It has been argued by John Mosier that, while the French soldiers in 1940 were better trained than German soldiers, as were the Americans later, and the German army was the least mechanised of the major armies, its leadership cadres were both larger and superior and their high standards of leadership were the primary reason for the successes of the German army in World War Two as it had been in World War One.

Two German chemists, Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff, discovered caesium in 1860 by the newly developed method of flame spectroscopy.

Two electric multiple unit s of the DBAG Class 423 | class 423 common in several German S-Bahn networks.

The complete soundtrack to the extended video was eventually released as " Two Tribes ( Video Destructo )" on the German version of the Twelve Inches compilation.

Two years later, Francis personally wound up the moribund Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.

Two of his sons – Charles the Bald and Louis the German – swore allegiance to each other against their brother – Lothair I – in the Oaths of Strasbourg, and the empire was divided among Louis's three sons ( Treaty of Verdun, 843 ).

The Federal German government thus agreed to the 1990 Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany ( Two Plus Four Agreement ), which officially re-established both German states ' sovereignty.

A German Requiem was partially inspired by his mother's death in 1865 ( at which time he composed a funeral march that was to become the basis of Part Two, Denn alles Fleisch ), but it also incorporates material from a symphony which he started in 1854 but abandoned following Schumann's suicide attempt.

Two weeks after Soviet armies had entered the Baltic states, Berlin requested Finland to permit the transit of German troops, followed five weeks thereafter by Hitler's issuance of a secret directive " to take up the Russian problem, to think about war preparations ," a war whose objective would include establishment of a Baltic confederation.

* 1944 – World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.

Two ships of the German Imperial Navy ( Kaiserliche Marine ), and the from the World War II – era, were named after him.

Symbolics ' Zmacs text editor, a variant of Emacs, was implemented in a text-processing package named " ZWEI ", an acronym for " Zwei was Eine initially " — " Eine " being an acronym for " Eine Is Not Emacs " ( both recursive acronyms and puns on the German words for " One " (" Eins ", " Eine ") and " Two " (" Zwei ")).

Two important authors of short stories in the German language were Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka.

Two Soviet MiG-25s cross into West German airspace and bomb a NATO munitions storage facility, also striking a school and a hospital.

* The German classics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Two sections by Humboldt archive. org

* June 17 & ndash Two German relief workers held since 1989, Thomas Kemptner and Heinrich Struebig, are released.

During the Battle of Monte Cassino ( January-May 1944 ) the Abbey made up one section of the 100 mile Gustav line, which was a defensive German line designed to hold the Allied attackers from advancing any further into Italy during World War Two.

Meanwhile, in these efforts to retain the guise of a Roman Catholic reformer as opposed to a heretical revolutionary, and to appeal to German princes with his religious condemnation of the peasant revolts backed up by the Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms, Luther's growing conservatism would provoke more radical reformers.

* Władysław Kozaczuk, Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken, and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two, edited and translated by Christopher Kasparek, Frederick, MD, University Publications of America, 1984, ISBN 0-89093-547-5.

Two former German colonies, Rwanda and Burundi, were mandated to Belgium by the League of Nations.

Two American companies took the village but they were later destroyed in a German counterattack.

* Władysław Kozaczuk, Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken, and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two, edited and translated by Christopher Kasparek, University Publications of America, 1984, ISBN 978-0-89093-547-7.

-- Two Americans and seven Cubans were executed by firing squads today as Castro military tribunals began decreeing the death penalty for captured invasion forces and suspected collaborators.

Two more military helicopters were destroyed during combat in the skies over Abidjan.

Two of Allen's sons went on to serve in the United States military.

* 2009 – Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en-route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.

Two Guinean MiGs made a low flyover of Freetown and Toure placed the Guinean military on alert ' because of the serious troubles affecting the fraternal peoples of Sierra Leone.

Two failed Venizelist military coups followed in an effort to preserve the Republic in 1933 and 1935, but they had the opposite effect.

* Two dukes, both military officers, were nicknamed the " Iron Duke " during their lifetimes:

Two military coups in Fiji in 1987 removed a democratically elected government led by an Indo Fijian ,.

Two more military dictators followed by December 1949.

Two crossed swords also look like a Christian cross and the mixed symbolism has been used in military decorations, for instance in the Polish Order of the White Eagle ( before 1730 ) and the Cross of Independence.

* Bruce Quarrie-wrote rule sets for Napoleonic and World War Two wargames and also on military history.

* August 23 – Osama bin Laden writes " The Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places ," a call for the removal of American military forces from Saudi Arabia.

* 10 February: Two female Israeli soldiers are killed and four people are injured in a shooting attack at a civilian bakery near a military base in Beersheba.

* 27 December: Two IDF soldiers and two yeshiva students were killed in an attack on the Hesder yeshiva ( military religious academy ) of Otniel.

Two years of military service was made compulsory for young men, though there was no warfare.

Two of his foster brothers served as major generals in the Union Army during the Civil War: Hugh Boyle Ewing, later an ambassador and author, and Thomas Ewing, Jr., who would serve as defense attorney in the military trials against the Lincoln conspirators.

Two major military battles occurred near the city: in 732, the Battle of Poitiers ( also known as the Battle of Tours ), in which the Franks commanded by Charles Martel halted the expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate, and in 1356, the Battle of Poitiers, a key victory for English forces during the Hundred Years ' War.

Two days later he commanded troops in the Battle of Antietam, which had the highest number of deaths among troops of any single day in United States military history.

Two aircraft were built to prove the tiltrotor design and explore the operational flight envelope for military and civil applications.

Two of De Gaulle ’ s decisions stiffened the opposition: first, his denial of EEC membership to the United Kingdom in January 1963 ; secondly, France ’ s retreat from the integrated military structure of NATO in 1966.

Two of the most significant military parades on Red Square were the one in 1941, when the city was besieged by Germans and troops were leaving Red Square straight to the front lines, and the Victory Parade in 1945, when the banners of defeated Nazi armies were thrown at the foot of Lenin's Mausoleum.

Two names were proposed: Aequitius, a tribune of the first Scutarii, and Januarius, a relative of Jovian ’ s in charge of military supplies in Illyricum.

Two controversial amendments by Mansfield limiting military funding of research were passed by Congress.

Two major works on tactics come from the late Roman period: Taktike Theoria by Aelianus Tacticus and De Re Militari (" On military matters ") by Vegetius.

The Scheyville Training Farm era ended in 1940 when the farm was taken over by the Commonwealth for use as a military school during World War Two.