World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary
with the Fashoda Incident, or Fashoda crisis. Before he left Sudan, he went up the Nile River to the French outpost at Fashoda, ...
to direct strategy, though other ministers gradually took over economic matters and armaments production. In 1915, William Louis ...
and put to death for his alleged role in the conspiracy, Kluge committed suicide on 18 August 1944 near Metz, France. Within a y ...
Khan and his court, as well as travelers in lands then unknown to Europeans. Polo later wrote a major work of his travels, which ...
On 7 February 1904, Kuropatkin was named as commander of the Russian army in Manchuria, assem- bling to combat a potential Japan ...
ary of Wars (Glasgow, Scotland: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995), 142, 170; Kuropatkin, Alexei, The Russian Army and the Japanese ...
73,000 French troops at his command. However, Na- poleon then brought in a reserve unit under Marshal Louis-Nicolas daVout, whic ...
claimed a victory, but it was a Russian strategi- cal success, for now wishing to avoid battle, Na- poleon changed his line of m ...
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Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves Roch- Gilbert du Motier, marquis de (1757–1834) French military officer Born at the Châtea ...
Yorktown with the surrender of British forces under Lord cornWallis (19 October 1781), and Lafayette again returned to France. B ...
ber of Parliament for Appleby, Westmoreland—and also, as some historians believe, with Lords Philip Wharton and William Fiennes, ...
Lambert of plotting a coup against the Rump Parliament and demanded his impeachment. Lambert, angered at the accusation, dissolv ...
For his services to the French Empire, Lannes was styled as the duc de Montebello (duke of Montebello). Sent to command French f ...
(now in West Virginia), including John Brown, who was later executed. Although he came from a wealthy Virginia fam- ily, Lee saw ...
Clellan was ultimately forced to withdraw to the James River, and Lee’s offensive of a smaller force against a larger force brok ...
Horace, Campaigning With Grant (New York: Century, 1897); Lanning, Michael Lee, “Lee, Robert E.,” in The Military 100: A Ranking ...
ment as well as to recognize the claims of the Scottish Covenanters, a religious sect. When Charles refused, Leslie handed him o ...
had perswaded him yt he should meet wth no ememyes. And needs he would retreat to New- castle, till great Barwise set himself fi ...
£500 per year for the remainder of his life and that of his heirs. Charles wrote to him: Although we have on all occasions, both ...
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