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- History of China (45919 bytes)
142: ...,500 tons; there was a standing army of 1 million troops (some estimate as many as 1.9 million). Over 100,...
160: .... Zheng He's multi-decked ships carried up to 500 troops but also cargoes of export goods, mainly silks an... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
25: ...ve been the tune played as [[Robert the Bruce]]'s troops marched to [[Bannockburn]] in [[1314]]. - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
132: - November 4 (10686 bytes)
8: ...12]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|...
12: ...] - [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and...
28: * [[1956]] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] troops invade [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungarian Revol... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
89: ...e, for the first time, she addressed the Canadian troops. - Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
13: ...tively rich (even for a crusader) and would bring troops and much military experience with him in defense ... - Sibylla of Jerusalem (11497 bytes)
43: ... was afterwards conquered in July 1191, mostly by troops brought by [[Philip II of France]] and [[Richard ... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
36: ...her Geoffrey and [[Philip II of France]]. Henry's troops besieged the town, forcing his son to flee. Henry... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
46: ...h of Marie of Guise, France undertook to withdraw troops from Scotland and recognise Elizabeth's right to ...
57: ...nfront them, returning to Edinburgh to raise more troops the following month. Moray, and the rebellious lo... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
35: She doubled the number of troops in the army, changed taxes to guarantee a steady ... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...ed a conspiracy in which Catherine led a group of troops to the palace in which Peter was residing. He imm... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
37: ...ntry into, or the passage through, Germany of the troops of every foreign power) as utterly subversive of ... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
44: ...d the [[Treaty of Edinburgh]], under which French troops were to be withdrawn from Scotland. Though Mary ...
72: ...th a notable speech, known as the [[Speech to the Troops at Tilbury]]. She famously declared, "I know I ha...
74: ...subsidies of over ?300,000 to Henry IV, and 8,000 troops and subsidies of over ?1,000,000 to the Dutch. Al...
78: ...d him, demolished. Elizabeth sent a further 2,000 troops to France after the Spanish took [[Calais]]. Engl...
86: ... Mountjoy defeated both the Spanish and the Irish troops at the [[Battle of Kinsale]]; Lord Tyrone surrend... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
38: ...ottish Parliament threatened to withdraw Scottish troops from the Duke of Marlborough's army in Europe and...
47: ...e of Marlborough, granting the command of British troops to [[James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde]]. To eras... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
64: ...a publicly encouraged unequivocal support for the troops. After the conclusion of the war, she instituted ...
96: ...ocession in which the Queen participated included troops from each British colony and dependency, together... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
73: ...e Queen Mary supported the war effort by visiting troops and factories and helping to gather scrap materia... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
6: ...or New York City in [[1971]], when [[India]] sent troops into [[East Pakistan]] -- soon to be called [[Ban... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...ted States promoting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She wa... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
110: ...sure US President [[George H. W. Bush]] to deploy troops to the [[Middle East]] to drive [[Saddam Hussein]... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
12: .... The city was already surrounded by [[Red Army]] troops who had made significant progress into the downto... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
18: ...hen with [[Gene Weltfish]], intended for American troops and stating the scientific case against racist be... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
12: ...]], [[1864]], she was captured by [[Confederate]] troops and arrested as a spy (there appears to be some s... - Mary Read (2833 bytes)
9: ...ether, but not for long. In October of 1720, the troops of Captain Barnet captured Rackham and his crew f... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
14: ...ce, and enthusiasm, she boosted the morale of the troops. The small force she eventually led included the...
28: ...]] on [[May 23]] led to her capture by Burgundian troops when she and her soldiers were trapped outside th...
