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Two and legions
Two legions, with eight cavalry squadrons and ten auxiliary cohorts, were therefore dispatched under the command of Vespasian while his elder son, Titus, arrived from Alexandria with another.
* Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison.
Two legions were sent in but failed to coordinate and were routed by the Sarmatians.
Two legions under Mummius Lupercus were defeated at Castra Vetera ( near the modern Xanten ) and surrounded.
Two legions were still besieged at Castra Vetera and the rest of the Roman army was not large enough to cope with the revolt.
Two legions had been lost, two others ( I Germanica and XVI Gallica ) were controlled by the rebels.
Two things, though, saved the legions from being immediately routed — firstly, the knowledge and experience of the soldiers ( which meant that they could decide for themselves what to do without waiting for orders ) and secondly, Caesar had previously ordered all legion commanders to stay with their legions during the setting up of the camp.
* Two new legions levied for consul Publius Valerius Laevinus are deployed against Pyrrhus, reinforced by the existing legions of consul Tiberius Coruncanius from Etruria.
It was believed by some that he planned to eventually do away with the Rule of Two entirely in order to have legions of Sith at his disposal.

Two and commanded
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.
Inspired by the Spaniards, ( who, in 1812, had created their constitution ) a regiment in the army of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, commanded by Guglielmo Pepe, a Carbonaro, mutinied, conquering the peninsular part of Two Sicilies.
Two fled, but six returned as commanded to face the charges against them.
Two days later one of his two brigades of regular U. S. Infantry under Brigadier General Winfield Scott defeated a British force commanded by Major General Phineas Riall at the Battle of Chippawa.
Two days later the American Seventh Army commanded by General George Patton would land on the western corner of the island and move towards the port of Palermo.
Group two commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Lovat would land at Orange Two and take out the beach defences.
Two weeks before Alcock and Brown's flight, the first trans-Atlantic flight had been made by the NC-4, a United States Navy flying boat, commanded by Lt.
Two squadrons of the Wellington Mounted Rifle Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel W. Meldrum, made a bayonet assault, supported by several machine guns and two 18-pounder guns.
Two of the squadrons, commanded by the consuls Marcus Atilius Regulus and Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus, led the way.
#* Two light bomber squadrons ( one of which was No. 8 Squadron IAF commanded by Squadron-Leader Niranjan Prasa ), equipped with Vultee Vengeances.
Two detachments were formed to occupy different arms of the ridges: one from the north with 738 men commanded by Major Richards, while another from the southern and nearest ridge to Nahan with a thousand men led by Major Ludlow.
Two light cruisers, Magdeburg and Augsburg and a group of destroyers all commanded by Rear-Admiral Behring were carrying out a reconnaissance of the Gulf of Finland when the ships became separated in fog.
Two of his brothers went to sea, and he followed their example by entering the Royal Navy in 1761, in but then transferred to, then commanded by Captain John Jervis, afterwards Earl Saint Vincent.
Two months later, he commanded the attack on Fort Smith, Arkansas, and on July 27, 1864 he led an attack on the 6th Kansas Cavalry at Massard Prairie, Arkansas.
He commanded the guided-missile destroyer, the guided-missile cruiser, Cruiser-Destroyer Group Two, and the Carrier Battle Group.
These formations included Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla One in the Pacific ( included Parks ), Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla Three at Long Beach in the Pacific ( commanded for a time by Rear Admiral Draper Kauffman ), Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla Two in the Atlantic ( included Yosemite ), Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla Four in the Atlantic, which supplied ships for the Task Force Alfa antisubmarine experiment and had USS Shenandoah ( AD-26 ) as flagship for a time.
Two NFOs have reached four star rank, one as a Marine Corps general having served as the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, and the other as a Navy admiral having commanded U. S. Fleet Forces Command & U. S. Atlantic Fleet, U. S. Pacific Command ( USPACOM ) and U. S. Central Command ( USCENTCOM ).
Two Russian squadrons, commanded by Admiral Grigory Spiridov and Rear Admiral John Elphinstone, a British advisor, combined under the overall command of Count Alexei Orlov, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Fleet and went to look for the Ottoman fleet.
During the First Gulf War, McNab commanded Bravo Two Zero, an eight man SAS patrol that was given the task of destroying underground communication links between Baghdad and north-west Iraq and with tracking Scud missile movements in the region.
Two of his own brothers were executed on his orders, and he commanded one of his sons ( al-Mutarrif ) to kill his own brother.
Two years later, Trưởng was chief of staff of the Airborne Division, which was commanded by General Dư Quốc Đống.

Two and by
Two minutes later it came again -- a double explosion, followed by a third, sounding more distant.
Two of the vital qualities demanded of a politician by other politicians are that he always keep a confidence and that he keep his word.
Two strong dissents from the majority report of the Joint Economic Committee ( May 2 ) by Senators Proxmire and Butler allege that the New Deal fiscal policy of the Thirties did not work.
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 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 companies now had headquarters with Clark J. Wait, who by then had his own drugstore at Factory Point -- the `` Northern Union Telegraph Company '' and the `` Western Union ''.
Two metabolites ( 1, and 2 ) ) of p-aminobenzoic acid ( PABA ) which act as cofactors for the hydroxylation of aniline by acid-fast bacteria are biosynthesized from Aj.
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.
I was reminded, amusedly, by a poem of Kenneth Patchen's called The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves, which Patchen himself read on a record against jazz background.
-- Two errors by New York Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek in the eleventh inning donated four unearned runs and a 5-to-2 victory to the Chicago White Sox today.
-- 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 members of the Democratic-endorsed majority on the school board said they probably would vote to appeal a ruling by the state Board of Education, which said yesterday that the school committee acted improperly in its appointment of the coordinator, Francis P. Nolan 3rd, the Democratic-endorsed committee chairman, could not be reached for comment.
Two works by Mauss in particular proved to have enduring relevance: Essay on the Gift, a seminal analysis of exchange and reciprocity, and his Huxley lecture on the notion of the person, the first comparative study of notions of person and selfhood cross-culturally.
Two binary abaci constructed by Dr. Robert C. Good, Jr., made from two Chinese abaci
Two hundred years later western and central Anatolia came under Roman control, but it continued to be strongly influenced by Hellenistic culture.
He stated that he acquired many of his writing techniques from three books, " Narrative Technique " by Thomas Uzzell, and " The Only Two Ways to Write a Story " plus " Twenty Problems of the Short-Story Writer ", both by John Gallishaw.
Seven stories are inspired by a nursery rhyme: And Then There Were None by Ten Little Indians ; One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ; Five Little Pigs by This Little Piggy ; Crooked House by There Was a Crooked Man ; A Pocket Full of Rye by Sing a Song of Sixpence ; Hickory Dickory Dock by Hickory Dickory Dock, and Three Blind Mice by Three Blind Mice.

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