But, for reasons that are still not fully understood, Saddam held back, giving the United States and its allies time to amass a force of overwhelming advantage.
Vaudreuil's plan was to amass a force of as many as 400 men for attacks on the towns of New Hampshire on the Piscataqua River.
Although Sousa Neto had ties with the governing political party, his claims, including that he could amass a force of 40,000 to invade Uruguay, were not taken seriously by all.
As the Pentagon has amassed a significant force in the region around Afghanistan, American military forces have already begun the difficult task of assembling intelligence on possible targets, including Mr. bin Laden's network and the Taliban government and military.
As the war has gone on, the country has amassed a formidable force of hardcore revolutionaries who will fight Haftar forces to the absolute end.
The Turks had amassed a large force in Medina, and the British leadership wanted Lawrence to gather the Arabs and destroy the Turkish garrison there, before the Turks could threaten the entire region.
The United States has now amassed a military force of 28,000 sailors, airmen and troops, more than 300 warplanes and two dozen warships spread for thousands of miles across a military theater with Iraq and Afghanistan at its heart.
At Campeche, the Maya amassed a strong force and attacked the city; the Spanish were able to fight them off, although the elder Montejo was almost killed.
They have amassed an enormous force of troops, tanks and artillery pieces in the borderlands area and have publicly vowed to take control of all the disputed territory north of the 1956 border, regardless that the status of some of those areas was supposed to be decided by the people themselves.
"The coalition has amassed a formidable fighting force," read another, which carried a photograph of American soldiers with Apache attack helicopters swooping low overhead.
