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The Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa or Qing invasion of Đại Việt (Vietnamese: Trận Ngọc Hồi - Đống Đa; Chinese: 清軍入越戰爭), also known as Victory of Kỷ Dậu (Vietnamese: Chiến thắng Kỷ Dậu), was fought between the forces of the Vietnamese Tây Sơn dynasty and the Qing dynasty in Ngọc Hồi [] (a place near Thanh Trì) and Đống Đa in northern Vietnam ...
On the naval side of the Norwegian casualties, the Royal Norwegian Navy, fielding 121 mostly outdated ships at the outset of the German invasion, was virtually wiped out during the campaign. Only 15 warships, including a captured German fishing trawler , with some 600 men had managed to evacuate to the United Kingdom by the end of the fighting.
The most important tactical unit of the Norwegian army was the regiment. When mobilized, each regiment was supposed to muster two battalions of infantry of the line, and one battalion of landvern. Some of the Norwegian forces were ad hoc battalions. The commander of the Norwegian Army at the time of the invasion was General Kristian Laake.
Norwegian special forces soldiers (FSK) unload from a MH-47 Chinook during Operation Anaconda. War in Afghanistan (2001-2021) Operation Anaconda (2002) Operation Jacana (2002) Operation Mongoose (2003) Operation Pickaxe-Handle (2007) Operation Harekate Yolo (2007) Operation Karez (2008) Counterinsurgency in Northern Afghanistan (2009–2014)
1658 Swedish invasion during the Second Northern War; 1716 Swedish invasion during the Great Northern War; 1808 Swedish invasion during the Dano-Swedish War of 1808–1809; 1814 Swedish invasion during the Swedish–Norwegian War (1814) 1940 Norwegian campaign of World War II Operation Weserübung, the German invasion that began that campaign
Kyuranger is considered the fifth space-themed series [a] whose primary motifs are constellations and Greco-Roman mythology, and it is also the first Super Sentai series to introduce nine regular members in the beginning instead of five or fewer like previous installments. The team later gains three additional members, increasing the number to ...
The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung.Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the capitulation of German forces in Europe on 8 May 1945.
3: The date for invasion is set for 17 March 1940, although this is later delayed to April. 28: The Allies decide to begin mining Norwegian waters (Operation Wilfred), and to send a military force to Norway to pre-empt German aggression. The Allies assumed that Wilfred would provoke a German response in Norway and prepared a separate operation ...