While not all Southerners saw themselves as fighting to preserve slavery, most of the officers and over a third of the rank and file in Lee's army had close family ties to slavery.

While fighting at the front, Bäumer and his comrades have to engage in frequent battles and endure the dangerous and often dirty conditions of warfare.

While the early sources indicate that Horsa died fighting the Britons, no details are provided about Hengist's death until Geoffrey's Historia, which states that Hengist was beheaded by Eldol, the British duke of Gloucester, and buried in an unlocated mound.

While the southern kingdom made no serious effort to militarily regain power over the north, there was a long-lasting boundary dispute, fighting over which lasted during the reigns of several kings on both sides before being finally settled.

While Molotov cocktails may be a psychologically effective method of disabling armoured fighting vehicles by forcing the crew out or damaging external components, most modern tanks cannot be physically destroyed or rendered completely inoperable by Molotov cocktails ; only " disabled ".

While the band Korn is considered the pioneers of the nu metal genre, frontman Johnathan Davis stated: " I remember when were coming out we were fighting being called a metal band because we weren't a metal band, we were something that wasn't classifiable ," Davis says.

While Paraguayans were busy fighting among themselves during the 1920s, Bolivians established a series of forts in the Paraguayan Chaco.

While fighting Hannibal in Italy, Hispania, and Sicily, Rome simultaneously fought against Macedon in the First Macedonian War.

While the first of these novels, The Saint in Miami, has Templar stumbling upon a Nazi plot, beginning with the " Arizona " novella Templar is fighting his own war against Germany.

While the Aztecs preferred the sword-like macuahuitl for fighting, the advantage of a far-reaching thrusting weapon was recognised, and a large portion of the army would carry the tepoztopilli into battle.

While Spain was fighting in France, Portugal — which had been under personal union with Spain for 60 years — acclaimed John IV of Braganza as king in 1640, and the House of Braganza became the new dynasty of Portugal ( see Portuguese Restoration War, for further information ).

While the treaty was practically obsolete before the end of the year, it did provide some relief to the Bolsheviks, who were tied up in fighting the Russian Civil War, and it affirmed the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania.

While possessing the Infinity Gem of Power, the Champion unconsciously used it to further increase his power with his rage, so that during his fight with Thanos his strength increased to the point where he destroyed the planet on which they were fighting.

While the genre became generally far less popular than it once was, arcades and their attendant fighting games are still reasonably popular in Japan.

While they carry emotional scars from their war experiences, they are proud of their service, and are shown fighting on the side of right and justice.

While Tamar occasionally accompanied her army and is described as planning some campaigns, she was never directly involved in the fighting.

While missiles fired out of guns would prove a disappointment, the wire-guided BGM-71 TOW would give infantry fighting vehicles like the M2 Bradley the firepower to destroy armored targets along with the ability to carry troops.

While the film is neither " the full story of Lawrence's life or a completely accurate account of the two years he spent fighting with the Arabs ," Korda argues that criticizing its inaccuracy " misses the point ": " The object was to produce, not a faithful docudrama that would educate the audience, but a hit picture.

While the planet's local humans are just as degenerate and subservient as Swift's yahoos, which they strongly resemble, Max and his fellow Earth humans are brave and resourceful, at their best in fighting the centaurs.

While fighting the fifth so-called " Light ", who was out of control, Hope attempts to take some of his powers only to exhausts herself and collapses.

While the ethnic based army was generally successful on the battlefields, they began to have negative effects on the Fatimid's internal politics, traditionally the Berber element of the army had the strongest sway over political affairs, but as the Turkish element grew more powerful they began to challenge this, and eventually by 1020 serious riots began to break out among the Black African troops who were fighting back against a Berber / Turks Alliance.

While the Republicans boldly claimed the election, Tilden mystified and disappointed his supporters by not fighting for the prize or giving any leadership to his advocates.

* While Alexander is fighting in Asia, Agis III of Sparta, profiting from the Macedonian king's absence from Greece, leads some of the Greek cities in a revolt.

While the Varangian Guard was primarily meant to function as the emperor's bodyguard, Harald was found fighting on " nearly every frontier " of the empire.

