The French succeeded in helping it to quell the disturbances, and an African peacekeeping force ( MISAB ) occupied Bangui until 1998 when they were relieved by a United Nations peacekeeping mission ( MINURCA ).

The Siege of the Alcázar in the Spanish Civil War, in which the Nationalists held out against a much larger Republican force for two months until relieved, shows that in some cases a citadel can be effective even in modern warfare ; a similar case is the Battle of Huế, where an NVA division held the citadel of Huế for 26 days against roughly their own numbers of much better-equipped US and South Vietnamese troops.

In 375 BC it again joined the Athenian alliance ; two years later it was besieged by a Spartan force, but in spite of the devastation of its flourishing countryside held out successfully until relieved.

The army garrison rose in support of the coup d ' état and stood a siege of three months by an improvised force, loyal to the Republican government until relieved in 1937.

In April he relieved the royalist garrisons at Naas, Athy and Maryborough, and on his return to Dublin he won the Battle of Kilrush against a larger force.

In March 2002, the initial naval force were relieved by one centred around HMS Ocean, carrying 45 Commando Royal Marines.

Since moving to Bury the Lancashire Fusiliers were part, in 1898, of the force that relieved Khartoum and fought in the Battle of Omdurman and in 1899 – 1902 during the Boer War took part in the battles of Spion Kop and the Tugela Heights, leading up to the Relief of Ladysmith.

Vukassovich was soon relieved by Gerhard Rosselmini's covering force near the town.

The four tanks and remaining infantry formed a small force that repelled several German attempts to attack their position, and were eventually relieved at 10: 30 by a tank squadron from the 44th Royal Tank Regiment and elements of the rest of the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment.

They did, however, reinforce the glider force that had captured the Caen and Orne bridges and held them until relieved by the 3rd Infantry Division.

IFOR relieved the UN peacekeeping force UNPROFOR, which had originally arrived in 1992, and the transfer of authority was discussed in Security Council Resolution 1031.

Reactivated in the interwar years, III Corps trained US Army formations for combat before and during World War II, before itself being deployed to the European Theater where it participated in several key engagements, including the Battle of the Bulge where it is known as the force that relieved the surrounded 101st Airborne Division.

Although his force suffered heavy casualties, Bouquet fought off the attack and relieved Fort Pitt on August 20, bringing the siege to an end.

He left the force in 1936 after being relieved of his duty by a governor with whom he frequently clashed.

By the 28 February, Ladysmith had finally been relieved by a force under the command of General Redvers Buller.

Shortly after the fall of Delhi, the victorious attackers organised a column which relieved another besieged Company force in Agra, and then pressed on to Cawnpore, which had also recently been recaptured.

Antipater was relieved by a force sent by Leonnatus, who was killed in action, but the war did not come to an end until Craterus's arrival with a fleet to defeat the Athenians at the Battle of Crannon on September 5, 322 BC.

Antipater was relieved by a force sent by Leonnatus, who was killed in action, but the war did not come to an end until Craterus's arrival with a fleet to defeat the Athenians at the Battle of Crannon on September 5, 322 BC.

Although knowing that doing so could have him relieved of command, Reigart prepares a task force aimed at rescuing Burnett.

So the watch ran with excessive drive force for several hours, until the extra tension in the end of the spring was relieved.

By mid-April, the small British force at Kohima was relieved, and from 18 April to 13 May, British and Indian reinforcements counter-attacked to drive the Japanese from the positions they had captured.

The reported massacre of Custer's force terrified the Kingsley family, but they were relieved to learn that bad weather had kept Dr. Kingsley from joining Custer.

Three days later, Banbury too was relieved by a force that could now be spared from the Oxford garrison.

They would concentrate on bridging operations, preparing the group before a larger force relieved them, for example UN or regional peacekeepers under UN mandate.

From summer 2011, Operation Licorne, the French force, previously over 5, 000 strong, is roughly 700, and consists of Licorne headquarters, Battalion Licorne ( BATLIC ), seemingly made up of elements of the 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment and the Régiment d ' infanterie-chars de marine, and a helicopter detachment.

