Drafted into the Austrian army, he rebelliously rejected discipline, wangled a Vienna billet, went on painting.

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 ".

It was only after the raids were underway that a call went out to landowners to gather men for battle, and large regions could be devastated before the newly assembled army arrived.

A French reconnaissance under the Marquis de Silly went forward to probe the enemy, but were driven off by Allied troops who had deployed to cover the pioneers of the advancing army, labouring to bridge the numerous streams in the area and improve the passage leading westwards to Höchstädt.

At 13: 00 the batteries went into action ; a little later two Allied columns set out from the extremities of their line and attacked the flanks of the Franco-Bavarian army.

" 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 "

After his discharge from the army in August 1865, Corbett went back to work as a hatter, first in Boston, later in Connecticut, and by 1870 in New Jersey.

After the defeat of his liberal army at the Battle of Lircay on April 17, 1830, Freire, like O ' Higgins, went into exile in Peru.

Later in 498 BC, Duke Ding personally went with an army to lay siege to Cheng in an attempt to raze its walls to the ground, but he did not succeed.

From Mercia the army went north, stopping at Chester-le-Street, before resuming the march accompanied by a fleet of ships.

Owen of Strathclyde was defeated and Symeon states that the army went as far north as Dunnottar and Fortriu, while the fleet is said to have raided Caithness, by which a much larger area, including Sutherland, is probably intended.

Washington's army of 11, 000 went into winter quarters at Valley Forge north of Philadelphia in December 1777.

German dock workers went on strike, refusing to unload shipments of military supplies send from the West to aid the Polish army, and Poland realized the need for a port city it was in complete control of, economically and politically.

Largely outnumbered, the Prussian army was crushed at Jena-Auerstedt in 1806 ; Napoleon captured Berlin and went as far as Eastern Prussia.

In 105 BC, the allies annihilated another Roman army near Arausio, and went on to harry Spain, Gaul, Noricum, and northern Italy.

The British Ministry of Defence and Clarence House made a joint announcement on 22 February 2007 that Prince Harry would be deployed with his regiment to the front line in Iraq, to serve as part of the 1st Mechanised Brigade of the 3rd Mechanised Divisiona move supported by Harry, who had stated that he would leave the army if he was told to remain in safety while his regiment went to war ; he said: " There's no way I'm going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.

The conflict started on 12 July 2006, and continued until a United Nations-brokered ceasefire went into effect in the morning on 14 August 2006, though it formally ended on 8 September 2006 when Israel lifted its naval blockade of Lebanon, leaving more than 1500 dead civilians and still the Israeli army couldn't penetrate the Lebanese land borders and was driven back by Hezbollah suffering heavy casualties and defeated.

When the Mauritanian miners went on a two-month strike in the late 1960s the army intervened and eight miners were killed.

By 1992 the national army fragmented into regional militias under local warlords because of the fall of the Soviet Union which stopped supplying the army and later in 1992 when the Afghan government lost power and the country went into a state of anarchy.

The Polish prince went on pursuit, and inflicted heavy losses on the German army.

Born at Marostica, in the Republic of Venice, in his youth he served for a time in the Milanese army, but in 1574 he went to study medicine at Padua.

Abandoned by Louis and wary of facing his father's army in battle, Richard went to Henry II's court at Poitiers on 23 September and begged for forgiveness, weeping and falling at the feet of Henry, who gave Richard the kiss of peace.

His brother Francis Clere Hitchcock went on to join the British army and fought during World War I where he was awarded the Military Cross and rose to the rank of Colonel.

Robert later went there with another army to assist his brother.

To the west of the Petite Gheete rises the plateau of Mont St. André ; a second plain, the plateau of Jandrenouille – upon which the Anglo-Dutch army amassed – rises to the east.

In 1799, British ships harassed Bonaparte's army as it marched east and north through Palestine, and played a crucial part in Bonaparte's defeat at the Siege of Acre, when the barges carrying the siege train were captured and the French storming parties were bombarded by British ships anchored offshore.

) expanded its occupied area and linked up with the Serbian army to the northwest, while its main forces turned east towards Kavala, reaching the Bulgarians.

On 20 November 284, the army of the east gathered on a hill outside Nicomedia.

Temmu assembled an army and marched from Yoshino to the east, to attack the capital of Omikyō in a counterclockwise movement.

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.

In the east, there were decisive victories against the Russian army, the trapping and defeat of large parts of the Russian contingent at the Battle of Tannenberg, followed by huge Austrian and German successes.

Justinian was appointed consul in 521, and later commander of the army of the east.

With his southern flank weakening, Philip was forced to withdraw in the east and turn south himself to contain John's army.

* 1962 – Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article " Bedingt abwehrbereit " (" Conditionally prepared for defense ") about a NATO manoeuver called " Fallex 62 ", which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr ( Germany's army ) facing the communist threat from the east at the time.

Henry FitzEmpress returned to England again at the start of 1153 with a small army, supported in the north and east of England by Ranulf of Chester and Hugh Bigod.

First, groups of traders and Cossacks began to enter the area, and then the Russian army began to set up forts further and further east.

The Duke of Wellington and his army of British and Portuguese gradually pushed the French out of Spain and in early 1814, as Napoleon was being driven back in the east by the Prussians, Austrians, and Russians, Wellington invaded southern France.

The Roman army soon forces the capitulation of Clupea, a town 40 miles ( 64 kilometres ) east of Carthage.

* Mesopotamia: Muhammad ibn Marwan invades the Byzantine Armenian provinces east of the Euphrates ; the local commander Baanes surrenders before the large Arab army and the population accepts a Muslim governor.

After doing so and escaping the army of The Watcher by fleeing in an underground tunnel, the Legion heads east to meet up with the Avatara Maeldun and his southern garrison.

After this, The Watcher's forces press forward and tear through the army of The Deceiver, moving east of the Cloudspine and away from the army of the Province.

Finally, Buller himself would lead the major part of the army corps to relieve Ladysmith to the east.

As Roberts's army occupied Pretoria, the Boer fighters in the Orange Free State had been driven into a fertile area known as the Brandwater Basin in the north east of the Republic.

* The Roman army marched east to repel a Parthian invasion of Mesopotamia, they loot the royal palace at Ctesiphon and capture an enormous number of its inhabitants as slaves.

" M. K. Dziewanowski has noted that " if Polish forces fighting in the east and west were added to the resistance fighters, Poland had the fourth largest Allied army in the war ( after the USSR, the U. S. and Britain )".

An obscure passage in the Historia Augusta life of Gallienus states Gallienus had sent an army under Heraclianus to the east that had been annihilated by Zenobia.

Napoleon assumed personal command in the east and bolstered the army there for his counter-attack on Austria.