However, the attempt to use them as hostages failed, as 19 hours later British troops aided by the Haganah found the hiding place and rescued them.

However, the operation proceeded poorly as the French troops, aided by Australian, Brazilian, Portuguese, and New Zealand troops, had to negotiate rough, upward-sloping terrain.

In late December, Ethiopian troops, aided by American satellite imagery and battlefield intelligence, routed Islamist forces.

The Australian troops, aided by British and Indian, were to hold the line against the Japanese advance.

The Panamanian troops, aided by military advisers and troops from the United States of America, had declared their independence.

Bosnian Serb troops, aided by militarized police officers and paramilitary fighters from Serbia, overran the enclave on July 11.

Dutch troops aided by British remnants fought fiercely for a week.

Spanish Civil War: Spanish Nationalist troops, aided by Italy, take Barcelona.

British troops aided by South African soldiers staged their attack from South Africa and occupied the strategic island in 1942 to preclude its seizure by the Japanese.

In 2003, troops from the U.S. and Great Britain, aided by small contingents from a number of other countries, defeated Iraqi forces and occupied Iraq.