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

life—a lock of his hair. They also maintained, at great personal risk, a steady and secret correspondence. By May 1778, the Amer ...

British spy of the American Revolution. Her husband, unfortunately, remained a pariah, with few friends and fewer prospects for ...

ers. On several occasions he disguised him- self as a horse doctor, rode for miles behind Union lines, and carefully noted enemy ...

Valley Campaign. Verona, VA: McClure, 1980; Cochran, Darrel. “First of the Cavaliers: General Turner Ashby’s Brief Glory.” Civil ...

Governor Berkeley, who had ruled Virginia for more than three decades, recalled the de- structive Pamunkey Indian Wars under Ope ...

questioning the wisdom of Bacon’s action, for they began deserting him in droves. With his defenses beginning to unravel, Bacon ...

Balck, Hermann (December 7, 1893–1982) German General BALCK, HERMANN L eading from the front, Balck be- came one of the Wehrmach ...

action! During operations around Stalingrad later that year, his prompt actions saved the First and Fourth Panzer Armies from en ...

Fraschka, Gunter. Knights of the Reich.Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 1994; Heysek, Thomas R. “The Battle of Metz, France, 1944.” Unpubli ...

an island!”—a typical response for an auda- cious fighter pilot. The Germans handily lost the Battle of Britain, and Hitler subs ...

postwar period, for Lufthansa would not hire anyone whom they considered to be a mili- tarist. It was not until 1950 that Bär fo ...

erupted over disputed land near Fort Defi- ance, Arizona Territory. When settlers shot Navajo horses, raided their villages, and ...

declared, “We do not want to go to the left or to the right, but straight back to our country.” At length Sherman was persuaded ...

Within months of the American declaration of war against Great Britain in June 1812, Barclay was sent overland with a group of s ...

tack Perry once his ships had just cleared the sandbar and were still unarmed sealed his fate. When the American squadron emerge ...

until 1822. That year he secured command of the small bomb vessel HMS Infernal,which he held for two years. Barclay finally made ...

One such hired soldier was Lt. Col. Friedrich Baum of the Brunswick Dragoon Regiment (mounted infantry). Nothing is known of his ...

icans. The disciplined regulars of Baum’s command fought ferociously, but they were outnumbered and hopelessly surrounded. Stark ...

basis of merit. He then passed through the general staff college before joining the embry- onic panzer (tank) force. Rising stea ...

hour I had no communications and all my for- ward tanks were knocked out.” This attack signaled the commencement of Operation Co ...