`` The commander has failed in his duty if he has not won victory -- for that is his duty ''.

The Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar a grandson of Aurangzeb, is also known to have sent a letter to the Ottomans bu this time it was received by the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damad Ibrahim Pasha providing a graphic description of the informing him of the efforts of the Mughal commander Syed Hassan Ali Khan Barha against the Rajput and Maratha rebellion.

The arrangement of crowning a successor as royal prince and military commander is well known among other Germanic tribes, such as the Swedes and Franks, to whom the Anglo-Saxons were closely related.

The convention, for the first time in the history of international aviation law, recognizes certain powers and immunities of the aircraft commander who on international flights may restrain any person ( s ) he has reasonable cause to believe is committing or is about to commit an offense liable to interfere with the safety of persons or property on board or who is jeopardizing good order and discipline.

Paul is rescued from the mob by a Roman commander () and accused of being a revolutionary, " ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes ", teaching resurrection of the dead, and thus imprisoned in Caesarea ().

Of course importance is a matter of perspective ; what is important to a divisional commander is rarely the same as what is important to an infantry platoon commander.

Wellington is better-known to posterity, because he led one of the two Allied armies at the final decisive victory of the Napoleonic Wars ( the battle of Waterloo in 1815 ), although Wellington's superior reputation is perhaps also because he only once faced Napoleon, whereas Charles was confronted by Napoleon in battle more times than any other commander.

The Count of Mérode-Westerloo, commander of the Flemish troops in Tallard's army wrote – " One thing is certain: we delayed our march from Alsace for far too long and quite inexplicably.

The first Batavi commander we know of is named Chariovalda, who led a charge across the Visurgin ( Weser ) against the Cherusci led by Arminius during the campaigns of Germanicus in Germania Transrhenana.

* Joshua's vision of the " commander of Yahweh's army " ( 5: 13 – 15 ) is reminiscent of the divine revelation to Moses in the burning bush ( Ex.

The President of the Republic () is the head of state and the commander in chief of the Croatian armed forces and is directly elected to serve a five-year term.

The president is the commander in chief of the armed forces, has the procedural duty of appointing the prime minister with the consent of the Sabor ( Parliament ) through a simple majority vote, and has some influence on foreign policy.

The Cimmerian is a talented fighter, but his travels have given him vast experience in other trades, especially as a thief ; he is also a talented commander, tactician and strategist, as well as a born leader.

He was David Soslan, an Alan prince, to whom the 18th-century Georgian scholar Prince Vakhushti ascribes descent from the early 11th-century Georgian king George I. David, a capable military commander, became Tamar's major supporter and was instrumental in defeating the rebellious nobles rallied behind Yuri.

: Rear Admiral Yuri Kellarny is the commander of a Zeon military division in Europe and an old acquaintance of the Sahalin siblings.

Yuri Malenchenko, Expedition 7 commander inside the Zvezda Module of the ISS.

He launched with two crewmates, Russian commander Yuri Gidzenko and Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori.

Yuri Gidzenko served aboard Mir as the commander of the long duration Mir EO-20 ( Euromir 95 ) expedition from September 3, 1995 to February 29, 1996, and logged 179 days in space.

After successfully completing a Research Cosmonaut training course at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in present-day Russia, Akiyama launched aboard the Soyuz TM-11 mission to the Mir space station on December 2, 1990 along with mission commander Viktor Afanasyev and flight engineer Musa Manarov.

Yuri Gidzenko was designated commander and pilot of the two-day Soyuz mission to the station, had one previous spaceflight, which was a 180 day stay aboard Mir.

Journalist and human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov was shot and killed in Moscow on 19 January 2009 leaving a press conference about his last minute appeal against the early release of Yuri Budanov, a former commander imprisoned for kidnapping, abuse of power and aggravated murder of a young Chechen woman.

: The second commander of the Hittite archers, he is first introduced in book thirteen of the series, having gone to war with Egypt along with Mursili II, as Shubas ' superior officer is serving the second army in Arzawa with Yuri.

: The second commander of the Hittite infantry, he is first introduced in book thirteen of the series, having gone to war with Egypt along with Mursili II, as Zora's superior officer is serving the second army in Arzawa with Yuri.

David, a capable military commander, became Tamar's major supporter and was instrumental in defeating the rebellious nobles rallied behind Yuri.

On 29 November 2000 the then Far East Military District commander, General Colonel Yuri Yakubov, was reported in Vremya Novostei as saying that only ' four fully-staffed operational regiments and several operational divisions ' in the district were combat ready.

Soviet Army Generals include Ivan Chernyakhovsky ( the youngest Soviet World War II front commander, killed in East Prussia ), Aleksei Antonov ( head of the General Staff in the closing stages of World War II, awarded the Order of Victory ), Issa Pliyev ( an Ossetian-born World War II commander who played a major role in the Cuban missile crisis ) and Yuri Andropov ( who held the rank as head of the KGB ).

