World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary

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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

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