wordnet_commissioned_officer_109942970


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Hans HerzogThe first complete mobilization, under the command of, was triggered by the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. In 1875, the army was ...
Rear Admiral RadfordLaterhonored a request from O'Hare to take a fighter as command aircraft instea ...
Sir Thomas Seymour... eens. It was here that she became acquainted with her future fourth husband. The atmosphere of the court was much different from the rural and paroch ...
General BraddockThe city served as a major crossroads from colonial times. Britishmarched west through Frederick on the way to the fateful ambush near Fort ...
Lewis Pelly... and the Qatari counterattack, prompted the British political agent, Colonel, to impose a settlement in 1868. His mission to Bahrain and Qatar and the ...
Guillaume Philibert Duhesme... during the Napoleonic Wars, Catalonia was occupied by the troops of General. The official Spanish army had evaporated, but popular resistance against ...
Alexander Haig... mes Schlesinger, CIA Director William Colby, and White House Chief of Staff. The Watergate scandal had reached its apex, and Nixon was so agitated an ...
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh... ysis represented a key means of identifying the bodies. A blood sample from(a grandson of Alexandra's oldest sister, Princess Victoria of Hesse and b ...
Fidel V. Ramos... Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and AFP vice-chief of staff Lt. Generaltook a stand against Marcos, ushering in the bloodless People Power Revolu ...
Winston Churchill... after speaker in the House of Commons expressed outrage. Ex-Prime Minister, a prominent and enthusiastic supporter of Zionism, criticized the attack ...
Belisarius... h a rebellion. As a result, the armies of the Byzantine Empire commanded bywere able to land unopposed from Carthage. Gelimer quickly assembled an ar ...
Patrick Tonyn... when he returned to Britain due to illness. He was replaced as governor by
Xenophon... eir internal affairs. The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of, Thucydides, Herodotus and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch ...
Benito Mussolini... ainly because of the Manifesto of Race promulgated by the fascist regime ofin order to bring Italian Fascism ideologically closer to German Nazism. T ...
Koxinga... by the Kingdom of Tungning government founded by Ming Dynasty loyalists ofin 1662. Zheng Jing, the son of Koxinga, renamed the village Wannian Zhou ...
William H. Emory... 1851 Army officer and geographer Lt. Nathaniel Michler, working under Major, mapped this portion of the boundary between Mexico and the United States ...
Marshall S. Carter... ur of learning that the Liberty had been torpedoed the director of NSA, LTG, sent a message to all intercept sites requesting a special search of all ...
Amuro Ray... red at least one Gundam series and characters. Some series come and go, but, often in his RX-93 "ν Gundam", is a regular character and has actually n ...
Heinz LammerdingBy 1958, all of the German defendants had been released as well. Generalof the Das Reich division, who had given the orders for the measures again ...
Ariel Sharon... f 50 tanks by the Israeli 143rd Armoured Division, which was led by General, who had been reinstated as a division commander at the outset of the war ...
M. Jeff ThompsonSt. Joseph Mayor, William H. Russell and Alexander Majors gave speeches before the mochila ...
Michael Collins... of the secretive Irish Republican Brotherhood and IRA Chief of Intelligencehad operated a clandestine "Squad" of IRA members in Dublin (a.k.a. "The T ...
Michael Collins... ts on the morning of 21 November were an effort by the IRA in Dublin, underand Richard Mulcahy to wipe out the British intelligence organisation in t ...
Shen Kuo... uncing special times of the day. There was also the scientist and statesman(1031–1095). Being the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, Shen Kuo ...
George S. PattonOn December 9, 1945, US Army Generalhad a car accident in the adjacent city of Mannheim, and died in the Heide ...
Commanding General... l valor was proposed by Iowa Senator James W. Grimes to Winfield Scott, theof the United States Army. Scott did not approve the proposal, but the med ...
Winston Churchill... he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the prime minister. He meton several occasions when asked for updates on incoming calls and once was ...
Muhammad Ali... d in Zaire as part of the buildup to The Rumble in the Jungle fight betweenand George Foreman. Admirers of Brown's music, including Miles Davis and o ...
William Mahone... onflict through an elaborate ruse orchestrated by civilian railroad builder(soon to become a famous Confederate officer). The Union forces withdrew t ...
Alexander the Great... t family was named Psittacus alexandri, meaning "Alexander's parrot", afterwhose armies introduced eastern parakeets to Greece. Linnaeus' trivial nam ...
Balcha Safo... n 1928, the authority of Ras Tafari Makonnen was challenged when Dejazmatchwent to Addis Ababa with a sizeable armed force. When Tafari consolidated ...
Bob Hope... ny to award the Special Juvenile Award. Playfully dubbed the "Oscarette" byin 1945, the statuette itself was a miniaturized Oscar, depicting an Art D ...
Theodoros Kolokotronis... as in open revolt against the Ottomans and by October 1821 the Greeks underhad captured Tripolitsa. The Peloponnesian revolt was quickly followed by ...
Dwight Eisenhower... ioned endlessly for an exemption which had finally been approved by General. However Saint-Exupéry had been suffering pain and immobility due to his ...
Ursel de Baieul... gent of the Cuman Turks as well as contingents of Franks and Normans, under, into Armenia
Zheng Jing... f Tungning government founded by Ming Dynasty loyalists of Koxinga in 1662., the son of Koxinga, renamed the village Wannian Zhou in 1664. The name w ...
King Edward VII... ctoria died, and May's father-in-law, Albert Edward, ascended the throne as. For most of the rest of that year, George and May were styled TRH The Du ...
Jean Lapierre... hartrand, and François Gérin, along with two Liberals, Gilles Rocheleau and. The first Bloquiste candidate to be elected was Gilles Duceppe, then a u ...
Julius Caesar... of his successor Augustus. Quintilis was renamed Iulius (July) in honour ofin 44 BC and Sextilis was renamed Augustus (August) in honour of Augustus ...
El Supremo... rigate HMS Lydia round the Horn to the Pacific, where he supports a madman,, in his rebellion against the Spanish. He captures the Natividad, a much ...
Earl Mountbatten of Burma... ectors' Awards at the Dorchester Hotel in London. Presenting the awards was; an award had just gone to Barry Took and Marty Feldman (writers of Round ...
Francisco Franco... Seville in Spain. During his papacy, he purported to canonize Generalissimoand Christopher Columbus as saints. According to his supporters, Pope Greg ...
Rick Hillier... March 2006, in response to a request by Chief of the Defence Staff, General, its commitment to open a franchised location at the Canadian Forces oper ...
Pervez Musharraf... ge number of Pakistani students to study in Turkish universities. Presidentstudied in Turkey and spoke Turkish fluently
Francisco Menendez (creole)... British. The leader of Fort Mose during the battle was the legendary Capt., who was born in Africa, twice escaped from slavery, and played an import ...
Henry Rawlinson... arose between Sir Douglas Haig and his senior local commander, General Sir, General Officer Commanding the British Fourth Army. Haig ordered that th ...
George H. SteuartKinzie's granddaughter, Maria Kinzie, married, a captain in the US cavalry who went on to become a general in the Confe ...
Charles de Gaulle... beth, and in the French TV mini-series, Le Grand Charles, about the life of
Indiana JonesAlthough some sources speculate that Andrews was the inspiration for, neither George Lucas nor the other creators of the films have ever confi ...
King Alfonso XIII... tour was almost immediately followed by a trip to Spain for the wedding ofto Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, at which the bride and groom narrowly a ...
Nathanael Greene... y and Craighead counties. The county was named after Revolutionary War hero. The original county seat was in Benjamin Crowley's home. By 1836, when A ...
Benjamin BonnevilleIt was explored and mapped byin the 1830s, and first settled by Euro-Americans in the 1860s. The smalle ...
Aureolus... e Battle of Naissus. Later that year Gallienus traveled to Italy and fought, his former general and now usurper for the throne. Driving Aureolus back ...
George Washington... elphia in 1793. During his flight, Blanchard carried a personal letter fromto be delivered to the owner of whatever property Blanchard happened to la ...
William Richardson Davie... Corkle Place is the Davie Poplar tree under which the university's founder,, supposedly selected the location for the university. The legend of the D ...
Colin Powell... d on the island until Morocco, after mediation by the United States, led by, agreed to return to the status quo ante which existed prior to the Moroc ...
Archidamus... d an audacious night-time march on Sparta itself. However, the Spartan kingwas alerted to this move by an informant, probably a Cretan runner, and Ep ...
Heinrich Himmler... known as the "Saal-Schutz" (Hall-Protection). Later under the leadership ofbetween 1929 and 1945, the SS was renamed the "Schutz-Staffel" and grew fr ...
Julian Bashir... n "Devil in the Dark" (1967), saying, "I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer." Dr.(Alexander Siddig) from , The Doctor from and and Dr. Phlox from all use v ...
Oliver Cromwell... re not used. In an unprecedented gesture, one of the revolutionary leaders,, allowed the King's head to be sewn back onto his body so the family coul ...
Saladin... such as Virgil, Averroes, Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and, Avicenna has been recognized by both East and West, as one of the great ...
Epaminondas... At the battle of Leuctra (371 BC) he contributed greatly to the success of's new tactics by the rapidity with which he made the Sacred Band close wi ...
Admiral Isakov... skevich, where the Noragyugh neighborhood is located. The project will linkAvenue with Arshakunyats Avenue and will be fulfilled upon cooperation wit ...
Douglas MacArthurGeneral, the Army’s Chief of Staff, believed that the 1921 mobilization plan was ...
Wang Mang... acter long during the early Han and that rose beyond 98% after the usurpingbanned all two-character names outright. Although his Xin Dynasty was shor ...
Wesley Clark... w Dole had a heated exchange with Democratic presidential primary candidatein which Dole correctly predicted that Clark would lose the New Hampshire ...
Gaius Terentius Varro... ce derided the Cunctator, and at the elections of 216 BC elected as consulsand Lucius Aemilius Paullus, both of whom advocated pursuing a much more a ...
William Jervois... ther exploits or give him much in the way of financial reward. Governor Sirclaimed on 11 October 1881, 'I am informed that he gambles and that his ha ...
Chen Qingzhi... uffered major revolts in their northern garrison towns, he sent his generalto support the pretender Yuan Hao. Despite the fact that Chen was only giv ...
Xiang Yu... authority had collapsed in the face of rebellion. Two former rebel leaders,(d. 202 BCE) of Chu and Liu Bang (d. 195 BCE) of Han, engaged in a war to ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA). Privately, however, the CIA and Presidentwere aware of progress being made by the Soviets on Sputnik from secret sp ...
Robert F. Lopez... Kunitomo, a Japanese citizen, graduated from the academy. And then in 1879,was the first Hispanic-American to graduate from the academy
Alexander the Great... o the age of heroes, extending from Manuchehr's reign until the conquest of(Sekandar). The main feature of this period is the major role played by th ...
