* 1918 – World War I: The Flight over Vienna mission, when a dozen Italian Servizio Aeronautico single-engined military aircraft drop leaflets over the main capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, demanding that both Austrian hostilities against Italy be ended, and for Austria to end its alliance with the German Empire.

During the Second World War, Bletchley Park was the site of the United Kingdom's main decryption establishment, the Government Code and Cypher School ( GC & CS ), where ciphers and codes of several Axis countries were decrypted, most importantly the ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines.

One of Adam's main sources had been the German bishop Adalvard the Younger of Sigtuna and later of Skara as hinted in Scholia 119.

The Red Army was able to regroup far to the rear of the main battle line, and eventually defeat the German forces for the first time in the Battle of Moscow.

The main evidence of Liddell Hart's deceit and " tendentious " report of history can be found in his letters to the German Generals Erich von Manstein and Heinz Guderian, as well as relatives and associates of Erwin Rommel.

The army operates German Leopard 1 and 2 tanks as its main battle tanks.

Meanwhile, German tanks were continuously upgraded with better main guns, in addition to other improvements.

Over 80 British destroyers and 60 German torpedo-boats took part in the Battle of Jutland, which involved pitched small-boat actions between the main fleets, and several foolhardy attacks by unsupported destroyers on capital ships.

" His next order was to turn away by two points, and, in any case, a few minutes later he reversed his fleet's course to fulfill its anticipated role of leading the German forces towards the main British fleet.

* Failing in his role as fast armoured scout to report to Jellicoe the exact position of the German ships he encountered, or to keep in contact with the German fleet while he retreated to the main British Grand Fleet.

This information was important to Jellicoe to know how best to position the main fleet to make the most of its eventual engagement with the German High seas fleet.

Edvard Munch (; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944 ) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.

This situation changed after 1974 when the Film-Fernseh-Abkommen ( Film and Television Accord ) was agreed between the Federal Republic's main broadcasters, ARD and ZDF, and the German Federal Film Board ( a government body created in 1968 to support film-making in Germany ).

Most of the futuristic-themed films of this period have been lost, but critics cite Thais by Anton Giulio Bragaglia ( 1917 ) as one of the most influential, serving as the main inspiration for the upcoming German Expressionist cinema.

Its main competitors were the Bélinograf by Édouard Belin first, then since the 1930s the Hellschreiber, invented in 1929 by German inventor Rudolf Hell, a pioneer in mechanical image scanning and transmission.

The main German formations then advanced rapidly eastwards from Hanko and took Helsinki on 12 – 13 April.

Contrary to popular belief, the Marshall Plan, which was extended to also include Western Germany after it was realized that the suppression of the Western German economy was holding back the recovery of the rest of Europe, was not the main force behind the Wirtschaftswunder.

This is why Serb authorities sometimes referred to " new German imperialism " as one of the main reasons for Yugoslavia's collapse.

The Greens founded the first international chapter of a German political party in the U. S. on April 13, 2008 at the Goethe-Institut in Washington D. C. Its main goal is " to provide a platform for politically active and green-oriented German citizens, in and beyond Washington D. C., to discuss and actively participate in German Green politics.

Asparagus, especially white asparagus known in English as spargel ( the German name for asparagus ), is a common side dish or may be prepared as a main dish.

Kennedy argues that by far the main reason was London's fear that a repeat of 1870 — when Prussia and the German states smashed France — would mean that Germany, with a powerful army and navy, would control the English Channel and northwest France.

It can be said that his main trait is technical expertise, irony, detachment and a drive for realism married with a complete spectrum of genres.

The detachment from Dundee was compelled to make an exhausting cross-country retreat to rejoin White's main force.

The Marquess of Newcastle was forced to divide his army, leaving a detachment under Sir John Belasyse to watch the Parliamentarians under Lord Fairfax in Hull, while he led his main body north to confront Leven.

