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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44: ...d the [[Treaty of Edinburgh]], under which French troops were to be withdrawn from Scotland.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... - History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
22: ... marked the first time that the Soviet Union sent troops outside the [[Warsaw Pact]] since the inception o...
116: ...e [[Marine Barracks Bombing]] killed 241 American troops. Shortly afterwards, the U.S. withdrew its remain...
126: ...his country's commitment to Afghanistan as Soviet troops there were bogged down in guerrilla war. - History of the United States (1988-present2) (20668 bytes)
23: ...ation session, which failed. Saddam then sent his troops into Kuwait.
29: ... late February, Iraq had lost an estimated 20,000 troops, with other sources speaking of as much as 100,00...
62: ...kans]] prompted President Clinton to send in U.S. troops as [[peacekeeping|peacekeepers]], which did gener... - Illinois (27007 bytes)
56: ...Beginning with President Lincoln's first call for troops and continuing throughout the war, Illinois muste... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
106: ...d to wage the war in the colonies with the use of troops from the colonies and tax funds from Britain itse... - January 17 (12233 bytes)
9: * [[1781]] - Continental troops under Brigadier General [[Daniel Morgan]] defeat ... - Pompeii (10901 bytes)
11: ...y [[Lucius Cornelius Sulla|Sulla]]. Although the troops of the [[Social League]], headed by [[Lucius Clue... - History of California (38344 bytes)
136: ...ions from [[Washington, D.C.]], ordered his naval troops to occupy [[Monterey, California|Monterey]] and [...
141: ...ere fought in southern California between Mexican troops and California Volunteers. Slightly later, the [... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
1657: | <small>Rome plundered by imperial troops ("Sacco di Roma"), 1527</small> - Pope Boniface V (3289 bytes)
5: ... he could reach the city, he was slain by his own troops. - Pope Constantine (1510 bytes)
3: ...urn to [[Rome]], Justinian was killed by mutinous troops, in November 711. - Pope Gregory V (2336 bytes)
7: ... in the [[Castle of Sant' Angelo]]. The emperor's troops pursued the antipope, captured him, cut off his n... - Cambodia (32076 bytes)
124: ...so saw the surrender of the remaining Khmer Rouge troops and the death of [[Pol Pot]]. Nonetheless, none o... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
54: ...in which he supported the new ideas of mechanised troops and specialised armoured divisions in preference ...
58: ...aulle.jpg|thumb|250px|General de Gaulle reviewing troops.]]
100: The crisis deepened as French paratroops from Algeria seized [[Corsica]] and a landing nea...
114: ...ce herself faced threatened invasion by rebel paratroops. He was also targeted by the settler [[Organisati... - Crossbow (7510 bytes)
26: ...as China-Japan war of 1894-1895 by [[Manchurian]] troops. [[Roman Empire|Roman]] bows tended to be ornate ... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
24: ...ztyn]] on the head of royal troops besiged by the troops of [[Albert of Brandenburg]]. - Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
7: ...tween the American revolutionaries and the French troops who had assisted them resulted in the spread of r... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
34: ...crossing_the_alps.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Russian troops under [[Alexander Suvorov|Generalissimo Suvorov]]...
57: ...gypt by the French Directory, where 40,000 French troops where ultimately worn out by diseases and English...
59: ...f-guard. At the time, the French army had 300,000 troops fighting the Coalition's forces. In Italy, the si...
70: ...sion of the [[British Isles]], and massed 180,000 troops at Boulogne. However, he needed to achieve naval ...
103: ...a, the Royal Navy would be present and would land troops and supplies and aid the allied land forces in a ... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
79: ...t the English. She raised the morale of the local troops and they attacked the English redoubts, forcing t...
113: ... killing or capturing about half (2,200) of their troops. The Earl of Shrewsbury (Talbot), Hungerford and ...
116: ...albot is killed while trying to rally his fleeing troops. - Cassowary (5017 bytes)
32: ...swimmers. During [[WWII]] American and Australian troops stationed in New Guinea were warned to steer clea... - Ape (10931 bytes)
46: ...ive hundreds of kilometers from any other gorilla troops, and their diet is high in fruits, similar to the... - Baboon (5672 bytes)
18: Baboons live in hierarchical troops of 5 to 250 animals (50 or so is common), dependi... - Cheerleading (7470 bytes)
64: ...ories. [[Mascots]] are often used in cheerleading troops. - Archimedes (13735 bytes)
26: ...use, Italy]] was raided by [[Roman empire|Roman]] troops, the Roman [[consul]] [[Marcus Claudius Marcellus... - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
27: ...ments. Boys and girls spontaneously formed Scout Troops and the [[Scouting]] movement had inadvertently s... - Timeline of Ancient Rome (22347 bytes)
204: ...]''' proclaimed emperor. Probus killed by his own troops. - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
74: ...to occupy Rome. Vitellius was murdered by his own troops, and the next day, Vespasian was confirmed as Emp...
