World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary
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Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible, Ivan Vasilievich Grozny) (1530–1584) czar of Russia Ivan Vasilievich Grozny was born on 25 Augus ...
and in 1580, during an argument, he murdered his own son Ivan. Ivan’s military campaigns and his tyranny left his country, once ...
Jackson, Andrew (1767–1845) American general, seventh president of the United States Andrew Jackson was born on 15 March 176 ...
Political life in Washington had left a bad taste in Jackson’s mouth, and he returned to Tennessee after his single term in Cong ...
about what do with Jackson. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams argued that he was fighting on behalf of the United States, sav ...
at New Orleans, in the Winter of 1814, ’15 (Philadelphia: Davis, Porter & Coates, 1866); Owsley, Frank Lawrence, Struggle fo ...
the Union forces had been ejected from the state and were far from Richmond. For his services, Jackson was promoted to the rank ...
(1905–07), Third Sea Lord and controller of the navy (1908–10), commander of the Atlantic Fleet (1910–11), and Second Sea Lord ( ...
For his services at Jutland, Jellicoe was given the thanks of Parliament and a grant of £50,000. He was named as First Sea Lord ...
such experience might have proved later. Like his contemporary and equally inexperienced subor- dinate, General [Ferdinand] foch ...
York: D. Appleton & Company, 1931); Recouly, Ray- mond, General Joffre and His Battles (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1 ...
Even though Poland had nothing to gain—and much to lose—Sobieski took the long-term view and realized the Ottoman threat to Euro ...
On 7 October 1571, the combined Christian fleet—with ships from Genoa, Savoy, and the Knights of Malta, as well as Spain and Ven ...
Jones, John Paul (Paul Jones) (1747–1792) Scottish-American naval officer John Paul Jones was born the son of a gardener at Arbi ...
a British flotilla led by the ship Serapis. Historian John Shy writes: The heavier guns smashed the Richard during the first hal ...
named Junot as his personal secretary. When Napoleon went to fight in Italy, Junot served as his aide-de-camp and, during the Fr ...
Kamimura, Hikonojo, Baron Kamimura (1849– 1916) Japanese admiral Born in Satsuma Prefecture (later Kagoshima Prefec- ture), ...
The squadron then turned towards Possiet Bay, but seeing nothing of the enemy, retired. Despite the Japanese losses, Kamimura fo ...
nearly 50,000 dead on the field of battle, and although Khaled was second in command, historians believe that it was he who dire ...
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