** 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > REC ), based in Orange, Vaucluse ( armoured troops )

The rediscovered Greek city of Buthrotum () ( modern-day Butrint ), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is probably more significant today than it was when Julius Caesar used it as a provisions depot for his troops during his campaigns in the 1st century BC.

or much earlier, to the 1st century AD and originated there, polo was at first a training game for cavalry units, usually the king's guard or other elite troops.

The last British troops, 1st Battalion Royal Leicestershire Regiment, left the country on 16 August 1955.

The authors also suggest that Franks was worn down by repeated pressure from U. S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to reduce the number of U. S. troops in war plans and cancel the deployment of the 1st Cavalry Division, a scheduled follow-on unit that was slated for deployment in April 2003.

In March 2011, a month after the beginning of an uprising against President Salehs rule, Maj. Gen. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, the commander of the 1st Armoured Division, defected to the side of the protesters taking hundreds of troops and several tanks to protect protesting citizens.

* June 16 – Battle of Stoke Field: The rebellion of pretender Lambert Simnel, led by John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, and Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell, is crushed by troops loyal to Henry VII.

** English troops under John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, land in Guyenne, France, and retake most of the province without a fight.

* March – French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege the English commander in France, Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, in Caen.

General Louis Archinard was the president of the committee that supervised the erection of the monument, highlighting the role of African troops of the 1st Colonial Infantry Corps in the defense of Reims from the German Army in 1918.

The German army came within of Paris, but at the First Battle of the Marne ( 6 – 12 September ), French and British troops were able to force a German retreat by exploiting a gap which appeared between the 1st and 2nd Armies, ending the German advance into France.

The Romans built Leucarum, a rectangular or trapezoidal fort at the mouth of the River Loughor in the late 1st century to house a regiment of Roman auxiliary troops.

Valens ' army may have included troops from any of three Roman field armies: the Army of Thrace, based in the eastern Balkans, but which may have sustained heavy losses in 376 – 377, the 1st Army in the Emperor's Presence, and the 2nd Army in the Emperor's Presence, both based at Constantinople in peacetime but committed to the Persian frontier in 376 and sent west in 377 – 378.

Despite a catastrophic loss of gliders and troops loads at sea, the 1st Airlanding Brigade captured the Ponte Grande bridge south of Syracuse.

These were the Force Publique in the Congo ( victory against Italian troops in the South Etyopia ), expatriate Belgians in Great Britain and Canada ( which eventually formed the 1st Belgian Infantry Brigade ), and after September 1944, Belgians liberated by the Allied campaign in Northwestern Europe.

The Center Task Force, aimed at Oran, included the U. S. 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, the U. S. 1st Infantry Division, and the U. S. 1st Armored Division — a total of 18, 500 troops.

A series of Allied counter-attacks — including the Battle of Arras — failed to sever the German spearhead, which reached the coast on 20 May, separating the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ) near Armentières, the French 1st Army, and the Belgian Army further to the north from the majority of French troops south of the German penetration.

During the battle, Haig's troops ( of the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division ( United States )) became pinned down by a Viet Cong force that outnumbered US forces by three to one.

However, German forces refused to relinquish their control of the city, which had been converted into a fortress, and the garrison there was " masked " by Allied troops, notably 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade.

It was here that Yorkist troops led by King Edward IV killed the rebellious " Kingmaker " Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and Warwick's brother, John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu.

Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury | Sir Horatio Vere was the commander of English troops in Holland during the Siege of Ostend, under whom Standish likely served. The circumstances of Standish's early military career in Holland ( the " low countries " to which Morton referred ) are vague at best.

In June 1775, soon after the Battle of Lexington, local troops were raised to fight the British in the American Revolution under the command of Benjamin Chambers's eldest son Captain James Chambers, as part of the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment.

The 43rd Marine Infantry Battalion of the French Army's Troupes de Marine (: fr: 43e bataillon d ' infanterie de marine ) was based in Port Bouet adjacent to the Abidjan Airport from 1979 and had more than 500 troops assigned until 2011, when it appears to have been disbanded.