76: ... his accession to power from [[July 1]], when his troops proclaimed him emperor, instead of [[December 21]...
124: ...ius Chlorus on [[July 25]], [[306]]. Constantius' troops in [[Eboracum]] immediately proclaimed his son [[...
169: ...gustus. Both Augusti were not ready to lead their troops to another [[Roman Civil War]]. Constantius' time...
188: ...d]] and arguably ready to act as Emperor, but the troops in Pannonia proclaimed his [[infant]] [[half-brot... - Venice (22017 bytes)
33: ...re hiring [[mercenary|mercenaries]], but Venetian troops were still recruited from the lagoon, plus feudal... - Sicily (18450 bytes)
70: ...an cities to revolt against Roman rule. Rome sent troops to put down the rebellions (it was during the sie... - Czech Republic (13856 bytes)
74: ...ce]]. In [[1968]], an invasion by [[Warsaw Pact]] troops ended the efforts of the country's leaders to lib... - Reconstruction (12035 bytes)
36: ... B. Hayes's victory if the North withdrew federal troops from the South. The end of Reconstruction marked ... - Bill Clinton (59225 bytes)
223: ...hs into his term in 1991. Clinton also committed troops twice in the former-[[Yugoslavia]] to stop ethnic...
235: ...d Nations Court has previously ruled that Serbian troops did not commit genocide against Albanians. The co... - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
51: ...e's Park]] protests, he sent 2,200 National Guard troops into the Berkeley campus of the University of Cal... - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
68: ...at on the ground that led to the withdrawal of US troops, and left the battle to the ineffective [[South V... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
51: ... was based on the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery could ...
165: ...nited Kingdom|Britain]] and [[France]] in sending troops to [[Egypt]] in the dispute over control of the [...
167: ...n [[Middle East|Middle Eastern]] affairs, sending troops to [[Lebanon]] in [[1957]], and supporting the co...
177: ... forced to. In [[1957]], however, he sent federal troops to [[Little Rock, Arkansas]] after Governor [[Orv... - Herbert Hoover (27123 bytes)
148: ...'s "Good Neighbor Policy" by withdrawing American troops from [[Nicaragua]] and [[Haiti]], he also propose... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
156: ...gation of the armed forces were imposed. "Colored troops do very well under white officers," said Stimson,... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
36: ...r expedition of [[Pᮦilo de Narv]]. De Soto's troops were no less brutal. They captured Indians to use...
38: The most important helper of the troops was [[Juan Ortiz]], who came to Florida in search...
62: On [[May 8]], [[1541]], de Soto's troops reached the Mississippi river. It is unclear whet... - Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
57: ...y had someone other than Wilkinson commanded U.S. troops on the Louisiana border. In case of a war declar... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
9: ...iot. When word spread of the rebellion, Arnold's troops broke into the [[New Haven]] powder house on [[Ap...
10: ...1775]], Ticonderoga was taken from the 22 British troops that held it and who were not aware that a war wa...
19: ...along with other officers. While he was rallying troops, his horse was shot and fell on his bad leg, rend... - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
67: ...ed the Rio Grande area and killed eleven American troops. Polk amended his planned speech and changed his ... - Acropolis, Athens (7462 bytes)
16: ...Iran|Persian]] king [[Xerxes I|Xerxes]]' invading troops from conquering the Acropolis and sacking and bur... - Pompey (25785 bytes)
19: ...he surviving Marians. Proclaimed imperator by his troops on the field in Africa. Pompey demanded a triumph... - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
23: ...of action was an appeal to Caesar’s veteran troops in Italy. Octavian immediately dropped the "Octav...
111: ...cked by the name of Caesar and the loyalty of his troops, Octavian finished what Caesar had started: the f... - Hadrian (6480 bytes)
22: ...al area security. To maintain morale and keep the troops from getting restive, Hadrian established intensi... - Aircraft (13315 bytes)
82: ...rld War I]], and gliders were used to land Allied troops in Europe after [[D-Day]] during [[World War II]]...