Alexander the GreatAdrian Veidt / Ozymandias: Drawing inspiration from, Veidt was once the superhero Ozymandias, but has since retired to devote ...
Arthur Balfour... nstitute. A new building was begun in 1895 and opened by the Prime Ministerin October 1902. On the site previously had been cheap crowded inner-city ...
Robert E. Lee... n sporting cologne), his serious work made him the trusted eyes and ears of's army and inspired Southern morale
Jonathan W. GreenertThe current Chief of Naval Operations is Admiral
Comte de Grasse... h. But on August 14, 1781, a communication was received from French Admiralin the West Indies, which caused Washington to change his strategy. De Gra ...
Winston Churchill... Roper and A. J. P. Taylor, he became a member of the editorial board of Sir's four volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
Duke of MarlboroughKing George also had a personal friendship with the Marlboroughs; thehad fought with him in the War of the Spanish Succession, and John and Sar ...
Wilhelm Bittrich... SS Panzer Corps (2 SS Das Reich and 3 SS Totenkopf), under the commanded of, along with ad hoc forces made up of garrison and anti-aircraft units. Vi ...
William Henry Harrison... cess of presidential succession had been known since the death of Presidentin 1841, but little progress had been made passing a constitutional amendm ...
Zach Taylor... inch (76 mm) rifled gun and was purchased for $155 on June 25, 1892, by thePost No. 42 of the Grand Army of the Republic
Williams Carter Wickham... t Transcontinental Railroad. He was recruited by former Confederate Generalto become a major investor and guiding light for a southern railroad. He h ...
King James II... y the 1689 English Declaration of Rights, which formally ended the reign of. During the American Revolution, Jefferson and other Americans looked to ...
George Washington... ildings are located; and Washington Street, which was named after President. The street-numbering system centers not on the Circle, but rather one bl ...
Theodore SchwanHolbrook served with General's Southern Expedition from January 3 to February 18, 1900, and was at the ...
Benedict Arnold... -copy," and "We started out with too much cargo / So I'm glad we got rid of, yo
Thucydides... al affairs. The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon,, Herodotus and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch was writing ...
Harry TurtledoveIn the alternate-history novel How Few Remain by, Stuart is the commanding Confederate general in charge of the occupation ...
Richard III of England... y ship coming to an English port had to bring four bowstaves for every tun.increased this to ten for every tun. This stimulated a vast network of ext ...
Joseph Holt... town was changed to Holtsville in 1860, in honor of U.S. Postmaster General. As of 1874, Holtsville consisted of 15 houses, a school, and a general s ...
Li Zongren... id promote conditions calling for Chiang's death. However, warlords such asand Yan Xishan who used to oppose Chiang, did not want Chiang to die. They ...
Franz Kutschera... ation of Poland (notable individuals assassinated by AK include Igo Sym and)
George Armstrong CusterCuster County was formed in 1877. It was named after General, who was killed at the
Tadeusz Kościuszko... area and in exile, were soon working on national insurrection preparations.was chosen as its leader; the popular general came from abroad and on Marc ...
Hou Jing... n and Western Wei, Emperor Wu granted asylum to rebel Eastern Wei commander, sending him on Northern Expeditions against Eastern Wei. After some init ...
Alexander the Great... wenty-seven years after his death, a recalcitrant Thebes was obliterated by. Thus Epaminondas—who had been praised in his time as an idealist and lib ...
Pliny the Elder... The properties of lodestones and their affinity for iron were written of byin his encyclopedia Naturalis Historia
Lysanderwas the Spartan who after the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BCE esta ...
Guillermo Rodríguez... rthrew the government of Velasco Ibarra. The coup d'état was led by Generaland executed by navy commander Jorge Queirolo G. The new president exiled ...
Gundobad... sted in religion, while the actual power was held by Ricimer and his nephew
William Henry Harrison... oint du Sable near the mouth of the Chicago River. That same year, Governorof the Indiana Territory appointed Kinzie as a justice of the peace
Duke of Halland... went on a private visit to Wuppertal, Germany; at the same time, H.R.H. thewas on a private visit to Sainte-Maxime, France. The Government therefore ...
Alexander the Great... not mentioned in the book written by Arrian of Nicomedia about campaigns ofbut he only mentions the Oman side of Maka which he calls "Maketa". The re ...
J.E.B. Stuart... ver. During the Gettysburg Campaign in June 1863, Confederate Major Generaland Union cavalry clashed in the battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Uppervi ...
Robert E. Lee... ecame a doctor, and served as a surgeon on the staff of Confederate generalduring the American Civil War. He was a pioneer in physical therapy. His m ...
Lord Warkworth#Lady Anne Stuart (born c. 1745), who married, later the 2nd Duke of Northumberland, on 2 July 1764
Carl XVI GustafUnder H.M., the present King of Sweden since 1973, the plain triple-tailed flag has ...
Ricimer... a puppet ruler, put on the throne by the Roman general of Germanic descent, and was mainly interested in religion, while the actual power was held b ...
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland... on is 156,898. Its county seat is Bridgeton. Cumberland County is named for
Aleksandr Kolchak... n Civil War. These forces supported the White Russian government of Admiral, based in Omsk, and White Russian soldiers fighting the Bolsheviks on the ...
General Cornwallis... nia along present-day Ashford Avenue and Broadway, en route to victory overat the Siege of Yorktown and to victory in the Revolutionary War
Richard Myers... . In September 2005, he remarked upon Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff' optimistic outlook on the war's progress: "Things have not gone as well ...
James Oglethorpe... largest and most successful of these was organized by Governor and Generalof Georgia who managed to break the Spanish-Seminole alliance when he gain ...
Winston Churchill... base rights in Bermuda from the United Kingdom, but British Prime Ministerwas initially unwilling to accede to the American request without getting ...
Mundo... sed the Nika riots of January, 532, which Belisarius and his fellow generalrepressed with a massacre in the Hippodrome. In 533, he accompanied Belisa ...
Wesley Merritt... rsaw the supplying of the expedition to the Philippines under Major General
Xiang Yu... d copies of the forbidden books but most of these were destroyed later whenburned the palaces of Xianyang in 206 BC
Władysław AndersIn 1943 the Polish II Corps, commanded by, arrived in Palestine from Iraq. The British insisted that no Jewish unit ...
Samuel Eliot Morison... worst vice presidents in American history in a 2008 Time Magazine article.wrote that had Marshall carried out his constitutional duties, assumed the ...
Earl of Winchilsea... who was elected despite not being legally allowed to sit in Parliament. Theaccused the Duke of, "an insidious design for the infringement of our libe ...
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba... ty successfully withstood a siege by Spanish forces under the leadership of. It was a turning point in the Eighty Years War and gave rise to the expr ...
Emperor Wen of Sui... -lived, as the Northern Zhou was overthrown in 581 by Yang Jian, who became. With greater military power and morale, along with convincing propaganda ...
Andrew Johnson... tension of the Civil War. It lasted through the administrations of Lincoln,and Grant, and saw the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to free slaves ...
John Ford"They're the kind of twisted, instantly memorable characters one meets in's westerns, Jack Kerouac's road novels, but, most of all, in the blues an ...
Pietro Badoglio... ts colonial empire. Hesitance remained from the King and military commanderwho warned Mussolini that Italy had too few tanks, armoured vehicles, and ...
Julius Caesar... activity moved to the new Basilica Aemilia (179 BC). Some 130 years later,built the Basilica Julia, along with the new Curia Julia, refocusing both ...
Hermann Göring... heard the news of the catastrophe, before launching into a bitter attack on, the commander of the Luftwaffe: "If I had the power I would drag this co ...
Colonel Mackenzie... lowed the same route from Santa Fe in 1650. Indian tribes, buffalo hunters,and his cavalry, cowboys with their cattle herds ... these and many others ...
Xenophon... y, a town of very great antiquity (Herodotus iv: 122). Gergis, according to, was a place of much strength. It had a temple sacred to Apollo Gergithiu ...
Philip Sheridan... al inaccuracies, one of which was that Stuart, George Armstrong Custer, andwere firm friends and all attended West Point together in 1854
James A. GarfieldDuring the American Civil War, Union troops under future presidentoccupied the town from December 1861 until the end of the war, despite sev ...
Earl Mountbatten of Burma... le all over the country. On 27 August 1979 the Provisional IRA assassinatedin County Sligo. On the same day the IRA killed 18 British soldiers at War ...
John Churchilldied at Windsor in 1722, and Sarah arranged a large funeral for him. Their ...
Agesilaus IIwas one of the two kings of Sparta during Sparta’s hegemony. Plutarch late ...
Colin Powell... 97. Llewellyn is the daughter of J. Bruce Llewellyn, and a family friend of, who originally introduced the couple to each other
Jan Dobraczyński... er war: Władysław Bartoszewski, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Aleksander Kamiński,, Henryk Woliński, and others
John Hawkins... were galleons, with the modified English "race built" galleons developed byproving decisive, while the capacious Spanish galleons, designed primarily ...
Francisco Franco... s figures by anti-Franco Anarchists. After the civil war was won by General, Escrivá was able to return to Madrid. Escriva himself recounted that it ...
King George V... of the modern shopping area, built in 1912, commemorates the coronation of. In the late 1970s the London Borough of Bexley built its headquarters, t ...
Winfield Scott... on had previously voiced concerns regarding his treatment. By order of Gen., 30 San Patricios were to be executed at Chapultepec in full view of the ...
Sir Douglas HaigBy 19 December 1915, Generalhad replaced General Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the British ...
King George V... viour of both groups immediately became controversial (one major critic was) for their brutality and violence, not just towards IRA suspects and pris ...
Julius Caesar... m Germanic tribes by moving into Gaul, but were defeated at Lawrenceburg by's armies and then sent back. The alpine region became integrated into the ...
George Armstrong Custer... nfamous for its many historical inaccuracies, one of which was that Stuart,, and Philip Sheridan were firm friends and all attended West Point togeth ...
Józef Wybicki... onal anthem - Dąbrowski's Mazurka - was written in praise of his actions byin 1797. The Duchy of Warsaw, a small, semi-independent Polish state, was ...
Captain Kirk... pair of warring adversaries (giving the examples of "cowboys and Indians orand Klingons"), the song does contain the line "On the air America/I model ...
George Washington... outing their choice to the clerk, as supporters cheered or booed. Candidatespent L39 for treats for his supporters. The candidates knew they had to " ...
George Washington... d tyrants. It is its natural manure." In contrast to Jefferson's sentiments, who had been calling for constitutional reform for many years, wrote in ...
Lady BrabourneCharles dutifully wrote to Amanda's mother (who was also his godmother),, about his interest. Her answer was supportive, but advised him that she ...
