World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary
and Oppenheim (16 January 1794). In 1793, he was promoted to the rank of colonel, the following year to the rank of major-genera ...
References: Windrow, Martin, and Francis K. Mason, “Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, Prince of Wahlstadt,” in The Wordsworth Dict ...
Boscawen, the Namur “came very near three or four of them where we were warmly engaged on both sides for about three-quarters of ...
of 1761 brought controversy, as the Tories had put for- ward a candidate of their own that year. In late 1760, he was asked to w ...
field in the Midlands. A memorial to Boudicca, showing her in a chariot leading her followers into battle, stands beside Westmin ...
Press, 1977); Stewart, Andrew, “Was Gen. Braddock Shot Down by One of His Own Army?,” The New York Times, Magazine sect., 19 Oct ...
example, a reflection of the early days when he lectured at West Point. Quiet, dependable, an excellent adminis- trator and a so ...
and sent to a prison in Wales. In 1948, he was returned to Germany to stand trial, but by then his health was in complete declin ...
II, was a keeper of a castle in Brittany, then an English duchy, but which was overrun by the French about the middle of the fou ...
Brock’s body was first interred at Fort George and later removed to a monument built in his honor at Queenstown Heights. However ...
The sweeping successes attained by my armies are not the product of chance, or of Austrian weakness, but represent the applicati ...
Semyon Budenny died in Moscow on 17 October He was one of the last of the original marshals of the Soviet Union, and although h ...
on half-pay. Buller never recovered from the scandal, and he retired to his home in Devon, where he died on 2 June 1908 at the a ...
gland, where he was harshly criticized for the disastrous campaign. In his final years, he spent much of his time writing more p ...
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Caesar, Julius Gaius (ca. 100/102–44 b.c.) Roman statesman and general Julius Caesar was not just a leader of Rome: He was a ...
Seeking to secure his strength amongst the Gal- lic population, Caesar then marched against the tribal leader Ariovistus, chief ...
ing two leading Roman senators, Cassius Longinus and Marcus Brutus. In February 44 b.c., the Roman Senate, bowing to Caesar’s st ...
name forward not as Macliver but as Campbell. He was known as Campbell for the rest of his life. Starting as an ensign in the 9t ...
operations that ended the Indian Mutiny and brought peace to northern India. In May 1858, he was promoted to general, and two mo ...
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