America\'s Military Adversaries. From Colonial Times to the Present

4,000 Frenchmen to storm his works. In 1760, Gen. Jeffrey Amherst accorded him the honor of taking possession of the captured ci ...

A curious sideline to Haldimand’s activities was his clandestine correspondence with American Col. Ethan Allen over the issue of ...

Henry Hamilton was born probably in Dublin around 1734. Classically educated, he became an ensign in the 15th Regi- ment of Foot ...

offensive from Canada. Hamilton dutifully complied and also recruited the services of frontier renegades such as Simon Girtyto a ...

Soldier and Colonial Governor.” Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1954; Quaife, Milo M., ed. The Capture of Ol ...

were devoted and remained happily married their entire lives. In time Harvey gained a reputation as a brave soldier and an effic ...

Promotion during peacetime was slow, being based on seniority, and he did not make full colonel until 1825, following 31 years o ...

following year he was se- lected to pass through the Submarine School, and in 1941 he was bil- leted aboard the subma- rine I-24 ...

underwater missions of World War II. He was ordered to cruise the well-traveled route be- tween Guam and Leyte, in the Philippin ...

Hashimoto acknowledged that the Indianapo- liswas not performing evasive actions when he attacked. But he also stated that it ma ...

Hausser eventually served as chief of staff for Military Area II. He retired as a lieutenant gen- eral in January 1932, a stiff- ...

1944 they were back in Russia, gaining addi- tional laurels during the Ternopol campaign. Here Hausser brilliantly orchestrated ...

Heth, Henry (December 16, 1825–September 27, 1899) Confederate General HETH, HENRY H eth was a solid, capable divisional command ...

Lee ordered a general concentration of forces in the vicinity of Gettysburg, an important road junction. Heth’s division was in ...

HILL, DANIELHARVEY Hill, Daniel Harvey (July 12, 1821–September 24, 1889) Confederate General D. H. Hill was a gifted, hard-hit- ...

the note outlined Lee’s dispositions, strength, and strategic intentions. Hill vehemently de- nied any role in the mishap, but t ...

Bibliography Bridges, Hal. Lee’s Maverick General, Daniel Harvey Hill.Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991; Gallagher, Ga ...

superiors. During the 1909 war games, his forces “defeated” troops commanded by the thin-skinned Kaiser Wilhelm II, something th ...

in France. That August, Gen. John J. Persh- ing launched the first American offensive of the war by easing Gen. Max von Gallwitz ...

HINDMAN, THOMASCARMICHAEL Hindman, Thomas Carmichael (January 28, 1828–September 27, 1868) Confederate General T he fiery, dimin ...