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

had acquired many enemies over the previous decade, and on July 20, 1913, he and several friends were suddenly gunned down near ...

town. For his prompt action, Vincent was of- ficially commended by Governor-General George Prevost,who the following Febru- ary ...

Fitzgibbon was stationed, but the British, forewarned by Laura Secord, were ready and successfully ambushed Boerstler at Beaver ...

The position of the Seminole nation had be- come complicated and endangered owing to the expansionist policies of the United Sta ...

dispossessed, and together they began pool- ing resources for defending against Apache and Comanche raiders. However, he grew di ...

Heihachiro Togo at the de- cisive victory at Tsushima in 1905. There he lost two fingers in an explosion. Yamamoto was nonethe- ...

aerial attack upon Taranto, Italy, which sank large portions of the Italian fleet at anchor. This single act vindicated his view ...

feet above the waves to escape detection, they arrived over Bougainville precisely two hours later, just as the punctual admiral ...

reconstruction at home and confrontation with the Soviet Union. This contrasted sharply with Tojo’s Control faction, which pushe ...

stunning victory, one of the greatest in mili- tary history, and Yamashita became publicly hailed as the “Tiger of Malaysia.” Ya ...

Tokyo: The Japanese War Crimes Trial.Lexing- ton: University Press of Kentucky, 2001; Potter, John D.The Life and Death of a Jap ...

maica. In this capacity he captured the 14-gun sloop USS Vixenin November 1812, only to lose both vessels on a reef. Cleared by ...

Yeo spent the entire winter building new ships at Kingston while Chauncey performed identical work at Sackets Harbor. The Britis ...

ambitious officer like Yeo, but his steadfast efforts checked the American conquest of Upper Canada. For this reason he remains ...

Appendix A: Listing by Occupation AMERICANCOLLABORATOR Tokyo Rose AMERICANTRAITOR Arnold, Benedict APACHEWARCHIEF Cochise Geroni ...

Rottenburg, Francis de Sheaffe, Roger Hale Sherbrooke, John Coape Smith, Francis Vincent, John, ENGLISHSECRETARY OFSTATE FOR THE ...

MEXICANDICTATOR de Santa Anna, Antonio López MEXICANGUERRILLA Villa, Pancho, MIAMIWARCHIEF Little Wolf, MINGOCHIEF Logan, James, ...

FRONTIERWARS Alligator American Horse Barboncito Black Hawk Black Kettle Brant, Joseph Canonchet Captain Jack Cochise Cornstalk ...

Ross, Robert Rottenburg, Francis de de Salaberry, Charles-Michael d’ Irumberry Secord, Laura Sheaffe, Roger Hale Sherbrooke, Joh ...

Abler, Thomas S., ed. Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake as Told to Benjamin Williams. Lincoln: ...