50: ...d her chastity while camped in the field with her troops, to discourage them from lusting after her, and b... - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
5: ...mances were during [[World War II]], entertaining troops throughout the UK with fellow child star [[Petula... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
17: ...eek before the Netherlands were invaded by German troops. - Mosaic (6524 bytes)
22: ... seen as an insult to George Bush. When American troops took the city in the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]] th... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
6: ...attempts to invade Cairo or defeated elsewhere by troops sent from Cairo. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ottoma... - War (7002 bytes)
6: ... illustrated by the success of highly disciplined troops of the [[Roman Empire]]. - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
18: ...-king, often taking the field himself. He led his troops deep into Nubia, making that kingdom even more de... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
111: ...ious pluralism]]. In [[1775]] he ordered that his troops not burn the [[Pope]] in effigy on [[Guy Fawkes n... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
27: ... ability to raise funds and supplies for American troops. Despite his skill in the merchant trade, even Ha... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
26: ... its bravery and success. He was popular with his troops and was said to have been "tough as old hickory" ... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
63: ...ame to a head, John Tyler declined to use Federal troops to suppress the rioting adherents of a new state ... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
104: ...ln's bodyguard; and a sizable garrison of federal troops was also present, ready to protect the president ...
112: ...ed to surrender in April, Lincoln called for more troops from each remaining state to recapture forts, pro...
132: .... Lincoln insisted on holding some of McClellan's troops to defend the capital, a decision McClellan blame... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
54: ...following their setbacks. Finally, he slipped his troops across the [[James River (Virginia)|James River]]...
70: ...[Reconstruction]]. He favored a limited number of troops to be stationed in the south—sufficient num... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
58: ...olated a court injunction, Cleveland sent Federal troops to enforce it. "If it takes the entire army and n... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
36: ...ts had directed at him, he abruptly commanded his troops to put to death all youths capable of bearing arm...
55: ...ol鯮]]'s Egyptian expedition of 1798. The French troops stormed the city on [[July 2]] [[1798]], and it r...
71: ...ts the next day. They were demolished, but as no troops were landed immediately a fresh riot and massacre...
83: ...54]] made provision for the withdrawal of British troops. The numbers of the city's foreign population dwi... - Economy of Afghanistan (14517 bytes)
25: ...d debts. However, during the withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1989, Afghanistan's natural gas fields were ca... - Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
1: ...country. [[United Kingdom|British]] and Ethiopian troops defeated the Italians in 1941, and Ethiopia regai...
159: ...bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4458105.stm]. Italian troops seized the obelisk in [[1937]] and took it to [[R... - Turkey (41694 bytes)
109: ...n NATO after the United States. Currently, 45,000 troops are stationed in Turkish-recognised Northern Cypr... - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
59: ...chy]] government administered Madagascar. British troops occupied the strategic island in [[1942]] to prec...
72: ...d an irreparable setback soon thereafter when his troops fired on peaceful demonstrators marching on [[Iav...
76: ... Council of Churches) drafted a new Constitution. Troops guarding the proceedings clashed with pro-Ratsira... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
84: ...t the methods of the [[communist system]]. Soviet troops suppressed the unrest, and dozens of demonstrator... - Paraguay (10959 bytes)
54: ... War]] of [[1932]]-[[1935]] invading [[Bolivian]] troops, trying to gain a port on the Paraguay river for... - Greece (54754 bytes)
82: ...e walls and was buried anonymously along with his troops. The empire had been for centuries the centre of ...
100: ...many held onto the country until 1944 when German troops withdrew. - Iraq (19222 bytes)
62: ...cure their country, it is expected that coalition troops will remain until Iraqi forces no longer require ... - Brunei (7197 bytes)
60: ...d in the early 1960's and was put down by British troops from Singapore. A garrison of [[Gurkha]] soldiers... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
77: ...d independence in [[1943]], and [[France|French]] troops withdrew in [[1946]].
87: ...es, and [[Syria]] sent 40,000 [[Military of Syria|troops]] into the country to prevent them from being ove...
93: ...S. mediation resulted in the evacuation of Syrian troops and PLO fighters from [[Beirut]].
99: ...though not mentioned by name, should withdraw its troops from Lebanon. "All foreign forces should withdraw...