84: ...especially for transporting and supporting ground troops. - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
117: ...ular Front]] government of [[Spain]]. Hitler sent troops to support Franco and Spain served as a testing g...
140: ...] Hitler gave the signal for three million German troops to attack the [[Soviet Union]], breaking the non-...
152: ...f [[1944]] the Soviets had driven the last German troops from their territory and began charging into Cent...
154: As Soviet troops battled their way toward his [[Reich Chancellory]... - Blackbeard (5955 bytes)
16: ...nder Spottswood]]. Spottswood replied by sending troops to hunt him down. It is questionable as to wheth... - Jean Lafitte (3700 bytes)
2: ... command more than 1,000 men and provided them as troops for the [[Battle of New Orleans (1815)]]. Followi... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
10: ...lly lacked the training and discipline of regular troops, but could be effective when led by talented offi...
12: ... and Washington reluctantly augmented the regular troops with short-term colonial militia throughout the w...
19: ...not recongize the new American nation and sent no troops to America to fight alongside the Americans. The ...
30: ...umb|400px|Boston - Concord Area, Route of British Troops, April 1775.]]
31: ...]], already the [[commander-in-chief]] of British troops in North America, was also appointed governor of ... - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
51: ...s commissioned a [[Major General]] of Mississippi troops. On [[February 9]], 1861 a [[constitution]]al con...
53: ...pointed [[P.G.T. Beauregard]] to lead Confederate troops in the vicinity of [[Charleston, South Carolina|C...
59: On [[April 3]] [[1865]], with Union troops under [[Ulysses S. Grant]] poised to make a right... - Stonewall Jackson (15247 bytes)
20: ...is rationale, and claimed that, with only 50 more troops, he could persevere and win the particular situat...
40: ...adier General [[Barnard E. Bee]] exhorted his own troops to reform by shouting, "There stands Jackson like...
42: ...es. Stonewall Jackson's reputation for moving his troops earned them the description of "foot cavalry".
44: ...ounder [[Claudius Crozet]], and then transporting troops to [[Hanover County, Virginia|Hanover County]] on...
46: ...as probably a large factor. Both Jackson and his troops were completely exhausted. - James Longstreet (9732 bytes)
14: ...street contemplate an attack of his own. In fact, troops under his command never lost a defensive position... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
27: ...phere of influence. The Tlaxcaltecas attacked his troops, but Spanish crossbows, broadswords, battle axes,... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
17: ...]] - [[World War II]]: [[United Kingdom|British]] troops liberate [[Mandalay]], [[Burma]] - March 23 (10340 bytes)
29: *[[1978]] - The first [[UNIFIL]] troops arrived in [[Lebanon]] for [[Timeline of UN peace... - Little Rock, Arkansas (9366 bytes)
60: ...dered their first attempt at enrollment. Federal troops were dispatched to insure their safety and enforc... - Jackson, Mississippi (21073 bytes)
37: ...]]. Subsequently, on [[May 15|15 May]] 1863 Union troops under the command of [[William Tecumseh Sherman]]... - Jefferson City, Missouri (7230 bytes)
42: *Jefferson City was occupied by Union troops during the [[Civil_war]]. - Trenton, New Jersey (12026 bytes)
36: ...laware River to Trenton, defeated the [[Hessian]] troops garrisoned there (see [[Battle of Trenton]]). Aft... - Estonia (13391 bytes)
70: The last Russian troops left on [[August 31]], [[1994]], and Estonia join... - History of Slovakia (43199 bytes)
93: ...rian armies, who had been joined also by military troops of the small Czech Lords and he had Sv䴯pluk II ...
105: ... Great), completely destroyed the Magyar military troops and forced the Magyar nomadic tribes to give up t...
168: ...the Slovaks. At the close of World War II, Soviet troops (backed by the [[Romania]]n army) overran all of ...
