

The pilot, Captain James Thain, was also a former RAF flight lieutenant and veteran of the Second World War.

Group Captain Wilfrid George Gerald Duncan Smith, DSO and Bar, DFC and 2 Bars ( 28 May 1914 – 11 December 1996 ) was a British Royal Air Force Second World War Flying ace.

* After 1948, the Brigade of Gurkhas ( part of the British Army ) was formed and adopted standard British Army rank structure and nomenclature, except for the three Viceroy Commission ranks between Warrant Officer 1 and Second Lieutenant ( jemadar, subedar and subedar major ) which remained, albeit with different rank titles Lieutenant ( Queens Gurkha Officer ), Captain ( QGO ) and Major ( QGO ).

Captain Newport returned to England twice, delivering the First Supply and the Second Supply missions during 1608, and leaving the Discovery for the use of the colonists.

Those currently holding this appointment are Field Marshal HRH The Duke of Kent ; Admiral of the Fleet HRH The Prince of Wales ; Captain Mark Phillips, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards ; Rear Admiral HRH The Duke of York ; Second Lieutenant HRH The Earl of Wessex and Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence.

Marlborough was an officer in the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars and fought in the Second Boer War as a Staff Captain in the Imperial Yeomanry and as Assistant Military Secretary to Lord Roberts ; he was mentioned in despatches.

Operation Dingson ( 5 – 18 June 1944 ) was an operation in the Second World War, conducted by about 178 Free French paratroops of the 4th Special Air Service ( SAS ), commanded by Colonel Pierre-Louis Bourgoin, who jumped into German occupied France near Vannes, Morbihan, Southern Brittany, in Plumelec, on the night of 5 June 1944 ( 11 h 30 ), ( Captain Pierre Marienne with 17 men ), and Saint-Marcel ( 8 – 18 June ).

He was commissioned into the U. S. Army as a Second Lieutenant in 1917, being promoted to Captain in 1918.

From the Royal Military College, Sandhurst he was commissioned into the 87th Foot as a Second Lieutenant on 27 January 1843, he was promoted Lieutenant by purchase on 6 September 1844, and reached the rank of Captain.

Along the way, Sparrow poses as a judge to save the convicted Gibbs before being captured by the Royal Guards and summoned to an audience with King George the Second and Captain Hector Barbossa of the Royal Navy.

The crew comprised Captain Stanley Key as P1, Second Officer Jeremy Keighley as P2 and Second Officer Simon Ticehurst as P3.

The Corps, which was a select group of volunteers, were led jointly by Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark.

* Frederic John Walker, Second World War British Navy Captain and U boat hunter.

After obtaining 2nd class honours in Classical Moderations in Greek and Latin Literature, and his Masters, Crosland served as a paratrooper in Europe during the Second World War, from 1940, reaching the rank of Captain.