In 1971 the army's force consisted of the 1st Groupement at Kananga, with one guard battalion, two infantry battalions, and a gendarmerie battalion attached, and the 2nd Groupement ( Kinshasa ), the 3rd Groupement ( Kisangani ), the 4th Groupement ( Lubumbashi ), the 5th Groupement ( Bukavu ), the 6th Groupement ( Mbandaka ), and the 7th Groupement ( Boma ).

At the end of the 2nd century BC, Gaius Marius reformed the previously ephemeral legions as a professional force drawing from the poorest classes, enabling Rome to field larger armies and providing employment for jobless citizens of the city of Rome.

Hence with the definition of force ( Newton's 2nd law ),

A National Security Act was passed, the recruitment of a volunteer military force for service at home and abroad was announced, the 2nd Australian Imperial Force, and a citizen militia was organised for local defence.

Four days after their retreat, on 16 August a grossly outnumbered Prussian force of 30, 000 men of III Corps ( of the 2nd Army ) under General Konstantin von Alvensleben, found the French Army near Vionville, east of Mars-la-Tour.

Pax Romana ( Latin for " Roman peace ") was the long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.

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.

Called the " 1st Airborne Task Force ", the force was composed of the 1st Special Services Forces, British 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade, the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team, the 509th and 551st Parachute Infantry Battalions, the glider-borne 550th Airborne Infantry Battalion, and supporting units.

Part of the 2 / 1st Independent Company was wiped out on New Ireland, but on Timor, the 2 / 2nd Independent Company formed the heart of an Allied force that engaged Japanese forces in a guerrilla campaign.

A small force consisting of B Company, 2nd Battalion, 24th ( 2nd Warwickshire ) Regiment of Foot ( 2nd / 24th ) under Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead was detailed to garrison the post, which had been turned into a supply depot and hospital under the overall command of Brevet Major Henry Spalding, 104th Foot, a member of Chelmsford's staff.

In 1859, following complaints of Pawnee depredations against settlers in the Elkhorn River valley, a combined force of Nebraska Territorial Militia under the command of General John Milton Thayer and 2nd U. S. Army Dragoons under Lieutenant Beverly Holcombe Robertson prepared to attack a Pawnee village.

The British force of 16, 000 men under John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair had landed at Ostend in the Austrian Netherlands on 10 July 1742.

After discovering this, a Parliamentary force led by Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron-from Otley-had to cross the river upstream at Apperley Bridge before retaking Leeds in January 1643.

Prior to 1892, the drop was between four and ten feet ( about one to three metres ), depending on the weight of the body, and was calculated to deliver a force of 1, 260 lbf ( 5, 600 newtons or 572 kgf ), which fractured the neck at either the 2nd and 3rd or 4th and 5th cervical vertebrae.

The IJN 2nd Fleet was a fast, mobile strike force with armored cruisers and protected cruisers.

The IJA 2nd Division of the IJA 16th Army, which was assembled in Taiwan, was ordered on January 25 to move in to Cam Ranh Bay and became the main force of western invasion group.

Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton, Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire commanded the Royalist force.

The Headquarters of the 2nd Brigade, US 3rd Infantry Division, were struck by a missile of this kind on April 7, while the Brigade's main force was conducting an incursion 15 km north, well inside Baghdad.

The inexperienced 2nd Armoured Division was soundly defeated and on 2 April Wavell came forward to review matters with Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Neame, by now the commander of British and Commonwealth troops in Cyrenaica ( Wilson having left to command the Allied expeditionary force in Greece ).

As a preliminary Menshikov launched a reconnaissance in force on the extreme right of the Allied line ( against the British 2nd Division ) on the Inkerman Heights overlooking the Chernaya river.

There were inconclusive skirmishes with a force of Life Guards commanded by Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham ( an elderly nephew of Turenne, who had spent some time in English service and later became a Knight of the Garter ).