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forces and Reed
After regaining consciousness, Shaw finds Reed, who leads him into a trap set by Dawg, Ainslee, and the mutineers, who have joined forces and intend to split the gold between them.
Major General Hamilton Lyster Reed VC, CB, CMG, ( 23 May 1869 – 7 March 1931 ) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Sam Farragut ( Griffith ) is a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees ( Shatner, Reed, Gortner ) to embark on a dangerous dirtbike trip to the Baja California desert in order to compete for his business.
In December 1776, General Washington, anxious to know the location of General Charles Lee's forces, opened a letter from Lee to Reed which indicated that they were both questioning Washington's abilities.
Reed was killed atop Last Stand Hill, and his head was scalped and body mutilated by the victorious Indian forces, as were the majority of those killed in the battle.

forces and Richards
In 1944, Richards, his wife Marie-Louise and two others associated with the paper Philip Sansom and John Hewetson were charged with conspiring to cause disaffection among members of the armed forces.
After kidnapping Franklin Richards and Nate Grey, usurping their psionic powers to greatly increase his own, changing his physical form, Onslaught fights the Avengers, Fantastic Four, the Hulk, and the X-Men ( Spider-Man attempted to get involved in the fight, but he was kept occupied by fighting Onslaught's Sentinel forces ).
Alfred Joseph Richards VC ( 21 June 1879 – 21 May 1953 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Operation Palliser was a British Armed forces operation in Sierra Leone in 2000 under the command of Brigadier ( now General Sir ) David Richards.

forces and seize
* 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: the city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
The boxes are rapidly failing and the surviving adults begin unloading them, but are killed when one of two rival forces of Tines seize the ship.
Panzer forces were dispersed among the three German concentrations without strong emphasis on independent use, being used to create or destroy close pockets of Polish forces and seize operational-depth terrain in support of the largely un-motorized infantry which followed.
* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
In February 1969, the Guinean government moved against the armed forces after alleging that a plot centred in Labé, the centre of the Fula (; ) homeland was planning to assassinate Toure and seize power, or, failing that, force the secession of Middle Guinea.
By 1923, the fate of the area had still not been decided, prompting Lithuanian forces to invade in January 1923 and seize the port.
Plunder in itself was often the objective of a military campaign, to either pay mercenary forces, seize resources, reduce the fighting capacity of enemy forces, or as a calculated insult to the enemy ruler.
* 1694 – British / American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec from the French.
During the war there were at least three attempts by Panamanian Liberals to seize control of Panama and potentially achieve full autonomy, including one led by Liberal guerrillas like Belisario Porras and Victoriano Lorenzo, each of whom was suppressed by a collaboration of Conservative Colombian and U. S. forces under the Mallarino-Bidlack Treaty.
After the initial campaign of 1994 – 1995, culminating in the devastating Battle of Grozny, Russian federal forces attempted to seize control of the mountainous area of Chechnya but were set back by Chechen guerrilla warfare and raids on the flatlands in spite of Russia's overwhelming manpower, weaponry, and air support.
* October 4 – In the Philippines, rebel forces seize two military posts on the island of Mindanao, before surrendering on October 6.
* May 28 – In the Ethiopian Civil War, the forces of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front seize Addis Ababa.
* May 12 – Mayaguez incident: Khmer Rouge forces in Cambodia seize the United States merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
* August 23 – British forces seize Hong Kong as a base, as it prepares to wage war against Qing China.
* Byzantine forces seize Granada and Andalusia from the Visigoths.
* April 18 – American Revolution: Paul Revere and William Dawes, instructed by Dr. Joseph Warren, ride from Boston to Lexington to warn John Hancock and Sam Adams that British forces are coming to take them prisoner and to seize colonial weapons and ammunition in Concord.
** U. S. forces seize control of Saddam International Airport, changing the airport's name to Baghdad International Airport.
* April 9 – U. S. forces seize control of Baghdad, ending the regime of Saddam Hussein.
Protestant forces led by Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé and Gaspard de Coligny quickly seize control of Orleans, Rouen, and other cities throughout France.
Distracted by fighting with the NRA and defections from his army, Sun reduced his forces in Shanghai, and the Communists, whose party headquarters was located in Shanghai, made three attempts to seize control of the city, later called " the three Shanghai Uprisings ", in October 1926, February 1927, and March 1927.
* 1857-Nicaragua ; U. S. Navy forces the surrender of filibusterer William Walker, who had tried to seize control of the country.
* Market: airborne forces of Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton's First Allied Airborne Army to seize bridges and other terrain, under tactical command of I Airborne Corps under Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning, and

