In order to see that this hindering situation remained effective, Washington detached several bodies of his troops to the periphery of the Philadelphia area.

Marlborough wrote an appeal to the Duke of Württemberg, the commander of the Danish contingent – " I send you this express to request your Highness to bring forward by a double march your cavalry so as to join us at the earliest moment …" Additionally, the King in Prussia, Frederick I, had kept his troops in quarters behind the Rhine while his personal disputes with Vienna and the States-General at The Hague remained unresolved.

A large force of British troops also remained in Germany, facing the threat of Soviet invasion.

French troops and an OAU peacekeeping force of 3, 500 Nigerian, Senegalese, and Zairian troops ( partially funded by the United States ) remained neutral during the conflict.

Nevertheless, while this led to Egypt's independence in 1922, British troops remained in the country until 1956.

After the war, 200, 000 Chinese troops under General Lu Han were sent by Chiang Kai-shek to northern Indochina ( north of the 16th parallel ) to accept the surrender of Japanese occupying forces there, and remained in Indochina until 1946, when the French returned.

Even so, armed Japanese troops remained in China well into 1947, with some noncommissioned officers finding their way into the Nationalist officer corps .< ref > Gillin, Donald G. and Etter, Charles.

Tensions among the Flavian troops ran high, but so long as either Galba or Otho remained in power, Vespasian refused to take action.

In December 2007, an estimated 4000 Eritrean troops remained in the ' demilitarized zone ' with a further 120, 000 along its side of the border.

During the war theater of 1965 indo-Pakistan war, the East-Pakistan government remained silenced and did not send any reinforcement troops to press any pressure on Eastern India.

He soon crossed to Gaul with an army and was defeated by Honorius ; it is unclear how many troops remained or ever returned, or whether a commander-in-chief in Britain was ever reappointed.

At the same time, with the aid of numerous merchant ships converted to auxiliary cruisers, a loose naval blockade on the Ottoman coasts from the Dardanelles to Suez was instituted, which disrupted the Ottomans ' flow of supplies ( only the Black Sea routes to Romania remained open ) and left some 250, 000 Ottoman troops immobilized in Asia.

Metz remained under siege until 27 October 1870, when 173, 000 French troops were located there finally surrendered.

These attacks resonated with conservative Muslims and the problem did not go away with Saddam's defeat either, since American troops remained stationed in the kingdom, and a defacto cooperation with the Palestinian-Israeli peace process developed.

Up to 2005, 14-15, 000 Syrian troops ( down from 35, 000 ) remained in position in many areas of Lebanon, although the Taif called for an agreement between the Syrian and Lebanese Governments by September 1992 on their redeployment to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

In the Israel Defense Forces most of the M16A1 rifles were replaced by the M4A1 carbine as the standard issued rifle in the early 2000s, although they remained in service with reserve soldiers and less combatant troops.

British Imperial troops remained in New Zealand until February 1870, during the later stage of the New Zealand Wars, by which time settler units had replaced them.

Of the 30, 000 Japanese troops that defended Saipan, fewer than 1, 000 remained alive at battle's end.

Relationships with the royal family remained cold under Joan II ; However, when Raimondello's son Giannantonio ( 1386 – 1453 ) sent his troops to help her against the usurpation attempt of James of Bourbon, he received in exchange the Principality of Taranto.

In 1914, Australian troops occupied German New Guinea, and it remained under Australian military control through World War I until 1921.

The island was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1941 ( Operation Beowulf ); German troops remained there until expelled by the Red Army in the Moonzund Landing Operation in October and November 1944.

The native troops went back quietly to their villages and the few Germans that remained were reported as settling down under the new administration.

However, the city remained the seat of a governor and had state factories for the production of ballistae and armor, and a wool mill for uniforms for the troops, clothing for the civil service and high-quality garments for the Court.

But in 2004, the nation pulled its 300 or so troops out of Iraq.

The last Salvadoran troops left Iraq on January 2009 with 5 soldiers lost in their 5 and a half year involvement.

El Salvador has been a committed member of the coalition of nations fighting against terrorism and has sent 10 rotations of troops to Iraq to support Operation Iraqi Freedom.

* 1991 – Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.

Nearly all of the public was strongly against America's 2003 invasion of Iraq, and any deployment of troops.

In Iraq, the 2007 US " surge " strategy saw the embedding of regular and special forces troops among Iraqi army units.

The Boomerang anti-sniper system is also being fielded by some HMMWVs in Iraq to immediately give troops the location of insurgents firing on them.

In March 1991 revolts in the Shia-dominated southern Iraq started involving demoralized Iraqi Army troops and the anti-government Shia parties.

Following a surge in U. S. troops in 2007 and 2008, violence in Iraq began to decrease.

Iraq was occupied by foreign troops beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, with military forces coming primarily from the United States and the United Kingdom.

Although Iraq eventually pushed back and contained the Iranian advances, it was not able to force Iranian troops completely out of Iraqi territory.

Italy did take part in the 1990 – 91 Gulf War but solely through the deployment of eight Italian Air Force Panavia Tornado IDS bomber jets to Saudi Arabia ; Italian Army troops were subsequently deployed to assist Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq following the conflict.

As of June 2006 32 Italian troops have been killed in Iraq – with the greatest single loss of life coming on November 12, 2003 – a suicide car bombing of the Italian Carabinieri Corps HQ left a dozen Carabinieri, five Army soldiers, two Italian civilians, and eight Iraqi civilians dead.

Italy also supported international efforts to reconstruct and stabilize Iraq through its military contingent of some 3, 200 troops, as well as humanitarian workers and other officials.

The Ground Self-Defense Force also dispatched their troops to Southern Iraq for the restoration of basic infrastructures.

Some observers still feel that Japan's willingness to deploy troops in support of current US operations in Iraq, as spearheaded by Koizumi and the conservative LDP, reflects a vow not to be excluded from the group of countries the US considers friends.

* 2003 – 2003 Invasion of Iraq: A group of people left London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields to prevent the U. S .- led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.

Leszek Miller ’ s government, together with President Kwaśniewski, made a decision ( March 2003 ) to join the international coalition and deploy Polish troops to Iraq, targeting at overthrowing Saddam Hussein ’ s government.

* 2004 – War in Iraq: More than 10, 000 U. S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.

Oman maintained its diplomatic relations with Iraq throughout the Gulf War while supporting the United Nations allies by sending a contingent of troops to join coalition forces and by opening up to pre-positioning of weapons and supplies.

In June 2008, when word came that over 600 American service personnel were coming to receive training for the war in Iraq, residents of the city of Paris adopted them and made donations of everything the troops could possibly need so they might enjoy their stay in Paris before they went on to the war.

In the period following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the RPG became a favorite weapon of the insurgent forces fighting U. S. troops.