World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary

his aides, clerks, and supporters were brutally murdered by Wallace’s troops. The English sought revenge by mur- dering Wallace’ ...

Waller, Sir William (1597–1668) English Parliamentary commander The son and one of three children of Sir Thomas Waller, lieutena ...

shire. There, Waller’s 6,500 men attacked Hopton’s army of 3,500 infantry and 2,500 horse soldiers. Waller’s plan of attack and ...

was betrothed as a boy to the daughter of the earl of Warwick. When his father-in-law died in 1449, the 21- year-old Neville suc ...

Washington, George (1732–1792) American general, first president of the United States George Washington was born at Bridges Cree ...

veyor of Culpeper County; he also worked in Augusta and Frederick Counties. In 1751, Washington’s brother Lawrence became ill wi ...

ton then transferred his army to New York and met Sir William Howe at the Battle of Long Island on 27 Au- gust 1776. He erred ba ...

agreed to act as a delegate to the Constitutional Con- vention in May 1787 and was unanimously chosen to preside over it. He car ...

fourth British-Mysore War, a victory that, as historian George Bruce writes, “gave the British supremacy in southern India.” Tip ...

ish and their allies suffered about 5,000 dead. In August, Wellington’s forces entered Madrid, and for his service he was create ...

Leaders of All Time (New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1996), 88–91; Holmes, Richard, “Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of,” i ...

him again with a force of some 50,000 men. Again, de Wet escaped with his force (11 August 1900), and he moved to an area north ...

figures to Normandy in the years he lived there. Histo- rian Christopher Tyerman writes: William’s subsequent consolidation of c ...

he dared not dispose, and that, as in the matter of that “last quarter of an hour” at Hastings, God must decide—which meant in e ...

to do battle, but the accuracy of English musketry de- stroyed them. Nevertheless, Wolfe was fatally injured. Historian Robert W ...

 Xerxes (Khshayarsha, Ahasuerus) (ca. 519–465 b.c.) king of Persia Xerxes—whose Persian name is Khshayarsha and who is referr ...

historians believe may have been involved in Xerxes’ murder. Although remembered for the historic battles at Thermopylae and Sal ...

 Yamamoto, Isoroku (Isoroku Takano) (1884– 1943) Japanese admiral The son of a schoolmaster, Isoroku Yamamoto was born Isorok ...

or later, would come in on the side of the Allies, Britain and France. However, because he had visited the United States and saw ...

the Americans, who exploited fully their interception of Japanese naval codes.” Isoroku Yamamoto is remembered chiefly for his s ...