412 index
Rosecrans, William Starke 298–299
Roundway Down, battle of 158,
343
Rudolf II (Holy Roman Emperor)
328–329
Rumsfeld, Donald 118
Rupert, Prince 299–301
Astley and 22
Blake and 40
Cromwell and 79
in English Civil War 22, 40,
79, 250
Newcastle and 250
Russell, John, duke of Bedford 19
Russia. See also Soviet Union
in Crimean War 280
in Great Northern War 61–62
under Ivan IV 163–164
Mongols and 249
in Napoleonic Wars 27–28,
29, 187–188, 242, 243,
251, 260
Saxe in 310
Swedish alliance with 36
in World War I 51, 87–88,
152, 153, 164, 182–183,
186, 304–305
Russian army
Bagration in 27–28
Barclay de Tolly in 29
Brusilov in 51–52
Budenny in 52
Denikin in 87–89
Ivanov in 164
Kuropatkin in 185–186
Kutuzov in 187–189
Paskevich in 263–264
Rennenkampf in 283
Samsonov in 304–305
Zhukov in 363
Russian navy 177, 210–211
Russian Revolution (1917)
Brusilov in 52
Denikin and 88
Germans in 153
Ivanov in 164
Rennenkampf in 283
Tsaritsyn, battle of 363
Zhukov in 363
Russo-Finnish War 364
Russo-Japanese War
battles of
Liaoyang 186
Mukden 186, 255, 283
Tsushima 180, 332
Vladivostok 179–180
Hamilton and 141
Kamimura in 179–180
Kuropatkin in 185–186
Makharoff in 210–211
Nogi in 255
Port Arthur in 332
Rennenkampf in 283
Togo in 332
Yamamoto in 359
Russo-Persian War 263
Russo-Polish War 27, 29, 52
Russo-Turkish Wars
Bagration in 27
Barclay de Tolly in 29
Brusilov in 51
Kuropatkin in 185
Kutuzov in 187, 188
Makharoff in 210
Paskevich in 263
Ruyter, Michiel de 333
Rye House Plot 226
S
Saddanids 33
Saguntum 143
Saint Alexander. See Nevsky, Al-
exander
St. Privat, battle of 30
Saints, Battle of the 155, 293
Saladin 256, 284, 303–304
Salamanca, battle of 350–351
Salamis, battle of 357
Samarkand 330, 331
Samsonov, Alexander Vasilyevich
152, 283, 304–305
samurai 254–255
Sandwich, earl of 19
San Jacinto River, battle of 306
Sannapos, battle of 352
San Sebastian, battle of 351
Santa Anna, Antonio López de
305–308, 306, 327
Saratoga, New York 54
Sargon II 308–309
Sarmatia 328
Savannah, siege of 211–212
Savoie-Carignan, prince de. See
Eugène, prince de Savoie-Cari-
gnan
Saxe, Hermann Maurice, comte de
309–311
Scheer, Reinhard 311–312
Schellenberg, battle of 66
Scheveningen, battle of 225
Schleswig-Holstein 221
Schlieffen Plan 219–220
Schmalkaldic League 16–17
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman 312–
314, 313
Scipio Africanus 143, 144,
314–315
Scotland
Æthestan in 3–4
Agricola in 6
in English Civil War 193, 225,
234–235
under Macbeth 207–208
military of 198–199under Robert the Bruce
291–292
Scott, Winfield 216, 315–318,
326–327
Scottish Wars of Independence
97–98, 99, 100, 102, 291–292,
341–342
“Scourge of God, The” 23
Scythians 82, 218
Sebastopol, siege of 208–209, 281
Second Triumvirate 20–21, 24–25
Second Triumvirate, War of 6–7
Sedan, battle of 31, 209, 222
Sedgemoor, battle of 227
Seleucus Nicator 13
Seljuk dynasty 16
Selkirk, earl of. See Douglas,
Thomas, earl of Selkirk
Seminole Wars 319, 325–326
Sempronius, Tiberius Gracchus. See
Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius
September 11, 2001, attacks
117–118
Seringapatam, first battle of 28
Seringapatam, second battle of 28,
349–350
Seven Days Battles 168
Seven Pines, battle of 196–197
Seven Weeks’ War. See Austro-Prus-
sian War
Seven Years’ War. See also French
and Indian War
battles of
Lagos 44
Minorca 147
Quiberon Bay 147–148, 159
Boscawen in 44
Burgoyne in 54
Clinton in 70
Cornwallis in 76
Hawke in 147
Hood in 155
Howe in 159
Rodney in 293
Shalmaneser IV 308–309
Sharru-kin. See Sargon II
Shawar 303
Shays’s Rebellion 202
Shenandoah Valley 318–319
Sheridan, Philip Henry 318–319
Sherley, Sir Anthony 2
Sherley, Sir Robert 2
Sherman, William Tecumseh 156,
319–321, 320
Shiloh, battle of 131
Shirkuh, Adas ad-Din 303
Sicily 233, 264, 287
Sigisimund (Holy Roman Em-
peror) 160
Sihtric of York 3
Sikh Wars 60
Siler River, battle of 77Silesian Wars 120
Silistra, siege of 263
Sinai War 84
Sind 240
Sino-Japanese Wars 179, 255,
331–332
Siraj-ud-Dawlah 72
Siward, earl of Northumbria 208
Six-Day War 85
slavery 196, 317, 327. See also
American Civil War
slave trade 148
Slayer of the Bulgars. See Basil II
Slim, William Joseph, viscount
Slim 321–323
Sluis, battle of 100, 273
smallpox 18
Smolensk, battle of 29
Sobieski, John. See John III Sobieski
Sole Bay, battle of 65
Solomon Islands 139
Somme, battle of the 39, 116–117,
138
South Africa. See Boer Wars
South America 19
Soviet army 52, 294–295, 363–365
Soviet Union. See also Russia
Denikin and 88–89
German invasion of 52, 364
in World War II 52, 294–295,
364
German invasion of 48, 52,
266, 364
Spain. See also Anglo-Spanish War
Bazaine in 31
Beresford in 34
Carthaginian campaign in 140,
142–143
Condé in 74
Drake and 91
French army in 24
John of Austria and 174–175
Pompey in 276
in Punic Wars 143
South American possessions
of 19
Spanish-American War 90,
269–270
Spanish Armada, defeat of 92,
148–149, 158–159
Spanish Netherlands 175, 214–215
Sparta 106
Spartacus 77, 276
Spartan League 106
spoils system 167
Spotsylvania, battle of 142
Stalin, Joseph 294, 364, 365
Stalingrad, siege of 266–267, 294
Stamford Bridge, battle of 145–
146, 354
Stanislaus I 310
Stephen (king of England) 67