World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary

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Montcalm de Saint-Véran
in 228
Rodney in 292
Saxe in 310
War of the Grand Alliance 33–34,
37, 109, 297
War of the Polish Succession 37, 310
War of the Roses 256, 260–261,
286–287, 345
War of the Spanish Succession
battles of
Barcelona 37
Blenheim 66, 109
Malplaquet 66
Oudenaarde 66
Ramillies 66
Schellenberg 66
Berwick in 37
Churchill in 66
Eugène in 109–110
Rooke in 297–298
Vernon in 339
Warsaw, prince of. See Paskevich,
Ivan Fedorovich
Warwick, Richard Neville, earl of
260–261, 286, 344–345
Washington, D.C. 95
Washington, George 76, 125, 132,
191, 340, 346, 346–349
Washington, Lawrence 346–347
Waterloo, battle of 243, 251, 260,
280, 351
Wedmore, Peace of 13
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, first
duke of 34, 35, 42, 213, 243,
280, 349–352
Wesley, Arthur. See Wellington, Ar-
thur Wellesley, first duke of
Wessex (Britain) 13
West Indies
British forces in
under Abercromby 2
Boscawen in 43
Hood in 155
Moore in 235
Nelson in 246, 247
Penn in 268
Vernon in 339
Drake in 91
English forces in 34
Farragut in 113
Hawkins in 149
Rupert in 300
Wet, Christiaan Rudolf de
352–353
White Mountain, battle of 329
William I (the Conqueror) 145–
146, 353–354


William III 17, 37, 65–66
William IV 246
Williamite War 37
William of Orange 175
Williamsburg, battle of 141, 156
Winceby, battle of 111
Winchester, battle of 318
Wisniowiecki, Michael 173
Wissembourg, battle of 209
Wolfe, James 44, 229, 355–356
Wolseley, Sir Garnet, first viscount
53
Woodville family 286–287, 345
Worcester, battle of 193
Worcester, earl of. See Tiptoft, John,
earl of Worcester
World War I
Allenby in 14–15
Australia in 223
Austria in 51, 305
battles of
Aisne the 254
Amiens 153
Dogger Bank 32
Gallipoli 38–39, 115, 141,
223, 321
Gorlice 164
Hamel 223
Heligoland Bight 31–32
Jutland 32, 170, 311–312
Le Câteau 121
Marne the 116–117, 172,
220
Masurian Lakes 283
Messines Ridge 275–276
Somme the 39, 116–117,
138
Tannenberg 152, 283, 305
Verdun 138, 153, 172, 254,
271
Ypres, first 116–117,
137–138
Ypres, second 275
Ypres, third 39
Beatty in 31–32
Brauchitsch in 48
Britain in 31–32, 137–138,
141, 170–171, 182–183,
275–276
Brusilov in 51
Brusilov Offense in 51
Clark in 68–69
Dardanelles campaign 38–39
Denikin in 87–88
Fisher in 115
Foch in 116–117
France in 116–117, 171–172,
253–254, 271

French (Sir John) in 120–121
Germany in 32, 121, 152–153,
164, 311
Haig in 137–138
Hamilton in 141
Hindenberg in 152–153
Ivanov in 164
Jellicoe in 170–171
Joffre in 171–172
Kerensky Offensive in 52
Kitchener in 182–183
Kuropatkin in 186
MacArthur in 205
Middle East in 14–15
Moltke (Helmuth Johannes
Ludwig) in 219–220
Monash in 223
Montgomery in 231
Nimitz in 252
Nivelle in 253–254
Patton in 264
Pershing in 270
Pétain in 271
Plumer in 275–276
Rennenkampf in 283
Ridgway in 287
Roberts in 291
Rokossovsky in 294–295
Rommel in 295–296
Russia in 51, 87–88, 152,
153, 164, 182–183, 186,
304–305
Samsonov in 304–305
Scheer in 311
Slim in 321
United States in 68–69, 205,
264, 270, 287
World War II
Alexander in 10–11
battles of
El Alamein 233, 296
Bulge, the 265
Coral Sea 252
Guadalcanal 360
Java Sea 360
Leyte Gulf 139, 206
Medinine 296
Midway 139, 252, 360
Monte Cassino 70
Okinawa 139
Rome 70
Stalingrad, siege of 294
Bradley in 47
Brauchitsch in 48
Britain in 233
Budenny in 52
Burma in 322
Clark in 69–70

Eisenhower in 103–105
Germany in 183–184, 266–
267, 296–297
Giap in 127
Italy in 10, 69–70, 233
Japan in 205–206, 252–253,
322, 359–360
Kluge in 183–184
MacArthur in 205–206
Montgomery in 233
Moscow in 48, 364
Nimitz in 252–253
Normandy invasion 47,
103–104, 233, 264–265,
287–288, 296
North Africa in 10, 47, 69,
103, 233, 296
Patton in 264–265
Paulus in 266–267
Pearl Harbor, attack on 360
Pétain in 271–272
Ridgway in 287–289
Rommel in 296–297
Sicily in 233, 264, 287
Slim in 322
Soviet Union in 52, 294–295,
364
United States in 69–70, 103–
105, 139, 264–265
Vietnam and 127
Yamamoto in 359–360
Zhukov in 364
Wörth, battle of 209
x
Xerxes 357–358
Y
Yamamoto, Isoroku 359–361
Yarmuk, battle of 180–181
Yaroslavich, Aleksandr. See Nevsky,
Alexander
Ynys Môn (Wales) 6
Yom Kippur War 85
York, duke of 2
Yorktown, surrender at 71, 76, 133,
191, 192, 201–202
Ypres, first battle of 116–117, 121,
137–138
Ypres, second battle of 121, 275
Ypres, third battle of 39
Z
Zama, battle of 144, 315
Zapoli, Peace of 163
Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich
363–365, 364
Zusmarchausen, battle of 337
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