Sir John Madejski... tadium on the outskirts of Reading which is named after the club's chairman
Leslie Groves... ker Remington Rand on February 15, 1950. Eckert and Mauchly now reported to, the retired army general who had managed the Manhattan Project. Remingto ...
Drusus Germanicus... riot relays, the emperor Tiberius hastened in 24 hours to join his brother,, who was dying of gangrene as a result of a fall from a horse
Charles Henry DavisIn 1863, enlisting the support of Alexander Dallas Bache and, a professional astronomer recently recalled from the Navy to Washington ...
Winston ChurchillHardy holds the distinction of playing bothand Franklin D. Roosevelt, and having played both roles on more than one o ...
Hafez al-Assad... ever, due to the hostility of relations between Arafat and Syrian President(who had previously ousted President Salah Jadid), the Palestinian fighter ...
Ulysses S. Grant... r four years of Union campaigns in April 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to, and the Confederacy effectively collapsed
Robert E. Lee... fantry regiment would include two companies of pikemen, a plan supported by. Many pikes were produced but were never used in battle and the plan to i ...
Dou Xian... a, the garrison at Hami was withdrawn. At the Battle of Ikh Bayan in 89 CE,(d. 92 CE) defeated the Northern Xiongnu chanyu who then retreated into th ...
Wilhelm MohnkeOn 23 April, Brigadeführerwas appointed by Hitler the Battle Commander for the centre government dis ...
Ulrich WilleA major manoeuvre commanded in 1912 by, a reputed Germanophile, convinced visiting European heads of state, in p ...
George Washington... anklin, was editor of the Aurora, a Republican newspaper. Bache had accusedof incompetence and financial irregularities, and "the blind, bald, crippl ...
Jefferson Davis... apital of the Confederate States of America within the space of a few days.and the temporary Capital moved to the palatial home of William T. Sutherl ...
Sir John FrenchBy 19 December 1915, General Sir Douglas Haig had replaced Generalas Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). Haig favou ...
John StarkA remnant of a Green Mountain Boys flag, believed to belong to, is owned by the Bennington Museum. It still exists as one of the few reg ...
Zhuge Liang... y popularized two-character surnames and a number of important figures likeand possessed them. As of 2009, in the United States, 70,000 family names ...
Xiang Yu... s of the Grand Historian, after the collapse of the Qin Dynasty the hegemonappointed Liu Bang as prince of the small fief of Hanzhong, named for its ...
Andrew JacksonOn June 15, 1832, President, displeased with Atkinson's handling of the war, appointed General Winfie ...
Prince Philip... Windsor by subsequent royal decree. After the marriage of Elizabeth II and, it was decreed that their non-royal descendants were to bear the (maiden ...
P.G.T. Beauregard... the ancestress of many notable people, including American Civil War general. She is a collateral relative of most of the royal families of modern Eur ...
Robert E. Lee... overnment. Richmond fell after four years of Union campaigns in April 1865,surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, and the Confederacy effectively collapsed
George Washington... r shops in New York and other cities during the colonial era. Ben Franklin,, and Thomas Jefferson were known to have regularly eaten and served ice c ...
Alexander W. Terrell... population was 984. Its county seat is Sanderson. The county was named for, a Texas state senator. It is the setting for Cormac McCarthy's novel No ...
Oliver Cromwell... ich included Lord Fairfax, then Lord General of the Parliamentary Army, and. The final conflicts between Parliamentary forces and Royalists were deci ...
Thomas H. Patterson... became a noted United States Navy hero, and John's grandsons, Rear Admiraland Lt. Carlile Pollock Patterson USN, achieved success)
Rudolf Hess... ehind Reich President (former Admiral) Karl Dönitz and former Deputy Führer. Göring and the others were interviewed in prison by Captain Gustave Gilb ...
Xenophon... ever, afforded him unusual facilities for obtaining material. His model was, whom he has imitated with a tolerable measure of success; he abstains fr ...
Zhang Qian... 14 BCE by the Han dynasty, largely through the missions and explorations of, but earlier trade routes across the continents already existed. In the l ...
Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke... s was recorded by the Chief of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Sirin his diary entries of the 1/2 July 1940
John Burgoyne... initially supported the American Revolutionary War and sent troops to fight's British invasion from Quebec in battles at Hubbardton and Bennington in ...
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland... ir Henry Sidney and Lady Mary Dudley. His mother was the eldest daughter of, and the sister of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. His younger sist ...
Michael Collins... e and the pro-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War, identifying in particularas the founder of the movement
Hyder AliHowever, during 1750-60from Mysore attacked Thrissur and was forced to become tributary of Mysore ...
Alcibiades... gis’ son Leotychidas was rumored to be the illegitimate son of the Athenian.) One of Agesilaus’ biggest supporters was the famous Spartan naval comma ...
Richard Duke of Gloucester... most infamous events associated with the Tower of London. Edward V's unclewas declared Lord Protector while the prince was too young to rule. The 12 ...
Omar al-Bashir... ritarian state where all effective political power is obtained by Presidentand the ruling National Congress Party (NCO)
Oliver Cromwell... s the grandson of the original settler named Bodden who was probably one of's soldiers at the taking of Jamaica in 1655
Álvaro Obregón... he Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848, is also famous in Mexican history.(possibly O'Brian) was president of Mexico during 1920-24 and Obregón city ...
Prince Waldeck... uxembourg, commanding Louis XIV’s army of some 35,000 men, soundly defeated’s Allied force of approximately 38,000 men comprising mainly Dutch, Germa ...
James WilkinsonIn 1786purchased the tract of land on the north side of the Kentucky River, which ...
Francis Marion... unty seat of Marion County, Kansas, United States. It was named in honor of, a Brigadier General of the American Revolutionary War, known as the "Swa ...
Winfield Scott... ners of war were executed as traitors after the Battle of Queenston Heights;urged American reprisal, but none was carried out
George AnsonAdmirals. and Admiral Jonathon Band, current First Sea Lord are both notable in Po ...
Nick Fury... mics character Peacemaker, with elements of the Marvel Comics spy characteradded. Moore and Gibbons saw The Comedian as "a kind of Gordon Liddy chara ...
Walter Devereux... he 16th century in Ireland, where it was used by English commanders such asand Richard Bingham. Its most infamous use was by Humphrey Gilbert during ...
Lamoral, Count of EgmontLaakdal - Laarne - Labour Court (Belgium) -- Lanaken - Land of Herve - Langemark-Poelkapelle - Language legislation i ...
Francisco Franco... y the railway system, which could have been used to transport artillery hadnot used narrow-gauge tracks to repair bridges after the Spanish Civil War ...
Admiral of the Fleet... wing year, he was appointed to the equivalent positions in Canada, and made, Field Marshal, and Marshal of the Royal Air Force in the United Kingdom. ...
George Washington... rtraits of subjects such as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery,, and Abraham Lincoln. Wendy Beckett stated that Eisenhower's work, "simpl ...
Phil Collins... for services to the music industry". May is a friend of singer and musicianand was a special guest at the Genesis reunion concert at Twickenham Stadi ...
Eugène de Beauharnais... or the revolutions to come. Among these monarchs were the viceroy of Italy,, who tried to get Austrian approval for his succession to the Kingdom of ...
Jules Dumont d'Urville... ng island. The term was first proposed to distinguish the region in 1831 by
Samuel Powhattan (S.P.) Carter... dation of Military Governor of Tennessee Andrew Johnson, U.S. naval officerwas promoted to the brevet rank of brigadier general and assigned by U.S. ...
Chen Sheng... f the immediate revolt attempts was the 209 BC Daze Village Uprising led byand Wu Guang
Winfield Scott... Jackson, displeased with Atkinson's handling of the war, appointed Generalto take command. Scott gathered about 950 troops from eastern army posts j ...
Oliver Cromwell... ugees from the Spanish Inquisition, shipwrecked sailors, and deserters from's army in Jamaica
James VIICharles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale held the Bass forfor a brief period after the Scottish parliament declared his abdication. ...
Shirkuh... n the Fatimid dynasty of Egypt. In 1163, Nur ad-Din's most trusted general,set out on a military expedition to the Nile. Accompanying the general was ...
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk... s are derived from Islamic civilization, but Turkey's elite, beginning with, who took power as first President of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, imp ...
Alexander the Great... Félibien, 1674). Accordingly, one finds scenes of the exploits of Augustus,, and Cyrus alluding to the deeds of Louis XIV (Lighthart, 1997; Sabatier, ...
Edward, the Prince of Wales... ceremony of the Hall was on 29 March 1871. A welcoming speech was given by; Queen Victoria was too overcome to speak although she did comment that i ...
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester... dest daughter of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and the sister of. His younger sister, Mary Sidney, married Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pemb ...
Władysław Sikorski... of his officials were stationed at nearby Addington and Wingrave. Meanwhile, military leader of Poland, lived at Iver and King Zog of Albania lived a ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... pared the United States for World War II and promoted the career of General, known for his organizational skills
Wilfrid Laurier... , both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their deaths;dying while still in the post; and Charles Tupper, Louis St. Laurent, and ...
Zheng ZhilongKoxinga was born to, a Chinese merchant and pirate, and Tagawa Matsu, a Japanese woman, in 16 ...
Himmler... pronounced it likely that Speer himself came close to being assassinated byafter he unwittingly put himself in the care of an SS doctor
Lord Hertford... low appointed councillors Thomas Cranmer (the Archbishop of Canterbury) and, Catherine obtained effective control and was able to rule as she saw fit ...
Charles PichegruHe participated in the Flanders Campaign againstin 1794. Leading a flanking column from the north, he fought at the Battle ...
Henri Guisan... obilization of the army took place during World War II under the command of(see also Switzerland during the World Wars). The Patrouille des Glaciers ...
Al Calavicci... s that he's not who everyone in the past seems to think he is. Rear Admiral(Dean Stockwell), a senior naval officer, Naval Aviator and Sam's best fri ...
Meng Tian... eunuch Zhao Gao conspired to kill Fusu because Fusu's favorite general was, whom they disliked and feared; Meng Tian's brother, a senior minister, h ...
King Hussein... yrian position deteriorated, Jordan sent an expeditionary force into Syria., who had come under intense pressure to enter the war, told Israel of his ...
Lucien Bouchard... om the federal Progressive Conservative Party and Liberal Party. BQ founderwas a cabinet minister in the federal Progressive Conservative government ...
José de Urrea... ch remained in effect until 1837. But in December of the same year, Generalproclaimed in Arizpe the re-establishment of the Constitution of 1824, ini ...
Sejanus... ich can fairly be called fulsome is the violently rhetorical tirade against
Richard, Duke of Gloucester... VI, and Edward took refuge in Burgundy, accompanied by his younger brother. The rulers of Burgundy were his brother-in-law Charles, Duke of Burgundy ...
Shigeyoshi Inoue... to provide air cover for the invasion fleets, under the overall command of. The U.S. learned of the Japanese plan through signals intelligence and s ...