124: ===Withdrawal of Syrian troops=== - Germany (46412 bytes)
95: In [[1936]], German troops entered the demilitarised [[Rhineland]], violatin...
134: ...]'s government broke convention by sending German troops into combat for the first time since [[World War ...
136: ...side of the war-torn country. In [[2004]], German troops stationed in the [[United Arab Emirates]] trained...
142: [[Image:Eufor handover.jpg|thumb|right|German troops (with red berets in the front row) are part of th...
149: ... Horn of Africa. In [[Afghanistan]], 2,100 German troops currently make up the largest contingent of the N... - Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
81: ... Minister]] of the new nation. India withdrew its troops from Bangladesh within three months of the war. P... - East Timor (13677 bytes)
14: ...imor was briefly occupied by Dutch and Australian troops, who aimed to thwart a [[Empire of Japan|Japanese...
66: ...]] of East Timor was laid waste by [[Indonesia]]n troops and anti-independence militias, and 260,000 peopl... - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
62: ...tember 11th Attacks]], [[United States|American]] troops have also been stationed in the country. - Sierra Leone (10596 bytes)
62: ...untry deteriorated to such an extent that British troops were deployed in [[Operation Palliser]] to evacua... - Botswana (22276 bytes)
106: ...h the Botswana government also makes use of these troops for multilateral operations and assistance effort... - Panama (10077 bytes)
59: ...ation Just Cause]] involving 25,000 United States troops. Ostensibly, the death of a U.S. soldier in Panam... - Vietnam (18265 bytes)
6: ... recognized sovereignty for both sides. American troops were withdrawn by [[March 29]], 1973. - Cuba (25106 bytes)
16: ...thiopia]]). In Angola alone, Cuba had over 50,000 troops. Castro stated at the first Congress of the Commu... - Solomon Islands (9265 bytes)
65: ...rnational security contingent of 2,200 police and troops, led by [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]], and wi... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
197: ...ions with India — with as many as a million troops on the border, and predictions of impending (pote... - Israel (51605 bytes)
98: ...the Sinai, and in their place, Egyptian tanks and troops were concentrated on the border with Israel. In a... - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
90: Troops and [[intelligence agencies]] from the United Sta... - Rwanda (10946 bytes)
58: ...apital Kigali while [[France|French]] peacekeeper troops were occupying the south-west part of the country... - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
72: ...ed for aid to the [[United Nations]]. The UN sent troops to reestablish order, which were strongly support...
84: ...andan]]-backed rebellion in [[August]] [[1998]]. Troops from [[Zimbabwe]], [[Angola]], [[Namibia]], [[Cha...
92: ...nd backed a rebellion against him in August 1998. Troops from [[Zimbabwe]], [[Angola]], [[Namibia]], [[Cha...
153: ...drawal of a large portion of the invading foreign troops. A number of [[IMF]] and [[World Bank]] missions ... - Kuwait (15932 bytes)
72: ...n the early 1990, Iraq was forced to withdraw its troops from Kuwait; during retreat, the Iraqi Armed Forc... - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
82: ...of the local population. More than 660,000 Soviet troops were taken captive.
