World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary
Kingdom itself was greatly enfeebled by the loss of honour, of reputation, and power: and it should be noted that if the English ...
Knights and Warhorses: Military Service and the English Ar- istocracy under Edward III (Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell Press ...
the chief planner for the entire operation, and its suc- cess has helped to make him one of the most important military commande ...
across the Rhine River and capture western Germany was successful, and Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945. From July to November ...
born about 418 or 415 b.c. at Thebes, now in Greece, the son of Polymnis, and educated by Lysis of Taren- tum, a Pythagorean phi ...
for a special exemption to allow his father’s title to be handed down to him, making him the third earl of Essex in 1604. Follow ...
cut off. The earl of Warwick attempted a sea rescue, but Royalist forces at Polruan Castle headed this off. His- torian George B ...
military ambitions. When Louis rejected him as an of- ficer, Eugène left France in 1683 and offered his services to Emperor Leop ...
Eugène was sent back to Italy, where he lost at Cas- sano (16 August 1705) but won a major victory against the French at Turin ( ...
Fairfax, Sir Thomas, third baron Fairfax, Baron Fairfax of Cameron (1612–1671) English general The son of Ferdinando Fairfax ...
resolution and valour.” At Helmsley Castle (September 1644), Fairfax was seriously wounded but recovered. In February 1645, Fair ...
and Farragut saw action at the age of 11. In 1813, he was given command of a British prize and ordered to sail her to Valparaiso ...
he knew the Confederates were building a massive iron- clad ram ship there whose armor would make her almost invulnerable to the ...
On 21 October 1904 he became First Sea Lord as operational head of the navy. He brought in reforms and modernized a navy that in ...
in Ireland. In 1659, after Cromwell’s death, he was named commander in chief of the army. When Charles II, son of the executed K ...
of pursuing a vigorous offensive under all circumstances was largely responsible for the grievous casualties suf- fered by the F ...
cal Osama bin Laden, took control of four American aircraft and plunged two of them into the World Trade Center buildings comple ...
cism and went on with his work, trying not to make the same mistakes that had bogged down Soviet forces in Afghanistan for nearl ...
Realizing his father was inexorable, Frederick re- sumed his military training and civic duties and, at his father’s direction, ...
1914), British forces repelled the Germans, but the French had begun to withdraw from the area, and there- fore the British were ...
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