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The general used a long ruler to indicate on the map exactly where the troops would land.
The troops were finally able to subdue the rebel forces after many days of fighting.
The troops harrassed the defeated army throughout its retreat.
Not enough funds were provided for the equipment of the troops.
The troops were praised for their dedication and discipline.
On 17 August 1424 Buchan was killed at the disastrous Battle of Verneuil, along with most of the Scottish troops in France.
Gaps were blown in the sea wall to allow quicker access for troops and tanks.
Defeat by the Parliamentary troops came in 1646 and the mint was moved to Exeter.
The Riot Act was read and armed troops corralled the demonstrators in front of the Corn Exchange on Lune Street.
He probably got his death, as he liked to have done two years ago, by viewing the troops for the expedition from the wall of Kensington Garden.
In 1919 British troops fired on a rally protesting against new taxes, killing four Maltese men.
Viking helmets were conical, made from hard leather with wood and metallic reinforcement for regular troops.
Hadrian withdrew all the troops stationed in Parthia and Mesopotamia, abandoning Trajan's conquests.
Thirty maniples arranged in three lines with supporting troops constituted a legion, totaling between 4,000 and 5,000 men.
The auxilia remained independent cohorts, and legionary troops often operated as groups of cohorts rather than as full legions.
Special Operations Executive had a large section of covert, elite Polish troops and cooperated closely with the Polish resistance.
By July 1945 there were 228,000 troops of the Polish Armed Forces in the West serving under the high command of the British Army.
A resolution passed in 1948, the UN's General Assembly asked Pakistan to remove most of its troops as a plebiscite would then be held.
Indian troops were withdrawn by 12 March 1972, three months after the war ended.
Catherine rode north in full armour to address the troops, despite being heavily pregnant at the time.
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The Doughnut Girls of World War I are an early example, serving refreshments to troops in the trenches.
The association between these different troops was only occasional and corresponds to an immediate necessity for the Norman ruler.
During the World Wars, the Smith's Lawn area of the Park was used for housing troops.
There he was joined by his sons and addition troops, almost certainly more of the Dudley manred from the Midlands.
As Captain Brand and his troops had not been the ones fighting for their lives, Maynard thought this extremely unfair.
Quite possibly the garrison bought the malt, and hired a local brewer to make beer from it for the troops.
Without conferring with his British ministers, George stationed them in Hanover to prevent enemy French troops from marching into the electorate.
George personally accompanied them, leading them to victory, thus becoming the last British monarch to lead troops into battle.
George's son, the Duke of Cumberland, commanded the king's troops in northern Germany.
The music section of the YMCA's education department needed volunteers to work with British troops stationed in Europe awaiting demobilisation.
Despite this criticism Chaplin was a favourite with the troops, and his popularity continued to grow worldwide.
Leigh performed for troops before falling ill with a persistent cough and fevers.
This was mainly due to the fact that it was a popular pastime for troops to take their minds off from battle.
After the burning of the Arab fleet in the city's harbor, the Genoese and Pisan troops retreated.
On July 25, 1261, Nicaean troops under Alexios Strategopoulos recaptured Constantinople.
The Polish government indicated they would comply, but instead reinforced the city with more Polish troops.
Ugandan troops were deployed to fight alongside South Sudanese government forces against the rebels.
They detected several German weather stations and alerted American troops, who destroyed the facilities.
In early 1172, Henry allowed de Lacy to take royal troops into Meath, where they plundered and burned the monastic towns of Fore and Killeigh.
Emboldened by the truce, Balliol dismissed most of his English troops and moved to Annan, on the north shore of the Solway Firth.
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Fighting continued for some more years, but French troops assisted the Scots.
Between 1419 and 1424 as many as 15,000 Scottish troops were sent to France.
Frederick William crushed this revolt in 1662, by marching into the city with thousands of troops.
The first was in January 1744 in the debate on Hanoverian troops being kept in British pay.
In April 1689, James VII had already arrived in Ireland and a letter was on the way promising Irish troops to assist the rising in Scotland.
