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 Alexei was pondering his options, on 26 August 1716 Peter wrote to Alexei from abroad, urging him, if he desired to remain tsarevich, to join him and the army without delay.

While at large, al-Fihri managed to gather an army allegedly numbering to 20, 000.

While the early texts condemn killing in the strongest terms, and portray the ideal king as a pacifist, such a king is nonetheless flanked by an army.

While Boudica's army continued their assault in Verulamium ( St. Albans ), Suetonius regrouped his forces.

While Constantius was away from the eastern frontier in early 337, Shapur assembled a large army, including war elephants, and launched an attack on Roman territory, laying waste to Mesopotamia and putting Nisibis under siege.

While en route to Chongqing, the Nationalist army intentionally started the " fire of Changsha ", which lasted for three days, destroyed two thirds of the city, killed twenty thousand civilians, and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

While the conflict has been called by some " The War of the Amateurs ", the White Army had two major advantages over the Red Guards in the war: the professional military leadership of General Mannerheim and his staff — which included 84 Swedish volunteer officers and former Finnish officers of the Tsar's army — and 1, 450 soldiers of the 1, 900-strong, elite " Jäger " battalion.

While his southern commander Greene in 1780 – 81 did use Fabian tactics, Washington did so only in fall 1776 to spring 1777, after losing New York City and seeing much of his army melt away.

While laying the siege, the king was attacked by a Nasrid army from Granada.

While the victory was minor, it encouraged the Gauls and Ligurians to join the Carthaginian cause, whose troops bolstered his army back to around 40, 000 men.

While laying the foundation stone of the National Defence Academy ( India ) in 1949, he stated: " We, who for generations had talked about and attempted in everything a peaceful way and practiced non-violence, should now be, in a sense, glorifying our army, navy and air force.

While he cultivated a cavalier image ( red-lined gray cape, yellow sash, hat cocked to the side with an ostrich plume, red flower in his lapel, often sporting cologne ), his serious work made him the trusted eyes and ears of Robert E. Lee's army and inspired Southern morale.

While Prince Louis II's sympathies were strongly pro-French, he tried to keep Monaco neutral during World War II but supported the Vichy French government of his old army colleague, Marshall Philippe Pétain.

While heavy machine guns such as the Maxim gun and the Vickers gun were fearsome defensive weapons in a built-up emplacement, they were very hard to move to a new position if the army had advanced to a new area, or if it had to fall back.

While the army held more than its own against the armies of the kingdom's neighbors, its performance against more technologically advanced European armies deteriorated over time.

While it defeated the Portuguese and French intrusions in the 17th and 18th centuries respectively, the army could not stop the advance of the British Empire in the 19th century, losing all three Anglo-Burmese wars.

While the ERP fought the army in Tucumán, the Montoneros were active in Buenos Aires.

While the funding of the standing army subsists on annual financial votes by parliament, the Mutiny Act is also renewed on an annual basis by parliament.

While most soldiers are not currently formally qualified for their rank, there are determined moves to professionalise the army after the restructure is complete.

While in the army, he became an editor and cartoonist for the battalion newspaper.

While Carthage's navy was the largest in the ancient world at the time, it did not maintain a large, permanent, standing army.

In the army, Nurmi quickly impressed in the athletic competitions: While others marched, Nurmi ran the whole distances with a rifle on his shoulder and a backpack full of sand.

While 60 % of regimental commanders had two years or more of command experience in June 1941, and almost 80 % of rifle division commanders, only 20 % of corps commanders, and 5 % or fewer army and military district commanders, had the same level of experience.

While many socialist currents advocated economic planning as an eventual substitute for the market for factors of production, some define economic planning as being based on worker-self management, with production being carried out to directly satisfy human needs, and contrast this with the concept of a command economy of the Soviet Union, which they characterize as being based on a top-down bureaucratic administration of the economy in a similar fashion to a capitalist firm.

While Eiffel does not allow direct access to the features of a class by a client of the class, it does allow for the definition of an " assigner command ", such as:

While Elagabalus was still on his way to Rome, brief revolts broke out by the Fourth Legion at the instigation of Gellius Maximus, and the Third Legion, which itself had been responsible for the elevation of Elagabalus to the throne, under the command of Senator Verus.

While consulting with the Britons, who would not be suspicious, Hengist would give out the command " Nemet oure Saxas ," and, at that moment, every soldier must be ready to seize the Briton closest to him and, with their drawn dagger, stab him.

While Shi ' a and Druze parties command fierce loyalty to their leaderships, there is more factional infighting among many of the Christian parties.

While the legion was in battle formation, the Pilus Prior was given command of the entire cohort.

While Kings of England continued to press claims to properties on the continent, they would never again command the territories Richard I inherited.

While the Elite Guards are loyal to her, the male soldiers under her command are skeptical of her choices.

While the Waffen-SS remained officially outside the armed forces ( Wehrmacht ) and under Himmler's authority, they were placed under the operational command of the Armed Forces High Command ( OKW ) or Army High Command ( OKH ), and were largely funded by the Wehrmacht.

While Massoud united the Tajiks, Hazara and Uzbeks as well as some Pashtun commanders under his United Front command, the famed Pashtun commander Abdul Haq received increasing numbers of defecting Pashtun Taliban as " Taliban popularity trended downward ".

While he had been instrumental in advancing the career of the able Dwight D. Eisenhower, he had also recommended the swaggering Lloyd Fredendall to Eisenhower for a major command in the American invasion of North Africa during Operation Torch.

While in France, Patton requested a combat command.

While these measures may not have made Patton popular, they did tend to restore a sense of discipline and unit pride that may have been missing when Fredendall was still in command.

While negotiations continued about the matter, the Savoy-French-Spanish troops attacked Mantua under the supreme command of Charles Emmanuel himself.

While attempting to relieve this allied city, the Romans under the command of Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter suffer a costly defeat in the Battle of Arretium.

While the Undi Corps had been led by inkhosi kaMapitha at the Isandlwana battle, the command of the Undi Corps passed to Prince Dabulamanzi kaMpande ( half-brother of Cetshwayo kaMpande, the Zulu king ) when kaMapitha was wounded mopping up British fugitives from Isandlwana.

While laying siege to Barney's force, the British under the command of Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane plundered and destroyed the area nearby, including burning the town of Prince Frederick.

While enroute, his command encountered a small Confederate camp on the banks of the Middle Boggy River, made up of around 90 Confederate soldiers.

While retaining administrative command of the Army of the Gulf from New Orleans, Banks went on leave to the North in fall 1864.

While presenting Aida in Rio de Janeiro, Leopoldo Miguez, the locally hired conductor, reached the summit of a two-month escalating conflict with the performers due to his rather poor command of the work, to the point that the singers went on strike and forced the company's general manager to seek a substitute conductor.

While the command retained a minimum peacetime force and the Air Ministry had every intention of maintaining it as such, the fleet was further reduced and suffered from procurement problems.

While in Iraq, the troops were under Polish command ( Central South Iraq ).

While Kirk and McCoy were imprisoned, Spock assumed command and led an investigation into the attack on Gorkon's ship and his assassination.