The Luxembourg army is integrated into the Multinational Beluga Force under Belgian command.

Officer: Those who have completed high school will enter a special 13-week-basic training in the army as warrant officer, thus visiting the military officer school after for 5 years ( normally in Brussels, Belgium ), before becoming a lieutenant in the Luxembourg army.

NCO: Those who have completed five years of high school and have served a 4 months as voluntary soldier, will do a 9-month-stage at the Infantry Training Department of the Belgian Army in Arlon, before becoming a sergeant in the Luxembourg army.

In late 1944, the German army launched a last-ditch offensive across Belgium, Luxembourg, and northeastern France, popularly known as the Battle of the Bulge, nominally led by German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt.

) After marching through Belgium, Luxembourg and the Ardennes, the German Army advanced, in the latter half of August, into northern France where they met both the French army, under Joseph Joffre, and the initial six divisions of the British Expeditionary Force, under Sir John French.

In a bold envelopment the Duc de Luxembourg, commanding Louis XIV ’ s army of some 35, 000 men, soundly defeated Prince Waldeck ’ s Allied force of approximately 38, 000 men comprising mainly Dutch, German, and Spanish troops.

Although the French War Minister, Louvois, wished to press ahead and secure further success, King Louis overruled him and ordered Luxembourg to reinforce the Dauphin ’ s army on the Rhine and forego any major siege.

Meanwhile, detachments from Boufflers force under Rubantel had augmented Luxembourg ’ s army, which continued its march, camping at Boussu on 27 June.

A fortified position at Froidmont ( garrisoned by about 100 men ) was soon compelled to surrender after artillery was brought across the river ; a simultaneous attack by French dragoons seized an enemy redoubt that had been abandoned at the approach of Luxembourg ’ s army.

Luxembourg divided his forces to attack both flanks of the Allied army – an audacious plan that in order for it to succeed would require secrecy and deception.

François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg | Luxembourg divides his forces and attacks Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck | Waldeck ’ s army on both flanks.

Had the Allied commander realised that Luxembourg had split his army in two, he might have overwhelmed the isolated French left before the right came into position, but he did not.

It resulted in the victory of the French under Marshal François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg against a joint English-Scottish-Dutch-German army under Prince William of Orange.

The day after Louis XIV issued his manifesto – well before his enemies could have known its details – the main French army crossed the Rhine as a prelude to investing Philippsburg, the key post between Luxembourg ( annexed in 1684 ) and Strasbourg ( seized in 1681 ), and other Rhineland towns.

On 7 June 1795, Jourdan's army concluded the long but successful Siege of Luxembourg.

After serving as a musician in the army, he naturalised as a Luxembourg citizen in 1849.

In 1695, when François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg died, he obtained the command of the army in Flanders ( see War of the Grand Alliance ); William III found him a far easier opponent than the " little hunchback " ( the duc de Luxembourg ).

The Battle of Landen ( or Neerwinden ), in the current Belgian province of Flemish Brabant, was a battle in the Nine Years ' War, fought in present-day Belgium on 29 July 1693 between the French army of Marshal Luxembourg and the Allied army of King William III of England.

Marshal Luxembourg, having with a series of feints induced William to detach portions of his army, rapidly drew together superior numbers in the face of the Allied camps, which lay in a rough semicircle from Eliksem on the right to Neerlanden, thence along the Landen brook on the left ( 18 – 28 July 1693 ).

Marshal Luxembourg had won his greatest victory, thanks in no small measure to Feuquières ' exploit ; but had the assaults on Neerwinden been made as Napoleon would have done, with one-half or two-thirds of his forces instead of one-third, the victory would have been decisive and Feuquières would have won his laurels not for forcing the decision at the cost of using up his cavalry, but for annihilating the remnants of the Allied army in the pursuit.

Every soldier in the army has, somewhere, relatives who are close to starvation.

By-passing the military junta which has ruled Turkey since the overthrow of Premier Adnan Menderes 17 months ago, the army general staff, led by Gen. Cedvet Sunay, had set a deadline for the parties to join in a national coalition government.

The Angolan army has around 29, 000 " ghost workers " who remain enrolled in the ranks of the FAA and therefore receive a salary.

Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

This last scenario has long been discarded because of the lack of any evidence of a permanent army.

One modern scholar has written " It is almost certain not only that at no time in his life did he ever see, let alone command, a Roman army, but that, throughout the twenty-three years of his reign, he never went within five hundred miles of a legion ".

) Later, when Vortigern's power has faded, the two brothers return from exile with a large army, destroy Vortigern and become friends with Merlin.

* Miles Gloriosus: ( Latin for " boastful soldier ," the archetype of the braggart soldier in Roman comedies ) A captain in the Roman army to whom Marcus Lycus has promised Philia.

By the time Army of Darkness turns into a retread of Jason and the Argonauts, featuring an army of fighting skeletons, the film has fallen into a ditch between parody and spectacle ".

The Brazilian military, especially the army, has become more involved in civic-action programs, education, health care, and constructing roads, bridges, and railroads across the nation.

Brazil's army has strict up-or-out retirement rules, which were developed in the mid-1960s by President Castelo Branco.

Considering the short conscript tour ( usually nine to ten months ), the army has a high number of conscripts: 125, 000.

Because of the need for literate and skilled young men to handle modern weapons, the army has served as a training ground for a large reserve force.

Since the January 1986 restructuring, the High Command has been composed of the seven regional commanders, the chief of staff, and the minister of army.

Throughout history, the army has played a major role in defending the country's sovereignty.

He has been criticized for allowing Clérambault to maintain a force of infantry in Blenheim so large that it denied the main army manpower it needed.

Pausing for a moment he scribbled on the back of an old tavern bill a note addressed to his wife, Sarah: " I have no time to say more but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory.

An army that can trust the commands of their leaders with conviction in its success invariably has a higher morale than an army that doubts its every move.

It has been argued by John Mosier that, while the French soldiers in 1940 were better trained than German soldiers, as were the Americans later, and the German army was the least mechanised of the major armies, its leadership cadres were both larger and superior and their high standards of leadership were the primary reason for the successes of the German army in World War Two as it had been in World War One.

Otto has also divided his army into three groups:

The army uses its artillery systems and tanks, but well-equipped insurgents have probably managed to destroy over 20 of Chad's 60 tanks, and probably shot down a Mi-24 Hind gunship, which has bombed enemy positions near the border with Sudan.

The situation has deteriorated since early 2006 and the regular army and the presidential guard regularly execute extortion, torture, killings and other human rights violations.

In 1949, José Figueres Ferrer abolished the army ; and since then, Costa Rica has been one of the few countries to operate within the democratic system without the assistance of a military.