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

when the Iranians recaptured the strategic city of Khorramshahr. This conquest signaled an Iranian resurgence along the entire f ...

Israel. He hoped that by provoking a retalia- tion from Israel the conflict would widen, and Arab nations would desert the Ameri ...

ist Interpretation.” Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Northern Arizona University, 1998; Houlahan, Thomas. Gulf War: The Complete ...

fields near Oiltown, setting fire to more than 150,000 barrels of oil. By the time the Imbo- den Raid concluded on May 14, 1863, ...

38–45; Summers, Festus P. “The Jones-Imboden Raid.” West Virginia History47 (1988): 53–62; Thomas, Clayton M. “The Military Care ...

service was to take the well-trained VMI cadets and employ them as drillmasters in the newly formed Confederate army. In June 18 ...

Harper and Bros., 1892; Kegel, James A. North with Lee and Jackson: The Lost Story of Gettysburg.Me- chanicsburg, PA: Stackpole ...

save for the Eastern Front against Russia. The conquest of Poland, as well as the fall of Nor- way and France, all bore the unmi ...

Richard. Hitler’s Generals.Garden City, NY: Double- day, 1974; Johnson, Aaron L. Hitler’s Military Head- quarters: Organization, ...

mittee of Safety voted several resolutions in favor of the Continental Congress, an act that enraged many neighboring Loyalists. ...

less and lacking authority or patronage, Johnson died in London on March 5, 1788, a talented administrator, but too self-absorbe ...

dian affairs, preferring in- stead to pursue the life of a country gentleman. In the aftermath of Sir William’s death in 1774, J ...

restitution for property lost in New York. He also fulfilled his father’s dying wish by sup- planting brother-in-law Guy Johnson ...

graphical Engineers. Johnston rose to captain in 1846, and the following year he accompa- nied Gen. Winfield Scott’s army on its ...

After the war Johnston sold insurance be- fore winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1879. Six years later, h ...

any more of his ancestral homeland or be moved onto a reservation. The Nez Percé won a tempo- rary respite in 1873, when Preside ...

September 13, they beat off an attack by troops of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry under Col. Samuel Sturgis at Canyon Creek. Two weeks ...

was most favorably im- pressed. Eventually, Kamiakin became weal- thy enough to support five wives, each of a dif- ferent tribe, ...

resisting gamely, however, and in May 1858 they defeated another detachment under Col. Edward J. Steptoe. Kamiakin next personal ...

seized, were then held for ransom along with their crews. To discourage such fate, the local powers advised Christian countries ...