Army Group South headed for the Ukraine‚ and the oil fields of the Caucasus. Facing them in the field were their Soviet counterparts‚ Soviet Marshals Klimenti Voroshilov‚ an old Bolshevik‚ drinking partner‚ and crony of Stalin; Semyon Buddeny‚ a cavalry officer of indifferent ability in modern warfare‚ and Semyon Timoshenko‚ one of the few capable high ranking officers to survive Stalin’s
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Fallujah. It was recorded that approximately 4‚000-5‚000 insurgents remained in the city of Fallujah. On November 6‚ Regimental Combat Team 1‚ consisting of the 3rd Battalion/1st Marines‚ 3rd Battalion/5th Marines‚ and the US Army’s 2nd Battalion/7th Cavalry‚ were in position to assault the western part of Fallujah; attacking from the north. Later that day‚ they were joined by Regimental Combat Team 7‚ made up of 1st Battalion/3rd Marines‚ the 1st Battalion/8th Marines‚ and the U.S. Army’s 2nd Battalion/2nd
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first battle to be recorded. After defeating the Persians the greek city states became more confident about themselves and how strong they are to defending their city states. The Persian armada of 600 ships an invasion force of of 20‚000 infantry and cavalry on just north of Athens in september 490 B.C. Their goal was to crush Greek states. The Athens had 10‚000 men ready for the attack so they can protect their territory. Persians and the athens met on a plain mountain of Marathon 6 miles north of Athens
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to rest. As William arrived Harold got his men to formed a shield wall. William’s archers went first their aim was not great as they were shooting uphill consequently hitting the shield wall and soaring over their heads. Next William sent in his cavalry (men on horses) to attack but because there was a shield wall the hoses could not get past therefore the Normans were safe. William reset his archers to a good position enabling his archers to get a good aim‚ as a result of this it created the smallest
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your tents and start the fires. Before sunrise we will travel south. When the English arrive‚ we will pick them off like bugs as they swarm our camp. Any survivors will be taken out when we charge from north and south. Archers‚ count your arrows‚ cavalry‚ sharpen your spears‚ and the rest of you‚ prepare yourselves for battle! The English pillocks better be ready to kiss our Scottish
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Kingdom. He is the recipient of several awards and nominations‚ having won two Brit Awards‚ two MTV Video Music Awards‚ two Ivor Novello Awards and receiving five Grammy Award nominations. Blunt was an officer in the British Army Life Guards‚ a cavalry regiment of the British Army‚ and served under NATO in Kosovo during the conflict in 1999. While posted to Kosovo‚ Blunt was introduced to the work of Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF or "Doctors Without Borders"). Since then‚ Blunt has been an active
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To understand the military successes of Napoleons’ army during this time all the levels of war must be analysed‚ starting with the strategy adopted by the French army. Strategy is seen as the “overall plans‚ assuming responsibility for the general course of military enterprises.” Previous to the Napoleonic Wars‚ strategies were formed around the basis that wars were generally a limit concept‚ meaning it rarely affected the entire of a factions’ society. This led to wars of manoeuvre in which direct
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bravely led his army back up the hill to make another attack upon the English. Due to William’s intelligence‚ he arranged his army in long rows‚ archers at the front to try and soften up the English’s shield wall‚ foot soldiers in the middle‚ and the cavalry at the back for a big attack. The retreating trick explained in the above paragraph also shows great leadership. Luckily for William‚ the wind changed direction in his favour on his journey north to England. When Harold had been fighting the Vikings
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About: Conqueror and king of Macedonia‚ Alexander the Great was born on July 20th‚ 356B.C. ‚ (the sixth day of the Macedonian month Loïos) in Pella‚ Macedonia to King Philip II and Queen Olympia‚ daughter of King Neoptolemus. He became the king of Persia‚ Babylon and Asia‚ and created Macedonian colonies in the same area. Alexander and his sister were raised in Pella’s Royal Court. Young Alexander never saw much of his father since King Philip II was off doing military campaigns. Olympia was a powerful
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An obvious conclusion is that the Spaniards’ guns‚ cavalry‚ and military organization‚ led to the Incan Emperor’s capture among his whole army by a tiny group of Spanish conquistadors. However‚ all these conquest factors are approximate and immediate‚ not ultimate nor fundamental. In other words‚ the beginning cause of Spanish development of these technologies and Pizarro’s conquest of Peru rather than the Incan explorers’ development of for example machine guns and Atahualpa’s small Incan gang capture
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