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

catur’s raid and pronounced it “the most bold and daring act of the age.” Buoyed by success, on August 7, 1804, Preble led his s ...

Tripoli.London: J. Murray, 1976; Hedrick, Larry. Rogue’s Gallery: America’s Foes from George III to Saddam Hussein.Washington, D ...

war. Kato spent the next two years attending the Army Staff School and also visited Europe to inspect the German Luftwaffe. Prio ...

run. The AVG ambushed them again, shooting down two fighters and several bombers. But the day after, Japanese ground forces capt ...

marked him for staff work. Thereafter, he re- mained disinclined to- ward field service and subsequently established himself as ...

with arrogance and insensitivity. As the war progressed, Keitel, in concert with Gen. Alfred Jodl, the head of army operations, ...

Kesselring, Albert (November 20, 1885–July 16, 1960) German General KESSELRING, ALBERT J ovial Kesselring was an accomplished de ...

velous tenacity and courage, but German losses were approximately twice as large as England’s. Kesselring originated the strateg ...

the air and sea, the Allies would not push the remaining Germans out of Italy until war’s end. Kesselring’s excellent eye for de ...

including Kim, into join- ing anti-Japanese soci- eties, which in turn triggered even greater op- pression. In 1925, Kim fled wi ...

ted American forces to the defense of South Korea. Task Force Smith was landed at Pusan and proceeded north under Gen. William F ...

east Asia, did not want a second conflict with North Korea. His reluctance seemed to em- bolden the aging Kim even further, for ...

three years later, rose to general of artillery. Kluge’s smoothly advancing ca- reer hit an unforeseen bump in February 1938 whe ...

during an air attack, Kluge also assumed con- trol of his Army Group B. Kluge, unfortu- nately, inherited a front on the verge o ...

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men. As part of the larger British army under Gen. William Howe, Knyphausen formed a rear guard during the last phases of the su ...

periencing dissension, and he decided to at- tack them while they were still demoralized. Taking 6,000 men, Knyphausen advanced ...

in the North and revered throughout the South. Robert Edward Lee was born in Stratford, Virginia, the third son of American Revo ...

the Seven Days Battle, pushed the huge army of Gen. George B. McClellan away from the gates of Richmond. The Union forces were n ...

Richmond and made a run for North Carolina to link up with Joseph E. Johnston’s army. Grant, however, pursued vigorously, and th ...