-- Two Americans and seven Cubans were executed by firing squads today as Castro military tribunals began decreeing the death penalty for captured invasion forces and suspected collaborators.

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

After Darius died, his son Xerxes I restarted the preparations for a second invasion of Greece, which finally began in 480 BC.

The epic second Persian invasion of Greece finally began in 480 BC, and the Persians met with initial success at the battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium.

Bob Denard began to take measures to stop the coming invasion.

For the first time following the Anglo-Saxon invasion, coins began circulating in Kent during his reign.

In 1086, the Almoravid invasion of the Iberian Peninsula through and around Gibraltar began.

In rural areas, many commoners began to form militias and arm themselves against a foreign invasion: some attacked the châteaux of the nobility as part of a general agrarian insurrection known as " la Grande Peur " (" the Great Fear ").

The invasion of Poland began World War II.

Germany subsequently invaded France, Denmark and Norway, and the Netherlands, and began bombing Great Britain in preparation for an invasion.

The Roman invasion of Britain began in earnest in AD 43.

The tribes began a joint invasion of Gaul, including the Roman Provincia Narbonensis, which led to the Tigurini ’ s victory over a Roman army under L. Cassius Longinus near Agendicum in 107 BC, in which the consul was killed.

The war began when Iraq invaded Iran, launching a simultaneous invasion by air and land 22 September 1980 following a long history of border disputes, and fuelled by fears of Shia Islam insurgency among Iraq's long-suppressed Shia majority influenced by the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

During the early morning of 22 June 1941, Adolf Hitler broke the pact by implementing Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Soviet held territories and the Soviet Union that began the war on the Eastern Front.

In June 1941, weeks after the German invasion began, Stalin also directed employing a scorched earth policy of destroying the infrastructure and food supplies of areas before the Germans could seize them, and that partisans were to be set up in evacuated areas.

With the growing possibility of an Allied invasion in the Balkans, the Axis began to divert more resources to the destruction of the Partisans main force and its high command.

Moreover, the pact erased the legal distinction between war and peace since the signatories, having renounced the use of war began to wage wars without declaring them as evidenced by the U. S. intervention in Central America, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935, the Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939, and the German and Soviet Union invasions of Poland.

The German invasion, made up of the 1st, 2nd, and 10th Panzer Divisions began at 04: 35.

Following a long record of instigating localized conflicts throughout the 1930s, Japan began a full-scale invasion of China on 7 July 1937.

Japan began as a permanent member of the Council, but withdrew in 1933 after the League voiced opposition to its invasion of Manchuria.

This subdivision, however, together with the independent indocility of the duchies, deprived the kingdom of unity, making it weak even when compared to the Byzantines, especially after they began to recover from the initial invasion.

The Red Army began the war while still in the process of reorganizing its armored and mechanized formations, most of which were destroyed during the first months of the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

Within the first few days of the invasion, Germany began conducting massacres of Polish and Jewish civilians and POWs.

Before the Mongol invasion, Chinese dynasties reportedly had approximately 120 million inhabitants ; after the conquest was completed in 1279, the 1300 census reported roughly 60 million people.

It is estimated that approximately 60 – 70 % of Pakistani troops are deployed along the India-Pakistan border to counter an invasion threat from India.

During the Italian campaign of 1943, 130, 000 Free French soldiers fought on the Allied side, and, by the time of the Normandy invasion, Free French forces numbered approximately a half-million regulars and more than 100, 000 French Forces of the Interior ( FFI ).

On March 3, 1992, Erhard sued CBS, San Jose Mercury News reporter John Hubner and approximately twenty other defendants for libel, defamation, slander, and invasion of privacy, as well as conspiracy.

Despite this invasion, farmers grew approximately $ 15 million worth of produce yearly in the late 1980s.

The band played most major festivals throughout Europe in 2010, including Reading and Leeds, and headlined the Fusion Festival in front of approximately 20, 000 people ( which led to a massive stage invasion by thousands of fans ).

By May, the Greek forces consisted of approximately 9, 000 troops: three battalions of the 5th Division of the Hellenic Army, which had been left behind when the rest of the unit had been transferred to the mainland to oppose the German invasion ; the Cretan Gendarmerie ( a battalion-sized force ); the Heraklion Garrison Battalion, a defence battalion made up mostly of transport and logistics personnel ; and remnants of the 12th and 20th Hellenic Army divisions, which had escaped to Crete and were organised under British command.

The Italian invasion carried through to Sidi Barrani, approximately 95 km inside Egypt.

Established from the earlier UN oil-for-food program, the CPA was authorized to manage the DFI, which took in approximately $ 20 billion in the year after the invasion.

There were also problems with its penetrative power ; although the PIAT was theoretically able to penetrate approximately of armour, field experience during the Allied invasion of Sicily, which was substantiated by trials conducted during 1944, confirmed otherwise.

The crown would cede that the 1863 invasion and confiscation was wrongful and apologize for its actions, while the tribe would accept a compensation of cash and some government controlled lands amounting to a total of approximately $ 171 million NZD.

At the time of " Operation Anvil ", also known as " Operation Dragoon " ( the Allied invasion of Southern France approximately six weeks after the D-Day invasion at Normandy ), Bank and his French partisans drove the German forces away from the beachhead ahead of the Allied troops, liberating a number of French towns before the regular forces arrived.

The last centuries before the Roman invasion saw an influx of mixed Germanic-Celtic speaking refugees from Gaul ( approximately modern day France and Belgium ) known as the Belgae, who were displaced as the Roman Empire expanded around 50 BC.

When the invasion did come on 10 May 1940, the Germans were not only in possession of more aircraft and weapons than the western Allies ( among them were approximately 400 aircraft from the RAF, including Hawker Hurricane fighters and outclassed Fairey Battle bombers ), but many of them were veterans of the war in Spain and so had brought their comrades up to speed as to how to conduct the air element of the war by " preparing the ground " for the Panzer divisions of the German Army.

However, the RPF invasion, which displaced approximately 600, 000 people into crowded internally displaced person camps, also radicalized the Hutu populace.

The Green Line became impassable following the July 1974 invasion by Turkey which intervened by air, sea, and land, capturing approximately 8 % of Cyprus territory in response to a short lived Greek Cypriot coup.

The date of 2158 agrees with the above reasoning about the invasion having started in approximately 2157.

Pacaya is an active complex volcano in Guatemala, which first erupted approximately 23, 000 years ago and has erupted at least 23 times since the Spanish invasion of Guatemala.

Following the invasion, approximately 2, 000 Army soldiers were sent to occupy the Complexo do Alemão.

Meehan remained in command of the company until the Normandy invasion, when at approximately 1: 15 a. m. on June 6, 1944, the C-47 Skytrain transporting the company headquarters section was shot down by German anti-aircraft fire, killing everyone on board.

The study estimates that the risk of death specifically from violence in Iraq during the period after the invasion was approximately 58 times higher than in the period before the war, with the CI95 being 8. 1-419, meaning that there is a 97. 5 % chance that the risk of death from violence after the invasion is at least 8. 1 times higher than it was before.