In 1658, the Russian military commander Yuri Baryatinsky defeated the army of hetman Ivan Vyhovsky's brother Konstantin near Vasylkiv, after the Ukrainian hetman switched the sides in favour of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

No Soviet civilian administration was set up, the USSR simply administered it through the military commander of Porkkala, a post held ( from an unclear date ) until 1 January 1956 to Sergey Ivanovich Kabanov ( 1901 – 1973 ), the former Commander of Hanko naval base.

During a test of the R-16 ICBM on October 24, 1960, the test missile exploded on the pad, killing the first commander of the SRF, Chief Marshal of Artillery Mitrofan Ivanovich Nedelin.

* Rafael Ivanovich Kapreliants – ( 1909 – 1984 ) pilot and Air Force commander.

Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin (; June 16, 1894 – October 17, 1949 ) was a Soviet military commander.

All of this made his cousin Dmitry Ivanovich Shuisky, who previously had to surrender his post of the commander of the Muscovite army in favour of Mikhail, envious.

Giorgi Kvinitadze (;, Georgy Ivanovich Kvinitadze ; his real surname was Chikovani, ჩიქოვანი ) ( August 21, 1874 — August 7, 1970 ) was a Georgian military commander who rose from an officer in the Imperial Russian army to commander-in-chief of the Democratic Republic of Georgia.

Gordey Ivanovich Levchenko (, February 1, 1897, Dubrovka, Ukraine-1981 ) was a Soviet naval commander and admiral from 1944.

In January – July, 1993 Malenchenko trained as commander of the Mir-14 reserve crew.

Malenchenko served as the Soyuz commander, and after docking with the ISS they exchanged with the resident crew onboard ISS and became the seventh station crew, Expedition 7.

He was the commander of the Expedition 7, and during his stay on the station, Malenchenko became the first person to get married in space.

He developed a reputation as a military commander during wars with Russia and the Ottoman Empire, as an early modernizer of Persia's armed forces and institutions, and for his death before his father, Fath Ali Shah.

The last commander of the Red Guards was Kullervo Manner, who led the final retreat into Russia.

Dąbrowski, for whom the anthem is named, was a commander in the failed 1794 Kościuszko Uprising against Russia.

In 1777, he served as regent during Gustav III's stay in Russia, in 1780 he served as formal chief commander during the King's stay in Spa.

The Russian commander of the destroyed Baltic fleet, Admiral Zinovy Rozhdestvenski ( who was badly wounded in the battle ) attempted to take full responsibilities for the disaster, and the grateful authorities ( and rulers of Russia ) acquitted him at his trial.

After his promotion to lieutenant commander in December 1912, he graduated from the Naval War College and was assigned as naval attaché to Russia during the height of World War I, from 1915-1917.

In December 1992, Russia withdrew all its vessels and ammunition from the Poti naval base, but an ethnic Georgian commander of one landing ship refused to obey Moscow ’ s order and displayed a Georgian flag.

Blücher, the Prussian commander, suggested that the battle should be remembered as la Belle Alliance, to commemorate the European Seventh Coalition of Britain, Russia, Prussia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Sardinia, and a number of German States which had all joined the coalition to defeat the French Emperor.

The commander of the Soyuz was Alexander Kaleri ( Russia ).

Although on 2 September 1999, the militia commander Ibn Al-Khattab announced that " The mujahideen of Dagestan are going to carry out reprisals in various places across Russia ," on 14 September he denied responsibility for the blasts, adding that he was fighting the Russian army, not women and children.

In 1916, during the First World War, he became commander of the Second Brigade of the Polish Legion, in particular the units which fought against Russia on the Eastern Front.

His body was honourably buried on the field by Marshal Daun and General Lacy, the son of his old commander in Russia.

Serving during Napoleon's invasion of Russia, under Joachim Murat, and in the Campaign of 1812 – 1813, he commanded a cavalry division, becoming noted in the battles of Borodino ( being the first French commander to enter Moscow, but was later forced to retreat with heavy losses ), Bautzen, Lützen, Leipzig ( where he was wounded ), and Hanau.

After Russia suffered a major defeat and Cantemir went into exile, the Ottomans took charge of the succession to the throne of Moldavia, soon followed by similar measures in Wallachia ( in this case, prompted by Ştefan Cantacuzino's alliance with the Habsburg commander Prince Eugene of Savoy in the closing stages of the Great Turkish War ).

In 1508 he fought against Russia in battle of Orsza and in 1509 against Moldavia in battle of Chocim and upon Dniestr as a commander of his own chorągiew.

He was 34 years old, and a commander in the Royal Navy serving with the North Russia Relief Force when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC:

The treaty was negotiated on behalf of Russia by Lieutenant-General Pavel Potemkin, commander of Russia ’ s troops in Astrakhan, a delegate and cousin of General Prince Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, who was the official Russian plenipotentiary.

By March 1942 he had been promoted to Major General and made commander of the 4. Panzer-Division in Tula, Russia.

A grandson of Nicholas I of Russia, he was commander in chief of the Russian armies on the main front in the first year of the war, and was later a successful commander in the Caucasus.

The treaty, signed by the Russian commander Mikhail Kutuzov, was ratified by Alexander I of Russia just one day before Napoleon launched his invasion of Russia.