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 Luxemburger soldiers were killed and 17 were wounded in the war.

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 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 murmured with their heads together at the end of the bar, while the sleek-headed bartender absently polished a glass.

Two cars came over a crest, their chrome and glass flashing.

Two members of the panel later told in court about receiving telephone calls at their homes from anonymous persons expressing interest in the trial.

Two of them wanted to vomit, put their hands in front of their mouths, and ran out of the lecture hall to the toilet.

* In Allan Cole and Chris Bunch's Sten science fiction series, Book Two, The Wolf Worlds, the Scottish character Alex bemoans their predicament after crash landing ; ' A slackit way f ' r a mon ,' Alex mourned to himself.

Records from the early 19th century survive to this day describing the distinct dialect that had surfaced in the colonies since first settlement in 1788, with Peter Miller Cunningham's 1827 book Two Years in New South Wales, describing the distinctive accent and vocabulary of the native born colonists, different from that of their parents and with a strong London influence.

Two years before their first opening day, Colangelo hired Buck Showalter, the American League Manager of the Year in 1994 with the New York Yankees.

* Two further suffragans, the Bishop of Ebbsfleet and the Bishop of Richborough, are provincial episcopal visitors for the whole Province of Canterbury, licensed by the archbishop as " flying bishops " to visit parishes throughout the province who are uncomfortable with the ministrations of their local bishop who has participated in the ordination of women.

Two spiritual adversaries endeavour to tempt and corrupt humanity: these are often described through their mythological embodiments, Lucifer and his counterpart Ahriman, which have both positive and negative aspects.

Two convicts, Henry and Susannah Kable, sought to sue Duncan Sinclair, the captain of Alexander, for stealing their possessions during the voyage.

* Richard Reti vs Aron Nimzowitsch, Berlin 1928, NimzoIndian Defence ( E38 ), 0 – 1 Two of the top hypermoderns cross swords to showcase their latest ideas.

How do you do ?," Capp sardonically congratulated Lennon and Ono on their Two Virgins nude album cover: " I think that everybody owes it to the world to prove they have pubic hair.

Two whole numbers m and n are called coprime if their greatest common divisor is 1 ; i. e., if there is no prime number that divides both of them.

Two years later the Lions toured in South Africa, winning more than half of their normal matches.

Two women made a pact to eat their children ; after the first mother cooked her child the second mother ate it but refused to reciprocate by cooking her own child.

Two political parties grew out of conflicts between the followers of Bolívar and Santander and their political visions — the Conservatives and the Liberals – and have since dominated Colombian politics.

* Two compact Hausdorff spaces X < sub > 1 </ sub > and X < sub > 2 </ sub > are homeomorphic if and only if their rings of continuous real-valued functions C ( X < sub > 1 </ sub >) and C ( X < sub > 2 </ sub >) are isomorphic.

As George Gamow put in his science-popularizing book, One, Two, Three ... Infinity ( 1947 ), " The metallic substances differ from all other materials by the fact that the outer shells of their atoms are bound rather loosely, and often let one of their electrons go free.

Two of those games were at home against the Dallas Cowboys, making the Cowboys wear their " unlucky " or " jinxed " navy-blue jerseys, as the Cowboys are one of three teams who routinely wear their white jerseys at home with limited exception.

Two years after the wolf reintroductions, the population of coyotes had been reduced 50 % through both competitive exclusion and intraguild predation compared to before their reintroduction.

Two of Constantine's Solomonic column s in their present day location on a pier in St Peter's, Rome.