The Kamanyola Division, at the time considered the army's best formation, and considered the president's own, was assigned permanently to Shaba.

As Pakenham's 3rd Division prepared to attack Thomières, Marmont finally woke up to his army's peril.

On the army's left flank, the 92nd Infantry Division ( the " Buffalo Soldiers Division ") went along the coast to Genoa ; and a rapid advance towards Turin, by the Brazilian division on their right, took the German – Italian Army of Liguria by surprise, causing its collapse.

On board the transports was the 2nd Marine Division and a part of the army's 27th Infantry Division, for a total of about 35, 000 troops.

* White Horse ( military ), nickname for the South Korean army's 9th Infantry Division

The APL also worked with the army's Military Intelligence Division ( MID ), the government's principal investigatory agency in this period.

In May of that year the army's 2nd Division under William Vandever fought the battle of Chalk Bluff against a Confederate raid under John S. Marmaduke.

Major General James G. Blunt, who commanded the District of South Kansas, was placed in command of the army's 1st Division, which was broken up into three brigade of volunteer cavalry regiments and a fourth of Kansas state militia units.

Late in the war, Maj. Gen. Edward Canby's Military Division of West Mississippi was given the army's two remaining corps, the XIII and the XVI, for a planned offensive to capture the city of Mobile.

The attack began the same day by the army's three divisions-5th Danubian Infantry Division ( commander major-gen. Pavel Hristov ) on the left flank, 4th Preslav Infantry Division ( major-gen. Kliment Boyadzhiev ) in the centre and 6th Bdin Infantry Division ( major-gen. Pravoslav Tenev ) on the right flank.

The 1st Division is the main formation of the Australian Army and contains the majority of the army's regular forces.

Following pressure by the American Rocket Society, the National Science Foundation, and the International Geophysical Year, military interest picked up and in early 1955 the Army and Navy were working on Project Orbiter, two competing programs, the army's which involved using a Jupiter C rocket, and the civilian / Navy Vanguard Rocket, to launch a satellite.

The Joint Chiefs insisted on massive expansion of FANK to over 200, 000 men, despite concerns at the severe negative effect this would have on Cambodia's economy, while the Military Equipment Delivery Team, led by General Theodore C. Mataxis, demanded the ' Americanisation ' of the army's French-influenced internal structures, in spite of the chaos this caused in the supply chain.

This was unproven and attributed to the army's attempt at secrecy ; in reality all the hanged men's heads were severed from their bodies at Fort Klamath, and sent on October 25 by train to the collections of the Army Medical Museum in Washington, D. C.

Originally designed to breach fortifications, they have evolved from nearly static installations intended to reduce a single obstacle to highly mobile weapons of great flexibility in which now reposes the greater portion of a modern army's offensive capabilities.

The move to occupy the Amazon and the short-term political implications of the army's reorganisation should not be overstated.

The army's geographic organization and distribution have continued to reflect a concern with internal rather than external defense.

As it happened, the Ottomans did not intervene and the Serbian army's advance was stopped after the Battle of Slivnitsa.

He then attended the army's Staff College, Camberley, before being appointed Brigade Major in the 17th Infantry Brigade in January 1921.

On 2 September, Skippon, having been told that his infantry were unable to break out as the cavalry had done, and having been offered generous terms by the King, surrendered 6, 000 infantry and all his army's guns and train.

The destination of the expedition was kept top secret ; most of the army's officers did not know of its target, and Bonaparte himself did not publicly reveal his goal until the first stage of the expedition was complete.

These unacceptable demands together with the Bulgarian refusal to demobilize its army after the Treaty of London had ended the common war against the Ottomans and alarmed Greece, which decided also to maintain its army's mobilization.

Similarly, in northern Macedonia, the tension between Serbia and Bulgaria due to later aspirations over Vardar Macedonia generated many incidents between the nearby armies, prompting Serbia to maintain its army's mobilization.

Following the capture of Kilkis, the Greek army's pace was not quick enough to prevent the destruction of Nigrita, Serres, and Doxato and massacres of non-combatant Greek inhabitants at Demir Hisar and Doxato by the Bulgarian army.