Three hundred Irish troops successfully landed at Kintyre to add to Dundee's forces.
Such a charge was devastating to troops struggling to reform their lines, or fix the recently introduced 'plug' bayonets.
In 1708, James Stuart, the Old Pretender, sailed from Dunkirk with 600 French troops in nearly 30 ships of the French navy.
Cumberland decided to wait out the winter, and moved his troops northwards to Aberdeen.
Not long after the exhausted Jacobite forces had made it back to Culloden, reports came of the advancing government troops.
Immediately Cumberland then pressed the advantage, ordering two troops of Cobham's 10th Dragoons to ride them down.
In 1768 violence broke out in Boston over attempts to suppress smuggling and 4000 British troops were sent to occupy the city.
Separately, the Irish Parliament pledged its loyalty and agreed to the withdrawal of troops from Ireland to suppress the rebellion in America.
Howe had failed to alert his troops there, despite being aware of the impending attack the previous day.
Moreover, they agreed that no troops would be placed in the colonies without their consent.
The Congress refused to negotiate with the commission unless they first acknowledged American independence or withdrew all troops.
American troops in conjunction with Patriot partisans then began the process of reclaiming territory in South Carolina and Georgia.
Arnold was reinforced with additional troops from New York in March, and his army was joined with that of Cornwallis in May.
By 1779, the number of British and German troops stationed in North America was over 60,000, although these were spread from Canada to Florida.
Wurmser elected to march for Mantua with a large portion of his surviving troops.
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Of these, 108,000 troops were available for field operations while the other 29,000 watched the Swiss border and held the Rhine fortresses.
Ten thousand British troops and countless Indians died during this pandemic.
The cabinet discussed Disraeli's proposal to position Indian troops at Malta for possible transit to the Balkans and call out reserves.
As Zulu troops could not marry until they had washed their spears in blood, they were eager for combat.
Germany was repeatedly forced to send troops to bolster Austria and Turkey on other fronts.
In response to the attacks, troops were dispatched to quell the uprising which then resulted in the Herero and Namaqua Genocide.
On 4 August, after Belgium refused to permit German troops to cross its borders into France, Germany declared war on Belgium as well.
It had also killed or permanently crippled 230,000 more French and British troops than it itself had lost.
Serbia was conquered in a little more than a month, as the Central Powers, now including Bulgaria, sent in 600,000 troops total.
The German high command responded by despatching troops to hold the line, but these forces were far too weak to reestablish a front.
The British were forced to dispatch 12,000 troops to oppose them in the Senussi Campaign.
Allied troops landed in Arkhangelsk and in Vladivostok as part of the North Russia Intervention.
The majority of troops in Britain had to continue to be stationed in the north.
In December, the Central Powers signed an armistice with Russia, thus freeing large numbers of German troops for use in the west.
With German reinforcements and new American troops pouring in, the outcome was to be decided on the Western Front.
On 8 October the line was pierced again by British and Dominion troops at the Battle of Cambrai.
Its reserves had been used up, even as US troops kept arriving at the rate of 10,000 per day.
Canadian troops on the right drew back their left flank and retarded the German advance.
If a slope was available, troops were deployed along the rear side for protection.
He also kept tight control of the main reserve, feeding in just enough troops to keep the battle going.
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This allowed the creeping barrage to move too far ahead of the advancing troops.
On 25 June the first US troops began to arrive in France, forming the American Expeditionary Force.
These deployments were controversial since Germany was bound by domestic law only to deploy troops for defence roles.
When the government failed to make the reparations payments in January 1923, French troops occupied German industrial areas along the Ruhr.
A total of 2 million Polish troops fought with the armies of the three occupying powers, and 450,000 died.
An important part of the work of the RAF is to support the British Army by ferrying troops and equipment at the battlefield.
Nearly 400,000 Axis and Allied troops were either lost, injured, or died of disease by the end of the North African Campaign.
The army and civil authorities in India were very slow to respond to the needs of the troops and civilian refugees.
The rest of the Chinese troops tried to return to Yunnan through remote mountainous forests and out of these, at least half died.