84: ...satzgruppen]]. Of the estimated 11 million Soviet troops who fell in battle against the Nazis, about a fou... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
17: In [[219 BC]], the first [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] troops invaded the Iberian Peninsula, driving the [[Cart... - Togo (15373 bytes)
67: ...ainly southern Mina and Ew頭 were met with armed troops, killing scores of protesters in several clashes.... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
153: ...e NATO area. This puts total active duty military troops in the 210,000 range. - Angola (15614 bytes)
66: ...eated by a combination of MPLA and [[Cuba|Cuban]] troops, leaving the Marxist MPLA and the western-backed ... - Zambia (24496 bytes)
128: ...to the 1994 Lusaka Protocols. Zambia has provided troops to UN peacekeeping initiatives in [[Mozambique]],... - Flag of Kansas (1706 bytes)
19: ...]] by [[Governor]] [[Ben Paulin]] in 1927 for the troops at Fort Riley and for the Kansas [[United States ... - Flag of South Carolina (934 bytes)
2: ... [[1775]] for use by [[South Carolina]], [[USA]], troops during the [[American Revolutionary War]] and bor... - Egyptian hieroglyph (6639 bytes)
20: ...ry of the Rosetta stone by some of [[Napoleon]]'s troops during the Egyptian invasion provided the critica... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
70: ...icles. At the same time the Athenian fleet landed troops in the Peloponnese, winning battles at [[Battle o... - Ancient Rome (25155 bytes)
162: ...ity-states, a citizen force where the bulk of the troops fought as [[hoplite]]s. The soldiers were require... - Alaska (24727 bytes)
81: ...] and [[Kiska]] — were occupied by Japanese troops. It was the only part of the United States to hav... - North Carolina (18268 bytes)
48: ...agements took place in North Carolina itself, her troops served in virtually all the major battles of the ... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
101: ...le]] which played an important role for [[union]] troops at the [[Battle of Gettysburg]]. - Louisiana (26375 bytes)
78: ...]], [[1861]]. New Orleans was captured by Federal troops on [[April 25]], [[1862]]. As significant portion... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
66: ...ed force of 12,000 British regular and provincial troops under Sir [[Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst|Je...
80: ...used and instead led his men to fight the British troops and [[Hessian]] mercenaries. Stark prepared his m...
90: ...was killed and another wounded. Young ordered his troops to burn the town down, but the four-ounce bottles... - Utah (29154 bytes)
96: ... of a false rebellion spread, the government sent troops in the "Utah expedition" to quell the supposed re...
98: As troops approached, Mormon settlers and [[Paiutes]] attac...
100: ...h wagons and supplies were burned, eventually the troops arrived and Young surrendered official control to...
104: Due to the Civil War, federal troops were pulled out of Utah Territory, leaving the te...
106: ...s continued to break out until additional federal troops were sent in to suppress the Ghost Dance of 1872.... - Texas (39610 bytes)
132: * [[11 September]] [[1842]]: 1,400 Mexican troops, led by Adrian Woll, captured San Antonio again. ...
137: * [[1 August]] [[1862]]: Confederate troops kill 34 [[German Texans]] in the "[[Nueces Massac...
138: * [[19 June]] [[1865]]: Union troops landed in Galveston, Texas with news of the [[Ema... - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
263: ...as born in Montgomery Square. He commanded Union troops during the [[American Civil War]], most notably d... - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
53: ...ed the [[Delaware River]] and engaged [[Hessian]] troops in the [[Battle of Trenton]]. The river crossing... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
80: ...y]] split as a separate entity in [[1863]]. Union troops withdrew after the conclusion of the war. - Agesilaus II (5597 bytes)
3: ...booty since [[Tissaphernes]] had concentrated his troops in Caria. After spending the winter in organizin...
5: troops and a Spartan army, he met the confederate forces... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
45: ...eterans back to Macedonia under Craterus, but his troops misunderstood his intention and mutinied at the t...
60: ...ationship seems to have been well known among the troops, as [[Plutarch]] recounts an episode (also mentio...
69: ...father Philip. It was composed of light and heavy troops and some engineers, medical and staff units. Abou...
74: ...e capable of fighting on rough terrain like light troops. - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
89: ...apsed. The war cost the lives of 58,000 American troops and many more Vietnamese. Nixon's own administra... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
48: ...upposed [[cloud seeding]] by [[United States|US]] troops during the [[Vietnam]] conflict), it is clear tha... - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ...ing 1,500 tons and a standing army of one million troops. Over 100,000 tons of [[iron]] per year were prod...
33: .... Zheng He's multi-decked ships carried up to 500 troops but also cargoes of export goods, mainly [[silk]]...
47: ...e been China?s since the Han dynasty, and 250,000 troops were deployed in an attack on the polity, taking ...
