World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary

403

A
Abbas I 1–2
Abensberg, battle of 195
Abercromby, Sir Ralph 2–3, 235
Aboukir (Egypt) 3, 237, 247
Abrantes, duc de. See Junot,
Jean-Andoche Alexandre, duc
d’Abrantes
Abu Bakr 180
Abu Simbel, Great Temple of 282
Acre, siege of 97, 284
Actium, battle of 7, 8, 21, 25
Adams, John Quincy 167
Adrianople, battle of xv
Adwalton Moor, battle of 111
Ælfred. See Alfred the Great
Æthelstan 3–4
Aetius, Flavius 4–5
Afghanistan xv–xvi, 118–119, 290
Afghan Wars 290
Africa, British forces in 181–182,
322
African-American soldiers, under
Pershing 271
Agincourt, battle of 151
Agricola (Tacitus) 6
Agricola, Gnaeus Julius 6
Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius 6–7,
7, 21, 25
Ahasuerus. See Xerxes
Ahenobarbus, Cnaeus Domitius
7–8
Ahmed II 1

Aisne, battle of the 254

El Alamein, battle of 233, 296

Alamo, battle of 306

Alaric I 8–9

Alba, duke of. See Alva, Fernando

Alvarez de Toledo, duke of

Albemarle, duke of. See Monck,

George, duke of Albemarle

Albert, archduke of Austria 9–10

Albret, Charles d’ 151

Albufera, duc de. See Suchet,

Louis-Gabriel, duc d’Albufera da

Valencia

Aleppo, battle of 331

Alexander, Sir Harold Rupert Leo-

fric George, first earl Alexander

of Tunis 10–11

Alexander Aegus 13

Alexander Fornese, duke of Parma

and Piacenza. See Farnese, Al-

exander

Alexander the Great (Alexander III)

11, 11–13, 274

Alexandria (Egypt) 3

Alfred the Great 13–14

Algeria 209

Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman,

first viscount Allenby of Megiddo

14–16, 15

Alma, battle of 60, 280–281

Almeida, battle of 350

Alp-Arslan Mohammed Ibn Da’ud

16–17

Alton, battle of 343

Alushta, battle of 187

Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo,

duke of 16–17

American Civil War

Atlanta, Georgia, in 320–321

battles of

Antietam 156, 197

Cedar Creek 318–319

Chancellorsville 141, 156,

169, 197

Chickamauga Creek

298–299

Chickasaw Bluffs 320

Cold Harbor 142

Fredericksburg 141, 169

Gettysburg 142, 197

Kernstown 168

Perryville 318

Rich Mountain 216

Seven Pines 196–197

Shiloh 131

Spotsylvania 142

Stones River 298

Williamsburg 141, 156

Winchester 318

Bull Run, battles of 95, 168,

196

Dewey in 89

Early in 95–96

Farragut in 113–114

Grant in 129–131

Hancock in 141–142

Hooker in 156

Jackson (Thomas) in 168

Lee in 195–197

McClellan in 216–217

Mobile in 113–114

New Orleans in 113

Richmond, Virginia, in 168,

196–197

Rosecrans in 298–299

Scott in 317

Seven Days Battles 168

Shenandoah Valley in 318–319

Sheridan in 318–319

Sherman in 320–321

Vicksburg in 113, 131

American Revolution

battles of

Bemis Heights 54, 201

Brandywine 191, 348

Bunker Hill, Battle of 54

Cowpens 132

Eutaw Springs 133, 212

Green Springs 191–192

Long Island 348

Savannah, siege of 211–212

Trenton 348

Burgoyne in 54

Charleston in 212

Clinton in 70–71

Cornwallis in 76, 191

France in 191, 348

Gates in 124–125

Georgetown, South Carolina,

in 212

Greene in 132–133

guerrilla warfare in 212

Index

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