And in the role of Will Danaher, Philip Bosco roars and sneers sufficiently to intimidate not only one American but the whole British army, if he chose.

The destruction of the whole Theban army is said to only have been averted by the ability of Epaminondas, who was serving in the campaign, but not as general.

It is almost certain that the whole army is crossing the Danube at Lauingen ...

If Holstein-Beck's Dutch column were destroyed, the Allied army would be split in two: Eugene's wing would be isolated from Marlborough's, passing the initiative to the Franco-Bavarian forces now engaged across the whole plain.

" We had not got forty yards on our retreat ," remembered Captain Peter Drake, the Irish mercenary serving with the French – " when the words sauve qui peut went through the great part, if not the whole army, and put all to confusion "

The French and the British used tanks in their pre-blitzkrieg ' traditional ' role of assisting infantry and dispersed across the whole army so there was not concentration of tanks, while the blitzkrieg method of concentrating tanks, even less in number and less capable in ability, led to victorious success.

Albert took a leading part in the operations which preceded the battle of Sedan, the 4th army being the pivot on which the whole army wheeled round in pursuit of Mac-Mahon ; and the actions of Buzancy and Beaumont on 29 and 30 August 1870 were fought under his direction ; in the Battle of Sedan itself ( 1 September 1870 ), with the troops under his orders, Albert carried out the envelopment of the French on the east and north.

) army of the empire as a whole.

The Liberian army ( AFL ) counterattacked, and retaliated against the whole population of the region.

After a shaky peace of 1486 with King Ferdinand I of Naples failed and Ferdinand repeatedly refused to pay the tariff for his investiture, Innocent excommunicated him in 1489 and invited King Charles VIII of France to come to Italy with an army and take possession of the Kingdom of Naples, a disastrous political event for the Italian peninsula as a whole.

In the army, Nurmi quickly impressed in the athletic competitions: While others marched, Nurmi ran the whole distances with a rifle on his shoulder and a backpack full of sand.

Because of a slower loading time than a musket, they were not adopted by the whole army.

Apologising for having called the monks ' tenants to service in his army when there had been no national call-up, Bruce pledged that, henceforth, he would " never again " require the monks to serve unless it was to " the common army of the whole realm ", for national defence.

Even when in the end the New Model Army — a regular professional army — developed the original decision-compelling spirit permeated the whole organisation as was seen when pitched against regular professional continental troops the Battle of the Dunes during the Interregnum.

He first distinguished himself in the battle of Charnova ( 1807 ) where his regiment held out for 15 hours against the whole army commanded by Napoleon.

* After over 25 years of bloody conflict, the Abbasid army reconquers the whole of Maghrib.

In a defence debate in March 1970, he claimed that " the whole theory of the tactical nuclear weapon, or the tactical use of nuclear weapons, is an unmitigated absurdity " and that it was " remotely improbable " that any group of nations engaged in war would " decide upon general and mutual suicide ", and advocated enlargement of Britain's continental army.

He attended the People's Court, presided over by Roland Freisler, as an army spectator at some of the show trials for officers involved in the July 20 plot where an unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate Hitler at Rastenburg and was disgusted by the whole process.

Author John MacDonald cites it as one of the greatest extant examples of the mastery of military logistics, stating, " probably his greatest military achievement, unsurpassed at the time, was the logistic repositioning, within twenty-four hours, of a whole army corps at the Battle of the Bulge.

But his army was part of a whole organization and his operations part of a great campaign.

In addition, he ordered his army to slaughter a whole village of civilians.

The Polish forces as a whole are considered to have been the 4th largest Allied army in Europe.

A series of swift Prussian and German victories in eastern France culminated in the Battle of Sedan, at which Napoleon III was captured with his whole army on 2 September.

He entered the army at an early age, when Constantius II was emperor of the East, and was sent to serve under Ursicinus, governor of Nisibis in Mesopotamia, and magister militum.

In 891, the Danes invaded Lotharingia, and crushed an East Frankish army at Maastricht.

In the Far East, the British army battled the Japanese in Burma.

The army expanded to about 580, 000 men from a 285 strength of 390, 000, of which 310, 000 men were stationed in the East, most of whom manned the Persian frontier.

This cocktail was introduced by the army of the British East India Company in India.

Germany's nobles, especially those in the East – called Junkers – dominated not only the localities, but also the Prussian court, and especially the Prussian army.

Neither country had a significant army until the 1950s, but East Germany built the Stasi into a powerful secret police that infiltrated every aspect of the society.

After the withdrawal of the Ottoman army the Italians could easily extend their occupation of the country, seizing East Tripolitania, Ghadames, the Djebel and Fezzan with Murzuk during 1913.

By 1669, the Dutch East India Company was the richest private company in history, with a huge fleet of merchant ships and warships, tens of thousands of employees, a private army consisting of thousands of soldiers, and a reputation on the part of its stockholders for high dividend payments.

He supplied weapons to the Uyghur Ili army and Red Army support against Chinese forces, and helped them establish the Second East Turkestan Republic of which Islam was the official state religion.

* 1842 – Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4, 500 men and 12, 000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

Since Poland was regarded as the East European state with the most powerful army, it became imperative to tie Poland to Britain as the best way of ensuring Polish support for Romania, since it was the obvious quid pro quo that Britain would have to do something for Polish security if the Poles were to be induced to do something for Romanian security.

He worked to restore the West German economy from the destruction in World War II to a central position in Europe, rebuilt its army and came to terms with France, helped make possible Western European unification, opposed rival East Germany, and made his nation a member of NATO and a firm ally of the United States.

U. S. President Carter initially hoped that continued American aid to the new government would keep the Sandinistas from forming a doctrinaire Marxist-Leninist government aligned with the Soviet bloc, but the Carter administration allotted the Sandinistas minimal funding to start them off, and the Sandinistas resolutely turned away from the U. S., investing Cuban and East European assistance into a new army of 75, 000.

Economic grievances and political disenfranchisement in East Pakistan led to violent political tensions and army repression, escalating into civil war followed by the third war with India.

Menzies sent the bulk of the army to help the British in the Middle East and Singapore, and told Winston Churchill the Royal Navy should strengthen its Far Eastern forces.

His army came out victorious during the Bardheere jihad, which restored stability in the region and revitalized the East African ivory trade.

Accordingly, the U. S. and a group of allies, including countries as diverse as Egypt, Syria and Czechoslovakia, deployed a massive amount of troops along the Saudi border with Kuwait and Iraq in order to encircle the Iraqi army, the largest in the Middle East.

Twice, in 1933 and 1944, the Uyghurs successfully regained their independence ( backed by the Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin ): the First East Turkestan Republic was a short-lived attempt at independence of land around Kashghar, and it was destroyed by Chinese Muslim army under General Ma Zhancang and Ma Fuyuan at the Battle of Kashgar ( 1934 ).

; 1857: The Indian Mutiny, a widespread revolt in India against the rule of the British East India Company, is sparked by sepoys ( native Indian soldiers ) in the Company's army.

Over the following years, this army overwhelmed the kingdoms of Northumbria and East Anglia.

Alfred was reduced to taking refuge with a small band of followers in the marshes of the Somerset Levels, but after a few months he was able to gather an army and defeated the Danes at the Battle of Edington, bringing about their final withdrawal from Wessex to settle in East Anglia.

* May 1 – East Germany threatens to form its own army.

This Danish army first arrived in Britain in 865 in East Anglia.

* March 5 – The Pakistani army occupies East Pakistan.