Worf... ngon motifs, and he has brought back on numerous occasions as the theme for, most prominent Klingon. Michael Giacchino employed character themes in t ...
Winston Churchill's... rt television miniseries Frankenstein: The True Story. She also appeared aslover Pamela Plowden in Young Winston, produced by her father-in-law Richa ...
Wang Sengbian... eir efforts to defeat Hou. In the end, Xiao Yi with the aid of his generalsand Chen Baxian defeated Hou, crowning himself Emperor Yuan of Liang. His ...
Francis NicholsonIn September 1710, 3,600 British and colonial forces led byfinally captured Port Royal after a siege of one week. This ended official ...
Benito Mussolini... him von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one to Adolf Hitler and one to, the latter delivered by a delegation to Serafino Mazzolini, a high-ranki ...
von Fritsch... inister, Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, and the army commander, General. Göring had acted as witness at Blomberg's wedding to Margarethe Gruhn, a ...
Pliny... re probably disposed groups of statuary. The pteron consisted (according to) of thirty-six columns of the Ionic order, enclosing a square cena. Betwe ...
Joachim von Ribbentrop... invasion by German forces, the state sent three letters of protest: one to, German Foreign Minister, one to Adolf Hitler and one to Benito Mussolini ...
King WilliamOnce againentrusted Allied forces in the region to Prince Waldeck (William was himse ...
1st Earl Roberts... military commanders: past examples included the 1st Viscount Nelson and the
Germanicus... also an intimate friend of the most literary prince of the imperial family,
Erwin RommelProtests followed from Generalfeldmarschall; General Gleiniger, German commander in Limoges; and the Vichy government ...
Tadeusz Kościuszko... s founded by one of the best military engineers of the time, Polish General. It was manned by a small garrison of Continental soldiers through the en ...
ShermanBut such efforts faced setbacks: Union raids and in particular's scorched-earth campaigning destroyed much economic infrastructure
Ricimer... minated the state, such as Stilicho, Constantius III, Aëtius, Boniface, and. Zeno granted it to Odoacer to legitimize the later's rule in Italy after ...
Pliny the Elder... yrus. The extraction of starch is first described in the Natural History ofaround AD 77-79. Romans used it also in cosmetic creams, to powder the hai ...
YorckHis collected writings and letters (together with those ofand Gneisenau) appeared in 1932
Lord Nelson... handful of British subjects to be honoured in that way (other examples areand Winston Churchill)—and the last heraldic state funeral to be held in B ...
Alexander the Great... h not always accredited as the first practitioner of psychological warfare,undoubtedly showed himself to be effective in swaying the mindsets of the ...
Winston Churchill... I, but like the mentioned countries, cooperated and traded with both sides.claimed that Sweden during World War II ignored the greater moral issues a ...
Koxinga... erwhelmed the Ming Dynasty. In 1661, a naval fleet led by the Ming loyalist, arrived in Taiwan to oust the Dutch from Zeelandia and establish a pro-M ...
Camillus... sacked Rome. The Romans then took up arms and drove the Gauls back, led by. The Romans gradually subdued the other peoples on the Italian peninsula, ...
David Petraeus... rbilt Transplant Center. In 1991, Frist operated on then–Lieutenant Colonelafter he had been shot in a training accident at Fort Campbell
Andrew Jackson... ess, but in the late 1820s, that system broke down. The party split betweenand the incumbent President John Quincy Adams. What began as Jackson's ide ...
Lloyd Tilghman... tching him. Little did Wallace know at that time the officer was Brig. Gen., whom Wallace would replace as commander of Fort Henry in a few days. Dur ...
William Tecumseh Sherman... ed near Pineville. The first session began on January 2, 1860, with Generalof Ohio as LSU president
Nur ad-Din ZangiAfter the failure of the Second Crusade,had control of Damascus and a unified Syria
Sir Ralph Abercromby... nglish attacked again in 1797, during the French Revolutionary Wars, led by(who had just conquered Trinidad). His army laid siege to the city but was ...
Casimir Pulaski... d in three of the town's street names: Pulaski after Revolutionary War heroas well as Warsaw and Cracow. Lyons is the subject of a recently published ...
Charles de Gaulle... dissertation was on the Dutch response to France's decision under Presidentto leave NATO's integrated command structure. During this period he receiv ...
Clayton BissellIn early December 1944, American Generalwrote a paper which argued strongly in favour of the V-1 compared to conve ...
1st Viscount Nelson... ent for such remainders for military commanders: past examples included theand the 1st Earl Roberts
Nelson A. Miles... U.S. Army after the Treaty of Paris of 1898 was signed. On July 25, Generallanded at Guánica (in southwestern Puerto Rico) with 3,300 soldiers in wha ...
Craterus... ypt, the Samians Lysander of Sparta, the Athenians Demetrius, the Delphiansof Macedon
George Washington... rule that followed. British occupation lasted until November 25, 1783, whenreturned to Manhattan, as the last British forces left the city
Alexander the Great... rsians, and went under Macedonian hegemony at the defeat of the Persians by. Due to the influx of Greek speakers and the sparsity of the remaining Ly ...
Pompey... instability in Syria under the Seleucids. Once Mithridates was defeated byin 63 BC, Pompey set about the task of remaking the Hellenistic East, by c ...
Julius Caesar... r shorten a year in which his political opponents held office. It was whilewas pontifex maximus that the calendar was overhauled, with the result bei ...
Winston Churchill... e resonating projections of his orations for effect. British Prime Ministermade similar use of radio for propaganda against the Germans
George Washington... st of the Mississippi River. Chilled pawpaw fruit was a favorite dessert of, and Thomas Jefferson planted it at his home in Virginia, Monticello. The ...
Robert Stopford... tch and French in Java, Indonesia. The war was swiftly conducted by Admiral, General Frederick Augustus Wetherall, and Colonel Rollo Gillespie, who l ...
Michael Collins... many RIC Police Intelligence officers during the Irish War of Independence.set up a special unit – the Squad – for this purpose, which had the effect ...
Bardas Skleros... rator of the East under Emperor Basil II who in 978 defended Nicaea against, and one of his two wives, whose names are unknown, and who on his deathb ...
Charles... the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince, and Prince Philip
Ulysses S. Grant... ebruary 1862, while preparing for an advance against Fort Henry, Brig. Gen.sent two wooden gunboats (timberclads) down the Tennessee River for one la ...
Flavius Aëtius... een on good terms with the Western Roman Empire and its influential general. Aëtius had spent a brief exile among the Huns in 433, and the troops Att ...
George VOn 6 May 1910, Edward VII died. The Prince of Wales ascended the throne as, and Mary became queen consort. When her husband asked her to drop one of ...
Władysław Sikorski... Tokarzewski. Seven weeks later, November 17, 1939, on the orders of General, this organization was succeeded by Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Union for Arm ...
Yoda... alculator (with reverse Polish notation, which meant that Erwin talked likefor weeks afterward), a Lego Mindstorms construction, a Tamagotchi, a Segw ...
Aetius... as Oost believed in his article. Regardless, the powerful Magister militumhad forced Valentinian to betroth Placidia to his own son Gaudentius, so O ...
Heinrich Himmler... SS Führungshauptamt (SS operational command office) beneath Reichsführer-SS. Upon mobilization its tactical control was given to the High Command of ...
2nd Duke of Argyll... of Bute, in 1723. He was brought up thereafter by his maternal uncles, theand Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, 1st and only Earl of Ilay
Shabeg Singh... ters were pro-Khalistan. In 1984, the followers of Bhindranwale, led by and, had placed ammunitions and militants in the temple. Unsuccessful negotia ...
Ludwig III of Bavaria... revolution. On 7 November, the revolution had reached Munich, causing Kingto flee. Groener, a self-appointed military expert in the MSPD was sent to ...
Robinson Risner... chutist Joseph Kittinger spent 11 months in prison there. Brigadier Generalwas the senior ranking POW, responsible for maintaining chain of command a ...
XenophonIn Greece, Hesiod, Aristotle andpromoted agrarian ideas. Even more influential were such Roman thinkers as ...
Avraham Adan... of the canal. The 162nd and 252nd Armored Divisions, commanded by Generalsand Kalman Magen respectively, would then cross through the breach to the ...
George Rogers Clark... pain due to residence in St. Louis. He is credited with great assistance toboth in financing Clark's exploration and American Revolutionary War effor ...
Hirohito... 4, this time over the attempt by Namba Daisuke to assassinate Prince Regenton 27 December 1923 (the Toranomon Incident)
Earl Spencer... he day of the funeral, Philip, William, Harry, Charles and Diana's brother,, walked through London behind her bier
LucullusSeleucid rule was not entirely over, however. Following the Roman general' defeat of both Mithridates and Tigranes in 69 BC, a rump Seleucid kingdo ...
Lepidus... one of the forcible acts of the triumvirs of 43 BC (Octavianus, Antony, and), that they obliged the senators to repair the public roads at their own ...
Patricia Mountbatten, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of BurmaLord and Lady Mountbatten had two daughters:(born on 14 February 1924), sometime lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II ...
Bob Hope... enile Award Honoree Judy Garland. Hosting the Annual ceremony that year waswho endearingly dubbed the Juvenile Award the "Oscarette" upon presenting ...
MemnonThe Greek mercenary generalsuggested to the Persian Satraps the use of the scorched earth policy agai ...
Kuldip Singh Brar... riety of army units along with paramilitary forces, led by the Sikh General, surrounded the temple complex on 3 June 1984. The army kept asking the m ...
Franklin Buchanan... h the founding and establishment of USNA. The first Superintendent, Admiral, joined the Confederate States Navy as its first and primary admiral. Cap ...
Charles de GaulleAfter the war, Generaldecided that the village would never be rebuilt. Instead, it would remain ...
Lord Hill... in-Chief of the British Army on 15 August 1842 following the resignation of
Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski... asions of Poland were nearing completion, on September 27, 1939, by General. Seven weeks later, November 17, 1939, on the orders of General Władysław ...
Roland Nef... é Blattmann. Lt-Gen Blattmann replaced Lieutenant-General (Korpskommandant)who resigned on July 25, 2008 following allegations of sexual harassment
Benedict ArnoldIn perhaps the most infamous act of treason in American history, Generalattempted to turn the site over to the British Army in 1780 for a bribe co ...
Spock... affairs. Moore also wanted to avoid creating an emotionless character likefrom Star Trek, so he sought for Dr. Manhattan to retain "human habits" an ...
Zachary Taylor... egimental adjutant and the rank of first lieutenant, serving in the army of, although he personally did not participate in combat. After hostilities, ...
Timur Leng... he late Middle Ages, but their hold upon the area was transitional as laterand Uzbeks contested the land
Winston Churchill... ish subjects to be honoured in that way (other examples are Lord Nelson and)—and the last heraldic state funeral to be held in Britain. The funeral t ...
