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

General Rochambeau and they besieged Cornwallis within his works, trapping him there. The outnumbered British resisted for sever ...

COULONDEVILLIERS, LOUIS Coulon de Villiers, Louis (August 10, 1710–November 2, 1757) French Army Officer C oulon de Villiers was ...

tingly, Washington, who signed the articles and could not read French, inadvertently agreed that he was responsible for the “ass ...

sion in 1743, and two years later, following the onset of the War of the Austrian Succes- sion, he rose to second ensign. Throug ...

Service, 1975; Hindman, William B. The Great Mead- ows Campaign and the Climactic Battle of Fort Ne- cessity.Leesburg, VA: Potom ...

forced to withdraw, handed the Indians a strategic victory. Crook took no further action in the campaign, while the victorious w ...

Crittenden, George Bibb (March 20, 1812–November 27, 1880) Confederate General CRITTENDEN, GEORGEBIBB C rittenden was a potentia ...

tucky, studiously neutral thus far, was about to receive increasing attention from both sides. In January 1862, Crittenden was a ...

D’IBERVILLE, PIERRELEMOYNE d’Iberville, Pierre Le Moyne (July 20, 1661–July 9, 1706) French Naval Officer; Explorer D ’Iberville ...

command of three small warships and seized the important fur-trading post of New Severn in August 1690. Over the next seven year ...

audacious d’Iberville remains highly regarded as Canada’s greatest colonial hero, a naval commander of real ability. Bibliograph ...

where they stormed a battery and distinguished themselves in house-to- house fighting. The volun- teers were one of the few unit ...

dle in the affairs of subordinates, which hin- dered operations. More serious, Davis was blind to the incompetence of generals l ...

DIESKAU, JEAN-ARMAND Dieskau, Jean-Armand (1701–September 8, 1767) French Army Officer D ieskau was the capable French second in ...

only partially entrenched. When the Indians agreed, the French march resumed, and on September 8, 1755, Dieskau’s forces took up ...

DIETRICH, JOSEF Dietrich, Josef (May 28, 1892–April 21, 1966) German Waffen-SS General A coarse, two-fisted brawler by nature, “ ...

elite motorized panzer grenadier division. Dietrich then returned to Russia for more hard fighting under Gen. Paul Hausseruntil ...

In January 1945, Dietrich’s command relo- cated from Belgium to Hungary to confront a huge Soviet offensive. Once he cleared the ...

DÖNITZ, KARL Dönitz, Karl (September 16, 1891–December 24, 1980) German Admiral T he scourge of Brit- ish and American shipping, ...

submariners were instructed in group tactics, whereby “wolfpacks” of submarines, linked by short-wave radio, converged upon a si ...