Due to his western successes, Ulysses S. Grant was given command of all Union armies in 1864, and organized the armies of William Tecumseh Sherman, George Meade and others to attack the Confederacy from all directions, increasing the North's advantage in manpower.

By this time, the forces of independence had grown continental in scope and were organized into two principal armies, one under the Venezuelan Simón Bolívar in the north and the other under the Argentine José de San Martín in the south.

It is clear that many ancient peoples used the sling in combat and that organized armies included specialist slingers as well as equipping regular soldiers with slings as a backup weapon.

Grant had organized three armies to attack Bragg on Missionary Ridge and Confederate troops on Lookout Mountain.

This richness, however, attracted the now more organized armies of national powers like France and Austria, which waged a lengthy battle for Lombardy in the late 15th-early 16th century.

Léon Gambetta, the leading figure in the provisional government, organized new French armies in the countryside after escaping from besieged Paris in a balloon.

Dispatched from Paris as the republican government's emissary, Léon Gambetta passed over the German lines in a balloon inflated with coal gas from the city's gasworks, and organized the recruitment of new French armies.

He had a good number of troops who had been organized on the battlefield properly, he had the support of the armies of several of his satraps, and the ground on the battlefield was almost perfectly even, so as not to impede movement.

Chinese in Manchuria organized volunteer armies to oppose the Japanese and the new state required a war lasting several years to appease the country.

Although he trained and organized one of China's first modern armies and introduced far-ranging modernisations in law and social areas, the loyalty Yuan had fostered among his armed forces split into warlords after his death, undermining the authority of the central government.

The Allied battle plan prior to the war had been based on France and the United Kingdom halting the German armies in the West while the huge Russian armies could be organized and brought to the Eastern front.

* Members of independent Thracian tribes such as the Bessi and Dii often joined the ranks of large organized armies as mercenaries.

In particular, assistance from the Second French Empire was organized, with the construction of the Yokosuka arsenal under Leonce Verny, and the dispatch of a French military mission to modernize the armies of the bakufu.

Though single combats and other elements of ritual and honorable battle remained, organized strategies and tactics under military commanders began to emerge, along with a greater degree of organization of formations and divisions within armies.

These two groups had over 250, 000 members, organized as effective private armies.

Lazare Carnot, a scientist and prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety, organized the fourteen armies of the Republic, and was then nicknamed the Organizer of the Victory.

NRA soldiers were far better organized than the warlord armies which they faced due to their military advisers.

This force was organized into five armies, the joint leader of which was Theodore Trithourios the Sakellarios.

Pope Innocent III and his successor Pope Honorius III organized crusading armies led by King Andrew II of Hungary and Duke Leopold VI of Austria, and a foray against Jerusalem ultimately left the city in Muslim hands.

He was succeeded by Pope Honorius III, who barred Frederick from participating, but organized crusading armies led by king Andrew II of Hungary and duke Leopold VI of Austria.

The population of Greece was reduced, and the world of organized state armies, kings, officials, and redistributive systems disappeared.

Below major units like armies, soldiers were organized mainly into regiments, the main fighting unit with which a soldier would march and be deployed with, commanded by a colonel, lieutenant colonel, or possibly a major.

The South 40 is organized as a pedestrian-friendly environment wherein residences surround a central recreational lawn known as the Swamp.

The insurgents were organized into three major groups, and intended to surround and simultaneously attack the armory.

# The Naxalites wanted to surround the towns and cities by the villages, i. e., they wanted to encircle the urban centres with organized peasant forces of the villages.

As a solution, Hanriot had close to 100, 000 men organized to surround Tuileries Palace ; only about five thousand of those troops were Hanriot ’ s select troops that knew what was going on.

Caliph Al-Walid I had paid great attention to the expansion of an organized military, building the strongest navy in the Umayyad Caliphate era ( the second major Arab dynasty after Mohammad and the first Arab dynasty of Al-Andalus ).

The Afghan Ministry of Culture and Youth established a national committee which organized an international seminar to celebrate the birth and life of the great ethical philosopher and world-renowned poet.

This new domination was based on the great economic and military power wielded by the organized community of city-dwellers (" citizens ").

In 1991, UCLA's film school organized a festival of great but forgotten American films, and included Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia in the program.

* July 13 – Battle of Montlhéry: Troops of King Louis XI of France fight inconclusively against an army of the great nobles organized as the League of the Public Weal.

The majority of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe that this great and abominable church includes any organized group of people who fight against God and His divine purposes by means of persecution, false teachings and belief systems, and oppression.

The year 2010 is the 500th year since the Lilius ' birth ; several activities have been organized ( by Italian astronomers ) in order to recognize the great work performed by him.

Since 1984 the great majority of this work has been organized and communicated within the boundaries of a specialized scientific event-the Computer Supported Cooperative Work conferences-which are held by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction biannually.

The yakuza ( organized crime ) were formerly often involved in prize exchange, but a great deal of police effort beginning in the 1960s and ramping up in the 1990s has largely done way with their influence.

At the Byzantine imperial court, there were a great number of eunuchs employed in domestic and administrative functions, actually organized as a separate hierarchy, following a parallel career of their own.

But Greek colonization touched only the coast and the interior remained Carian organized in a great number of villages grouped in local federations.

In this sojourner belonging to a great family from the south, who came like a god, enriched the festival of the New Year with games and drama, possibly organized the collection of tribute on a southern pattern, and departed leaving behind him a legend of divine embodiment, one is tempted to recognize a far earlier appearance of that Lono of the Makahiki in whose name the Kumulipo chant was dedicated to Keawe's infant son and heir ".

Many great sages gathered at the bank of river Saraswati to participate in Maha yagya organized at that time.

Rebay wrote to Wright that " each of these great masterpieces should be organized into space, and only you ... would test the possibilities to do so.

The great Negro League star Leroy Robert " Satchel " Paige pitched for Los Dragones of Ciudad Trujillo, a team organized by Trujillo.

He gave a great impetus to French colonial enterprise, especially in West Africa, where he organized the newly acquired colony of Dahomey, and despatched the Liotard mission to the upper Ubangi.

In Latter-day Saint theology, Cain is considered to be the quintessential Son of Perdition, the father of secret combinations ( i. e. secret societies and organized crime ), as well as the first to hold the title Master Mahan meaning master of great secret, that may murder and get gain.

In 1851, the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company was organized in Rochester, New York by Hiram Sibley and others, with the goal of creating one great telegraph system with unified and efficient operations.

'" According to historian Adam L. Tate, Taylor was " an agrarian who ' viewed happiness as possession of family, farm, and leisure ,' had no great love for organized religion, social hierarchy, and other such traditional institutions.

Since 2005, in October, Taormina Arte has organized the Giuseppe Sinopoli Festival, a festival dedicated completely to the great conductor, who died in 2001 and was for many years the artistic director of Taormina Arte.

Since Hardy was always highly critical of organized religion, as Emma became more and more religious, their differing views led to a great deal of tension in their marriage, and this tension was a big factor that led to their increased alienation from one another.

The galaxies are organized into groups and clusters, often within larger superclusters, that are strung along great filaments between nearly empty voids, forming a web that spans the observable universe.

At the same time, Brazilians organized an armed assault of great size on the conflicted area.

As he declared in his last great public speech, at the Grey Festival organized in his honour at Edinburgh in September 1834, its purpose was to strengthen and preserve the established constitution, to make it more acceptable to the people at large, and especially the middle classes, who had been the principal beneficiaries of the Reform Act, and to establish the principle that future changes would be gradual, " according to the increased intelligence of the people, and the necessities of the times ".