World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary
Hancock’s most important campaign was at Gettys- burg (1–3 July 1863). On the first day of the battle, after the left flank of t ...
a military commander. Hamilcar’s brother-in-law, Has- drubal, became the Carthage forces’ commander, but he was murdered in 222 ...
sic example of envelopment and the use of numerically inferior forces to defeat a superior army. Despite his numerous victories, ...
F., Hannibal’s War (Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips, Ltd., 1978). Harold II (Harold Godwinsson) (ca. 1020–1066) king of ...
While Stamford Bridge was a great victory for Har- old and the Anglo-Saxons, the battle had badly depleted his forces and materi ...
King 1066 (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966); Greene, Parnell, On the Banks of the Dee: A Legend of Chester Concerning ...
the enemy would dare follow, in spite of his superiority which must anyway restrict his movements.” Quiberon Bay was a landmark ...
ond baron Howard of Effingham, Hawkins served as a rear admiral during the battle. For his service against the Spanish Armada, H ...
Henry V, engraving by P. Vanderbanck 0 henRy v ...
In the summer of 1415, Henry, with a force of ap- proximately 10,000 men, landed his fleet in northern France with his first goa ...
the Red Eagle. Hindenburg saw additional action in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), winning the Prussian Iron Cross for braver ...
denburg to keep the forces he had, Falkenhayn stripped him of divisions and moved them to the west. Falken- hayn’s offensive at ...
Holland, Henry Rich, first earl of (first baron Kensington) (1590–1649) English military commander Born in 1590, Henry Holland w ...
drop shed in that action I was engaged in.” His king, Charles, had suffered the same death by beheading on 30 January 1649. Refe ...
1794, and his dismissal in 1795 robbed him of a better opportunity—his friend and successor, Lord Hotham, commanded the Mediterr ...
References: Hebert, Walter H., Fighting Joe Hooker (In- dianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1944); Bruce, George, “Bull Run II,” in Colli ...
Royalist cause. On 5 July 1643, he won a major triumph over his old friend, Sir William Waller, at Lansdown. The following day, ...
remainder sailed before a storm up the North Sea and around Scotland before the sad remnants arrived back in Spain. For the rema ...
ers met with a committee appointed by the Continental Congress, but they were unable to reach a resolution. In 1777, when his br ...
occupied Serbia. King Albert II had made Hunyadi the bán (military governor) of Szörény, a Hungarian prov- ince, in 1438. When A ...
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