The Australians were considered to be remarkably determined, united and hard-working soldiers.

The fighting continued throughout the night of 7 / 8 August as the 47th Regiment, launched a determined counterattack ; suffering heavy casualties, including the regimental commander, Tewfik Bey, the attack was unsuccessful in retaking the main front-line trenches, but succeeded in regaining some of the ground in the north and also pushed the Australians back a little way from The Cup.

The stalemate continued as both the Australians and Turks lacked the strength to mount a determined attack and this situation ultimately lasted until the Allied evacuation in December 1915.

In the early Federation era some influential Australians were determined that their cities be progressive and competitive.

However, the selectors thought that a determined leader was needed to defeat the Australians and a more disciplined approach than that of Percy Chapman on the previous tour was needed.

In the second innings Dexter was determined to declare so he could dismiss the Australians and regain the Ashes, but Barrington made a sluggish 94 and " just missed his second century of the match, and in that he was unlucky, but his innings had been marred because on this last day he had added only 37 runs in 107 minutes.

One and all, they determined that Australians should have a republic and they used every device towards that end.

It is especially useful to see it in these terms as it exposes the arbitrary nature of what is “ Australian ”, and how it is determined by those in the dominant position ( mainly ‘ white ’ Australians ).

The 25th, however, remained in the area and throughout October each brigade in turn kept contact with the withdrawing Japanese who fought delaying actions as determined as those of the Australians.

The Australians encountered increasingly determined Japanese resistance as they moved inland.

On other fronts, the British, French, Australians, and Japanese occupied Germany's colonies.

The Pleiades are a prominent sight in winter in the Northern Hemisphere and in summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and have been known since antiquity to cultures all around the world, including the Māori, Aboriginal Australians, the Persians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Maya, the Aztec, and the Sioux and Cherokee.

King and other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff favored blockading Japanese forces in the Philippines and attacking Formosa ( Taiwan ) to give the Americans and Australians control of the sea routes between Japan and southern Asia.

During their occupation the Japanese developed Rabaul into a much more powerful base than the Australians had planned after the 1937 volcanic eruptions, with long term consequences for the town in the post-war period.

It ran savagely racist cartoons attacking Chinese, Indians, Japanese and Jews, and mocking Indigenous Australians.

In late 1944 it was decided that the Australians would take over responsibility for operations against the Japanese on Bougainville from the Americans.

In 2012, the Japanese handed thousands of POW documents to the Australian government and the Montevideo Maru's manifest, which contained the names of all the Australians on board, was found to be among them.

The Australians feared that it could not fend off any advancements from the Japanese navy, and desired a continuance to build up naval resources for a possible future conflict with the fear that an alliance with the United States in a state of post-war isolationism would provide little protection.

As the Japanese, having reached the extent of their supply lines, began to withdraw from Ioribaiwa, the Australians went on the offensive, pursuing them back north towards Buna.

Making heavy work of it against strong resistance, the Australians slowly made headway, but the Japanese remained in possession of the citadel.

Later in the year, responsibility for clearing the remaining Japanese troops from the area was passed to the Australians as the US sought to reallocate its troops towards retaking the Phillippines.

In November, as the Australians approached the Japanese positions around Shaggy Ridge, the 25th Brigade took over from the 21st as the division's main effort.

Almost 15, 000 Australians became prisoners of war at Singapore, an absolute majority of all Australian prisoners of the Japanese in World War II.

Type 2 has several variants: subtype 2A is found mainly in the Japanese population and native Americans ( excluding Inuit ); 2B is found in Eurasians ; 2D is found in Indians and 2E is found in Australians and western Pacific populations.

35 minutes later as the 26th Brigade came ashore, they were attacked by a nine Japanese aircraft which inflicted a number of casualties on the Australians in the LCIs, with eight men being killed, including the commanding officer of the 2 / 23rd Battalion, while another 20 men being wounded.

Nevertheless, after a week of heavy fighting against well-entrenched Japanese troops, the Australians captured the town and airfield of Finschhafen, declaring it liberated on 2 October.

Although initially Japanese opposition to the landing was light, as the Australians advanced inland from the landing beach, the resistance grew in its intensity and it was mid June by the time that the main Japanese force was broken up and mopping up operations began.