The Chinese troops could not retreat because the routes to Yunnan were controlled by the Thais and Japanese.
An innovation was the extensive use of aircraft to transport and supply troops.
Five days later, Chinese troops on the command's left flank captured the city of Bhamo.
Concerned about inflicting casualties on their own troops, many bombers delayed their attacks too long and failed to hit the beach defences.
Australian and British troops were fighting the communists together in the Korean War and the Malayan Emergency.
Musketeer would require thousands of troops, leading the British to seek out France as an ally.
As such, Egyptian troops were ordered to don civilian clothes while guns were freely handed out to Egyptian civilians.
In total, almost 22,000 British forces were involved, In the days before 31 July, about 4,000 extra troops were brought into Northern Ireland.
Thatcher gave strong support to President Bush in reversing Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, to which she sent over 45,000 troops.
The initial force consisted of roughly 3,300 British, 2,300 Canadian, 1,963 Dutch, 300 Australian, 290 Danish and 150 Estonian troops.
On 19 August, French troops suffered their worst losses in Afghanistan in an ambush.
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Pakistanis reacted angrily to the action, saying that 20 innocent villagers had been killed by US troops.
Many protesters compared the decision to deploy more troops in Afghanistan to the expansion of the Vietnam War under the Johnson administration.
The surge in troops supported a sixfold increase in Special Forces operations.
In July 2011 Canada withdrew its combat troops, transitioning to a training role.
The United Kingdom stated that it would gradually withdraw its troops, however it did not specify numbers or dates.
Majorities in 7 out of 12 NATO member countries said troops should be withdrawn as soon as possible.
Six members have no military, meaning that of the 49, 3 withheld troops completely.
In the latter stages of the invasion, 620 troops of the Iraqi National Congress opposition group were deployed to southern Iraq.
When this word was given, the troops on standby crossed the border into Iraq.
Additional troops and supplies were soon brought through this forward operating base.
Army elements met resistance from Iraqi troops defending cities and key bridges along the Euphrates River.
American troops rushed through the gap and reached the Euphrates River at the town of Musayib.
The British troops departed after completing their mission, leaving the area without formal government.
For most of the Second World War, the Channel Islands were occupied by German troops.
For example, Harold Wilson's government would not commit troops to Vietnam.
Approximately 390,000 British Empire and Commonwealth troops lost their lives.
In 1999, British forces under SFOR command were sent to Kosovo and the contingent increased to 19,000 troops.
All British troops were withdrawn from Iraq by 30 April 2009, after the Iraqi government refused to extend their mandate.
About 300 deaths during the conflict were attributed to the British Army, including paramilitary troops and civilians.
Mehmed's demand that Jassim disband his troops and pledge his loyalty to the Ottomans was met with refusal.
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Effendi's troops came under heavy gunfire by a sizable troop of Qatari infantry and cavalry shortly after arriving to Al Wajbah.
The British settlers along the coast were upset that French troops would now be close to the western borders of their colonies.
The two nations eventually dispatched regular troops to North America to enforce their claims.
In September 1755, French and British troops met in the inconclusive Battle of Lake George.
Britain's main weapon was the Royal Navy, which could control the seas and bring as many invasion troops as were needed.
On 29 August 1756, he led Prussian troops across the border of Saxony, one of the small German states in league with Austria.
In the centre was Frederick II, himself with Field Marshal James Keith commanding a corps of 30,000 troops.
Later that summer, the Russians under Field Marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin besieged Memel with 75,000 troops.
In January 1758, the Russians invaded East Prussia, where the province, almost denuded of troops, put up little opposition.
Prussia began the 1761 campaign with just 100,000 available troops, many of them new recruits, and its situation seemed desperate.
In February 1761 Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick surprised French troops at Langensalza and then advanced to besiege Cassel in March.
The expedition set out on 8 September 1757, Sir John Mordaunt commanding the troops and Sir Edward Hawke the fleet.
When his 3,500 troops advanced, their lines became scattered in a disorderly formation.
Wolfe organised his troops in two lines stretching 1 mile across the Plains of Abraham.
