By now Blenheim was under assault from every side by three English generals: Cutts, Churchill, and Orkney.

Between 1673 and 1681, the Emperor Kangxi suppressed an uprising of three generals in Southern China who had been denied hereditary rule to large fiefdoms granted by the previous emperor ; he also put down a Ming restorationist invasion from Taiwan, called the Revolt of the Three Feudatories.

Alexander is the great horn, which is then succeeded by Alexander's half brother Philip and three of his generals.

The strategy Hitler and his generals agreed on involved three separate army groups assigned to capture specific regions and cities of the Soviet Union.

When the two armies had fought to a stalemate, the two generals ruthlessly took three days to reach a truce, so that the dead and dying could be removed from the battlefield.

Hitler expected, and was told by all of his generals, that the Red Army was hopelessly inferior to the Wehrmacht, and that it would take the German Army at most six months, and more probably two to three months to destroy the Soviet Union.

* The Hulunbuir region in what is now northeastern Inner Mongolia was part of the jurisdiction of the General of Heilongjiang, one of the three generals of Manchuria.

In fact, as early as the AFRC administration in 1979, Rawlings and his associates had accused three former military leaders ( generals Afrifa, Acheampong, and Akuffo ) of corruption and greed and of thereby contributing to the national crisis and had executed them on the basis of this accusation.

Iran has an embassy in Baghdad and three consulate generals, in Sulaimaniya, Arbil, and Karbala.

Having gained another victory in 542, this time, avoiding stoutly defended Florence, in the valley of Mugello, where Totila showed his nature by treating his prisoners so well that they were induced to serve under his banner, he left a well-defended Tuscany with his enlarged forces, while three of the Byzantine generals withdrew from Florence, dividing their forces, to Perugia, Spoleto, and Rome, cities which Totila would have to take by siege.

Afterward, the Union Army retained the three Confederate forts, renaming them for the Union generals who had commanded the winning forces: Huger became Fort Reno ; Blanchard became Fort Parke ; and Bartow became Fort Foster.

Perceiving the danger, three officers ( of noble rank ) stood shoulder-to-shoulder to allow their own troops to pass and block the passage of the enemy: Spurius Lartius and Titus Herminius Aquilinus, commanders of the right wing ( equivalent to colonels or lieutenant generals ), and Publius Horatius, a more junior officer of unspecified rank.

Some millions of years later, three of Andhaka's generals ( Duryodhana is not the Duryodhana from the Mahabharata, Vighasa and Hasti ) happened upon Shiva and Parvati in a cave, but did not recognise them.

There are now four generals stores, four saloons, two hotels, blacksmith shop, butcher shop, three grain warehouses, livery stable, three farm implement establishments, harness shop, drug store, furniture store, lumber and coal yard, newspaper.

A number of Italian Americans were serving as top-ranking generals in the military, including Anthony Zinni, Raymond Odierno, Carl Vuono and Peter Pace, the latter three having also been appointed Chief of Staff of their respective services ( Army in the case of Odierno and Vuono, and Marine Corps in that of Pace ).

Eight large paintings were placed in gilded frames above the stone pediments and busts, including three of the Stuart and French Royal family, one executed by Sir Godfrey Kneller of Lord Burlington and his sisters, and popular mythological scenes such as " Daphne and Apollo " and " The Judgment of Paris " Twelve antique busts of Roman and Greek figures, such as Emperors, poets, politicians and generals were also positioned on gilded brackets designed by Lord Burlington ..

When news of the public anger in Rome spread across the Empire, the generals Pescennius Niger in Syria, Septimius Severus in Pannonia, and Clodius Albinus in Britain, each having three legions under his command, refused to recognize the authority of Julianus.

During the Qing Dynasty, Manchuria was ruled by three generals, one of whom, the General of Shengjing, ruled much of modern Liaoning.

The major invasion in Louisiana was stopped by a one-sided military battle that killed the top three British generals and thousands of soldiers.

The three generals promised to convene the national assembly to hold an election for a provisional president, but when the congress met on 3 July, soldiers held everyone at gunpoint and forced them to vote for General Ponce rather than the popular civilian candidate, Dr. Ramón Calderón.

Thomas has generally been held in high esteem by Civil War historians ; Bruce Catton and Carl Sandburg wrote glowingly of him, and many consider Thomas one of the top three Union generals of the war, after Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman.

