World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary
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0 Saladin (Salah Ad-Din Yusuf Ibn Ayyub, Al-Malik An-Nasir Salah Ad-Din Yusuf I) (ca. 1137/38– 1193) Muslim king and warrior I ...
Syria (1183), and he took control of the Kurdish city of Mosul, now in modern Iraq in 1186. Saladin’s unification of Muslim nati ...
As the various forces mobilized, Samsonov was named as one of the commanders of the antiquated and ill-equipped Russian army. Th ...
sion. He marched his army to Tampico, where he de- feated the Spanish, earning him the appellation “Victor of Tampico” and makin ...
treaty. Humiliated at home and abroad, Santa Anna re- tired to his home at Manga de Clavo. Two years later, he returned to publi ...
ing for a centralized government. However, the whole program collapsed on 2 June 1852 when Alamán died, leaving Santa Anna in co ...
fomenting rebellion among numerous towns under Sar- gon’s control, and he decided to end this uprising. His army attacked the Ur ...
introduced new methods of training, including the use of muskets. In 1719, he went to Paris to study math- ematics, and the foll ...
French novelist Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, whose nom de plume was George Sand. The record of Maurice, comte de Saxe, is one of ...
northern Atlantic and harass civilian ships, after Jutland the German navy was rendered almost impotent. Mu- tinies broke out am ...
also came home from his tours in Vietnam with the feeling that the American government was not serious about winning the war in ...
rized the start of Operation Desert Storm, a period of attacks from aircraft and missiles on hundreds of Iraqi targets inside Ku ...
battles of Ilipa (now Alcalá del Río, near Seville) in 206 b.c.; and Gades (now Cádiz), which gave control of the Spanish penins ...
Scott’s service in the War of 1812, which began in July 1812, is heralded by his biographers. In October that year, he was promo ...
march almost unmolested on Mexico City, which fell on 14 September 1847. At the same time, Generals Stephen Kearney and John Fre ...
had split his country. The authors of the The Wordsworth Dictionary of Military Biography write: “Winfield Scott was an associat ...
north in disarray. Sheridan, who was on his way back from Washington and had reached Winchester, heard the distant gunfire, moun ...
After the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presi- dency in 1860, the southern slave states seceded from the American Union, a ...
two months before the American presidential election, gave Lincoln’s campaign a boost and led to his reelec- tion, which just we ...
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