World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary

Percy Hobart. He served for an additional four years at the army headquarters in India before being sent to the Staff College at ...

matic and dynamic soldiers of the twentieth-century In- dian army was William Joseph Slim, later Field Marshal the Viscount Slim ...

to France to serve the inspector general of infantry. In October 1803, he was appointed commander of the 4th Division of the Gra ...

 Tamerlane See timur. Taylor, Zachary (1784–1850) American general, 12th president of the United States Zachary Taylor—a seco ...

Taylor explained the operations in the area: “With a view to compel the emigration of the Appalache Indians who had engaged to l ...

that Taylor was to hand over all of his troops to serve under Scott in a great offensive in Mexico. Instead of complying with th ...

Random House, 1989); Smith, Elbert B., The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore (Lawrence: Univer- sity Press of ...

He rose in the ranks of the Imperial Army, becoming a field marshal in 1605. In 1609, when Rudolf proposed a controversial and u ...

Wordsworth Editions Ltd., 1997), 291–292; A Letter Sent from Maynhem Concerning the late Defeate given the Duke of Brunswicke by ...

collided at the Battle of the Steppes, also known as the Battle of Lake Kerguel (July 1391), which historians be- lieve took pla ...

On 25 July 1894, Togo’s ship, Naniwa, sank the trans- port ship Kowshing, chartered from the British and car- rying Chinese sold ...

Heihachiro Togo (London: Jarrolds, 1935); Nakamura, Koya, comp., Admiral Togo: A Memoir (Tokyo, Japan: The Togo Gensui Publishin ...

ster (1674), whose terms permitted Tromp to patrol the English Channel. When he sailed into the Mediter- ranean, against orders, ...

Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp TROMP, MAARTEN HARPERTSZOON 335 ...

ship. The Battle of the Downs marked the end of Spanish supremacy in northern Europe. Tromp’s victory was one of the most import ...

army. Cardinal Richelieu, chief minister to King Louis XIII, gave him the rank of colonel and the command of a regiment of infan ...

Henri d’Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, was one of France’s most important military commanders of the late 17th century. A sermon ...

 Vere, John de See oxford, John de Vere, 13 th earl of. Vernon, Edward (1684–1757) British admiral Edward Vernon was born at ...

rank in the royal navy, of which, being insensible myself, I desire their lordships would be pleased to inform me in what it con ...

 Wallace, Sir William (ca. 1270–1305) Scottish revolutionary William Wallace was born about 1270 in the Scottish area of Renf ...