* 1967 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch " Operation Deckhouse Five " in the Mekong River delta.

As well, the French had maintained until 1974 around 1, 000 troops of the 4th Régiment Interarmes d ' Outre-Mer ( Troupes de Marine ) with bases at Niamey, Zinder, Bilma and Agadez.

Napalm bombs were dropped by aviators of the U. S. Navy, the United States Army Air Forces, and the U. S. Marine Corps in support of their ground troops.

* 1942 – Last day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River.

The Second Continental Congress takes various steps toward organizing an American government, appointing George Washington commander-in-chief ( June 14 ), Benjamin Franklin postmaster general ( July 26 ) and creating a Continental Navy ( October 13 ) and a Marine force ( November 10 ) as landing troops for it, but as yet the 13 colonies have not declared independence, and both the British ( June 12 ) and American ( July 15 ) governments make laws.

* November 10 – American Revolution: The Continental Congress passes a resolution creating the Continental Marines to serve as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy ( the Marines are disbanded at end of the war in April 1783 but reformed on July 11, 1798 as the United States Marine Corps ).

Corfu was liberated by British troops, specifically the 40th Royal Marine Commando, which landed in Corfu on 14 October 1944, as the Germans were evacuating Greece.

On the evening of August 12, a 25-man U. S. Marine patrol, led by Lieutenant Colonel Frank Goettge and primarily consisting of intelligence personnel, landed by boat west of the Lunga perimeter, between Point Cruz and the Matanikau River, on a reconnaissance mission with a secondary objective of contacting a group of Japanese troops that U. S. forces believed might be willing to surrender.

Soon after the patrol landed, a nearby platoon of Japanese naval troops attacked and almost completely wiped out the Marine patrol.

After daybreak, the Marine units counterattacked Ichiki's surviving troops, killing many more of them.

163 Belgian troops were rescued during the Dunkirk evacuation, and Belgium's new navy, the Corps de Marine, only reformed in 1939, also participated.

* Marine Sergeant Dakota Meyer-In September 2011, he received the Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama at age 23 ; he saved numerous American and Afghan troops during a Taliban ambush and is the third living recipient of the honor ( and first living Marine ) from the Iraq and Afghan wars

Newer armor issued by the United States armed forces to large numbers of troops includes the United States Army's Improved Outer Tactical Vest and the United States Marine Corps Modular Tactical Vest.

It also refers to a grouping of specialized troops such as the Army Corps of Engineers and the United States Marine Corps.

The Marine Battalion is built around the Stridsbåt 90H, a small combat boat capable of carrying 21 troops for fast transports and landings in the archipelago.

" Subsequently, " he went over to see Congressman John Murtha ( D-Pa ), the 73-year old former Marine who had introduced a resolution the previous November calling for the redeployment of troops from Iraq as soon as practicable.

In August 2004, heavy fighting broke out again between American troops of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, the 1st Cavalry Division's 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 7th US Cavalry Regiment, 15th Forward Support Battalion and Al-Sadr's Mahdi Army.

General Chevert was ordered to flank the Hanoverian position with four brigades containing troops from Picardy, la Marine, Navarre and Eu.

Westmoreland was more concerned with the situation at Khe Sanh, where, on 21 January, a force estimated at between 20, 000 – 40, 000 North Vietnamese troops had besieged the U. S. Marine garrison.

Ironically, only the U. S. Marine Corps, whose commanders had stored and maintained their World War II surplus inventories of equipment and weapons, proved ready for deployment, though they still were understrength and in need of suitable landing craft to practice amphibious operations ( Johnson had transferred most of the remaining craft to the Navy and reserved them for use in training Army units ).< ref name = Shipmate2000 > As U. S. and South Korean forces lacked sufficient armor and artillery to repel the North Korean forces, Army and Marine Corps ground troops were instead committed to a series of costly rearguard actions as the enemy steadily progressed down the Korean peninsula, eventually encircling Pusan.