World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary
Austria. On 5 May 1866, he wrote to Prince Frederick Charles: Does not expect the Austrian main attack to be aimed at Silesia, w ...
Parliament, from 1871 until his death. He published more books, including Wanderbuch (Notes on travel, 1879), and died in Berlin ...
Victoria, serving in that position until 1931. Under his leadership, the state of Victoria was, for the first time, able to prov ...
invaded there in July. (His unit became the Coldstream Guards, a regiment that remains in existence to this day.) In 1651, when ...
the murdered king’s son be allowed to take the throne as the new monarch. When Charles II arrived at Dover on 25 May 1660, Monck ...
was a Protestant, but he tried to bolster up his chances by claiming that his parents had actually been married in secret. He la ...
ordered to the south to support the forces of Sir William Waller, he went to London, where he quarreled with the Parliamentarian ...
will be less wealthy, but more brave and more faithful to us.” In reports back to Paris, Montcalm complained bit- terly that wit ...
In 1229, Simon de Montfort came to England under the auspices of his cousin Ranulf, the earl of Ches- ter, who had held the land ...
the town of Evesham, and while they were oc- cupying themselves there with refreshing their souls, which had been long fainting ...
Bernard Law Montgomery montgomeRy, beRnARD lAw, FiRSt viScount montgomeRy oF AlAmein ...
as an instructor. He then spent two years (1928–30) in the War Office in London, where he helped to revise the official Infantry ...
The editors of The Wordsworth Dictionary of Mili- tary Biography write of Montgomery’s legacy: Like many other commanders of the ...
weakened and caused his defeat at Philiphaugh (13 Sep- tember 1645) at the hands of Sir David leslie. He es- caped from the batt ...
of Wexford from the rebels, earning Abercromby’s writ- ten praise again. Moore was then named to command a brigade invading Held ...
innkeeper, he was born in the village of La Bastide-For- tunière, in the departement of Lot, France, on 25 March Although he st ...
where his forces were overwhelmed. He was forced to flee for France, but Napoleon, in the midst of his famed “100 days” in power ...
Napier, Sir Charles (Count Napier de São Vicente) (1786–1860) English admiral Charles Napier was born in his family’s reside ...
References: Napier, Priscilla Hayter, Black Charlie: A Life of Admiral Sir Charles Napier KCB, 1786–1860 (Wilby, U.K.: Michael R ...
References: Vetch, Robert Hamilton, “Napier, Sir Charles James,” in The Dictionary of National Biography, 22 vols., 8 supps., ed ...
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