John's and raided nearby settlements, the French forces were eventually defeated by British troops at the Battle of Signal Hill.
The front settled into a siege and led to brutal conditions for troops on both sides.
Russia soon withdrew its troops from the Danubian principalities, which were then occupied by Austria for the duration of the war.
Winter, and a deteriorating supply situation on both sides of troops and materiel, led to a halt in ground operations.
The troops suffered greatly from cold and sickness, the shortage of fuel led them to start dismantling their defensive Gabions and Fascines.
This Allied campaign led to a significant reduction in supplies flowing to the besieged Russian troops at Sevastopol.
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Gorbachev meanwhile refused to use Soviet troops to bolster the faltering Warsaw Pact regimes as had occurred in the past.
On 19 September 1991, the JNA moved extra troops to the area around the city of Mostar, which was publicly protested by the local government.
The Norwegian soldiers from FSK Forsvarets Spesialkommando were the first to come in contact with the Russian troops at the airport.
In addition to British troops, 3rd Division now commanded Italian, Dutch, Danish, Czech, Lithuanian, Norwegian and New Zealand forces.
In the article however, it reports that armed Westerners but not Western troops were on the ground.
In July 1943, the War Production Board drew up a plan for the mass distribution of penicillin stocks to Allied troops fighting in Europe.
A Polish Independent Carpathian Brigade was formed in the French Mandate of Syria, to which many Polish troops had escaped from Poland.
After the German Instrument of Surrender, 1945, Polish troops took part in occupation duties in the Western Allied Occupation Zones in Germany.
Dahl was made a lieutenant in the King's African Rifles, commanding a platoon of Askaris, indigenous troops serving in the colonial army.
The Sun attacked Labour leader John Smith in February 1994, for saying that more British troops should be sent to Bosnia.
Leaflets were distributed to Iraqi civilians, by members of the Black Watch, depicting troops and vehicles set against a backdrop of the Saltire.
King Fahd allowed American and coalition troops to be stationed in Saudi Arabia.
By the end of 1918, the British had deployed 410,000 men in the area, of which 112,000 were combat troops.
On the morning of 18 December 2011, the final contingent of US troops to be withdrawn ceremonially exited over the border to Kuwait.
Following the withdrawal of US troops in 2011, the insurgency continued and Iraq suffered from political instability.
The forces of the British Empire operating in Somaliland comprised the three divisions of South African, West African, and East African troops.
The conference ended with a signed agreement calling for the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops in exchange for the cessation of armed confrontation.
The governor requested and obtained British and African troops, including the King's African Rifles.
In 1941, the occupation was taken over by the United States so that Britain could use its troops elsewhere.
American troops returned to Iceland as the Iceland Defence Force, and remained throughout the Cold War.
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Coalition forces responded with a series of military offensives and an increase of troops in Afghanistan.
Baghdad, Iraq's capital city, fell to American troops in April 2003 and Saddam Hussein's government quickly dissolved.
In January 2013, France intervened on behalf of the Malian government's request and deployed troops into the region.
All these troops wore distinctive uniform insignia and considered themselves among the elite of the French Army.
Sikhs warned the British government that the morale of Sikh troops in the British Army would be affected if Pakistan was forced on them.
It was used in the movie Braveheart as William Wallace encouraged the troops at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
The role of allied legions would eventually be taken up by contingents of allied auxiliary troops, called Auxilia.
His comrades, fearing disgrace, 'with one accord, leapt down from the ship' and were followed by troops from the other ships.
According to Tacitus, 10,000 Caledonian lives were lost at a cost of only 360 auxiliary troops.
The speech describes the exploitation of Britain by Rome and rouses his troops to fight.
Around 400 AD, much of Hadrian's Wall also had to be abandoned for lack of troops.
In 82, he moved with his troops and a unit of the fleet along the east coast of Scotland, into the regions north of the Firth of Forth.
The majority of provincial troops stationed in such camps, forts and watchtowers.
Even the advance on Scotland under Antoninus Pius resulted in a substantial reduction of troops in Wales.