174: ...et, Hungarian, Bulgarian, East German, and Polish troops. Dubček was removed as party leader and repl... - July 24 (8660 bytes)
10: ...rly|Jubal Early]] defeats [[United States|Union]] troops led by General [[George Crook]] in an effort to k... - Rome (33048 bytes)
116: ... of [[Pope Pius IX]] in Rome, with help of French troops, marked the exclusion of Rome from the unificatio... - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
167: ...iled, Indira Gandhi ordered the temple cleared by troops. Refusal to depart resulted in a firefight, with ... - Cuban Missile Crisis (13015 bytes)
25: ... for tougher action. An invasion was planned, and troops were assembled in [[Florida]] (although with over... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
81: ...ts. The famous [[Janissary]] corps provided 鬩te troops and bodyguards for the sultan. After the 17th cen... - Kurdistan (8785 bytes)
26: ... then fighting against [[United Kingdom|British]] troops in modern day [[Iraq]] under the banner of the [[... - Babylon (9716 bytes)
46: ...e:Polish troops in babylon.jpg|thumb|200px|Polish troops in Babylon(2003)]] - Persian Empire (26229 bytes)
33: ...a, Phoenicia, and Egypt, before defeating all the troops of [[Darius III]] at Issus and capturing the capi... - Peloponnesian War (15884 bytes)
33: ...ief of Syracuse. He took command of the Syracusan troops, and in a series of battles defeated the Athenian...
39: ...nians sent another hundred ships and another 5000 troops to Sicily. Under Gylippus, the Syracusans and the...
47: ...d Sparta's other allies were also slow to furnish troops or ships. The Ionian states that rebelled expecte... - Bayeux Tapestry (13194 bytes)
22: ... get there in 3 days, which further exhausted his troops. Both armies are evenly matched. When they clas... - Berlin Wall (23423 bytes)
19: ...rman troops. The barrier was built by East German troops and workers, not directly involving the Soviets. ... - Cherokee (38956 bytes)
94: ...n of terror. From the jagged-walled stockades the troops fanned out across the Nation, invading every haml...
101: ...ddition, over 400 other Cherokee hid from Federal troops in the remote Snowbird Mountains of neighboring [...
172: ...rly 1990s which resulted in deployment of Federal Troops by the United States to restore order on Cherokee... - Buffalo soldier (5141 bytes)
10: ...ed regiments known as the [[United States Colored Troops]], composed of African-American soldiers led by w...
21: ...hemselves being used more as laborers and service troops rather than active combat units. During [[World ...
40: * [[United States Colored Troops]] - Attila the Hun (23655 bytes)
19: ...owed during [[442]], when Theodosius recalled his troops from [[North Africa]] and ordered a large new iss...
47: ... a brief exile among the Huns in [[433]], and the troops Attila provided against the Goths and [[Bagaudae]...
53: ...Metz]], and Aetius moved to oppose him, gathering troops from among the Franks, the Burgundians, and the C...
58: ...vasion may have caused his army to weaken, or the troops that Marcian sent across the Danube may have give... - Timeline of the French Revolution (9550 bytes)
40: * [[July 1]]: Louis recruits more troops, among them many foreign mercenaries
45: * [[July 16]]: Necker recalled, troops pulled out of Paris - Crimean War (7100 bytes)
12: ... the immediate cause of war was withdrawn, allied troops landed in the Crimea and besieged the city of [[S...
27: ...ash; [[cigarette]]s — to French and British troops, who copied their Turkish comrades in using old n... - Genghis Khan (31537 bytes)
53: ...nized and trained army. He refused to divide his troops into different ethnic enclaves, creating a sense ...
65: ...iated with an invasion force of 20 tumen (200,000 troops). The Mongol army quickly seized the town, relyin...
74: ...Mstislav]] of [[Kievan Rus|Kiev]] with his 80,000 troops. This encounter is thought to be the [[Battle of ...
80: ...estern Xia and Jin and readied a force of 180,000 troops for a new campaign. - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
174: ...ration of war, joint southern-German and Prussian troops, under the command of Moltke, invaded France in 1...
213: .... After a quick march through [[Belgium]], German troops were halted on the [[Marne]], north of [[Paris]]....
225: ...To ensure execution of the treaty's terms, Allied troops would occupy the left (German) bank of the Rhine ...
237: ...oldiers, coal-mines would not dig for the foreign troops, trams in which members of the occupation army ha...
246: ...ndertook to assist France in the case that German troops marched into the demilitarised Rheinland. The Tre... - War of 1812 (34444 bytes)
99: ...resence of the enemy. The total number of British troops present in [[Canada]] in July [[1812]] was offici...
122: ...the Royal Navy was able to transport British Army troops to American shores, paving the way for the [[Burn...