Pompey... historian Appian. The 4th century commentary on Vergil by Servius says thatsettled some of these pirates in in southern Italy
Miguel López de Legazpi... June 24, 1571 by three conquistadors: Martín de Goiti, Juan de Salcedo and. In 1867, the Spanish Government of the Philippines established the munic ...
Sir Thomas Seymour... ter the death of Parr's second husband, Catherine began a relationship with, the brother of the late queen Jane Seymour, but the King took a liking t ...
Henry Rawlinson... eral Sir Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force and, the commander of Fourth Army, have been criticised for incurring very se ...
Tanaka Giichi... kahashi continued to serve as Finance Minister under the administrations of(1927–1929), Inukai Tsuyoshi (1931–1932), Saitō Makoto (1932–1934) and Oka ...
Alexander the Great... ecuted Artayctes, returning the treasure. The tomb was mentioned again whenarrived at Elaeus on his campaign against the Persian Empire. He offered a ...
Ban Chao... armies. However, Tanshihuai's confederation disintegrated after his death.(d. 102 CE) enlisted the aid of the Kushan Empire, occupying the area of m ...
Pancho Villa... opolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of's army for four months, present with Villa's Constitutional Army when it ...
Fu Qian... esigned for a ceremonial four-wheeled carriage. The 2nd century commentatoradded that this collapsible umbrella of Wang Mang's carriage had bendable ...
Muhammad Ali... er, as well as the people that helped him in baseball. Because his idol was, Henderson decided to use the words "greatest of all time." These words h ...
George Washington... and became a haven for deserters from both the British and colonial armies., who had more than sufficient difficulties with the British, brushed off ...
Gneisenau... upposed to have said that if he was made a doctor they should at least makean apothecary
Douglas MacArthur... n of Remington Rand was renamed the Univac division of Sperry Rand. Generalwas chosen to head the company. In the 1960s, UNIVAC was one of the eight ...
Robert E. Lee... a and the South by figures such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and. Their homes in Virginia represent the birthplace of America and the Sout ...
Benito Mussolini... ersonalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times
Duke of Wellington... g Mr Lamb (a role first offered to Timothy Dalton), Laurence Olivier as the, Richard Chamberlain as Byron, and Ralph Richardson as King George IV. Th ...
Bob Hope... n downtown Stockton, is one of several movie palaces in the Central Valley.often came to Stockton to visit close friend and billionaire tycoon Alex S ...
George Washington... ld was best known as the site of the Springfield Armory, a site selected byand Henry Knox in 1777. Closed controversially during the Vietnam War, the ...
Epaminondas... eace on the mainland by sending diplomats to meet with Agesilaus in Sparta., the Theban diplomat, angered Agesilaus by arguing for the freedom of the ...
Andrew Jackson... anddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adviser to President, and Levi Woodbury, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. However, t ...
August Neidhardt von Gneisenau... etreat towards Brussels. At a late-night council, Blücher's chief of staff,, had been distrustful of Wellington's strategy, but Blücher persuaded him ...
Alexander the Great... s of the ancient world. It was part of the Persian Empire until captured byat the siege of Halicarnassus in 334 BC
Antony... mentions as one of the forcible acts of the triumvirs of 43 BC (Octavianus,, and Lepidus), that they obliged the senators to repair the public roads ...
Karl Dönitz... g Nazi official tried at Nuremberg, behind Reich President (former Admiral)and former Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. Göring and the others were interview ...
Tōgō Heihachirō... e War, Yamamoto showed strong leadership and was responsible for appointingas commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet. He gave voice to Tōgō's repor ...
Saitō Makoto... administrations of Tanaka Giichi (1927–1929), Inukai Tsuyoshi (1931–1932),(1932–1934) and Okada Keisuke (1934–1936). Despite his considerable succes ...
Lysander... ngs. In this manner the Rhodians celebrated Ptolemy I of Egypt, the Samiansof Sparta, the Athenians Demetrius, the Delphians Craterus of Macedon
Barry Goldwater... wed the explosion of a nuclear bomb. The message conveyed was that electingpresident held the danger of nuclear war. Although it only aired one time, ...
Eduard Dietl... en, one of the first battles between the German 3rd Mountain Division underand the Norwegian 6th Division under General Carl Gustav Fleischer after t ...
Benedict Arnold... the American Revolution. André was on a mission carrying secret papers fromwhen he was captured
George V... British monarchs stayed at the Viceregal Lodge, notably Queen Victoria and. American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, Rich ...
Wang Mang... oldest reference to a collapsible umbrella dates to the year 21 A.D., when(r. 9–23) had one designed for a ceremonial four-wheeled carriage. The 2nd ...
Pervez Musharraf... ction teams from the military's elite Special Service Group unit. President, as civilian head of state, was due to have this withdrawn after retiring ...
Char Aznable... example of this is how the personalities of longtime rivals, Amuro Ray and, are influenced by their experiences in the Gundam saga
Stilicho... century, to the powerful magistri militum who dominated the state, such as, Constantius III, Aëtius, Boniface, and Ricimer. Zeno granted it to Odoac ...
Manuel A. OdríaIn 1953, during the government of, Vargas Llosa enrolled in Lima's National University of San Marcos, the o ...
Caesar... a former generation a specimen of shameless adulation. The few allusions to's murderers and to Augustus hardly pass beyond the conventional style of ...
Amuro Ray... odes. The best example of this is how the personalities of longtime rivals,and Char Aznable, are influenced by their experiences in the Gundam saga
George Washington... was popularized and spread across America and the South by figures such as, Thomas Jefferson, and Robert E. Lee. Their homes in Virginia represent t ...
Omar al-Bashir... c of Sudan was restructured following a military coup on 30 June 1989, when, then a colonel in the Sudanese Army, led a group of officers and ousted ...
Al Calavicci... er people to "put right what once went wrong". Dean Stockwell co-starred as, Sam's womanizing, cigar-smoking sidekick and best friend, who appeared a ...
Richard Duke of Gloucester... te by an Act of Parliament of 1483 known as Titulus Regius, and their unclewas crowned as Richard III. There are reports of the two princes being see ...
Arrian... § 54; Herodotus, ii. 3, 7, 59; Strabo, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. 84, v. 57;, Exp. Alex. iii. 1; Aelian, H. A. vi. 58, xii. 7; Plutarch, Solon. 26, I ...
Marcel Bigeard... nel Pierre Langlais, Geneviève de Galard ("The Angel of Dien Bien Phu") and, the Officer in Command of the 6th BPC. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. is also a ...
Martin Bormann... he intended to commit suicide. Göring was deeply concerned that his rival,, would sieze power upon Hitler's death and would have him killed as a tra ...
Isaac Stevens... Indian attacks on white explorers and settlers dropped significantly afternegotiated the Treaty of Hellgate in 1855, and white settlement in the are ...
Józef Poniatowski... parte, following his defeat of Prussia. The Duchy's military forces, led by, participated in numerous campaigns, including the Polish–Austrian War of ...
Pericles... ded Isocrates. (Other students are named in later traditions; the Suda adds, Polus, and Alcidamas, Diogenes Laërtius mentions Antisthenes, and accord ...
Douglas MacArthur... ith an unprecedented succession of generals – Fox Conner, John J. Pershing,and George Marshall. He first became executive officer to General Conner i ...
Caesar... re classics. Augustus also continued the shifts on the calendar promoted by, and the month of August is named after him. Augustus' enlightened rule r ...
Publius Cornelius Scipio... ards the Carthaginians were intercepted by a newly raised Roman force under, whom Hannibal had evaded earlier in the Rhone Valley, and who had not an ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... Cold War. Participants at the conference included Churchill, U.S. Presidentand French Premier Joseph Laniel. In 1957, a second summit conference was ...
Aragorn... the voice actors was the well-regarded John Hurt, who performed the role of. The project's high profile brought heavy trade journal coverage, and fan ...
Toussaint Louverture... essalines met the rising military commander Toussaint Bréda (later known as), a mature man also born into slavery, who was fighting with Spanish forc ...
Buxhowden... wo columns, Generals Kienmayer and Langeron, to flee as fast as they could., the commander of the Allied left and the man responsible for leading the ...
Edward VII... ice hockey to Europe, beating a court team (which included both the futureand George V) at Buckingham Palace in 1895. By 1903 a five-team league had ...
Winston Churchill... s quoted as saying, "I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," andstated, "I find Hornblower admirable.
Muhammad Ali... quaintances in rhyme goes back to the dozens, and was portrayed famously byin his boxing matches. The winner of a battle is decided by the crowd and/ ...
Winston Churchill... 945, United States President Harry S. Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister, and Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek issu ...
Artemio Ricarte... ed force of General Emilio Aguinaldo revolutionary government, with Generalas its first Captain General, replaced the Katipunan military - List of Fi ...
James Stewart... e cut, and began the next take with the camera in the same place. Featuringin the leading role, Rope was the first of four films Stewart would make w ...
Robert E. Lee... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician.'s final supply line—the South Side Railroad—in the spring 1865. Here the ...
Carl SchurzTogether with, the American Turners were supportive of the election of Abraham Lincoln ...
Lewis Cass... lman's defeat, American leaders like President Jackson and Secretary of Warwould not consider a diplomatic solution; they wanted a resounding victory ...
Chen Cheng... came to Xian again, accompanied by many senior Kuomintang leaders includingto monitor the suppression campaign. In the interim between these two visi ...
Franz Ritter von Epp... in 1917, during World War I. After the war he served in the Freikorps under's command, and then joined the German Worker's Party (which soon evolved ...
Pelopidas... s's early life would occur. Epaminondas saved the life of his fellow Theban; Pelopidas, after receiving seven wounds in front, sank down upon a great ...
Fox ConnerFrom 1920 Eisenhower served with an unprecedented succession of generals –, John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur and George Marshall. He first became ...
Langeron... d persuaded the commanders of the first two columns, Generals Kienmayer and, to flee as fast as they could. Buxhowden, the commander of the Allied le ...
Leonard Wood... cked for several ballots between Illinois Governor Frank Lowden and General, few delegates seriously considered Hoover as a compromise choice. Althou ...
Zhuge Liang... ted practical systems of governance and administration, such as Cao Cao andin the Three Kingdoms Period, Wang Dao and Bao Jingyan of the Eastern Jin, ...
Allenby's... that a breakthrough was imminent. On 29 September he had outlined plans forThird Army to rejoin the battle in the north around Gommecourt and for the ...
Emilio Aguinaldo... ry Army was founded on March 22, 1897 in Cavite. The armed force of Generalrevolutionary government, with General Artemio Ricarte as its first Captai ...
Ion Antonescu... rman Hungarian government, as well as the pro-German Romanian Government ofallowed Germany to enlist the German population in Nazi sponsored organiza ...
