Author of the Albany Plan Of Union, which, had it been adopted, might have avoided the Revolution, he fought the colonists' front-line battles in London, negotiated the treaty of alliance with France and the peace that ended the war, headed the state government of Pennsylvania, and exercised an important moderating influence at the Federal Convention.

The loose alliance of city states which had fought against Xerxes's invasion had been dominated by Sparta and the Peloponnesian league.

He served as the political head of the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan ( UIFSA ), an alliance of various political groups who fought against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

In 1595, Clement VIII initiated an alliance of Christian European powers to take part in the war with the Ottoman Empire, fought mainly in Hungary, which would become known as " The Long War " and would continue past Clement's own lifetime.

At the time, the battalion was considered to form a certain bondage with Germany, as Germany and Finland both fought against the Soviet Union, without a formal alliance.

Some Mende rebels in the centre of the country were not beaten until November, however ; and Mende king Nyagua's son Maghi, in alliance with some Kissi, fought on in the extreme east of the Protectorate until August 1899.

* Crimean war ( 1854 – 56 ) fought between Imperial Russia and an alliance consisting of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Second French Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire.

They were motivated partly by the thought that an alliance with the government would benefit them, and partly by old feuds with the iwi they fought against.

The Axis powers (,, ), also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or just the Axis, was the alignment of nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces.

As a result of this, she was used to strengthen the alliance between her father and Margaret of Anjou during the dynastic civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses fought between the houses of York and Lancaster.

Following the Franco-American alliance, Lapérouse fought against the Royal Navy off the American coast, and victoriously led the frigate Astree in the Naval battle of Louisbourg, 21 July 1781.

Reversing his uncle's policies again, Philippe formed an alliance with Great Britain, Austria, and the Netherlands, and fought a successful war against Spain that established the conditions of a European peace.

Bynum has published a detailed three-part critique of Jenkins ' and Stauffer's book, citing their use of suspect sources, unsubstantiated conclusions, and selective use of primary source material and their " stretching of the evidence to support highly exaggerated claims that Newt ' fought for racial equality during the war and after ,' and ' forged bonds of alliance with blacks that were unmatched even by Northern abolitionists ' ( pp. 3-4 ).

At Megiddo, he fought an alliance of 330 Mitanni princes and tribal leaders under the ruler of Kadesh.

In 1482, abandoning his traditional position of paladin of the Papal States, he fought alongisde Ferrara and Milan against the alliance of Sixtus IV and the Republic of Venice ( see War of Ferrara ).

The Battle of Malplaquet, fought on 11 September 1709, was one of the main battles of the War of the Spanish Succession, which opposed the Bourbons of France and Spain against an alliance whose major members were the Habsburg Monarchy, Great Britain, the United Provinces and the Kingdom of Prussia.

* Alianza Fidelidad por Veracruz, an electoral alliance that fought the 2007 election in the Mexican state of Veracruz

On the submission of the Samnites they all came into alliance with Rome in 305-302 BC, the Paelignians having fought hard against even this degree of subjection.

:" Soon after, relieved by the death of Theodotus uses a erroneous version of the name, Arsaces made peace and concluded an alliance with his son, also by the name of Theodotus ; some time later he fought against Seleucus who came to punish the rebels, and he prevailed: the Parthians celebrated this day as the one that marked the beginning of their freedom " ( Justin, XLI, 4 )

: In that war, which ended with our victory, we were in alliance with the United States: together we fought for the liberation of many people from the Nazi invaders.

Silver coin of Seleucus I Nicator, who fought Chandragupta Maurya, and later made an alliance with him.

Setthathirath hearing of the heroic Queen Suryothai of Ayudhya who fought against the Burmese and was killed, was moved and full of admiration for the Queen, requested the marriage of her daughter Princess Tepkasatri, the King of Ayudhya King Maha Chakkrapat eager to form an alliance with Lan Xang agreed with the request.

Baker helped to construct the 34-nation alliance that fought alongside the United States in the Gulf War.

The dissident parties formed an alliance called the National Democratic Front and fought against the Indian National Congress led by Indira Gandhi in the 1971 Indian general elections.

Devastated by European diseases to which they had no immunity, and civil wars, in 1532 the Incas were defeated by an alliance composed of tens of thousands allies from nations they had subjugated ( e. g. Huancas, Chachapoyas, Cañaris ) and a small army of 180 Spaniards led by Francisco Pizarro.

Opposed to Prussia's enforced alliance with Napoleon I, he left the Prussian army and served in the Russian army from 1812 to 1813 during the Russian Campaign, including the Battle of Borodino.

