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 civilians, Damien Donaghy and John Johnston were shot and wounded by soldiers on William Street who claimed the former was carrying a black cylindrical object.

Two days later on 11 July, Moise Tshombe declared the independence of Katanga province in the south-east, closely backed by remaining Belgian administrators and soldiers.

Two British soldiers are killed and one badly wounded.

Two troops of British cavalry, one at the Four Courts, the other on O ' Connell Street, sent out to investigate what was happening, took fire and casualties from rebel forces On Mount Street, a group of reserve volunteer soldiers, stumbled upon the rebel position and four were killed before they reached Beggars Bush barracks.

Two days later, on September 12, Hei no Saemon and a group of soldiers abducted Nichiren from his hut at Matsubagayatsu, Kamakura.

Two years later its soldiers sacked Salerno.

Two other major memorial sites associated with the genocide are in Kicukiro District: Rebero Genocide Memorial Site where 14, 400 victims are buried and the Nyanza-Kicukiro Genocide Memorial Site where 5, 000 victims were killed after Belgian soldiers who serving in the United Nations peacekeeping forces abandoned them.

Clockwise, from left: United Nations soldiers during the Korean War, which was the first UN authorized conflict ; Two atomic explosions from the RDS-37 and Operation Upshot-Knothole | Upshot-Knothole ( Soviet and American, respectively ) nuclear weapons, symbolizing the escalation of Cold War tensions between the two nations in the 1950s ; Israeli troops prepare to fight the Egypt ians during the Suez Crisis of 1956 ; A replica of Sputnik I, the world's first satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 ; Fidel Castro leads the Cuban Revolution in 1959 ; North Sea flood of 1953

* 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 Mexican soldiers were killed, and one Texian was injured when he fell off his horse during the skirmish.

Two soldiers of the U. S. 4th Infantry Division were awarded Medals of Honor for action in the battle.

Two bayoneted corpses are the only survivors of seven street cleaners who were sitting in their headquarters when Japanese soldiers came in without warning or reason and killed five of their number and wounded the two that found their way to the hospital.

Two Japanese soldiers have climbed over the garden wall and are about to break into our house.

Two soldiers entangled their main canopies and opened their white reserve parachutes as a precaution.

Two other eye-witness accounts of the flag exist, both from American soldiers.

Two members of Bouchard's contingent made contact with the garrison soldiers and made their demand for provisions, which was rebuffed with added threats: Lieutenant Argüello replied that if the ships did not sail away the garrison would gladly provide " an immediate supply of shot and shell ".

Two years later, in autumn 1446, Sultan Murad II who had come out of retirement, led an army of 50 – 60, 000 soldiers into Greece to put an end to the pretensions of Constantine.

Two hundred and fifty soldiers who died in the campus hospital were buried in a cemetery on the grounds of the university.

Two United States soldiers were treated after displaying the early symptoms of exposure to sarin.

Two protesters in Toronto demonstrate against the American policy of holding child soldiers as enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay.

The lyricist, Hugh Martin, wrote lyrics which referred to the soldiers fighting during World War Two.

Two men were on duty inside, playing pinochle, relaxed.

Two of the new hands, a Mexican named Jose Amado and a kid known only as Laredo, were picked for the first trick of riding night herd.

Two of the principal addresses were delivered by prominent Protestants, and when the speaker was a Catholic, one `` discussant '' on the dais tended to be of another religious persuasion.

Two of our men were killed, a third was wounded.

Two gas lamps were no more than a misleading glow.

Two men he did not recognize were sipping coffee and munching sweet rolls.

Two hundred and nineteen were received from 35 of our 50 United States and 11 came from foreign countries.

Two special issues were published, one for November 1959 on Space Medicine, the other the Tenth Anniversary issue for January 1960.

Two friends were talking.

Two of the fluids showed a high-positive normal pressure when undergoing shear, and two showed small negative pressures which were negligible in comparison with the amount of the positive pressures generated by the other two.

Two types of light source were used, a thousand watt projection lamp and an AH6 high pressure mercury arc.

Two other end-use areas which contributed to expandable styrene's growth during the year were packaging ( molded inserts replacing complicated cardboard units ) and foamed-core building panels.

Two of these were included in Palfrey's lot.

Two bequests were recorded: one of $200 under the will of Mrs. Harriet A. Copp of Los Angeles ; ;

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

Two women, who had been chattering like parrots, were struck dumb.

Two tax revision bills were passed.

Two other cases also were under advisement.

-- 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 were in the same band 18 years ago ; ;

Two late Sonatas, Op. 110 and 111, were played with similar insight, the disarming simplicities of the Op. 111 Adagio made plain without ever becoming obvious.

Two other Japanese girls were sitting at the tables, both quite pretty and well groomed.

Two of the seven wonders of the ancient world were located in Anatolia: The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus and the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

These were The Bump, starring Aubrey Smith ; Twice Two ; Five Pound Reward ; and Bookworms Some of these films survive in the archives of the British Film Institute.

Two chiefly important monk philosophers were Sengzhao and Daosheng.