World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary
were driven out in disorder, having lost 10,000 in the trenches, while many more fell in the fight. The Swedes lost 600 only.” F ...
French under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan at Fleurus (26 June 1793). The French defeat of Austria led to Charles being named co ...
palace by the Austrasian nobles who were looking for a military leader to counter the Neustrian advance. In 716, the Neustrians, ...
In the last four years of his life, Charles encour- aged the spread of Christianity and made Boniface archbishop of Germany east ...
created earl of Marlborough. From 1689 to 1691, he commanded a series of minor military expeditions in Flanders, Belgium, and Ir ...
With the rise of the Tories to power, Marlborough was accused of embezzling money to finish his estate home at Blenheim. In fact ...
II. Probably because of Gilbert de Clare’s support for Stephen, Henry refused to confirm Richard’s right to his father’s lands a ...
first day in France and did not see any further combat in that conflict. During the years between the two world wars, Clark serv ...
Italian peninsula was bitterly contested at every river crossing and mountain pass by an enemy intent on hold- ing the allies so ...
Howe and his forces became pinned down in Bos- ton when the colonists, under George Washington, seized the heights at Dorchester ...
Clive, with a force of 200 Europeans and 300 Se- poys... The garrison, 1,100 strong, offered no resistance, but marched out on C ...
where he avenged the Dutch massacre of British forces at Amboyna; it was at this clash that he wrote his famed message to one of ...
ruled by Cardinal Mazarin, who had succeeded Cardinal Richelieu. Mazarin’s autocratic government on behalf of the young king had ...
who took no part in the action. After severe fighting Lally was defeated with a loss of 600 [French] besides Indians, the Britis ...
to Turin, Italy, where he attended a military academy. Thereafter, he served in Germany during the Seven Years’ War (1756–63), r ...
strife between Protestants and Roman Catholics; and, again, as governor-general of India (1805). He also aided in finalizing the ...
Publius Clodius, while Crassus was a member of the group who opposed Clodius. Caesar returned to Gaul, where he served as govern ...
of York, where he was besieged first by Fairfax and Lord Leven (commanding a Scottish force), then by Cromwell. The Royalist Pri ...
ary 1658. However, following this move, his health de- clined, and he died suddenly on 3 September 1658. Cromwell was buried in ...
Darius I (Darius the Great, Darivaush, Darius Hystaspis) (ca. 550–486 b.c.) king of Persia Also called Darivaush or Darius Hy ...
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