His major positive contributions that won them Battle of the Marne were 1 ) his sustained calm under pressure and the calculated reasoning of an alumnus from Ecole Polytechnique 2 ) his ruthless dismissal of unsuccessful generals during the summer of 1914 ( three army commanders, ten corps commanders and thirty-eight divisional commanders, replacing them with combative men like Foch, Franchet d ' Esperey and-more junior at that stage-Petain and Nivelle ) and 3 ) his outstanding logistical handling of French infantry divisional movements and artillery ammunition supplies during and after the French retreat of August 1914.

The forces engaged on this day were approximately 14, 000 British to about 20, 000 French, and the losses were: British, 1468 killed, wounded and missing, including Abercromby ( who died on March 28 ), Moore and three other generals wounded ; and the French, 1160 killed and (?

This was because in 1448, while Skanderbeg was victoriously fighting off the Turkish invasions, three military columns, commanded by Demetrio Reres along with his sons Giorgio and Basilio, were dispatched to help Alfonso V defeat the barons of Naples who had rebelled against him.

The Historia Brittonum records that, during the reign of Vortigern in Britain, three vessels that had been exiled from Germania arrived in Britain, commanded by Hengist and Horsa.

In chapter 10 of book 6 of Historia Regum Britanniae, Geoffrey records that three brigandines ( or long galleys ) full of armed men commanded by two brothers, Hengist and Horsa, arrived in Britain.

Gregory sent Boniface back to Bavaria with three letters ; one commanded the bishops and higher ecclesiastical officers to provide Boniface with as much help as they could.

On 14 July 1959, three Liberal MLAs called on Morton to resign, stating that the party needed a full-time leader and that Morton no longer commanded the majority support of his colleagues.

They were organised into a battalion commanded by Major Alfredo Serranti that defended Culqualber ( Ethiopia ) for three months until this military unit was destroyed by the Allies.

It is one of the three biblically mandated festivals Shalosh regalim on which Hebrews were commanded to make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem.

In 1981, Franks returned to West Germany where he commanded 2nd Battalion, 78th Field Artillery for three years.

Between World Wars I and II, he was a key planner and writer in the War Department, commanded the 15th Infantry Regiment ( United States ) for three years in China, and taught at the Army War College.

Moltke had indeed massed three armies in the area — the Prussian First Army with 50, 000 men, commanded by General Karl Von Steinmetz opposite Saarlouis, the Prussian Second Army with 134, 000 men commanded by Prince Friedrich Karl opposite the line Forbach – Spicheren, and the Prussian Third Army with 120, 000 men commanded by Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, poised to cross the border at Wissembourg.

The French cavalry, commanded by General Marguerite, launched three desperate attacks on the nearby village of Floing where the Prussian XI Corps was concentrated.

In 1415 a Portuguese fleet, commanded by the king and the three princes, set sail for Ceuta.

Around nine in the morning of 16 June, King Henry's forward troops, commanded by the Earl of Oxford, encountered the Yorkist army assembled in a single block, on a brow of a hill surrounded on three sides by the River Trent at the village of East Stoke.

French / Irishman Luke Ryan and his lieutenants in just over two years commanded six vessels under the flags of three different nations and on opposite sides in the same war.

Each military officer commanded 10, 000 cavalrymen and advanced north on three different routes, aiming at each of the three federations.

Cavalry units commanded by chieftains of each of the three federations almost annihilated the invading forces.

In a strong defensive position, the English King ordered that everybody fight on foot and distributed the army in three divisions, one commanded by his sixteen-year-old son, Edward, the Prince of Wales known as the Black Prince.

He commanded Churchill tanks in Normandy during the Second World War and during Operation Bluecoat in late July 1944, his was the first Allied unit to encounter German Jagdpanther tank destroyers, being attacked by three out of the twelve of these vehicles which were in Normandy.

In 9, in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, an army of allied Germanic tribes under the command of Arminius ( the Cherusci, Bructeri, Marsi, Sicambri, Chauci and Chatti ) annihilated three Roman legions commanded by Varus.

Squadrons commanded by Thrasybulus and Theramenes move in behind the Spartan ships, to cut off their line of retreat, trapping the Spartans between three groups of Athenian warships ; a much larger force than they had initially expected to engage.