While he was fighting the Trojans, his wife Clytemnestra, infuriated by the murder of her daughter, began an affair with Aegisthus.

While the Taliban began regrouping inside Pakistan, more coalition troops entered the escalating US-led war.

While it achieved minimal support in western Germany, it regularly won 15 % to 25 % of the vote in eastern Germany, entering coalition governments ( with the Social Democratic Party ) in the federal states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin.

* February 23 – While the Massachusetts Council debates how to handle the Christian Indians they had exiled to Deer Island on October 13, 1675, a coalition of Indians led by Metacomet attacks colonial settlements just outside of Boston.

While trying to portray the new government as a Khalq – Parcham coalition, most members ( the majority of whom were Khalqists ), saw through the lies.

While HZDS became part of Robert Fico's coalition, Mečiar himself was not named to cabinet.

While he was at first successful in extending the power of Savoy, in 1282 he was opposed by a coalition of King Rudolph I, Charles of Anjou ( who was also count of Provence ), the dauphin, and the counts of Geneva.

While it looked as if co-operation between these parties would not be feasible a shared opposition to Fianna Fáil and Éamon de Valera overcame all other difficulties and the coalition government was formed.

While it was part of and supported the Swedish coalition government and its position of neutrality during World War II, the party advocated an active stance against the Soviet Union during the Cold war.

" While there was some talk that Fine Gael would govern alone as a minority government, senior Fine Gael leaders indicated as soon as the election result was beyond doubt that they would likely enter a coalition government with Labour.

While the United States threatened intervention if he was removed through revolution, a bipartisan coalition came together to remove him from the presidency.

While in theory the coalition government maintained its majority, it only consisted of one seat.

While being recognized as a rare example of an active reformer in contemporary Austrian politics, his governments were also highly controversial from the beginning, starting with the fact that he formed a coalition government with Jörg Haider's Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) on both occasions.

While negotiations to form a new government on the basis of the October 1999 elections were ongoing, Klima " urged fellow EU leaders to help influence the coalition bargaining ," an unprecedented call for foreign interference in the political affairs of the sovereign Austrian state whose acting chancellor he still was at the time of this statement.

While this failed to influence the outcome of the coalition talks, it led directly to the so-called " sanctions " against Austria, which had no basis whatsoever in the EU charter.

While a democrat, Račan was, however, inefficient in running a government comprising six parties, the first coalition in modern Croatian history.

While the Dominarian coalition, led by planeswalkers Freyalise, Lord Windgrace, and Bo Levar, struggled to overcome the new threat, Yawgmoth transferred his essence from Phyrexia to Dominaria, enveloping the world in a cloud of darkness, destroying life at a touch.

While generally popular as Mayor of Barcelona, Maragall's career as President of the coalition government was marked by a series of crises.

While editor, Seddon was elected several times to the Labour Party National Executive Committee as a candidate of the Grassroots Alliance coalition of left-wing activists.

While it was nominally still a coalition, the " non-Communists " in the cabinet were mostly fellow travelers.

Tiit Vähi tried to negotiate a coalition with the Reform Party, but the talks broke down over economic policy, with the Reform Party opposing agricultural subsidies and supporting the maintenance of Estonia's flat-rate income tax, While the Coalition Party formed a new government with the Centre Party at first, a taping scandal involving Centre Party leader Edgar Savisaar led to the Reform Party replacing the Centre Party in the coalition in November 1995.

While the United Alternative movement was focused on creating a broader coalition for conservative voters, it had to compete with social conservatives who wanted the Reform Party to shift further to the right, as opposed to the moderate centre and Red Toryism.

While coalition forces claimed at least 15 militants were killed ( including a local Taliban commander ), local villagers claimed that many of those killed were actually civilians.

While McDaid stated that his presence at the hearing was due to personal connections – Clarke's mother was a constituent and a patient in his general practice in Letterkenny – the opposition Fine Gael party objected to his appointment and ministers from Fianna Fáil's coalition partners, the Progressive Democrats, indicated their unwillingness to remain in office should McDaid be appointed.