The southeast continued to be defended by the troops of the dux in Eburacum against attacks by the Picts and Scots.
Perhaps those in Rome were too firmly convinced that troops in Britain were too far away to represent a serious threat.
During the era of Gallic and British Empires in the 3rd century, the Britannic troops were always on the side of the usurpers.
Pressure from the Caledonians may have led Antoninus to send the empire's troops further north.
Robert, with between 5,500 and 6,500 troops, predominantly spearmen, prepared to prevent Edward's forces from reaching Stirling.
At the same time, Edward de Brus was reinforced by Moray who had returned from Scotland with around five hundred fresh troops and supplies.
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The regent responded by sending troops to restore order and Glencairn led a force to defend the town's new Protestant status.
The Scottish leaders were persuaded to return to Scotland to recruit more troops.
The French won the Battle of Patay on 18 June, at which the English field army lost about half its troops.
When English troops came out to oppose the advance, a rapid cavalry charge drove them back into their fortresses, apparently without a fight.
Burgundian troops surrounded the rear guard, and she was pulled off her horse by an archer.
With enemy troops advancing, the Commune looked for potential traitors in Paris.
Sulla, encamped near Scipio, and amusing him with caresses under pretence of an approaching peace, was all the while corrupting his troops.
In that case the enemy himself could have occupied the defences of Corinth and held at bay all the Union troops that arrived.
The infection does not spread from one to another among the troops, and barcoo rot affects men living in solitude.
In winter the troops wore the grey greatcoat and the bashlyk, a sort of hood protecting the neck and ears.
The diplomat accused the other nation's leader of brinkmanship for refusing to redeploy the troops along their nations' shared border.
The Illinois troops delivered a volley that sent the butternuts scampering back across the field.
We will do right by our troops and taxpayers, and we will build the 21st Century military that we need.
Paying for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in fits and starts undermines US military planning and risks the gains made by US troops.
During WWII, German troops gave the Allies a hard time in Italy, but eventually the Allies broke through.
Federal troops were used to break sporadic strikes, as in Cold Springs, New York, where workers at a gunworks asked for a wage increase.
The German troops on the islands surrendered on 9 May 1945, a few days after the final surrender in mainland Europe.
Large bodies of troops, while figuring prominently in the history books, were the exception rather than the rule of ancient warfare.
Calvary warfare was limited in northern Europe due to the lack of suitably large horses for mounted troops.
Philip's troops conquered the important trading cities of Bruges and Ghent.
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In the early 5th century, the Roman rule ceased with the withdrawal of the last active Roman troops.
He orders the troops to hide behind branches and slowly advance towards the castle.
In World War II, thousands of allied troops on the little ships in the Dunkirk evacuation saw the welcoming sight of the cliffs.
The heavy infantry of the maniples were supported by a number of light infantry and cavalry troops, typically 300 horsemen per manipular legion.
There was an additional class of troops who followed the army without specific martial roles and were deployed to the rear of the third line.
The light infantry consisted of 1,200 unarmoured skirmishing troops drawn from the youngest and lower social classes.
Once completed, it could accommodate up to 100,000 sailors and embarked troops for battle.
In addition, the shortage of available manpower led to a greater burden being placed upon Rome's allies for the provision of allied troops.
The cavalry troops were used as scouts and dispatch riders rather than battlefield cavalry.
It ultimately failed because of the reluctance of Scribonianus' troops, which led to the suicide of the main conspirators.
Certainly this invasion attempt readied the troops and facilities that would make Claudius' invasion possible three years later.
At least one division of auxiliary Batavian troops swam across the river as a separate force.
Roman troops, however, penetrated far into the north of modern Scotland several more times.
Caesar conquered no territory and left no troops behind but he established clients and brought Britain into Rome's sphere of influence.
Ulpius Marcellus was sent as replacement governor and by 184 he had won a new peace, only to be faced with a mutiny from his own troops.
Probus put it down by sending irregular troops of Vandals and Burgundians across the Channel.
When not campaigning he would travel the province hearing complaints and recruiting new troops.
