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The Russian armies were separated, defeated and pushed back, which forced Lenin and the Soviet leadership to abandon for the time being their strategic objective of linking up with the German and other European revolution-minded comrades ( Lenin's hope of generating support for the Red Army in Poland had already failed to materialize ).
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Abdur Rahman lived in exile in Tashkent, then part of Russian Turkestan, for eleven years, until the 1879 death of Sher Ali, who had retired from Kabul when the British armies entered Afghanistan.
Also encouraged by the British victory were the Austrian Empire and the Russian Empire, both of whom were mustering armies as part of a Second Coalition, which declared war on France in 1799.
With the Mediterranean undefended, a Russian fleet entered the Ionian Sea, while Austrian armies recaptured much of the Italian territory lost to Bonaparte in the previous war.
On the Eastern Front of World War I, where combat did not bog down into trench warfare, German and Russian armies fought a war of maneuver over thousands of miles, giving the German leadership unique experience which the trench-bound Western Allies did not have.
* 1790 – The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.
In 1914 there were still dragoon regiments in the British, French, German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, Peruvian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Spanish armies.
On 5 November 1854, Russian forces tried to relieve the siege at Sevastopol and tried to defeat the Allied armies in the field in the battle of Inkerman.
* Green armies, peasant-based groups participating in the Russian Civil War of 1917-1923
British concern over Russian advances in Central Asia and growing influence in Persia culminated in two Anglo-Afghan wars and " The Siege of Herat " 1837 – 1838, in which the Persians, trying to retake Afghanistan and throw out the British and Russians, sent armies into the country and fought the British mostly around and in the city of Herat.
Unable to decisively engage and defeat the standing Russian armies, Napoleon attempted to force the Tsar to terms by capturing Moscow at the onset of winter.
The company began to make steel cannons in the 1840s — especially for the Russian, Turkish, and Prussian armies.
While active collaboration between Nazi Germany and Soviet Union caused great shock in western Europe and amongst communists opposed to Germany, on 1 October 1939, Winston Churchill declared that the Russian armies acted for the safety of Russia against " the Nazi menace.
Two weeks after Soviet armies had entered the Baltic states, Berlin requested Finland to permit the transit of German troops, followed five weeks thereafter by Hitler's issuance of a secret directive " to take up the Russian problem, to think about war preparations ," a war whose objective would include establishment of a Baltic confederation.
** Russo-Japanese War: The Japanese capture of Mukden ( now Shenyang ) completes the rout of Russian armies in Manchuria.
* May 31 – Battle of the Kalka River: The Mongol armies of Genghis Khan defeat the Russian warriors.
In the next year he led the Russian armies together with Harald III of Norway against the Byzantine emperor Constantine IX.
In addition, Russian armies raided the Commonwealth under the pretext of the returning of fugitive peasants.
Kosciuszko's ragtag insurgent armies won some initial successes, but they eventually fell before the superior forces of the Russian Empire.
In November, the Russian and Swedish armies met at the First Battle of Narva where the Russians suffered a crushing defeat.
Lances were still in use by the British, French, Russian, Belgian, Turkish, Italian and German armies at the outbreak of World War I.
After the conquest of Finland by Russian armies in 1808 Sweden had to cede Finland to Russia in 1809 ( the Treaty of Fredrikshamn ).
Given Russia's often inadequately trained conscript armies and the use of inaccurate smooth-bore muskets, Russian officers preferred to use the bayonet charge in lieu of musket volley fire where possible.
Their strategic capabilities have ensured that Airborne forces are still a part of armies today with the U. S. 82nd Airborne Division and Russian Airborne forces being the largest formations of paratroopers in the world.
The Allied battle plan prior to the war had been based on France and the United Kingdom halting the German armies in the West while the huge Russian armies could be organized and brought to the Eastern front.
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If the new Soviet series has followed the general pattern of previous Russian tests, the shots were roughly half fission and half fusion, meaning a fission yield of 30 to 40 megatons thus far.
The Russian gymnasts beat the tar out of the American gymnasts in the 1960 Olympics for one reason -- they were better.
They were further stripped of old wive's tales by seeing the slender, lovely Russian girls performing feats requiring tremendous strength and with not one bulging muscle.
She did not go so far as to say, as was done on other occasions, that Abstraction as well as Impressionism were a Russian invention that had been discarded as unwanted by the people of the U.S.S.R.
Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.
They were blind to the evidence that nothing could keep the Russian people fighting.
Now prosperous, his parents were able to send Nobel to private tutors and the boy excelled in his studies, particularly in chemistry and languages, achieving fluency in English, French, German, and Russian.
During the war, the Azeri armed forces were also aided by Turkish military advisers, and Russian, Ukrainian, Chechen and Afghan mercenaries.
Under Soviet rule, both the villages were forced to disband and residents were moved to the Russian dominated Zaporozhye rural settlement in Ust-Bolsheretsky Raion.
These and other works raised his reputation so high that the most flattering offers were sent to him from the Russian court to induce him to remove to St Petersburg, but these were declined, although many of his finest works made their way to the Hermitage Museum.
In the late eighteenth and during the nineteenth century, Lithuanian participants in the 1794, 1830 – 1831, and 1863 rebellions against the Russian czarist rule were exiled to Abakan.
According to what Aleut people told Japanese castaways, otters were decreasing year by year and their share in return of furs they made also were decreasing as Russian ships stopped coming to the island.
Due to a false etymology, a popular belief is that they were most likely Finns – the obsolete name of Nenets people, Samoyed, has a similar meaning in Russian: " self-eater ".
Units of the Bonn legion were deployed to theatres of war ranging from modern-day Algeria to what is now the Russian republic of Chechnya.
This oath however did not alleviate concerns regarding loyalty to Russia in time of crisis, especially since nearly 50 % of all military personnel were ethnically Russian at the end of 1992.
In 2006 four batteries ( divizions in Russian terminology ; about 6 systems each ) of S-300 anti-aircraft systems were acquired from Russia to reinforce the Joint CIS Air Defense System.
At its peak in the 16th through the 18th centuries, the Ottoman Empire had wrested control of the entire Black Sea area, which was for the time an " Ottoman lake ", on which Russian warships were prohibited.
Under the Treaty of Hünkar Iskelesi of 1833, the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits were to be closed on Russian demand to naval vessels of other powers.
Many Germans of left-wing views were influenced by the cultural experimentation that followed the Russian Revolution, such as constructivism.
After the Partitions of Poland, most of the Baltic lands were under the rule of the Russian Empire, where the native languages were sometimes prohibited from being written down, or used publicly.
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