Search results for "Armed forces" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • be considerably better. In addition most forces deployed large, high-velocity ... missiles being fired by the Egyptian forces inflicted heavy casualties ...
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  • Miskito youths were engaged in the armed forces. Others were given access ... guerrilla in the 1980s, which carried on armed struggle against the central ...
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  • is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. The 500-member lower ... In addition to the Congolese armed forces, in 2006, the UN Organization ...
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  • The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a national war memorial in Washington, D.C. honoring members of the U.S. armed forces who fought in the Vietnam ...
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  • In 1808, after joining the Spanish forces to fight against the French ... pressure, backed by San Martín armed forces and popular demand, to ...
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  • contain the marchers. Substantial military forces were deployed in and around ... denounced the elections and called for an armed uprising to destroy the Empire ...
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  • hundred years. The League lacked an armed force of its own and so depended ... the UN does not have its own standing armed forces, but the UN has been more ...
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  • |+Development of the armed forces of the Soviet Unionfrom 1939 to 1941 ... In 1941, the Soviet armed forces in the western districts were outnumbered ...
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  • The sport of Fencing is a sport of armed combat that is one of the ... with competitions organized by some armed forces as late as the 1940s and 1950s. ...
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  • signifies an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place ... An internal assessment report by the armed forces, published in an Indian ...
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  • under increasing pressure from British forces. Within four years, French ... stages through 1758 and 1759, French forces and colonies in northeastern ...
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  • Axis Powers in expelling occupying British forces. He participated in the 1952 ... complete withdrawal by Israel of its armed forces and civilians from the ...
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  • gendarmerie, and national police. Gabonese forces are oriented to the defense ... of regional stability, and Gabonese armed forces played an important role ...
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  • a series of military victories by Allied forces in the theater. After Imperial ... the brilliant landing of United Nations forces at Inchon that prevented ...
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  • usually had at least one such private guard armed with a shotgun. This has ... In World War I, some American forces under General Pershing used 12 ...
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  • * The University of Germany's Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg ... Adolf Hitler reneged on reparations, re-armed and set out on a world-conquering ...
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  • helicopters, and much of the Iraqi armed forces, were refocused toward ... accurate, it was because the Iraqi armed forces fought in the open desert ...
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  • of 1956, which led to reprisals from local forces. A political convulsion soon ... with a view to reduce the size of the armed forces, thus freeing more young ...
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  • after taking the throne was to ban the private armed security forces that were held by many members of the royal household, by members of the kings ...
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  • of air strikes against unprotected naval forces, the Imperial Japanese Navy ... to invade Japan with Mongol and Chinese forces in 1274 and 1281, Japanese ...
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