The Roman inhabitants sought reinforcements from the procurator, Catus Decianus, but he sent only two hundred auxiliary troops.
Also, the narrowness of the field meant that Boudica could put forth only as many troops as the Romans could at a given time.
He executed Pertinax's murderers and dismissed the rest of the Praetorian Guard, filling its ranks with loyal troops from his own legions.
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When afterwards Severus declared openly his son Caracalla as successor, Albinus was hailed emperor by his troops and moved to Gallia.
His son Constantine was instantly proclaimed as successor by the troops based in the fortress.
Constantine ordered his troops not to loot the town, and advanced with them into northern Italy.
Except in the rare case of a determined and incorruptible general, these troops proved ineffective in action and dangerous to civilians.
Theodosius was unable to recruit enough Roman troops, relying on barbarian warbands without Roman military discipline or loyalty.
In consequence of this, our troops in their engagements with the Goths were often overwhelmed with their showers of arrows.
Goths attacked the emperor himself, but within a year Alaric was accepted as a leader of Theodosius's Gothic troops and this rebellion was over.
During the next year, 397, Eutropius personally led his troops to victory over some Huns who were marauding in Asia Minor.
In 401 Stilicho travelled over the Alps to Raetia, to scrape up further troops.
Stilicho probably supposed that this pact would allow him to put Italian government into order and recruit fresh troops.
His Gothic troops massacred the Hun contingent in their sleep, and then withdrew towards the cities in which their families were billeted.
The remaining troops in Britannia elevated a succession of imperial usurpers.
In 411, Jovinus rebelled and took over Constantine's remaining troops on the Rhine.
In 383, the usurper Magnus Maximus withdrew troops from northern and western Britain, probably leaving local warlords in charge.
Needing military manpower, he stripped Hadrian's Wall of troops for the final time.
This estimate probably included only legionary and auxiliary troops of the Roman army.
Furthermore, it is irrespective of whether the troops were raised by the Romans or simply hired by them to fight on their behalf.
Military service in the later empire continued to be salaried yearly and professionally for Rome's regular troops.
However, border troops were usually very capable of handling enemies before they could penetrate far into the Roman hinterland.
Initially Roman troops were armed after Greek and Etruscan models, using large oval shields and long pikes.
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Stilicho attempted to restore Roman authority in the late 390s, but in 401 he took Roman troops from Britain to fight the Goths.
Two subsequent Roman rulers of Britain, appointed by the remaining troops, were murdered.
Constantine III became ruler, but he then left for Gaul and withdrew more troops.
William and Harald at once set about assembling troops and ships to invade England.
Some of William's Breton troops panicked and fled, and some of the English troops appear to have pursued the fleeing Bretons.
While the Bretons were fleeing, rumours swept the Norman forces that the duke had been killed, but William rallied his troops.
During the Bretons' flight rumours swept through the Norman forces that the duke had been killed, but William succeeded in rallying his troops.
Richard then proceeded to conquer the whole island, his troops being led by Guy de Lusignan.
Their troops were gathered in Normandy, Gascony and were later reinforced by Castilian colonists.
Over the next summer, Stephen massed troops to renew the siege of Wallingford Castle in a final attempt to take the stronghold.
In July 1152, Capetian troops attacked Aquitaine while Louis, Eustace, Henry of Champagne, and Robert attacked Normandy.
Louis VII answered by raiding the Norman Vexin, forcing Henry II to move his troops north, giving Louis the opportunity to free Bourges.
Richard's troops, led by Guy de Lusignan, conquered the whole island by 1 June.
He gave his support to his Poitevin vassal Guy of Lusignan, who had brought troops to help him in Cyprus.
This became an important strategic asset for the English, allowing them to safely keep troops in northern France.
She raised the morale of the troops, and they attacked the English redoubts, forcing the English to lift the siege.
The English began using lightly armoured mounted troops, known as hobelars.
He was welcomed by the French, who readily supplied him with troops and equipment for a second invasion.
In 1497 Warbeck landed in Cornwall with a few thousand troops, but was soon captured and executed.
