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

the arm. While being conducted to the rear, he was suddenly ensnared by Maj. Thomas S. Jesup’s troops and made a prisoner. This ...

ing to be abandoned in her castle, insisted that she accompany her hus- band to the New World, after their new child was born. R ...

nize the provisions of Gates’s convention, the entire British army reverted back to prisoner status. This circumstance required ...

RIEDESEL, FRIEDRICHADOLPHUSVON Riedesel, Friedrich Adolphus von (1738–January 7, 1800) Hessian General T he capable Riede- sel f ...

pressing the British hard when Riedesel ar- rived with a handful of German reinforce- ments. To conceal the small size of his fo ...

dence.” Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Houston, 1986; Eelking, Max von, ed. Memoirs, Let- ters, and Journal of Ma ...

first gained prominence during the July 26, 1865, Battle of Platte Bridge, Wyoming, in which Cheyenne warriors overpowered a cav ...

(1985): 176–185; Hoebel, E. Adamson. The Cheyennes: Indians of the Great Plains.New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1978; Hoi ...

manual entitled Infantry Attacks.More than 400,000 copies of this significant text were printed, and it became required reading ...

headed west for Tunisia. Montgomery, mean- while, cautiously advanced along the coast from Egypt. This placed the Afrika Korps b ...

ther retribution if he were tried, Rommel chose the former course, dying on October 15, His cause of death was publicly an- nou ...

Battle of Maida, Ross led the 20th Regiment on a surprise flank attack, which contributed to the rout of French forces. In retur ...

The British soldiers advanced in excellent order as far as Bladensburg, Maryland, where, on August 24, 1814, they encountered a ...

Magazine 77 (1982): 363–364; Lord, Walter. The Dawn’s Early Light. New York: Norton, 1972; Maguire, W. A. “Major General Ross an ...

vost. The following summer, he was also di- rected to replace Gen. Roger Hale Sheaffe as overall commander of British forces in ...

Canada. Rottenburg, given his usual low pro- file in command decisions, escaped the tor- rent of criticism over the handling of ...

he accompanied his unit to France and briefly commanded it during the Battle of the Marne. He was promoted to major that fall be ...

as commander in chief of German forces in France. There he was tasked with defending 1,700 miles of coastline against Allied inv ...

three years in prison before poor health—and a lack of proof—prompted his release. The elder general then assumed a private life ...

his first aerial victory—a Russian-built Polikarpov I-15 biplane—until Octo- ber 5, 1938, although it was executed so clumsily t ...