1. Ordered, That the 22d day of February, 1862, be the day for a general movement of the land and naval forces of the United States against the insurgent forces; that especially the army at and about Fortress Monroe.
Russian Revolution of 1917
…the publication of the soviet's Order No. 1, which directed the military, among other things, to obey only its orders and not those of the Provisional Government. It ordered that committees of soldiers were to be formed in all military and naval units in Petrograd.
The Order No. 1 (Russian: Prikaz nomer odin) was issued March 1, 1917 (March 14 New Style) and was the first official decree of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.
Order No. I was issued to the Russian public on March 1st 1917 by the Petrograd Soviet of Workersʼ and Soldiersʼ Deputies. Its basic tenets were simple: political representation for soldiers, expansion of soldiersʼ civil liberties and protection of the soldierʼs dignity vis-à-vis their officers.
However, Order No. 2 was around to remind soldiers that they still had to submit to the appropriate authorities at the appropriate time. “To this elective organ of their own choice, the soldiers are bound to submit in matters of their public and POLITICAL life.
In the Russian and Soviet armies, the three-star rank is lieutenant general (Russian: генерал-лейтенант), although his insignia is two stars. This title also applies to three star officers of the air force, MVD, police and militia, internal troops, FSB/KGB, border guards and some others.
00447 of July 30, 1937 (Russian: О операции по репрессированию бывших кулаков, уголовников и других антисоветских элементов, "About operation to repress former kulaks, criminals, and other anti-Soviet elements") was signed by Nikolai Yezhov and approved by the Politburo during the Great Purge.
Union General Gordon Granger and his troops traveled to Galveston, Texas to announce General Order No. 3 on June 19th, 1865. June 19th would go on to be known and celebrated as Juneteenth.
11 was a controversial order issued by Union Major-General Ulysses S. Grant on December 17, 1862, during the Vicksburg Campaign, that took place during the American Civil War. The order expelled all Jews from Grant's military district, comprising areas of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
In a controversial attempt to quell guerrilla warfare along the Missouri-Kansas border, Union General Thomas Ewing issued General Order No. 11, exiling several thousand people from their homes in western Missouri.
Russia left WW1 because it was in the interest of Russian Communists (Bolsheviks) who took power in November 1917. The Bolsheviks' priority was to win a civil war against their domestic opponents, not to fight in WW1.
The decree ordered the formation of the “All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage”. The name 'Cheka' was an abbreviated form of Chrezvychainaia Komissiia, the Russian for 'Extraordinary Commission'.
General Order No. 1 prohibited all US personnel from possessing, making, selling or consuming any alcoholic beverage; the first time such an order had applied to the US Army.
Russia was in a state of war with the French Republic under the leadership of the Corsica-born consul Napoleon Bonaparte. After he became the emperor, Napoleon defeated Russia at Austerlitz in 1805, Eylau and Friedland in 1807.
In 2008, 1,185,993, or 57% of all deaths in Russia were caused by cardiovascular disease. The second leading cause of death was cancer which claimed 289,257 lives (14%).
Japan won a convincing victory over Russia, becoming the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a European power.
In this general order Navy Secretary Gideon Welles sets forth the rules governing flags of truce. The order details the conditions for issuing, and the methods of accepting, a truce flag.
1st General Order I will guard everything within the limits of my post and quit my post only when properly relieved. 2nd General Order I will obey my special orders and perform all my duties in a military manner.
He struggled with alcohol throughout his life. Grant's taste for strong drink first became problematic in the early 1850s, when he was reportedly forced to resign from the army for being caught drunk on duty. He swore off alcohol for most of the next decade, only to fall off the wagon during the Civil War.
Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as "Juneteenth," by the newly freed people in Texas.
Confederate General Robert E. Lee issued Special Orders No. 191 on September 9, 1862 during the Maryland Campaign while his army was camped on the Best Farm.
Commonly known as the "11 General Orders," these directives contain every possible scenario a sentry might encounter on duty and how to ensure their safety and that of others. All recruits must learn these orders to perform their sentry duties without issues.
The Order of Victory (Russian: Орден «Победа», romanized: Orden "Pobeda") was the highest military decoration awarded for World War II service in the Soviet Union, and one of the rarest orders in the world.
Under Joseph Stalin's rule, Kolyma became the most notorious region for the Gulag labor camps. Tens of thousands or more people died en route to the area or in the Kolyma's series of gold mining, road building, lumbering, and construction camps between 1932 and 1954.
In October, 1956, the Soviet Union ordered its troops to crush a nascent rebellion in Budapest, the capital of the Soviet satellite state of Hungary. Undertaken while the West was preoccupied by developments in the Middle East, the conflict demonstrated emerging political dissent in the Eastern Bloc.