Nino Bixio... in several localities, and at Bronte, on August 4, 1860, Garibaldi's friendbloodily repressed one of these revolts with two battalions of Redshirts
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.... Dien Bien Phu") and Marcel Bigeard, the Officer in Command of the 6th BPC.is also an honorary member
Emory Upton... rfield Road with the Chicago Board of Trade Battery in support. He had Gen.'s Division placed across the Range Line Road with Battery I, 4th US Artil ...
Xenophon... 's mind or taking him away from the career path his father had set for him.has Socrates forecast that the boy will grow up vicious if he studies a pu ...
Zachary Taylor... apolis, gave the orders which led to the occupation of California, and sentinto the contested land between Texas and Mexico. He also continued his pl ...
John J. Pershing... isenhower served with an unprecedented succession of generals – Fox Conner,, Douglas MacArthur and George Marshall. He first became executive officer ...
Chester W. Nimitz... 973, the library facility complex was completed and named for Fleet Admiralclass of 1905
Yang Hucheng... on of the communist forces, raising opposition from both Zhang Xueliang and. On 4 December 1936, Chiang came to Xian again, accompanied by many senio ...
Princess Royal... e of this is the adjective "naff" to denote bad or shoddy, even used by the(as a verb) in a clash with the press some years later. They were able to ...
Saigō TsugumichiWorking under his patron, Navy Ministerfrom 1893, Yamamoto became the real leader of the navy; initiating numerou ...
Archidamus III... off after Sparta’s defeat at Leuctra. Following Agesilaus’ death in 360 BC,became king and practiced a policy of non-conflict between Athens and the ...
Albert, Prince Consort... ncess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria and. His paternal grandparents were Prince Alexander of Hesse and Princess Ju ...
Basil Apokapes... r of humiliating setbacks throughout his career. In 1064, he, together with, doux of Paradounavon, defended the Balkan frontiers against the invading ...
John C. Frémont... en and not a separate river as others believed under the Buenaventura myth.'s 1843 Great Basin expedition proved that no river traversed the Great Ba ...
John Thach... the Grumman F3F and then graduated to the Brewster F2A Buffalo. Lieutenant, then executive officer of VF-3, discovered O'Hare's exceptional flying a ...
Richard Mulcahy... 21 November were an effort by the IRA in Dublin, under Michael Collins andto wipe out the British intelligence organisation in the city
Nathan Bedford Forrest... uring a Confederate courier who carried dispatches from Confederate Generaldescribing the strengths and dispositions of his scattered forces, Wilson ...
Zheng He... was referred to as Bīnláng Yù in the navigational drawings used by Admiralof Ming-dynasty China in his expeditions to the South Seas. Fifteenth-cent ...
Ariel Sharon... Tkuma into a single faction – the National Union. Following the election ofin February 2001, Ze'evi joined the coalition and was appointed Tourism Mi ...
Karl Dönitz... and testament, Hitler stripped Göring of his party membership and appointedas president of the Reich and leader of the armed forces. Hitler and his l ...
Isaac Stevens... ly formed Washington Territorial Government and signed into law by Governor
George WashingtonIn 1792 Congress underauthorized construction of the Montauk Lighthouse. It was completed in 179 ...
Omar al-Bashir... onsumption and extends serious penalties to offenders pursuant to President's policy of enacting Shari`a as national law. Despite this, there exists ...
Enver Hoxha... n actors whose films were allowed in the country during the dictatorship of. In Hoxha's view, proletarian Norman's ultimately victorious struggles ag ...
Idi Amin... relationships with a variety of world leaders, including Saddam Hussein and. Arafat was Amin's best man at his wedding in Uganda in 1975
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly... hree months. This constant retreat led to the unpopularity of Field Marshaland a veteran, Prince Mikhail Kutuzov, was made the new Commander-in-Chief ...
The Prince of Wales... was made a Knight Bachelor for services to music, as Sir Michael Jagger by. Mick Jagger's knighthood received mixed reactions. Some fans were disapp ...
Erwin Rommel... sh. Hitler had to intervene with the sending of the Afrika Korps of General, that was the mainstay in the North African campaign. Continuing indicati ...
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe... 1913, Takahashi was appointed as the Minister of Finance by Prime Ministerand then joined the Rikken Seiyūkai political party . He was appointed to ...
Philip SheridanDuring the 1864 Overland Campaign, Union Maj. Gen.'s cavalry launched an offensive to defeat Stuart, who was mortally wounde ...
King George V... ucted, these were built 1906-14 to the design by J.J. Burnet, and opened byand Queen Mary in 1914. They now house the Museum's collections of Prints ...
Lord Dawson of PennGeorge V died on 20 January 1936, after his physician,, gave him an injection of morphine and cocaine which may have hastened hi ...
George Washington... Robert Rutherford, a Revolutionary War financier and an intimate friend of. In 1799, Rutherford sold his Forks of Buffalo holdings to James Brown of ...
Charles Leclerc... orce to restore French rule to the island, an army and ships led by General. Louverture and Dessalines fought against the invading French forces, wit ...
Joseph Smith, Jr.The exact intended identity of these animals is not known., who translated the Book of Mormon, is not known to have elaborated on th ...
Rutherford B. Hayes... Tilden of New York, the Democratic candidate, defeated Republican candidateof Ohio in the popular vote. Tilden garnered 184 electoral votes to Hayes' ...
Fan Wuji... o present a gift to King Zheng, a map of Dukang and the decapitated head of
John C. Brown... t made the Nashville newspapers' front pages when former Tennessee Governordied of a hemorrhage at one of the hotels. The papers emphasized that due ...
John T. CroxtonOn March 30, 1865, Wilson detached Gen.'s Brigade to destroy all Confederate property at Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Aft ...
Charles II... seventeenth century Guildhall, built shortly after the restoration of King, is supported by columns, to provide an open ground floor for the butter ...
Yuan Shikai... nder of the cruiser , undertook a confidential mission to meet Qing Generalin Seoul, Korea (1890). Afterwards, he assumed command of the
Prince Louis of Battenberg... itles were dropped in 1917. He was the youngest child and the second son ofand his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. His maternal grandpa ...
Duke of Somerset... e was not seen as a cause of inflation (and therefore enclosures) until thewas Protector of Edward VI. Until then enclosures were seen as the cause o ...
Benito Mussolini... t of Florestano de Fausto and Armando Brasini, well known architects of theperiod in Italy. Brasini laid the basis for the modern-day arrangement of ...
Augustin de Beaulieu... (275 crew, 106 cannon) and called the "Fleet of Montmorency" under Generalwas sent from Honfleur, with the objective of fighting the Dutch in the Fa ...
George V... Europe, beating a court team (which included both the future Edward VII and) at Buckingham Palace in 1895. By 1903 a five-team league had been founde ...
George S. Patton... ew expertise in tank warfare was strengthened by a close collaboration withand other senior tank leaders; their leading-edge ideas of speed-oriented ...
WillardHis brother,, would also serve as a Major General. His nephew, Willard, Jr., would als ...
John Malcolm... a the parasol is repeatedly found in the carved work of Persepolis, and Sirhas an article on the subject in his 1815 "History of Persia." In some scu ...
James StockdaleFuture U.S. Vice Presidential candidateand decorated U.S. Air Force pilot Bud Day were held as prisoners at the H ...
Willard, Jr.His brother, Willard, would also serve as a Major General. His nephew,, would also serve as a Brigadier General
Karl Diebitsch... and uniforms. The all-black SS uniform was designed by SS-Oberführer Prof.and graphic designer SS-Sturmhauptführer Walter Heck. These uniforms were ...
Marshal MannerheimOn the eve of the Winter War, whenonce again threatened to resign from his post as chairman of Finland's Def ...
Prince Albert... te. Melbourne's role faded away as Victoria came to rely on her new husbandas well as on herself
George VIn 1911, the house underwent a large extension for the visit of Kingand Queen Mary. With the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the off ...
Arvid Lindman... radually to be enacted for all Swedish males by Conservative Prime Minister, later a rival of Hansson. Influenced generally by Karl Kautsky's reformi ...
Alan Shepard... passenger, and the results from his test flight led directly to the missionmade on May 5, 1961 aboard Freedom 7
Xenophon... Eclogae physicae; Oppian, Halieutica and Cynegetica; the complete works ofand Vitruvius; the Argonautica of the so-called Orpheus (for which Ruhnken ...
Yigal Allon... y Israeli forces as a sequel to Operation Yoav on November 4, 1948. Generalordered the expulsion of the remaining Arabs but the local commanders did ...
Henry Knox... town in Waldo County, Maine, United States. The town was named for General, the first United States Secretary of War. The population was 747 at the ...
Donald CragenFlat Rock is home to Dann Florek, who plays Captainin the television series Law & Order and
Casimir Pulaski... Historic Site. The city is named in honor of Polish Revolutionary War hero
Edward Grey... Persia to German trade and technology. The ministers Alexander Izvolsky andagreed to resolve their long-standing conflicts in Asia in order to make a ...
Charles de Gaulle... changed to Concord by Harold Macmillan in response to a perceived slight by. In 1967, at the French roll-out in Toulouse the British Government Minis ...
Charles III of Spain... s father considered other possibilities (such as marrying her to the future) before announcing the engagement of the couple. France demanded that Mar ...
Kabayama Sukenori... e from Elswick to Japan (1885–86). Afterwards, he accompanied Navy Ministeron a trip to the United States and Europe (1887–88)
Emperor Wu of Chen... g. After a short reign, Chen deposed Emperor Jing and took power himself asin 557 AD
Andrew Jackson... a U.S. possession as the Florida Territory, in 1822, with future presidentas the military governor, succeeded by William Pope DuVal as territorial g ...
Obi-Wan Kenobi... e of the Sith, Vader's lightsaber was designed to match the lightsaber thatgives to Luke Skywalker, in
George Washington... e ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788. In this election,was elected for the first of his two terms as president, and John Adams be ...
Thomas Jefferson Rusk... ed by an act of the Texas legislature on April 11, 1846. It was named after, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. By 1850, Rusk reportedl ...
Baron Frederick William Rudolph Gerald Augustus von Steuben... County, Maine, United States. Upon incorporation in 1795 it was named after, the Inspector General of the U.S. Army during the Revolutionary War. The ...
William Tecumseh Sherman... mportance, the necessity to capture it with a Federal force increased. Gen.first made an effort to reach it, but after advancing as far as Meridian, ...
George Armstrong Custer... e Lakota Sioux claimed the land calling it Paha Sapa. In 1874 Major Generalled an expedition into the Black Hills during which gold was discovered in ...
Francis Marion... astillo de San Marcos (British, Fort St. Marks) was renamed Fort Marion for, the "Swamp Fox" of the American Revolution
Aragorn... he rock as flattened and paved, and also the location for the coronation of. As with most other landmarks in the film, the city is portrayed as relat ...
