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The army of La Mancha was placed hastily in front of Almonacid and in both flanks: the Vigodet division, a little delayed, in the extreme right, with great part of the cavalry ; they followed by its left, the Castejón division, established on the hill of Utrera, the Zeraín division to its side covering the call hill Santo, and the one of Lacy, next to the Guazalate stream ; 3ª, ( of Girón ), was distributed between the height of the Cerrojones, it carried far left and true key of all the front line, and the hill de la Cruz or of the castle, call thus by the ruins del that is becoming in its top, to serve as reserve.
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The French army was renamed La Grande Armée in 1805 and Napoleon used propaganda and nationalism to control the French population.
He commanded the largest army, and ruled the largest and most wealthy kingdom of Europe, a kingdom which was the European centre of arts and intellectual thought ( La Sorbonne ) at the time.
Pushed by his barons, John eventually launched an invasion in 1206, disembarking with his army at La Rochelle during one of Philip's absences, but the campaign was a disaster.
In another attempt on Madrid, his army was severely defeated by the Marquis de Bay at the Battle of La Gudina, being forced to withdraw its troops from Spain.
* August 16 – Battle of the Spurs ( or Battle of Guinegate ): English troops under Henry VIII defeat a French army under Marshal La Palice.
In 1825, after the decisive victory of the republicans at Ayacucho over the Spanish army in the course of the Spanish American wars of independence, the city's full name was changed to La Paz de Ayacucho ( meaning The Peace of Ayacucho ).
In 1882, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky quoted " La Marseillaise " to represent the invading French army in his 1812 Overture.
In May the German army captured a French document at La Ville-aux-Bois describing a new system of defence.
Jean Pierre Mégnin ( 1828 – 1905 ), an army veterinarian, published many articles and books on various subjects including the books Faune des Tombeaux and La Faune des Cadavres, which are considered to be among the most important forensic entomology books in history.
* Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle ( 1760 – 1836 ), army captain, author of France's national anthem, La Marseillaise.
In a famous incident, La Grande Mademoiselle, the daughter of Gaston, the Duke of Orléans, convinced her father to issue an order for the Parisian forces to act, before she then entered the Bastille and personally ensured that the commander turned the fortress's cannon on Turenne's army, causing significant casualties and enabling Condé's army's safe withdrawal.
He condemned the assault of some Spanish officers on the journal La Veu de Catalunya in 1905, and was forced to abandon the army.
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to the north-west at Ruminghem, opposite the French army under Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de la Force at Zouafques ; after being joined by Imperialist reinforcements under Ottavio Piccolomini, he marched to attack La Force, and was defeated with the loss of 2, 000 men killed or captured at Zouafques.
to the north-west at Ruminghem, opposite the French army under Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de la Force at Zouafques ; after being joined by Imperialist reinforcements under Ottavio Piccolomini, he marched to attack La Force, and was defeated with the loss of 2, 000 men killed or captured ( action at Zouafques, exact date unknown but around 21 June ).
In 1627, Richelieu ordered the army to besiege the Huguenot stronghold of La Rochelle ; the Cardinal personally commanded the besieging troops.
Richelieu, however, responded aggressively ; after La Rochelle capitulated, he personally led the French army to northern Italy to restrain Spain.
The first Fort Lewis army post was constructed in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, in 1878, and was relocated in 1880 to Hesperus, Colorado, on the southern slopes of the La Plata Mountains.
The period of his leadership is known in Mexican history as La Reforma del Norte ( The Reform of the North ), and constituted a liberal political and social revolution with major institutional consequences: the expropriation of church lands, the subordination of army to civilian control, liquidation of peasant communal land holdings, the separation of church and state in public affairs, and also the almost-complete disenfranchisement of bishops, priests, nuns and lay brothers.
Bayou La Batre is mentioned in the 1994 film Forrest Gump and in Winston Groom's book of the same name on which the movie is based as the home of Forrest's army buddy Benjamin Buford " Bubba " Blue, and later as the home of Forrest Gump himself during his time as a shrimp boat captain.
The Protestant army laid siege to several cities in the Poitou and Saintonge regions ( to protect La Rochelle ), and then Angoulême and Cognac.
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Assuming that the French did not have more than 14, 000 men, he led to the army of La Mancha towards Toledo, reuniting all forces on 10 August in Almonacid.
After clearing La Mancha of brigands by a vigorous policy of suppression in 1838 he was appointed captain-general of Old Castile, and commander-in-chief of the army of reserves.
The Battle of Consuegra was fought on August 15, 1097 near the village of Consuegra in the province of Castile-La Mancha between the Castilian and Leonese army of Alfonso VI and the Almoravids under Yusuf ibn Tashfin.
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Sherman felt that his own part in the campaign was skillful and well executed but that the slowness of a part of his army robbed him of the larger fruits of victory.
As always, the ranks worked out new and better tactics, but there was brilliance in the way the field commands adopted these methods and in the way the army commanders incorporated them into their military thinking.
It was hit by a shell fired by the bombarding Venetian army and the great central portion of the temple was blown to smithereens.
In late December, the American army moved from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge, and although the distance was only 13 miles, the journey took more than a week because of the bad weather, the barefooted and almost naked men.
He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??
For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.
He explained his errand, but without bothering much to make it plausible, for he felt something well up in him which was the reason why he had fled the army.
The form was swathed in an army blanket, much patched, fastened at the neck with a cord.
Jones relented, he did not order his men to apply the torch -- the drove of livestock was driven up the valley, via Beverly, and across the mountains to feed and serve the Confederate army, while Jones and his raiders turned toward Buckhannon to join forces with Imboden.
I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.
An agreement between the leaders of four parties which contested indecisive elections on Oct. 15 was reached after almost 18 hours of political bargaining under the threat of an army coup d'etat.
From the standpoint of the army of duffers, however, this was easily the most heartening exhibition they had had since Ben Hogan fell upon evil ways during his heyday and scored an 11 in the Texas open.
If internal frictions arose, they could be handled by the 25,000-man Congolese army, the Force Publique, which had been trained and was still officered by white Belgians.
Control of the government -- such control as there was and such government as there was -- passed into the hands of Joseph Mobutu, chief of staff of the Congolese army.
The `` hold-back '', as Pentagon mutterers labeled it, apparently was a temporary expedient intended to insure that the army services are built up gradually and, thus, the new funds spent prudently.
Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.
I was twenty-one back then, in the army, and fog put our plane down at Orly instead of Rhine-Main.
I had a pocketful of money, which was unusual when I was in the army, and the plane would be grounded all night.
He was replaced by George Meade, who followed Lee into Pennsylvania for the Gettysburg Campaign, which was a victory for the Union, though Lee's army avoided capture.
Meade's failure to capture Lee's army as it retreated from Gettysburg, and the continued passivity of the Army of the Potomac, persuaded Lincoln that a change in command was needed.
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