-- 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.

Two coups briefly interrupted democratic rule during the Peloponnesian war, both named by the numbers in control: the Four Hundred in 411 BC and the Thirty in 404 BC.

Two military coups were carried out in 1987 by Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.

Two new groups, the Armed Forces for a Federal Republic ( FARF ) led by former Kette ally Laokein Barde and the Democratic Front for Renewal ( FDR ), and a reformulated MDD clashed with government forces from 1994 to 1995.

Two Foreign Legion companies led the defence at the celebrated Siege of Tuyên Quang ( 24 November 1884 to 3 March 1885 ).

Two days later he led his forces out, hoping again to trap the patrolling Greek destroyers between two divisions of the Ottoman fleet, one heading for Imbros and the other waiting at the entrance of the straits.

Two political factions operated in Carthage: the war party, also known as the " Barcids " ( Hannibal ’ s family name ) and the peace party led by Hanno II the Great.

Two of these attacks led to a watershed event in Lebanon's inchoate civil war.

Two years after, in 137 BC Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus led a successful campaign against the Lusitani, reaching as far north as the Minho river.

Two years after the web site was launched, the creators sold a majority share to a consortium of investors led by Doug Dohring.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah espoused the Two Nation Theory and led the League to adopt the Lahore Resolution of 1940, demanding the formation of independent states in the East and the West of British India.

* In Aztec mythology, a pantheon of four hundred rabbit gods known as Centzon Totochtin, led by Ometotchtli or Two Rabbit, represented fertility, parties, and drunkenness.

Two of those interceptions led to 10 first-quarter points.

Two major entities contested the election: the incumbent PNM, and a coalition called the People's Partnership, comprising the UNC, COP, TOP ( Tobago Organisation of the People ), and two labour and non-governmental organisations: the National Joint Action Committee and the Movement for Social Justice, led by UNC leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

Two Sienese men love a lady, one of them being her child's godfather: the godfather dies, having promised his comrade to return to him from the other world ; which he does, and tells him what sort of life is led there.

Two contrasting language families were thereby formed, but the similarities between them led to their retention in a common grouping, named Ural – Altaic.

This led to the Grand Alliance Pyrrhic victory at the Battle of Malplaquet ( 1709 ) and a Two Crowns victory at the Battle of Villaviciosa ( 1710 ).

Two Turkic attempts to push east of the broad Jamuna and Brahmaputra rivers were repulsed, but a third led by Mughisuddin Tughral conquered the Sonargaon area south of Dhaka to Faridpur, bringing the Sen Kingdom officially to an end by 1277.

Two main armies, one led by Lothair, the other by Henry the Proud of Bavaria, entered Italy.

Giancarlo led the Minardi team to four moderately successful Formula Two seasons with a variety of young Italian and South American drivers, including Alessandro Nannini and Johnny Cecotto.

Two major losses that led to the end of the kingdom were in 197 BC when Rome defeated Philip V, and 168 BC when Rome defeated Perseus.

Two further attacks were made by the Spanish on Tortola in 1646 and 1647, led by Captain Francisco Vincente Duran.

Two political parties emerged: the Union for National Progress ( UPRONA ), a multi-ethnic party led by Tutsi Prince Louis Rwagasore and the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) supported by Belgium.

Two lower-ranking Elders and two Eldresses led each family, women overseeing women and men overseeing men.

During these years Holst also became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, and this interest led to the composition of several works set to translations of Sanskrit texts, including: Sita ( 1899 – 1906 ), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana ; Sāvitri ( 1908 ), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata ; 4 groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda ( 1908 – 14 ); and two texts originally by Kalidasa: Two Eastern Pictures ( 1909 – 10 ) and The Cloud Messenger ( 1913 ).