161: Meanwhile, veteran British troops no longer needed in Europe began arriving in Nort... - Hyksos (23575 bytes)
53: ...ort. Kamose promptly ordered a detachment of his troops to occupy the Bahriya Oasis in the Western Desert... - Mormon Trail (35249 bytes)
68: ...e at the site and General [[William S. Harney]]'s troops won a battle over the Sioux there in September, 1... - Mexican-American War (9503 bytes)
47: ...olk]] ordered General [[Zachary Taylor]] to place troops between the two rivers. Taylor crossed the Nueces... - Avalanche (25211 bytes)
9: In history, during battles on mountainsides, troops have induced avalanches with explosives on purpos... - Wildfire (23185 bytes)
86: ...umns from lower risk d鰡rtements and by military troops assigned to the civile defense (UIISC, ''Unit頤'... - Bastille Day (3807 bytes)
17: ...), then other [[infantry]] troops, then motorized troops; [[aviation]] flies above. In recent times, it ha... - Akkadian Empire (9189 bytes)
24: ...Babylonia and the West - Babylonian officials and troops passing to Syria and Canaan, while "Amorite" colo... - Sargon II of Assyria (8855 bytes)
6: ...troyed [[Raphia]] and won a victory over Egyptian troops. On his way back, he had [[Samaria]] rebuilt as t...
8: ...ns. Sargon took the capital Izirtu, and stationed troops in Parsuash (original home of Persian tribe, on l...
20: In 713 Sargon stayed at home; his troops took, among others, Karalla, [[Tabal]] and [[Cili... - Kenya (15142 bytes)
55: ...vernor requested and obtained British and African troops, including the [[King's African Rifles]]. In [[Ja... - Pekingese (8693 bytes)
85: ...0]], the [[Forbidden City]] was invaded by Allied troops. The Emperor [[Xianfeng]] had fled with all of h... - Zachary Taylor (11484 bytes)
29: ...]. When the [[Mexico|Mexicans]] attacked Taylor's troops, Taylor defeated them despite being outnumbered 4... - Slavery (26455 bytes)
136: ...ers. Many joined the [[Union Army]] as workers or troops, and many more fled to Northern cities. When [[Wi...
138: ...iod between the surrender of the last Confederate troops on [[May 26]], [[1865]] and the final ratificatio... - Stamp Act 1765 (7443 bytes)
6: ...hief Pontiac]]. Ten [[regiments]], or about 6,000 troops, would be permanently stationed in [[North Americ... - White House (15373 bytes)
20: ...uch of Washington, D.C. was set alight by British troops, and the White House was gutted. Only the exterio...
28: ...eland]] arranged for a presidential review of the troops from a grandstand in front of the White House ins... - Woodrow Wilson (31322 bytes)
77: ...a to pass the [[Bryan-Chamorro Treaty]]. American troops in Haiti forced the Haiti legislature to choose t... - Rutherford B. Hayes (9651 bytes)
36: ...that if Hayes were elected, he would pull federal troops out of the south and end [[Reconstruction]]. An a... - Al Gore (43430 bytes)
204: ... ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11... - First Crusade (34670 bytes)
60: ...s were saved only by the timely appearance of the troops led by the legate Adhemar, who defeated the Turks...
67: ...s so large that the crusaders did not have enough troops to fully surround it, and thus it was able to sta... - Ancient China (39554 bytes)
108: ...,500 tons; there was a standing army of 1 million troops (some estimate as many as 1.9 million). Over 100,...
126: .... Zheng He's multi-decked ships carried up to 500 troops but also cargoes of export goods, mainly silks an... - Britain in the Middle Ages (12239 bytes)
10: ...Celtic marauders and invaders, and when the Roman troops left, the Britons had no effective defence. - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
174: ...ration of war, joint southern-German and Prussian troops, under the command of Moltke, invaded France in 1...
213: .... After a quick march through [[Belgium]], German troops were halted on the [[Marne]], north of [[Paris]]....
225: ...To ensure execution of the treaty's terms, Allied troops would occupy the left (German) bank of the Rhine ...
237: ...oldiers, coal-mines would not dig for the foreign troops, trams in which members of the occupation army ha...
246: ...ndertook to assist France in the case that German troops marched into the demilitarised Rheinland. The Tre... - History of Italy during foreign domination and the unification (3859 bytes)
10: ...on of Naples with the help of a Ventian fleet and troops under the command of [[Gonzalo de C�rdoba]]. - History of Italy as a monarchy and in the World Wars (9742 bytes)
12: ...otection for Pius IX and on September 20, Italian troops breached Rome's walls at Porta Pia and entered th...
