World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary
Iraq, but when they tried to extend their hold on Mosul (in modern northern Iraq) and Basra (in modern south- ern Iraq, near the ...
In 1801, Abercromby was sent to Egypt to help drive the French out of that country. When the English army landed at Aboukir Bay ...
tion that exists comes from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 937: In this year King Aethelstan, Lord of warriors, ring-giver to men ...
a pardon and named him the count of Italy in exchange for his ending any war against Ioannes’s killers. Aetius accepted this off ...
Agricola, Gnaeus Julius (37–93) Roman general Although Gnaeus Agricola is remembered for his con- quests of the British Isles, m ...
b.c., Agrippa and some 300 ships met Sextus Pompeius with a navy of equal strength. Agrippa won a decisive victory, and Pompeius ...
adopted son, Marcus Junius Brutus. Some historians believe that Ahenobarbus, seeking revenge for Pompey’s defeat, was one of the ...
However, when Attalus refused to let Alaric move his army into Africa, Alaric again besieged Rome, deposing Attalus, whose enemi ...
In early 1894, Albert caught a cold while attending the funeral of his nephew Francis II (1836–94), the for- mer king of Naples ...
ing been overlooked by most historians for his role in fighting the Second World War, he remains perhaps one of the most revered ...
A diplomat and master strategist, Philip II was most no- table for his development of the Macedonian army, in particular its inf ...
Cassander (?–287 b.c.), Seleucus Nicator (ca. 358–281 b.c.), Ptolemy Soter, Eumenes of Cardia (ca. 361–316 b.c.), and Lysimachus ...
to the “Burghal Hidage,” a document that dates from the reign of Alfred’s son Edward. These places grew into towns, many of whic ...
88,000 men arranged into seven divisions and a Desert Mounted Corps consisting of camel- and horse-mounted soldiers. Allenby too ...
Franklin D. Margiotta (Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, 1994), 47–50; Hughes, Matthew D., General Allenby and the Campaign of the E. ...
of Hesse and John Frederick I, the elector of Saxony. Alva and Charles met the league’s forces at Mühlberg on 24 April 1547. His ...
To conquer the French and the main concentration of their forces at Montreal, Amherst realized he would have to proceed cautious ...
According to the biography by Sir John Barrow, Anson entered the English navy in February 1712 and quickly rose through a serie ...
“Both as a sea commander and as a statesman, Anson triumphed over adversity by courage and determina- tion. Flexible and pragmat ...
cus Brutus and Gaius Cassius. The first clash brought no victor, but in the second the triumvirs destroyed the conspirators and ...
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