51: ...ate gave sanctuary to the fleeing Si Lun-fa, sent troops against Dao Gan-meng and restored Si Lun-fa, extr...
79: ? Subsequently, more Chinese and non-Chinese troops were brought into the region to maintain some sem... - Trajans Column (10003 bytes)
13: ... (not superhuman), makes 59 appearances among his troops. - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
32: ...Stamp Act]] as a way to finance the quartering of troops in North America. The Stamp Act required all lega...
40: British troops began to arrive in Boston in October of 1768. Ten... - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
53: ...Fort Sumter]], South Carolina, Lincoln called for troops from all remaining states to recover the forts, r...
93: ...ter]] in [[Charleston, South Carolina]] until the troops surrendered.
95: ...called for all of the states in the Union to send troops to recapture the forts and preserve the Union. M...
103: ... because he stood like a stone wall against Union troops. Alarmed at the loss, and in an attempt to preven...
107: ...is retreat. McClellan was stripped of many of his troops to reinforce [[John Pope (military officer)|John ... - World War I (62979 bytes)
10: ...ous for [[trench warfare]], where huge numbers of troops were confined to trenches and could move little b...
54: ... for Austria-Hungary to focus the majority of its troops on Russia, while Germany dealt with France on the...
60: ...capacitated 230,000 more enemy French and British troops than it had lost itself in the months of August a...
83: ...al soldier. He launched an offensive with 100,000 troops against the Russians in the Caucasus in December ...
89: ...ed large reinforcements, including German assault troops. On October 26, they launched a crushing offensiv... - World War II (58065 bytes)
18: ...upply the Axis powers with any great abundance of troops or supplies.
58: ...; however, over 10,000 Greek and 500 Commonwealth troops remained at large and caused serious problems for...
76: ... (82nd and 101st), British (6th) and Canadian paratroops, opening the "second front" against Germany.{{fn|...
78: ... losses and the internment or expulsion of German troops on Finnish soil executed in the [[Lapland War]], ...
129: ... British division and a few thousand U.S. ground troops, cleared the Japanese forces from northern Burma ... - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
37: ...t between US and [[People's Army of Vietnam|NVA]] troops, not to have begun until 1965 after the [[Gulf of...
50: ...nch repeatedly warned that they could not furnish troops for European defense without generous American su...
65: ...0,000. To prevent such encounters, Ho ordered VLA troops to avoid provoking any incidents with the Chinese...
67: ..., lack of weapons, and a high desertion rate, the troops of the Viet Minh were driven deep into the delta,...
69: ...fter the agreement was signed, some 15,000 French troops arrived in Tonkin, and both the Vietnamese and th... - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
97: ...n_and_troops.png|right|270px|thumb|Sketch of U.S. troops breaking up the 1894 [[Pullman Strike]]]]
127: ...government, Cleveland -- again -- sent in federal troops, and the strike was eventually broken. The most m... - History of the United States (1918-1945) (54688 bytes)
7: ... [[1919]] asked, concerning the [[United States]] troops returning from [[World War I]], "How Ya Gonna Ke...
25: ...overseas due to the Great War. Absentee voting by troops overseas was spotty at best. - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
8: ... Soviet mistrust stemmed from the landing of U.S. troops in Russia in [[1918]], which became involved, dir...
13: ...5]], Soviet and Western (US, British, and French) troops were located in particular places, essentially, a...
53: ...r democratizing regime. In [[1958]] the U.S. sent troops into [[Lebanon]] to maintain its pro-U.S. regime,... - History of the United States (1964-1980) (21973 bytes)
54: ...re from the [[United States Congress]] to get the troops out, as well as the legislature's inclination to ...
58: ... The United States then unilaterally withdrew its troops from Vietnam in 1973 and two years later the Nort...
81: ...er stop bloody clashes between Soviet and Chinese troops along their common border nor bolster a Soviet ec...
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