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The moral is to the physical as three to one -- Napoleon Bonaparte |
Positive Force, Southwest Asia, 1991(96 total words in this text)(4171 Reads)  Task Force Victory To ensure the security of recently liberated Kuwait, V Corps sent the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment there in Operation POSITIVE FORCE during the summer of 1991 as a residual force to replace the 1st Brigade, 3rd Armored Division. In turn, Task Force Victory, with troops drawn from the 8th Infantry Division, replaced the cavalry. Simultaneously, the deputy corps commander took a task force of V Corps soldiers to northern Iraq in Operation Provide Comfort to ensure the safety of threatened Kurdish refugees who had fled Iraqi military operations against them. |
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1863:
The largest cavalry battle of the Civil War is fought at Brandy Station, Virginia.
1923: Bulgarias government is overthrown by the military. 1942: The Japanese high command announces that "The Midway Occupation operations have been temporarily postponed." 1944: Russia penetrates into East Karelia, in Finland, as it fights to gain back control of territory that had already been ceded to it. 1945: Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declares that Japan will fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender. 1951: Eighth Army commander Lieutenant General James A. Van Fleet insisted that his forces occupy suitable ground in the event of a cease-fire. 1951: After several unsuccessful attacks on French colonial troops, North Vietnams General Vo Nguyen Giap orders Viet Minh to withdraw from the Red River Delta. 1959: The first ballistic missile-carrying submarine, the USS George Washington, is launched. 1972: Part of a relief column composed mainly of South Vietnamese 21st Division troops finally arrives in the outskirts of An Loc. The division had been trying to reach the besieged city since April 9th. |