36: ...ion of Albania, and on April 7, 1939, Mussolini's troops invaded Albania. Despite some stubborn resistance...
54: While the Allied troops slowly pushed the German resistance to the north ... - Massachusetts (31663 bytes)
58: ...achusetts to be in rebellion, and sent additional troops to restore order to the colony. - Proboscis Monkeys (3096 bytes)
24: ..., with the females carrying infants on their hip. Troops have been filmed continuing to walk upright, in s... - Timeline of Middle Eastern History (12425 bytes)
184: * [[1882]] - September 13 - British troops occupy Cairo - Egypt becomes British protectorate - George W. Bush (64926 bytes)
100: ...05]]) is still at large. A sizeable contingent of troops and advisors remains into 2005. See [[U.S. invasi... - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
156: ...gation of the armed forces were imposed. "Colored troops do very well under white officers," said Stimson,... - Holocaust (53541 bytes)
70: ...oviet peasant villages were annihilated by German troops for more or less the same reason. During World Wa... - List of countries (20527 bytes)
357: ...es by number of active troops|by amount of active troops]] - Proboscis Monkey (3098 bytes)
24: ..., with the females carrying infants on their hip. Troops have been filmed continuing to walk upright, in s... - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
48: ...do was ordered back to central Mexico so that his troops could help put down the [[The Mixtón Rebellion]]... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ... Cortés, he fought them and won, using the extra troops as reinforcements. Cortés wrote letters directly...
47: ... who had survived from a shipwreck and joined the troops.<ref name=Grunberg/> Jeronimo de Aguilar, a Franc... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
14: ... advance guard fought a pitched battle with Incan troops in front of the city, but the battle had ended be...
55: On May 8, 1541, de Soto's troops reached the [[Mississippi River]]. It is unclear ...
71: ..., some now feel his explorations took him and his troops into South Carolina, at or near Shell Landing on ...
76: At the Indian city of [[Mabila]] De Soto's troops fought a battle with between 2,000 and 6,000 Nat... - List of Byzantine Emperors (11779 bytes)
51: ...; tax-collector; proclaimed emperor by rebellious troops - Roman clothing (10346 bytes)
30: ...leather arm guard (manica ''Latin'')were made for troops, and more commonly, the gladiators. Many of the i... - Mauryan (48769 bytes)
20: ...urned to [[Babylon]], and re-deployed most of his troops west of the [[Indus River|Indus]] river. When Ale...
195: ... altogether; and having once more provisioned his troops, set out again personally with his army: leaving ... - Anne Bonny (5802 bytes)
21: ... fought fiercely and managed to hold off Barnet's troops for a short time. After their capture, Rackham an... - 18th century (8231 bytes)
100: ...discovered by [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]]'s troops. - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
566: ...discovered by [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]]'s troops - Bicycle (44267 bytes)
138: ...sion of China, Japan employed some 50,000 bicycle troops, and similar forces were instrumental in Japan's ...
140: ...ountry to recently maintain a regiment of bicycle troops was [[Switzerland]], who disbanded the last unit ... - 1901 (12292 bytes)
24: ...a]] as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops. - February 22 (10772 bytes)
13: ... Buena Vista]] - 5,000 [[United States|American]] troops drive off 15,000 [[Mexico|Mexican]]. - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
91: ...EL.jpg|left|thumb|[[Israel Defense Forces|Israeli troops]] on parade at the [[Western Wall]] plaza]] - Copenhagen (8004 bytes)
13: ...en was [[Occupation of Denmark|occupied by German troops]] along with the rest of the country from 9th of ... - Madrid (20882 bytes)
20: ...would be short: in May of [[1808]] [[Napoleon]]'s troops entered the city. On [[May 2]], [[1808]] (Spanish...
80: ... brutally and effectively repressed by the French troops and which started the Spanish Independence War). - Organic farming (38858 bytes)
125: ... used to controul disease-carrying insects around troops, became a general insecticide, launching the era ... - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (7198 bytes)
12: ...], and [[Abraham Lincoln ]] came out to watch the troops skirmishing. At six foot four, with his stovepipe... - Articles of Confederation (19574 bytes)
65: ...anism to ensure states complied with requests for troops or revenue. At times this left the military in a ... - Shang Dynasty (10029 bytes)
9: ...ings ruled over much of northern China, and Shang troops fought frequent wars with neighboring settlements...
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