WITHIN the Bush administration, expectations were high as American forces advanced on Baghdad: Saddam Hussein's regime would collapse.

Under the cover of this barrage the British forces advanced in their heavy tanks and armoured vehicles.

In August 1943, Goodenough Island was chosen as the site for a number of hospitals to treat casualties incurred as Allied forces advanced through the Pacific.

In 1900 the British forces advanced on Kruger and his men.

Now the entire force advanced under a swarming flock of blue and red dragons - the mightiest of evil dragonkind - bound to destroy the Army of Solamnia.

The Japanese forces advanced on the Ming position around 10 am.

As northern forces advanced on Aden, al-Beidh declared the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Yemen on 21 May.

A day after the intense aerial bombardment of Iraq, American-led forces advanced on the ground, pummeled targets from the air and launched new strikes from the sea.

As Communist forces advanced upon Shanghai, the Nationalists abandoned and scuttled Mei Yuan to prevent her capture.

But as American forces advanced on Baghdad, Secretary Rumsfeld pressed the question of off-ramping the First Cavalry Division, which was the final division in the war plan.