Tariq ibn Ziyad... inates from the Arabic Jebel Tariq (meaning "Tariq's mountain") named after. The Arab name for the Strait is Bab el-Zakat, meaning "Gate of Charity." ...
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus... Antony. Octavius (Caesar's adopted son), along with general Mark Antony and, Caesar's best friend, established the Second Triumvirate. Lepidus was fo ...
The Duke of Edinburgh... Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of The Queen and, and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Baptised in th ...
Liu YuLiu Song founderwas originally a leader of the Army of the Northern Garrison (北府军) that no ...
Richard Montgomery... nty was changed to Montgomery County. This change was to honor the general,, who had captured several places in Canada and died attempting to capture ...
Zebulon Pike... as secured by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase. In 1806,led the Pike expedition westward from St Louis, Missouri, of which part of ...
Philip SheridanFort Sill was established in 1869 by Major Generalwho was leading a campaign in Indian Territory to stop raids into Texas by ...
Dwight D. EisenhowerInitially, the program lost audience from Swayze's program, and Presidentlet it be known that he was displeased by the switch. In the summer of 195 ...
King George V... s of the Manor. In the 20th century the hall hosted the Duke of York, later, with the Duchess of York, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother) and a ...
George Washington... colonies, called the Virginia Regiment, was led by then-Lieutenant colonel
Andrew Jackson... uent incursions into Spanish territory to recapture escaped slaves. General's 1817–1818 campaign against the Seminoles became known as the First Semi ...
Hafez al-Assad... other PLO leaders. Although originally aligned with Fatah, Syrian Presidentfeared a loss of influence in Lebanon and switched sides. He sent his army ...
Benjamin Grierson... idian, within of Selma, his forces retreated to the Mississippi River; Gen., with a cavalry force from Memphis, was intercepted and returned; Gen. Ro ...
de Gaulle's... he escaped back to England, where he initially worked as an interpreter forFree French forces. However, he was quickly prised away from de Gaulle by ...
Henry Jackson... own in Waldo County, Maine, United States. The town was named after Generalof the Revolutionary War. The population was 506 at the 2000 census
Moshe Dayan... rea surrounded by barbed wire, which became commonly known as the "ghetto".and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion were in favor of expulsion, while Mapa ...
XenophonPlato's Apology, and likewise that of, lists Anytus as one of the primary prosecutors in the trial of Socrates. ...
Zhang Xueliang... w plan of suppression of the communist forces, raising opposition from bothand Yang Hucheng. On 4 December 1936, Chiang came to Xian again, accompani ...
Emperor Wen of Chen... s. After the sudden death of Emperor Wu, his nephew Chen Qian took power as. After the fall of Liang, the general Wang Lin had established an indepen ...
Peter Wittgenstein... of Polotsk by the right wing of the Russian Army, under command of General. This prevented the French march on the Russian capital, Saint Petersburg ...
Theodor Eicke... oviding the personnel for manning of the Concentration Camps. Their leader,, who was the commandant of the Dachau concentration camp, inspector of th ...
Kienmayer... t Sokolnitz and persuaded the commanders of the first two columns, Generalsand Langeron, to flee as fast as they could. Buxhowden, the commander of t ...
Walther Schroth... and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The commander was General der Infanterie
Robert E. Lee... of stagecoaches and military roads prior to the Civil War. It is said thatand U.S. Grant camped with their troops at a grove of live oak trees on th ...
Maxwell R. ThurmanThe first four star officer at NCSU, General, a former Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. Hugh Shelton, now retired ...
George Washington... oad). It was from this building that General Nathanael Greene, commander of's left wing during the Battle of Trenton, made his headquarters during th ...
Richard III... idence is ambiguous, and has led people to various conflicting conclusions.had eliminated the princes from the succession. However, his hold on the m ...
Bob Hope... d as film performers), Groucho was scheduled to appear on a radio show with. Annoyed that he was made to wait in the waiting room for 40 minutes, Gro ...
Ricimer... of the imperial guard, and on the prestige gained through their victories,and the comes domesticorum Majorian rebelled against Avitus; the Emperor w ...
James Wilkinson... of Spanish West Florida until 1813, when it was seized by the U.S. Generalduring the War of 1812
Quintus Petillius CerialisThe arrival ofwith a strong force awed the Gauls and mutinous troops into submission; Ci ...
Wang Lin... ian took power as Emperor Wen of Chen. After the fall of Liang, the generalhad established an independent kingdom based in modern day Hunan and Hubei ...
Saladin... Crusade, was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from(Salāh ad-Dīn). It was largely successful, but fell short of its ultimate ...
Josiah HarmarIn 1790, the United States sent an expedition under the command of Generalto end the border war. Because the United States had mostly disbanded its ...
Terauchi MasatakeOn October 9, 1916,took over as prime minister from Ōkuma Shigenobu. On November 2, 1917, the ...
Thomas Mifflin... Pittsburgh. The population was 20,313 at the 2010 census. It is named after, 1st Governor of Pennsylvania, signer of the United States Constitution, ...
Friedrich Heinrich von SeckendorffThe new commander of the Bavarian army,fought Austria by a series of battles in 1743 and 1744. The new alliance w ...
Alexander the Great... had been occupied in turn by Assyria, Babylonia, the Achaemenid Empire, and's Hellenic Macedonian empire (c. 330 BCE), although Jewish religious prac ...
Shahrbaraz... lah in the 6th century CE which was later destroyed by the Sassanid generalin 614 when Khosrau II's armies besieged and took Jerusalem
John Dudley... s one of the few parts of the castle to remain intact. The stables built byin the 1550s also survive and lie along the east side of the base court. T ...
Julius Caesar... me for the group was subsequently dropped. That island was first invaded byin 55 BC, and the Roman conquest of the island began in AD 43, leading to ...
Gnaeus Servilius Geminus... e new armies against Hannibal under the recently elected consuls of 217 BC,and Gaius Flaminius. The latter had long distrusted his fellow senators an ...
Arthur St. Clair... Blue Jacket defeated another American expedition, this time led by General. It was the worst defeat the Americans would ever suffer at the hands of ...
George Washington... 1784, the name "Charlotte County" was changed to Washington County to honor, the American Revolutionary War general and later President of the United ...
Charles II... ng it unlikely that the skeletons belonged to the princes. On the orders ofthe remains were reburied in Westminster Abbey. In 1933, the grave was ope ...
Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette... nch-speaking Acadian named Jean Mouton. In 1884, it was renamed for General, a French military hero who fought with and significantly aided the Ameri ...
Edward Bruce, 10th Earl of ElginIn 1932 the Bannockburn Preservation Committee, underand Kincardine, presented lands to the National Trust for Scotland. Furthe ...
William II of the Netherlands... he Anna Paulownapolder, which was laid dry in 1846 during the reign of Kingand in turn named after his wife, Queen Anna Pavlovna of Russia
Alcibiades... ibiades, preserve stories of Anytus' tumultuous relationship with the young, also a lover of Socrates. Alcibiades seems to have treated Anytus with g ...
Julius Caesar... erely because it is accommodated to the Julian year." This Julian refers to, who introduced the Julian calendar in 46 BC
James Stewart... Universal-International pictures released The Glenn Miller Story, starring. In 1953, Glenn Miller was voted into the Down Beat magazine Jazz Hall of ...
Nathanael Greene... Road) and Route 263 (Old York Road). It was from this building that General, commander of George Washington's left wing during the Battle of Trenton, ...
Enver Hoxha... by a local resistance activist during a visit in Tirana. In November 1941,founded the Communist Party of Albania. The town soon became the center of ...
Xenophon... but the point of invention remains in question. The best documented claim () attributes the invention to the Persian King Cyrus the Great (550 BC), w ...
Orlando B. Willcox... he Southern Pacific Railroad. It was renamed in honor of a visit by Generalin 1889. In the early 20th century, Willcox had the distinction of being a ...
Scipio Africanus... tarch in his Parallel Lives, in which he is paired with the Roman statesman; however, both these "Lives" are now lost. Plutarch was writing over 400 ...
Archduke Charles... — Napoleon's first significant tactical defeat. But the Austrian commander,, failed to follow up on his indecisive victory, allowing Napoleon to prep ...
George Clinton... ork, the candidates for governor were John Jay, a Federalist, and incumbent, who was allied with Jefferson and the Republicans. Four states' electors ...
Duke of SomersetWilliam Cecil's early career was spent in the service of the(a brother of the late queen, Jane Seymour), who was Lord Protector during ...
Pietro Badoglio... m and arrested by order of King Victor Emmanuel III, that appointed Generalas new Prime Minister. Badoglio stripped away the final elements of Fascis ...
Alexander the Great... s were, in some scholars' opinions, united under the banner of Philip's and's pan-Hellenic ideals, though others might generally opt, rather, for an ...
Winston Churchill... s the maquis were receiving, to the extent that he begged five minutes with, the British Prime Minister. Churchill, reluctant at first, but fascinate ...
Emil Maurice... the Nazi Party at rallies, speeches, and other public events. Commanded by, and known as the Stabswache (Staff Guard), the original group consisted ...
Chaim Herzog... ge was repaired, but only a trickle of Israeli forces crossed. According to, the Egyptians continued attacking the bridgehead until the cease-fire, u ...
King Hussein... en and levied illegal taxes—all of which Arafat either condoned or ignored.considered this a growing threat to his kingdom's sovereignty and security ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... n the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and, records were destroyed and the whole affair was kept secret for many yea ...
Henry Knox... state, property, and that he did not have permission from Secretary at Warto do so
Anthony WayneGeneralcommanded a third expedition in the Northwest; his U.S. troops were of sup ...
Charles IIFuller's last promotion was that of Chaplain Extraordinary to. In the summer of 1661 he visited the West in connexion with the business ...
Jakob Meckel... the trench warfare of World War I. A German military advisor sent to Japan,, had a tremendous impact on the development of the Japanese military trai ...
Anakin Skywalker... ial to solidify the story that Lucas was trying to tell: The tragic fall ofand the rise of Darth Vader. In the final two films of the prequel trilogy ...
Sir Arthur Wellesley... sence the French situation in Spain deteriorated, and then became dire whenarrived to take charge of British-Portuguese forces
The Prince of Wales... of succession. The present Counsellors of State are: The Duke of Edinburgh,, The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry of Wales and The Duke of York
Faramir... ilbo's ring, and it also can be seen in the distance for a few seconds whentakes Frodo, Sam, and Gollum to Osgiliath in ) Jackson's version interpret ...
Alexander the Great... the decisive Battle of Gaugamela in 330 BC against the advancing armies of. The Achaemenids were decisively defeated by Alexander and retreated from ...
Lord Cambridge... her niece, Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, the daughter of her brother,. Her personal belongings were transported from London in seventy pieces o ...
the Duke of MarlboroughIn July 1708,, with his ally Prince Eugene of Savoy, won a great victory at the Battle ...
