World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary
Conway, Lord Conway, to the River Tyne in control of some 26,000 troops. At the battle of Newburn on 28 August 1640, Astley and ...
Roman Empire. In 433, Attila succeeded his uncle, Roas the Hun, who had been exacting tribute from the Ro- mans as a payoff for ...
on 12 November. Napoleon wrote of Augereau that he “... has plenty of character, courage, firmness, activity; is inured to war; ...
torius in one of the most noted battles in Roman history. Historian George Bruce writes: [The battle was] between the Republican ...
exander, The Worship of Augustus Caesar, Derived from a Study of Old Coins, Monuments, Calendars, Aeras, and Astronomical and As ...
Bagration, Prince Pyotr Ivanovich (Petr Ivanovitsch Bagration, Peter Bagration) (1765– 1812) Russian general Born in Kizlyar, ...
killed, wounded, and prisoners, and a large number of guns. The French lost about 8,000.” Bagration put up persistent resistance ...
don: George Allen & Co., 1912); Gore, Montague, Char- acter of Sir David Baird (London: James Ridgway, 1833); Investigator, ...
perors, Basil II was born around 958. In 963, Roma- nus died, and Basil was co-crowned as emperor, sharing the title with his br ...
killed and wounded. The French losses were somewhat less. This battle is also known as the battle of St. Privat. The Prussians w ...
the Germans into the area and sank three cruisers and one destroyer without any British losses. On 24 Janu- ary 1915, Beatty fou ...
in a series of wars that helped establish him as one of his- tory’s greatest generals. He fought against the Saddanids of Persia ...
a French fleet under the command of Admiral Anne- Hilarion de Cotentin, comte de Tourville. Many his- torians agree that Benbow ...
In 1819, following the revolution in Portugal, all British officers in the government’s employ were dis- missed, and Beresford r ...
go against the Austrians instead. At the battle of Fried- land (14 June 1807), Bernadotte, aided by Marshal Jean lannes, occupie ...
tress Arabella Churchill, the sister of James Churchill, the duke of Marlborough. He spent very little of his life in his father ...
buried in the cathedral there. Berwick had asked that his body be eventually removed to the Rue Saint Jacques in Paris, to be bu ...
second, he was given only 13 divisions—some 490,000 men—to the Turks’ 20 divisions, led by General Liman von Sanders. An initial ...
tionary of Wars (Glasgow, Scotland: HarperCollins Pub- lishers, 1995), 94–95. Blake, Robert (1599–1657) English general and admi ...
At Dungeness on 29–30 November 1652, Blake and 40 English ships, took on Tromp and 95 Dutch ships. Blake’s forces suffered a ser ...
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