Accordingly the army's strength was further reduced, in recognition of Britain's reduced role in world affairs, outlined in the 1957 Defence White Paper.

Çevik Bir became the Turkish army's deputy chief of general staff shortly after the Somali operation and played a vital role in establishing a Turkish-Israeli entente against the emerging fundamentalism in the Middle East.

The Arab Chronicles, the history of that age, show that Arab awareness of the Franks as a growing military power came only after the Battle of Tours when the Caliph expressed shock at his army's catastrophic defeat.

Even then light cavalry remained an indispensable tool for scouting, screening the army's movements, and harassing the enemy's supply lines until military aircraft supplanted them in this role in the early stages of World War I.

On 15 February 2008 Serbian Minister of Defence Dragan Sutanovac was pictured testing a Barnett crossbow during a public exercise of the Serbian army's Special Forces in Nis, 200 km south of capital Belgrade.

However, his power was undermined in parliament, which chose to disregard the army's authority in a similar fashion to the pre – Civil War parliament.

It is usually — but incorrectly — referred to as " navy commodore ", to avoid confusion with the " air force commodore ", which is equivalent to the navy's captain and army's colonel.

A decisive factor in winning general popularity was the German army's decision to place Christmas trees in its barracks and military hospitals during the 1870-1871 war.

If the soldier should die, one side is removed and kept for the army's official records, while the other side is left attached to the body.

During the months following the Shaba invasion, Mobutu sought solutions to the military problems that had contributed to the army's dismal performance.

In addition to these changes, the army's strength was reduced by 25 percent.

The army's support allowed Amanullah to suppress other claims and imprison those relatives who would not swear loyalty to him.

Seven of the army's nine generals are relatives of the president ; the other two are from his tribe.

In the 1990s, during the army's withdrawal from Estonia, extensive damage was done to discarded buildings and equipment.

General Halder rejected this, saying, " From the army's point of view I regard it as complete suicide, I might just as well put the troops that have landed straight through the sausage machine.

Peter I tried to raise his army's morale to Swedish levels.

Somerset County also played an important part during both World War I and World War II with weapons depots and the manufacturing of the army's woolen blankets.

Pirch I's II Corps followed I Corps off the battlefield and Thieleman's III Corps moved last with the army's various supply parks in tow.

Blucher, outnumbered, with only Russian Lt. General Baron Osten-Sachen's wing of his army on hand ( Yorck's Prussian I Corps was out of supporting distance ) was forced to accept battle, as his army's baggage trains were too close – stuck on the muddy roads between Brienne and Dienville.

Volunteering for the infantry, he was enlisted despite the army's concern about his shortsightedness and physical weakness, and served in World War I from 1915 to 1918.

The 82nd, having already established a combat record in World War I, had earlier been chosen to become one of the army's five new airborne divisions.

In heavy combat, working with Fliegerkorps I, Richthofen's fleet flew 1, 126 sorties on 10 August, supporting the German army's advance on Narva.

The Byzantine army's nadir was reached in 1091, when Alexios I could manage to field only 500 soldiers from the Empire's professional forces.

Under the first Palaiologan emperor, Michael VIII, the army's role took an increasingly offensive role whilst the naval forces of the Empire, weakened since the days of Andronikos I Komnenos, were boosted to include thousands of skilled sailors and some 80 ships.

Despite this, according to Williamson and Millett, he was a great obstacle to innovation of mechanized forces and suppressed the analysis of the British army's performance in World War I initiated by his predecessor, Lord Milne.

They were unsuccessful, but the British action had a beneficial side effect in that the first use of the British Mark I tanks on 15 September created a euphoria that accelerated developments and on 30 September Estienne was appointed Commander of the Artillerie Spéciale: the French army's tank arm.

In 1571, Skuratov was put in charge of the investigation into the causes of the Russian army's defeat by the army of the Crimean Khan Devlet I Giray.

Both the opposing sides were led by their army's I Corps.

In 1917 the U. S. declared war on Germany, and Dr. MacMillan served as a major in the U. S. army's ordnance department during World War I.