* 1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris – Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.

The president visited several European air bases to thank the troops ( not shown ) for their support of NATO Operations Allied Force and Shining Hope, 1999.

To stop the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Albanians by nationalist Serbs in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's province of Kosovo, Clinton authorized the use of American troops in a NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, named Operation Allied Force.

To isolate the Danube from any Allied intervention, Marshal Villeroi's 46, 000 troops were expected to pin the 70, 000 Dutch and English troops around Maastricht in the Low Countries, while General de Coigny protected Alsace against surprise with a further corps.

A French reconnaissance under the Marquis de Silly went forward to probe the enemy, but were driven off by Allied troops who had deployed to cover the pioneers of the advancing army, labouring to bridge the numerous streams in the area and improve the passage leading westwards to Höchstädt.

Some Allied officers who were acquainted with the superior numbers of the enemy, and aware of their strong defensive position, ventured to remonstrate with Marlborough about the hazards of attacking ; but the Duke was resolute – " I know the danger, yet a battle is absolutely necessary, and I rely on the bravery and discipline of the troops, which will make amends for our disadvantages ".

The Allied commanders agreed that Marlborough would command 36, 000 troops and attack Tallard's force of 33, 000 on the left ( including capturing the village of Blenheim ), whilst Eugene, commanding 16, 000 men would attack the Elector and Marsin's combined forces of 23, 000 troops on the right wing ; if this attack was pressed hard the Elector and Marsin would have no troops to send to aid Tallard on their right.

By 16: 00, with the enemy troops besieged in Blenheim and Oberglau, the Allied centre of 81 squadrons ( nine squadrons had been transferred from Cutts ' column ), supported by 18 battalions was firmly planted amidst the French line of 64 squadrons and nine battalions of raw recruits.

In Ramillies the Allied infantry, now reinforced by the English troops brought down from the north, at last broke through.

Individual Allied commanders drove their troops forward in pursuit, allowing their beaten enemy no chance to recover.

Hermann Göring had promised the Luftwaffe would complete the destruction of the encircled armies, but aerial operations did not prevent the evacuation of the majority of Allied troops ( which the British named Operation Dynamo ); some 330, 000 French and British were saved.

The Australian War Crimes Section of the Tokyo tribunal, led by prosecutor William Webb ( the future Judge-in-Chief ), collected numerous written reports and testimonies that documented Japanese soldiers ' acts of cannibalism among their own troops, on enemy dead, and on Allied prisoners of war in many parts of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

Around 10, 000 Allied troops arrived in Darwin in the early 1940s at the outset of World War II, in order to defend Australia's northern coastline.

As a result of the Treaty, Germany's territory was reduced by about 13 %, several million ethnic Germans came under foreign rule, even though they were the majority in many of those areas, the Rhineland was demilitarized and Allied troops occupied several areas.

Eugene's European reputation was growing ( Cremona and Luzzara had been celebrated as victories throughout the Allied capitals ), yet because of the condition and morale of his troops the 1702 campaign had not been a success.

* 1943 – Imperial Japanese naval forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.

The Allied troops then moved across the Alma River on 20 September 1854 at the battle of Alma and set siege to the fort of Sevastopol.

The first phase was purely naval on the Allied side, as Lord Kitchener would not authorise troops to be shifted from the Western Front.

To ensure execution of the treaty's terms, Allied troops would occupy the left ( German ) bank of the Rhine for a period of 5 – 15 years.

Margarete and Gudrun left Gmund as Allied troops advanced into the area.

Severe anti-Jewish violence erupted in Libya following the liberation of North Africa by Allied troops.

D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155, 000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.

After Allied military units entered Cambodia, the Japanese military forces present in the country were disarmed and repatriated.

On 19 March, the first Allied act to secure the no-fly zone began when French military jets entered Libyan airspace on a reconnaissance mission heralding attacks on enemy targets.

Allied troops entered Asunción in January 1869, but Solano López held out in the northern jungles for another fourteen months until he finally died in battle.

After repeated failures in Allied bombing attempts to hit the factory, a team of French Resistance fighters and SOE agents distracted the German guards with a game of soccer while part of their team entered the plant and destroyed machinery.

The Soviet Union and Germany entered a trade pact in February 1940, pursuant to which the Soviets received German military and industrial equipment in exchange for supplying raw materials to Germany to help circumvent the Allied blockade.

The Hallstein doctrine, however, became obsolete ; the two Germanies entered the United Nations side by side ; and most other states which hitherto only had diplomatic relationships to the Federal Republic established ambassadors, including the Western Allied ( a notable exception being the Holy See ).

Allied troops entered Paris on 31 March 1814.

External power had shifted ; it would be weeks before Allied Forces entered Indonesia, and the Dutch were too weakened by World War II.

Tensions mounted as Allied troops entered Java and Sumatra ; clashes broke out between Republicans and their perceived enemies, namely Dutch prisoners, Dutch colonial troops ( KNIL ), Chinese, Indo-Europeans and Japanese.

China had entered World War I on the side of the Allied Triple Entente in 1917 with the condition that all German spheres of influence, such as Shandong, would be returned to China ; although in that year, 140, 000 Chinese labourers ( as a part of the British army, the Chinese Labour Corps ) were sent to France.

When Allied troops eventually entered Genoa, they were welcomed by Italian partisans which, in a successful insurrection, had freed the city and accepted the surrender of the local German command.

After the British Empire entered World War I on the Allied side, an Order in Council was made in Canada for the registration, and in certain cases for the internment, of aliens of " enemy nationality ".

Towards the end of the Peninsular War between France, Spain, Portugal, and Britain in 1814, British and Allied forces, under the Duke of Wellington, entered France and took control of the region and followed Marshall Soult's army, defeating the French near the adjoining town of Tarbes before the final battle took place outside Toulouse on 10 April 1814 which brought the war to an end.

Rickenbacker wanted to join the Allied troops in World War I, but the US had not yet entered the war.

The Royal Navy — with assistance from other Allied navies in the far east — had captured the German colonies of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, Yap, Nauru and Samoa early in the war, instead of searching for Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee's German East Asia Squadron which had abandoned its base at the German concession at Tsingtao in China once Japan entered the war on Britain's side.

The soldiers of the right wing followed them into the camp, at which many of the Persian army fled from the camp, except the ethnic Persian troops, who grouped together and fought the Allied soldiers who entered the camp.

The PIAT entered service with British and Commonwealth units in mid-1943, and was first used in action by Canadian troops during the Allied invasion of Sicily.

Italy entered World War I on the Allied side and conflict with Austria-Hungary began on 24 May 1915.

The United States entered the conflict on the Allied side, while a process of revolutionary upheaval in Russia weakened her and then removed the Russians from the Eastern Front, finally bringing the Bolsheviks to power in that country.

He was still bedridden as a result of this injury, when the Allied armies entered into Paris.

Florence was declared an open city and Allied troops entered on 4 August.

He afterwards spent two months in Normandy and Brittany, and was with the Allied forces when they entered Paris.

On May 23, 1915, Italy entered World War I on the Allied side.

On August 17, 1916, Romania entered the war on the Allied side, mobilizing an army of 23 divisions.