forces and control
To help him do so The Prince had conferred control of his land forces on a soldier who was different from him in almost every respect save one: both were eccentrics of the purest ray serene.
* 1975 – Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon.
Puebloan tradition holds that the ancestors had achieved great spiritual power and control over natural forces, and used their power in ways that caused nature to change, and caused changes that were never meant to occur.
The Azeri armed forces took a series of devastating defeats by Armenian forces during the 1992 – 1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War, which resulted in the loss of control of Nagorno-Karabakh proper and seven surrounding rayons, comprising roughly 16 % of the territory of Azerbaijan.
* 2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan civil war.
In August of 1334 Stefan Dusan and Andronikos made peace, and the forces of Andronikos were allowed to retake control of those parts of Macedonia that Syrgiannes had captured.
The third phase, the " strategic offensive ", would see Massoud's forces taking control of large parts of Northern Afghanistan.
* Frank Herbert's novel The Dosadi Experiment focuses on the creation of a super race through the control of another race, that forces them to live in an arcological situation.
In 1795 he served on the Rhine, and in the following year was entrusted with chief control of all the Austrian forces on that river.
Ahmad Shah and his forces invaded India four times, taking control of the Kashmir and the Punjab region.
Marlborough took control of the left arm of the Allied forces including the attacks on Blenheim and Oberglauheim, whilst Eugene commanded the right including the attacks on Lutzingen.
The crisis caused the Emperor Nero to consider withdrawing all Roman forces from Britain, but Suetonius ' eventual victory over Boudica re-secured Roman control of the province.
During World War II, Japanese forces gained control of Borneo ( 1941 – 45 ).
However, the French did not consolidate their control over the area until 1903, after having defeated the forces of Rabih in the battle of Kousséri, and established colonial administration throughout the territory.
They have also hailed its control of the armed forces, it respect for civil liberties, its expansion of suffrage and participation, and its gradual admission of new contenders, especially reformers, to the political arena.
At the same time, indigenous and peasant forces across the country violently started to take control of agricultural lands, forcibly fulfilling Allende's land redistribution promises.
When Chiang was defeated by CPC forces in mainland China in 1949, he retreated to Taiwan with his government and his most disciplined troops, along with most of the KMT leadership and a large number of their supporters ; Chiang Kai-shek had taken effective control of Taiwan at the end of WWII as part of the overall Japanese surrender, when Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered to Republic of China troops.
Soon thereafter, Gongshan Furao — a retainer of the Ji family — revolted and took control of the forces at Bi.
Mostly this has been achieved through control of and support for civil institutions, the church and the armed forces, rather than through party politics.
These include scouting, skirmishing with enemy reconnaissance elements to deny them knowledge of own disposition of troops, forward security, offensive reconnaissance by combat, defensive screening of friendly forces during retrograde movement, retreat, restoration of command and control, deception, battle handover and passage of lines, relief in place, linkup, breakout operations, and raiding.
Reportedly, General Okamura, before surrendering command of all Japanese military forces in Nanjing, offered Chiang control of all 1. 5 million Japanese military and civilian support staff then present in China.
The British returned control of Île-Royale to France with the fortress virtually intact three years later under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle and the French reestablished their forces there.
British forces seized remaining French control over Acadia in the coming months, with Île-Saint-Jean falling in 1759 to British forces on their way to Quebec City for the Siege of Quebec and ensuing Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

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