Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.

Before the 1704 campaign ended, the Allies had taken Landau, and the towns of Trier and Trarbach on the Moselle in preparation for the following year's campaign into France itself.

Captain Parker described the march discipline – " As we marched through the country of our Allies, commissars were appointed to furnish us with all manner of necessaries for man and horse ... the soldiers had nothing to do but pitch their tents, boil kettles and lie down to rest.

With the battle still not won, Marlborough had to rebuke one of his cavalry officers who was attempting to leave the field – " Sir, you are under a mistake, the enemy lies that way ..." Now, at the Duke's command, the second Allied line under von Bulow and the Count of Ost-Friese was ordered forward, and, driving through the centre, the Allies finally put Tallard's tired horse to rout, not without cost.

Meanwhile the Allies had once again attacked the Bavarian stronghold at Lutzingen.

Although the Allies had captured Barcelona that year, they had been forced to abandon their campaign on the Moselle, had stalled in the Spanish Netherlands, and suffered defeat in northern Italy.

With Prince Eugene's subsequent success at the Battle of Turin in northern Italy, the Allies had imposed the greatest loss of territory and resources that Louis XIV would suffer during the war.

The year 1706 had indeed proved to be the Allies ' annus mirabilis.

Villeroi still believed ( on 22 May ) the Allies were a full day ’ s march away when in fact they had camped near Corswaren waiting for the Danish squadrons to catch up ; for his part, Marlborough deemed Villeroi still at Jodoigne when in reality he was now approaching the plateau of Mont St. André with the intention of pitching camp near Ramillies ( see map at right ).

Further good news for the Allies arrived from northern Italy where, on 7 September, Prince Eugene had routed a French army before the Piedmontese capital, Turin, driving the Franco-Spanish forces from northern Italy.

Overall, Yellow succeeded beyond what most people had expected, despite the fact that the Allies had 4, 000 armoured vehicles and the Germans 2, 200, and the Allied tanks were often superior in armour and caliber of cannon.

Once Mussolini had fallen in Italy, the Allies switched their attention to the mainland with Operation Avalanche.

The Allies had been amply resupplied by the United States, which also had fresh armies ready for combat, but the UK and France were too war-weary to contemplate an invasion of Germany with its unknown consequences.

By the time of Operation Overlord in June 1944, the Allies had gained near complete air superiority over the Western Front.

He went to Paris after the liberation of France and to Cologne once it had been occupied by the Allies.

The amount of monetary aid ( which was in the form of loans ) received by Germany through the Marshall Plan ( about $ 1. 65 billion in total ) was far overshadowed by the amount the Germans had to pay back as war reparations and by the charges the Allies made on the Germans for the ongoing cost of occupation ( about $ 2. 4 billion per year ).

In the western sectors, most of the industrial plants had minimal bomb damage and the Allies dismantled 5 % of the industrial plants for reparations.

Because the Allies had indicated that they were going to pursue criminal charges for German war crimes, Hitler tried to gain the loyalty and silence of his subordinates by making them all parties to the planned genocide.

But when, in early 1915, the Allies asked for Greek help in the Dardanelles campaign, offering Cyprus in exchange, their diverging views became apparent: Constantine had been educated in Germany, was married to Sophia of Prussia, sister of Kaiser Wilhelm, and was convinced of the Central Powers ' victory.

Post – World War I Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Near East had borders carved out by the Allies that left many of the new states in that region unsatisfied due to minority populations and conflicting historical claims.

It was formally approved on 8 May 1949, and, with the signature of the Allies of World War II on 12 May, came into effect on 23 May, as the constitution of those states of West Germany that were initially included within the Federal Republic.

Although initially restricted by its constitution to render aid only to nationals from the United Nations ( the Allies ), this was changed late in 1944, in response to pleas from Jewish organizations who were concerned with the fate of surviving Jews of German nationality, to also include " other persons who have been obliged to leave their country or place of origin or former residence or who have been deported therefrom by action of the enemy because of race, religion or activities ' in favor of the United Nations.

The Chetniks were initially supported by the exiled royal government and the Allies, they but soon focused increasingly on combating the Partisans rather than the occupying Axis forces.

The Allies in World War I ( also known as the Entente Powers ) were initially the British Empire, France, Russia, Belgium, Serbia, Montenegro, and Japan, joined later by Italy, Portugal, Romania, the United States, Greece, and Brazil.

The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany () was approved on 8 May 1949, and, with the signature of the Allies of World War II on 12 May, came into effect on 23 May, as the basic law of those states of West Germany that were initially included in the Republic.

Kesselring initially considered that a successful defence could not be made if the Allies launched a major attack on January 23 or January 24.

The Allies initially adopted a strategy of blocking the land and sea approaches to southern Greece.

Conversely, the Allies, who had initially been as nervous of a battle as the Persians, sought to press home their morale advantage once they were informed of the state of the Persian fleet.

Most of the Osenberg List engineers worked at the Baltic coast German Army Research Center Peenemünde, developing the V-2 rocket ; after capturing them, the Allies initially housed them and their families in Landshut, Bavaria, in southern Germany.

When the Persians arrived at Thermopylae in mid-August, they initially waited for three days for the Allies to disperse.

The Allies initially adopted a strategy of blocking land and sea approaches to southern Greece.

Some soldiers were initially taken into allied custody then forcefully extradited to the Soviets by the Allies.

As in World War I, Brazil initially maintained a position of neutrality, trading with both the Allies and the Axis Powers, while Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas's quasi-Fascist policies indicated a leaning toward the Axis powers.

The wartime Allies initially worked together under the auspices of the Allied Control Council ( ACC ) for Germany.

The government of Franco in Spain initially refused to hand him over to the Allies ( or extradite him to Belgium ) by citing his health condition.

Although the Allies initially made gains, they were repulsed by German forces and forced to withdraw to avoid encirclement.

Fourteenth Army was initially responsible for the defense of Rome and dealing with any amphibious landings the Allies might make to the rear of Tenth Army which was fighting on the defensive lines south of Rome.

The Allies initially believed that the Middle East ( Southwest Asia ) could become a major operational theatre, because they thought that the Germans might invade the area.

The Allies, having initially supported Mihailovic, threw their support behind Tito in 1943, as their sources came to indicate that the Partisans were more engaged in fighting the German enemy than were the rival Chetniks.

Axis & Allies: D-Day is initially a challenging game for the Allied player.

In 1940, in order to ensure Egypt's support of the war effort, which initially seemed to be going very badly for the Allies, Britain replaced the Egyptian government with one whose cooperation it could be sure of.

Decryption of messages sent using the PURPLE cipher alerted the Allies to the concentration of Japanese shipping around Leyte, but they initially interpreted this as an evacuation.

Unable to defend all of Burma, Kimura fell back behind the Irrawaddy River to attack the Allies when their supply lines were stretched thin-a move which initially dislocated the Allied plans.