The Himalayan alliance gave Chandragupta a formidable composite army made up of the cavalry forces of the Shakas, Yavanas, Kambojas, Kiratas, Parasikas and Bahlikas as attested by Mudra-Rakashas ( Mudra-Rakshasa 2 ).

Having lost its colonial empire, France saw a good opportunity for revenge against Britain in signing an alliance with the Americans in 1778, and sending an army and navy that turned the American Revolution into a world war.

The designs of General Fleetwood of the army and the Wallingford House party were now suspected as being in a possible alliance with Charles Stuart ( Charles II ).

The Soviet Union feared Western powers and the possibility of " capitalist encirclements ", had little faith either that war could be avoided, or faith in the Polish army, and wanted nothing less than an ironclad military alliance that would provide a guaranteed support for a two-pronged attack on Germany.

Gruffydd formed an alliance with Gwynedd, and later in 1136 the sons of Gruffudd ap Cynan, Owain Gwynedd and Cadwaladr ap Gruffydd, led an army to Ceredigion.

In alliance with the French in their struggle with the British, and in Mysore's struggles with other surrounding powers, both Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali used their French trained army against the Marathas, Sira, rulers of Malabar, Coorg, Bednur, Carnatic, and Travancore.

After capturing a British invasion army in 1777, the U. S. formed an alliance with France ( and in turn Spain aided France ), evening out the military balance.

* November 3 – 29 – Sonderbund War, a civil war in Switzerland in which General Guillaume-Henri Dufour's federal army defeats the Sonderbund ( an alliance of seven Catholic cantons ) with a total of only 86 deaths.

* January 23 – Thirty Years ' War: Sweden and France sign the Treaty of Bärwalde, a military alliance in which France provides funds for the Swedish army invading northern Germany.

* Battle of Sokhoista: The Ottoman army defeats the alliance of Georgian dynasts.

However, those " family meetings " could not prevent the war and an alliance of twenty-two western states formed an army against Poland in the Battle of Grunwald in July 1410.

In early 6 CE, before Varus was commander on the Rhine, it was Legatus Gaius Sentius Saturninus and Consul Legatus Marcus Aemilius Lepidus under Tiberius who led an army of 65, 000 heavy infantry legionaries, 10, 000 – 20, 000 cavalrymen, archers, 10, 000 – 20, 000 civilians ( 13 legions & entourage, probably about 100, 000 + men ) and was planning a major attack on Maroboduus, the king of the Marcomanni, a tribe of the Suebi who had fled the attacks of Drusus I in 9 BCE into the territory of the Boii, where they formed a powerful tribal alliance with the Hermunduri, Quadi, Semnones, Lugians, Zumi, Butones, Mugilones, Sibini and Langobards.

At the commencement of the Peloponnesian war Sitalces entered into alliance with the Athenians, and in 429 BC he invaded Macedon ( then ruled by Perdiccas II ) with a vast army that included 150, 000 warriors from independent Thracian tribes.

Qin was defeated by an alliance of the other states in 295 BC, and shortly after suffered another defeat by the state of Zhao, because the majority of their army was then defending against the Qi.

Isabella gathered an army to oppose Edward, in alliance with Roger Mortimer, whom she took as a lover.

He later had to leave the theatre because of an illness but, against the advice of his physicians and advisors, he returned in May 1690 and with a reinforced alliance with the Emperor, took overall command of the imperial army.

It was only in 1386, after Portugal under its new king John of Avis had entered into full alliance with England, that he was actually able to land with an army in Spain and mount an ultimately unsuccessful campaign for the throne of Castile.

The Spartans prepared to send out an army against this new alliance of Athens, Thebes, Corinth and Argos ( with the backing of the Achaemenid Empire ) and ordered Agesilaus II to return to Greece.

By 1060s, the tentative balance between the different ethnic groups within the Fatimid army collapsed as Egypt was suffering through a serious span of drought and famine, the declining resources accelerated the problems between the different ethnic factions and outright civil war began, primarily the Turks and Black African troops were fighting each other while the Berbers shifted alliance in between.

With Kabila's success in the Congo, he no longer desired an alliance with the Tutsi-RPF Rwandan army and the Ugandan forces, and in August 1998 ordered both the Ugandans and Tutsi-Rwandan army out of the DRC.

However, the poor performance and military weakness of the Song army was observed by the Jurchens who immediately broke the alliance with the Song, launching an invasion into Song territory in 1125 and another in 1127 ; in this latter invasion, the Jurchens captured not only the Song capital at Kaifeng, but the retired emperor Huizong, his successor Qinzong, and most of the Imperial court.