Henry decided to keep Brittany out of French hands, signed an alliance with Spain to that end, and sent 7,000 troops to France.
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Richard mustered his troops and intercepted Henry's army south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire.
Richard's vanguard, commanded by Norfolk, attacked but struggled against Oxford's men, and some of Norfolk's troops fled the field.
He invited Elizabeth to inspect her troops at Tilbury in Essex on 8 August.
Castile provided the Spanish crown with most of its revenues and its best troops.
Isla Perejil was occupied on 11 July 2002 by Moroccan Gendarmerie and troops, who were evicted peacefully by Spanish naval forces.
The war took place on Indian soil, between the company troops and the French forces.
Not willing to have a war with the United States, Napoleon III decided at the beginning of 1866 to withdraw French troops from Mexico.
She appealed to Napoleon III, but he refused to provide more troops or money.
Charles, meanwhile, decided to send an expeditionary force to relieve the French Huguenots whom French royal troops held besieged in La Rochelle.
Travel at night was forbidden and frankly, none of us seemed upset about this as we all knew how the U.S. Army troops had itchy trigger fingers.
When the troops marched into Parliament, Charles enquired of William Lenthall, the Speaker, as to the whereabouts of the five.
In the spring of 1648 unpaid Parliamentarian troops in Wales changed sides.
At the Siege of Drogheda in September 1649, Cromwell's troops massacred the people after the town's capture.
During the 1980s the statue was relocated outside Wythenshawe Hall, which had been occupied by Cromwell's troops.
Louis was to provide him with 6,000 troops to suppress those who opposed the conversion.
However, with insufficient funds voted by Parliament, Charles was forced to gradually disband his troops.
Enraged, the French king decided to execute a lightning campaign into Germany before the emperor could shift his troops to the West.
The troops were lined up on deck, firing musket volleys, with full colours flying and the military bands playing.
Even in such an emergency, the idea of having the unpopular Royal troops ordered into the City was political dynamite.
In October the Convention troops captured Lyon and reinstated a Montagnard government there.
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Should his troops effect a landing, I shall certainly put myself at the head of mine, and my other armed subjects, to repel them.
France had withdrawn its troops, but violent strife broke out against the government, which many Swiss saw as overly centralised.
In response, Napoleon seriously considered an invasion of Great Britain, and massed 180,000 troops at Boulogne.
The Chief Constable of Glamorgan requested troops be sent in to help police quell the rioting.
French troops gradually encroached on Spanish territory until they occupied Madrid, and installed a client monarchy.
But when he left, the guerrilla war against his forces in the countryside continued to tie down great numbers of troops.
The campaign effectively ended on 14 December 1812, when the last enemy troops left Russia.
He was promoted to captain in the regular army in July 1792, despite exceeding his leave of absence and leading a riot against French troops.
General Melas had a numerical advantage, fielding about 30,000 Austrian soldiers while Napoleon commanded 24,000 French troops.
They never invaded, but Napoleon's troops received careful and invaluable training for future military operations.
Napoleon invaded Prussia with 180,000 troops, rapidly marching on the right bank of the River Saale.
After clearing the last Spanish force guarding the capital at Somosierra, Napoleon entered Madrid on 4 December with 80,000 troops.
In the Second Battle of Porto he crossed the Douro river in a daylight coup de main, and routed Marshal Soult's French troops in Porto.
The French abandoned Andalusia, and combined the troops of Soult and Marmont.
The British troops broke ranks to loot the abandoned French wagons instead of pursuing the beaten foe.
But for most of the Peninsular War, where he earned his fame, his troops lacked the numbers for an attack.
The situation reached a general crisis in late August as German troops continued to mobilise against the Polish border.
The United Kingdom responded to Greek requests for assistance by sending troops to Crete and providing air support to Greece.
In July 1941 Japan sent troops to southern Indochina, thus threatening British and Dutch possessions in the Far East.
Guadalcanal soon became a focal point for both sides with heavy commitments of troops and ships in the battle for Guadalcanal.

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