Within a day, it became clear that the German army was capable of conducting offensive operations and that Red Army detachments, which were relatively small, poorly organized and poorly led, were no match for it.

Within hours after taking office, Stevens was ousted in a bloodless military coup led by the commander of the army Brigadier General David Lansana, a close ally of Sir Albert Margai who had appointed him to the position in 1964.

Within a month Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, and Admiral Gaspard de Coligny had raised an army of 1, 800.

Within two weeks a small party of Spanish soldiers had captured a key bridge on the border and from here Toledo assembled his army.

Within a short time discipline had collapsed, and Cumberland's army headed northwards in total disorder.

Within a week his army suffered such catastrophic defeats that the victor of Tirlemont defected infamously to the royalists for the rest of his life.

Within months, its army had expanded to several thousand armed fighters, camels were replaced by modern jeeps ( most of them were Spanish Land Rover Santana jeeps, captured from Moroccan soldiers ), and 19th-century muskets were replaced by assault rifles.

Within the storyline, the Zeon army was composed of three branches in U. C.

Within years of the opening of the new railway, it had attracted the curiosity of another army, the many Victorian naturalists.

Within a week numerous moderate army officers had been dismissed and the military governors of the provinces replaced, as the Prince and Queen Dowager " cleaned house " of their old enemies and liberalist sympathizers.

Within four years, the Qin army isolated the commandery from the rest of Han by capturing the main roads and fortresses across the Taihang Mountains.

Within two months he was again in the field, and on 14 August he destroyed an English army at the battle of the Yellow Ford on the Blackwater river, in which engagement Henry Bagenal was killed ; it was the greatest of all setbacks to English arms in Ireland.

Within three years, Li succeeded in rallying more than 20, 000 men to form a rebel army.

Within days of the declaration of war he reported to an army recruiting centre with the intention of joining a cavalry regiment, but like many others keen to serve he had to wait, and it was not until July 1940 that he started his training.

Within three hours, the Scots army disintegrated, apart from small bodies of knights and men-at-arms around David and his son Henry.

Within a few months, the new army was dominated by officers and men from these two tribes.

Within months of its original raising the regiment was despatched to join Malborough's army in Holland.

Within the Soviet army, serious drug and alcohol problems significantly reduced the effectiveness of soldiers.

Within the army, particularly notable are the kepis of the French Foreign Legion, whose members are sometimes called Képis blancs ( white kepis ), because of the unit's regulation white headgear.

Within three days, the Guatemalan Army had rendered combat-ineffective two of the four units of Col. Castillo's liberation army.

Within the framework of this concept the administration concluded a big contract with the Aerojet General company in 1959 to research the possibility of designing an SRLD suitable for army purposes.

Within a few weeks the rebel forces had formed a substantial, if ill-equipped, army, the Royal and Catholic Army, supported by two thousand irregular cavalry and a few captured artillery pieces.

Within each army different regiments were usually distinguished by " facings "-linings, turnbacks and braiding on coats in colours that were distinctive to one or several regiments.

Within a short time, the Polish general gathered seven thousand potential troops, whom he turned into a disciplined army.

:" Within days of the new orders, Sousa Mendes was taken to task for having granted a visa to a Viennese refugee, Professor Arnold Wizrntzer.

Within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Bevilacqua served as chairman of the Committee on Migration from 1983 to 1984, during which time he visited the refugee camps of Southeast Asia and Africa.

Within Norodom Sihanouk's FUNCINPEC, he rose to the rank of deputy Chief of Staff of the Sihanoukist military, the Armee Nationale Sihanoukiste or ANS, and spent most of the eighties in refugee camps on the Thai-Cambodian border.

Within days, these officers joined with the Coordinating Committee of Democratic Associations to form a predominantly civilian, 25-member ruling body, the Transitional Committee for the Salvation of the People ( CTSP ).

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Within 36 hours the French had taken 11, 387 prisoners, including 284 officers, and captured 115 artillery pieces.

Within the juvenile diversion program, both boys attended mandated classes and conversed with diversion officers.

Within the regimental system, soldiers, and usually officers, are always posted to a tactical unit of their own regiment whenever posted to field duty.

Within the United States Marine Corps, senior NCOs are referred to as staff noncommissioned officers and also include the rank of staff sergeant ( E-6 ).

Within three years, by 1796, he was made a captain, to the combined envy and disgust of the older officers, who felt that: " our general ’ s friend was now the general .” When his regiment was sent from London to Manchester he immediately resigned his commission, citing the city's poor reputation, lack of atmosphere, and an absence of culture and civility.

Within a month of the Rump's dismissal, Oliver Cromwell on the advice of Harrison and with the support of other officers in the Army, sent a request to Congregational churches in every county to nominate those they considered fit to take part in the new government.

Within the United States Army, aides-de-camp are specifically appointed to general-grade officers ( NATO Code OF-6 through OF-10 ), the Secretary of the Army, Secretary of Defense, Vice President, and President of the United States ; rank and number determined by the grade.

Within the military, disillusioned junior officers silently conveyed their grievances.

Within each division operate four to seven battalions, led by a Battalion Chief and typically consisting of 180 – 200 firefighters and officers.

Within months of the revolution however, it became apparent that the Portuguese Communist Party, allied with a radical group of officers in the MFA, was attempting to extend its control over the government.

Within the officer corps, those trained in Britain opposed those trained in Israel, and both stood against the untrained, who soon eliminated many of the army's most experienced officers.

Within a year of its introduction, the C96 had been sold to governments and commercially for resale to civilians and individual military officers.

Within minutes, four more of the 15 officers in the dormitory were also taken hostage.

Within two months, three officers and 49 other ranks had died.

Within the RAN it is common practice, whilst in port, for junior officers of one ship to attempt to raise the Gin Pennant on the halyard of another ship, thereby forcing that ship to put on free drinks for the officers of the ship that managed to raise the pennant.

Within a short space of time the Surrey police dogs were touring the country giving demonstrations to other police forces, whilst at the same time, Sir Joseph Simpson was bringing his influence to bear on the Kennel Club and other senior police officers.

Within a year, the reservation designated as Camp Campbell was developed to accommodate one armored division and various support troops, with a total size of, and billets for 2, 422 officers and 45, 198 enlisted personnel.

Within the Swedish military, officers who had been volunteers in the Finnish civil war were now senior officers.