Hood in 155
Howe in 159–160
Jones in 176
Lafayette in 191–192
Lincoln in 201–202
Marion in 211–212
Nelson in 246
Philadelphia in 348
Rodney in 293
Washington in 347–348
Yorktown, surrender at 76, 191
Clinton and 71
Greene and 133
Lafayette and 192
Lincoln and 201–202
Amherst, Jeffrey, Baron Amherst of
Montreal 17–18, 44
Amiens, battle of 153
Amiens, Peace of 248
Anarchy, the 67
Anastasius 328
Anglo-Dutch Wars
battles of
Dover 336
Dungeness 41
Gabbard 336
Leghorn 333
Orfordness 333
Portland 41
Scheveningen 225
Sole Bay 65
Terheijde 336
Blake in 40–41
Monck in 225
Penn in 267, 268
Rooke in 297
Tromp (Cornelis) in 333–334
Tromp (Maarten) in 40–41,
336
Anglo-Mysore Wars 28, 75, 76,
349–350
Anglo-Spanish War 91–92. See also
Spanish Armada, defeat of
Angora, battle of 331
Annandale, Lord. See Robert the
Bruce
Anne (queen of England) 66
Anson, George, Baron Anson of
Soberton 18–20, 43–44
Antietam, battle of 156, 197
Antigonus Monophthalmus 13
Antiochus 315
Antony, Mark 7, 8, 20–21, 24–25
Appomattox Court House 131, 197
Aquitaine 63–64
Arbela, battle of 12
Arcadian League 106
Arcadius (Eastern Roman em-
peror) 8
Arcola, battle of 23–24
Arcot, capture of 71–72
Ariamnes 78
Arlington National Cemetery 197
Armenia 16, 21, 30
armies, qualities of xvi
Arsuf, battle of 304
Ashdod 309
Ashkelon 245
Asia Minor 12, 144
Aspern-Esseling, battle of 195,
213, 243
Assandun, battle of 96
Assaye, battle of 350
Assyria 245, 308–309
Astley, Jacob, Baron Astley 21–22
Astrakhan 163
Athenian military 218–219,
273–274
Athens, sacking of 357
Atlanta, Georgia 320–321
Attalus 8–9
Attila the Hun 5, 22, 22–23
Auerstädt, battle of 83, 251. See also
Jena, battle of
Augereau, Pierre-François-Charles,
duc de Castiglione 23–24
Augustus 6, 7, 8, 20–21, 24–26
Augustus II the Strong 61–62,
310
Augustus III 310
Austerlitz, battle of 27–28, 35, 83,
187–188, 194, 237, 242
Australia 38–39
Australian army 223–224
Austrasia 63–64
Austria
in French Revolution 62
v. Hungary 263
military of
Albert (archduke) in 9
Charles (archduke) in 62–63
Eugène in 109
Radetzky in 279–280
reform of 62–63
Murat and 237
Napoleon’s invasion of 27–28,
242
in Silesian Wars 120
in World War I 51, 305
Austro-Prussian War 221–222
Austro-Turkish War 109, 110
B
Babylon 80, 308, 309, 357
Babylonian Empire 245–246
Badajoz, battle of 350
Bad Axe River, battle of 316, 325
Baghdad (Iraq) 1–2, 119
Bagration, Prince Pyotr Ivanovich
27–28, 187
Baird, Sir David 28–29, 350
Balaklava, battle of 60, 202–203,
281
Balkans 12Balliol, Edward de 100
Balliol, John of 97–98
Baltic 134, 163
Bandar Abbas (Iran) 1
Bank War 167
Bannockburn, battle of 99,
291–292
Bantry Bay, battle of 297
barbarian tribes 4–5. See also specific
tribes
Barbon, Nicholas 41
Barcelona, battle of 37
Barclay de Tolly, Mikhail Bogda-
novich 29
Barebones Parliament 41, 79
Barons’ War 97, 230
Barron, James 86–87
Basil II 29–30
Battle Abbey 146, 354
Bayeaux Tapestry 146, 354
Bay of Biscay, battle of 147
Bazaine, François-Achille 30–31
Beatty, David, first earl Beatty,
Viscount Borodale of Wexford,
Baron Beatty of the North Sea
and of Brooksby 31–32, 170,
311
Beauregard, Pierre 319
Bedford, duke of. See Russell, John,
duke of Bedford
Beersheba 15
Begin, Menachem 85
Beirut 15
Belgrade, siege of 161
Belisarius 32–33, 244
Bemis Heights, battle of 54, 201
Benbow, John 33–34
Beresford, William Carr, Viscount
Beresford 34–35
Berezina River, battle of 251
Bernadotte, Jean-Baptiste-Jules,
prince de Pontecorvo 35–36
Berwick, James Fitzjames, first duke
of 26–38, 310
Bessus 12
Bibracte, battle of 57
Biderra, battle of 72–73
Bílá Hora, battle of 329
Bingham, George Charles. See
Lucan, George Charles Bingham,
third earl of
bin Laden, Osama 117–118
biological warfare 18
Birdwood, Sir William Riddell,
Baron Birdwood of Anzac and
Totnes 38, 38–40
Bishops’ Wars
Astley in 21–22
Fairfax in 111
Holland (earl of ) and 154
Hopton in 157
Leslie (Alexander) in 198Monck in 224
Montrose in 234
Bismarck, Otto von 222
Bithynia 144
Black Death. See plague
Black Hawk War 316, 325
Black Hole of Calcutta 72
Blake, Robert 40–41, 300, 336
Blenheim, battle of 66, 109
Blenheim Palace 66, 67
Bloemfontaine, battle of 352
Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von
41–43
Boadicea. See Boudicca
Boer Wars
battles of
Bloemfontaine 352
Ladysmith 53, 137, 352
Rooiwal train station 352
Sannapos 352
Buller in 53
French (Sir John) in 120
Haig in 137
Hamilton in 140–141
Kitchener in 182
Plumer in 274
Roberts in 290
Wet in 352–353
Boethius 328
Bonduca. See Boudicca
Bonifacius, Count 5, 123
Borodale of Wexford, Viscount. See
Beatty, David, first earl Beatty,
Viscount Borodale of Wexford,
Baron Beatty of the North Sea
and of Brooksby
Borodino, battle of 28, 29, 188, 243
Boroughbridge, battle of 99
Boscawen, Edward 43–45
Boshin War 255
Bosworth, Baron. See Berwick,
James Fitzjames, first duke of
Bosworth, battle of 256, 287
Botha, Louis 353
Boudicca 45–46
Bouvines, battle of 272
Boxer Rebellion 169, 283, 332
Boyne, Battle of the 37
Braddock, Edward 46–47, 347
Bradford, battle of 111
Bradley, Omar Nelson 47–48,
264–265
Bragg, Braxton 298–299, 319
Brandywine, battle of 191, 348
Brauchitsch, Heinrich Alfred Her-
mann Walther von 48–49
Breitenfeld, battle of 329
Brereton, Sir William 49
Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of 153
Britain. See also England; Scotland;
Wales
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