The Australians lost 250 killed and 670 wounded in this operation, while the Japanese lost around 1, 500 men killed and another 250 men captured trying to defend the island.

Following this, the Japanese began to withdraw from Beaufort and the Australians began a slow, cautious advance using indirect fire to limit casualties.

With artillery support and air support from the Royal New Zealand Air Force, the Australians killed and captured a number of the Japanese and pushed their front line forward.

The Australians continued to attack the withdrawing Japanese until they reached the more heavily defended lines near the Buna-Gona perimeter.

After almost three months of fighting, the Japanese had lost 1, 500 men, the Australians 2, 700 and the Americans 798.

During engagements with the Australians, the Japanese experienced their first major tactical setback, due to the stubborn resistance put up by the Australians at Gemas.

Once again, however, a critical situation for the Axis forces was retrieved by vigorous counter-attacks from hastily assembled German and Italian forces, which forced the Australians to withdraw back to their start line with 300 casualties.

During the latter part of the First World War the legend of Australians being great soldiers was entrenched as the Australian Imperial Force was used as the shock troops of the British Empire forces.

It was used for tactical purposes by British forces in the Second Boer War and in World War I and for the same purpose by the Australians and Germans during World War II.

One was the British imperial forces ( the combined forces of the British Empire, including Australians going overseas to war for the first time ).

In all 2, 400 Australians volunteered to fight in a variety of units against the rebel Maori forces.

The Turkish forces opposing the Australians at Lone Pine consisted of two battalions from the 47th Regiment, under the command of Tewfik Bey.

From the 1850s to the 1950s, Australians developed a strong volunteer tradition in preparing defense against possible invaders, and sent volunteer expeditionary forces to most British wars.

Contrary to some contemporary western accounts, the Chinese did not use human wave tactics, rather, using a tactic known as ' one-point-two sides ', they used massed forces and infiltration to achieve local numerical superiority and to penetrate the gaps between the forward companies, before attempting to envelop the Australians while drawing their fire to the front, away from their threatened flanks.

The Australians would also have to clear the withdrawal route of any blocking forces, while at the same time the evacuation of a large number of wounded and Chinese prisoners would hamper their movement.

In the days following, Rommel redirected his forces against them, in a series of intense counterattacks, but was unable to dislodge the Australians.

In this it seems that the Australians likely upset the Viet Cong plan, perhaps moving faster than the ARVN and US troops that they had previously fought, and what followed appears to have been an encounter battle as the two advancing forces clashed on open ground in a meeting engagement.

Throughout 8 April, the Australians were subjected to heavy shellfire from German forces.

Aiming to knock Turkey out of the war the British then decided to stage a landing at Gallipoli and following a period of training and reorganisation the Australians were included amongst the British, Indian and French forces committed to the campaign.

Although the Australian government refused to commit forces, many Australians serving with the British Army became involved in the fighting.

At least 66 Australians volunteered, with only one — Nugent Bull, a conservative catholic who was later killed serving in the RAF during the Second World War — known to have fought for General Franco's Nationalist forces.

The RAAF's resources were initially mainly devoted to training airmen for service with the Commonwealth air forces through the Empire Air Training Scheme ( EATS ), through which almost 28, 000 Australians were trained during the war.

The campaign lasted until 10 February 1943, when the final remaining Australians were evacuated, making them the last Allied land forces to leave South East Asia, following the Japanese offensives of 1941 – 1942.

The rebels ( most of them Irish Australians ), having gathered reinforcements, were hunted down by the colonial forces until they were sequestered on 5 March 1804 on a small hill nicknamed Vinegar Hill.

The Australians faced significant supply issues despite the modest size of their forces, and the 39th Battalion was subsequently withdrawn to ease the logistic burden.

Opening combat as early as 29 November and the offensive on 30 December, three separate drives developed: in the north, it was planned that Japanese forces would be forced into the narrow Bonis Peninsula and contained ; in the centre the seizure of Pearl Ridge would give the Australians control of the east – west thoroughfares and protection against further counterattacks, while also opening the way for a drive to the east coast ; and the main campaign in the south, where the bulk of the Japanese forces were concentrated at Buin.