Leven left a detachment to mask the Royalist garrison of Newcastle upon Tyne, and followed Newcastle's army with his main body.

Lilburne entirely routed a Lancashire detachment of the enemy on their way to join the main Royalist army at the Battle of Wigan Lane on 25 August and as affairs turned out Cromwell merely shifted the area of his concentration two marches to the south-west, to Evesham.

Most of the senior officers were killed or wounded, including General Gibbs, killed leading the main attack column on the right comprising the 4th, 21st, 44th and 5th West India Regiments, and Colonel Rennie leading a detachment of light companies of the 7th, 43rd, and 93rd on the left by the river.

Consequent to this, the company was instructed to seize Dutch holdings in India, and Macartney had ordered a detachment from Tanjore, under Colonel Brathwaite, to capture the main Dutch post at Negapatam.

He pushed forward to Prenzlow ( now Prenzlau ) in Brandenburg with his main force of 6, 000 troops, leaving Augustin Ehrensvard with a detachment in Pasewalk.

Meanwhile, Sullivan was at a standoff with the detachment of the 55th Regiment that had come to assist the 40th Regiment, neither daring to move towards the main battle for risk of exposing its flank.

After hearing of the Crusader march, Saladin led his guard back to their main camp at Kafr Sabt, leaving a small detachment at Tiberias.

Wei's regent Sima Shi correctly judged the Wu force to be the more serious threat and personally led the main Wei force to the eastern front while sending a smaller detachment to relieve Didao.

On the west, or left, flank a small detachment of No. 2 Division was left to engage with Māori outside the pā and was the last group to retreat, coming under heavy fire not only from the pursuers but also from kupapa who believed they were the enemy, so far were they behind the main force.

His advisors suggested that he send only a cavalry detachment to harass the Carthaginians and prevent them from laying waste to any more of the country, while reserving his main force until the other consul, Servilius, arrived with his army.

A detachment of the Defence Pool was deployed to Morotai island in early 1945 in order to prepare a camp for the arrival of the main party of the unit.

Newly developed rifled artillery would no longer be placed in the rear of the order of march for employment behind the infantry ; instead, a significant detachment would travel with the advanced guard of the leading corps or other major element, and the remainder would march with the front of the main body, providing immediate artillery coverage of the advanced guard on contact and of the main body during subsequent deployment on the field.

A detachment of No. 219 Squadron RAF used the airfield between 4 October 1939 and 12 October 1940 when the main section of the squadron was at RAF Catterick flying the Bristol Blenheim IF.

The head of Lynn Canal was the main gateways to the Yukon, and the North-West Mounted Police sent a detachment to secure the location for Canada.

For the rest of 1812, the division was part of a detachment ( essentially a corps ) under Rowland Hill which covered the southern flank of Wellington's main army.

At around 8 a. m. on September 8, Captain John Coffin and a detachment of his South Carolina Loyalist cavalry were reconnoitring ahead of Stewart ’ s main force when he encountered a mounted American scouting party under Major John Armstrong.

Sergeant John Lee was with the main detachment of mounted police that pursued the Aborigines into the river.

Wayne selected Butler's 2nd Regiment of approximately 300 men to conduct an assault along the northern shore of the point, while Wayne himself would lead the main column in the south, consisting of the 1st and 3rd Regiments, and Hull's detachment of Massachusetts light infantry.

The main purpose is to help you to cultivate self-knowledge and self confidence, so that each one of you can learn self-sacrifice and earn self-realisation ... through the valuable lessons of detachment, loving service, fraternity, humility, sincerity, fortitude and fearlessness.

It is the location of the historical capital of the archipelago, the Azores ' oldest city and UNESCO Heritage Site ( Angra do Heroísmo ), the seat of the judicial system ( Supreme Court ), main base of the Azores Air Zone Command ( Commando da Zona Aérea dos Açores ) Base Aérea nº 4 and to a United States Air Force detachment.