Harold Walker... n to attack immediately but the division's British commander, Major General, refused to send his men in without adequate preparation. The attack was ...
Prince Louis of Battenberg... 959 he was the First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father,, some forty years earlier. Thereafter he served as Chief of the Defence S ...
Joseph WheelerDuring the disembarkation, Shafter sent forward his cavalry division underto reconnoiter the road to Santiago de Cuba. In a complete disregard of or ...
The Duke of York... urgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry of Wales and
Winston ChurchillOn the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt,and Dwight D. Eisenhower, records were destroyed and the whole affair was ...
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh... 27 August 1979), was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of(the husband of Elizabeth II). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and ...
George Washington... ion. More energetic planning with surveys took place repeatedly in 1776 (by), 1791, 1803, 1818, 1824–1830, and 1860. None of these efforts came to fr ...
Pliny the ElderAccording to The Natural History of Pliny, by(Book XIX, Chapter 23), the Roman Emperor Tiberius had the cucumber on his ...
King Charles IIIn 1670granted the islands to the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas, who rented ...
George Washington... torial legislature renamed it for the first president of the United States,, in 1849. The original boundaries included the entire northwest corner of ...
William Howe... hey were preparing for a September 16, 1777, encounter with British General. The Continental Army also camped near White Horse Inn on Swedesford Road ...
George Washington... connection for travelers during the Colonial era. Famous Americans, such as, James Madison and others have passed through Rock Hall numerous times tr ...
General Foch... pval Ridge but Haig would not agree to this and Joffre then referred him toto settle the matter. Foch remembers that Haig was "upset with his losses. ...
Julius CaesarWhenadded days to some months, he added them to the end of the month, so as no ...
Bernardo de Galvez... ed the war as an ally of France in 1779. They took the opportunity to order, Governor of Louisiana, on an expedition east to retake Florida and captu ...
Sir John FranklinIn 1825,wrote that "The game of hockey played on the ice was the morning sport" wh ...
Juan O'Donojú... ticles 1st Venezuelan Rifles, Bernardo O'Higgins, Daniel Florencio O'Leary,, Morgan O'Connell, & William Lamport
Jack Charlton... ce in the semi final against Portugal before a late penalty was conceded byhandling the ball. Banks was finally beaten after 43 minutes when Eusébio ...
Tanaka Giichi... genrō and the House of Peers, and brought into his cabinet as army minister, who had a greater appreciation of favorable civil-military relations tha ...
Samuel Masham... s to her flattery and charm. She was present at Abigail’s secret wedding to, groom of the bedchamber to Prince George, in 1707, without Sarah’s knowl ...
Patrick Edward Connor... that the territory maintained its allegiance during the American Civil War., who was the leader of the garrison stationed at Fort Douglas, was openly ...
General Sheridan... wing Jr., was Sherman's brother in law.) Under Sherman's overall direction,followed this policy in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and subsequently ...
Archduke Charles'AfterAustrian army was defeated by Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, the Armist ...
Nathaniel P. BanksThe Union forces led by Generalwho occupied Opelousas found what the historian John D. Winters describes ...
Enomoto Takeaki... shimi and other locations; he was also aboard one of the ships that pursuedand the remnants of the Tokugawa fleet to Hokkaidō in 1869
Gustav KrukenbergOn 25 April, Brigadeführerwas appointed the commander of (Berlin) Defence Sector C which included th ...
William Jackson Palmer... d Rio Grande Railway (D&RG) was incorporated on October 27, 1870 by Generaland a board of four directors. It was originally announced that the new ga ...
Józef Piłsudski... some political leaders of the Polish insurrection movement (in particular,) sent emissaries to Japan to collaborate on sabotage and intelligence gat ...
William Henry Harrison... provide entertainment at political functions. The presidential campaign ofwas the first to greatly benefit from music, after which it became standar ...
Drouet's... e Russians had a numerical advantage here but fairly soon the tide swung asDivision, the 2nd of Bernadotte's I Corps, deployed on the flank of the ac ...
Jean Lapierre... an independent, since the Bloc had not been registered as a federal party.renounced separatism and rejoined the Liberals during the leadership of Pa ...
Rear Admiral Isaac Kidd... was hastily conducted, in only 10 days, even though the court’s president,, said that it would take 6 months to conduct properly. The inquiry's term ...
Barry Goldwater... life; he spoke at the 1964 Republican National Convention and appeared within a Republican campaign commercial from Gettysburg. However, his endorsem ...
John J. Pershing... s assignments, it received a congratulatory letter for bravery from General. He was promoted to top sergeant and, after the war ended, arrived back i ...
Georgios Hatzianestis... was arrested by the military government. The commander of the army, General, and five senior politicians were executed. Prince Andrew's life was beli ...
Richard Montgomery... York bordering the north bank of the Mohawk River. It was named in honor of, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 at the Battle of Qu ...
General Benjamin F. ButlerAlthoughbought 12 and Admiral David Dixon Porter bought one, it wasn't until 1866 ...
Zachary Taylor... nship with the historian Macaulay and the poet Hallam. With the election ofhis post was not renewed; on his return to the United states in 1849 he wi ...
Robert E. Lee... obile Bay on 5 August 1864. On 12 April 1865, 3 days after the surrender ofat Appomattox Courthouse, the city of Mobile surrendered to the Union army ...
Joachim Ziegler... nce Sector C which included the Nordland Division, whose previous commanderwas relieved of his command the same day. On 27 April, after a spirited bu ...
Admiral David Dixon PorterAlthough General Benjamin F. Butler bought 12 andbought one, it wasn't until 1866 that the US Government officially purchas ...
Cromwell's... sieged for many months, then stormed ('with roaring drummes') and sacked byScots allies, based in pro-Parliament Sunderland. The grateful King bestow ...
Hermann Balck's... SS Panzer Corps (3 SS Totenkopf and 5 SS Wiking) was ordered south to join6th Army (Army Group Balck), which was mustering for a relief effort, code ...
James Madison Tuttle... however, the soldiers became lawless. On May 6, 1863, rowdies from General's division burned most of the mansions which fronted Lake St. Joseph, inc ...
Joseph Brugère... de Paris; and other members of European royalty. Also present were General, representing President Sadi Carnot; the presidents of the Senate and the ...
Constantine I of Greece... s made large gains. On 22 September 1922, Philip's uncle, the reigning King, was forced to abdicate, and Prince Andrew, along with others, was arrest ...
Hermann GöringReichsmarschallnever held the Diamonds. He, being one of the first soldiers presented wit ...
Jefferson Davis... Keckly, a free black dressmaker who worked for two presidents' wives: Mrs.and later Mary Todd Lincoln. Thomas Day was also a native; he was well kno ...
Bernardo O'Higginsc. See articles 1st Venezuelan Rifles,, Daniel Florencio O'Leary, Juan O'Donojú, Morgan O'Connell, & William Lam ...
Pelopidas... lly compared to some of his near contemporaries (e.g. Philip II of Macedon,). One principal reason for this is the loss of Plutarch's biography of hi ...
Nicholas II of Russia... ded more fuel to the already simmering Russian Revolution of 1905, an eventhad hoped to avoid entirely by taking intransigent negotiating stances pri ...
George Washington... tant in the Revolutionary War due to its location near Ramapo Pass. Generaland other important military leaders used John Suffern's home as headquart ...
Pericles... fever, killed one third of the population of Athens, including their leader. The balance of power shifted from Athens to Sparta, ending the Golden Ag ...
Percy Cox... to include Qatar in an oil concession he was discussing with Ibn Saud. Sir, the British representative, saw through the ploy and drew a line on the ...
Yoda... t Stuart Freeborn in the creation and articulation of enigmatic Jedi Master. Henson suggested to Star Wars creator George Lucas that he use Frank Oz ...
Benjamin Foulois... aining names of the field's customers, including Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart,, and Jimmy Doolittle. Doolittle, awarded the Medal of Honor for his 1942 ...
Charles de Gaulle... Foccart, who from 1960 was chief of staff for African matters for president(1958–69) and then Georges Pompidou (1969–1974), is claimed to be the lead ...
William Shepard... hire County) organized an attempt to shut it down. They were anticipated by, the local militia commander, who began gathering government-supporting m ...
Thucydides... had marked Athenian dominance in the Greek ancient world. Ancient historianalso contracted the disease, but he survived to write about the plague. Hi ...
George Washington... land donated by Col. James Bonner, Washington is the first city named after, the first president of the United States
Terauchi Masatake... 28 August 1915. He served in this post in the cabinets of Ōkuma Shigenobu,, Hara Takashi, and Takahashi Korekiyo. Under Hara and Takahashi, Katō was ...
Xenophon... his work as continuation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War., who idolized Sparta and its king, Agesilaus, avoids mentioning Epaminond ...
General ShermanIn the American Civil War, Union forces used the policy widely.utilized this policy during his March to the Sea. In another Civil War eve ...
William BrownWidely considered a national hero,is the most famous Irish citizen in Argentina. Creator of the Argentine Na ...
Helmuth WeidlingOn 2 May hostilities officially ended by order of, Kommandant of the Defense Area Berlin. News of the surrender led some of ...
Alexander the Great... ty (c. 1000 B.C.) in China to Jimmu Tenno of Japan (perhaps c. 600 B.C.) to(c. 360 BC) have assumed titles that reflect a filial relationship with de ...
Douglas MacArthur... he Philippine Army to the Armed Forces of the Philippines and asked Generalto be its first commanding officer after the Philippines gained independen ...
King George VTolworth has a King George's Field in memorial to, where Corinthian-Casuals F.C. (two semi-pro football teams that have sin ...
James VII and II... Abdication Act 1936. The last monarch involuntarily removed from power was, who fled into exile in 1688 during the Glorious Revolution
Winston Churchill... cratic dynasties. Among the more famous descendants of the Marlboroughs areand Diana, Princess of Wales
Tariq ibn ZiyadIn 711,, under the orders of the Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid I, led a large army from ...
King Alfonso XIII of Spain... , he was released through the secret intervention of Mistinguett's admirer,, the only king of a neutral country who was related to both the British a ...
Mikhail Kutuzov... ity of Field Marshal Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly and a veteran, Prince, was made the new Commander-in-Chief by Tsar Alexander I. Finally, the tw ...
Prince Louis of BattenbergShortly after Philip's birth, his maternal grandfather,, died in London. Louis was a naturalised British citizen and, after long ...
George Washington... an alliance with the Shawnee chief Tecumseh. In 1797, he met cordially with, who presented him with a ceremonial sword. On this trip he also met Comt ...
Stepan Makarov... ched from a torpedo boat tender) in an actual battle was by Russian admiralon January 16, 1878, who used self-propelled Whitehead's torpedoes against ...
Pervez Musharraf... in the cities of Peshawar, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. Generalfaced already fierce opposition from his mostly Muslim population for his ...
Arthur Conan DoyleA more obvious influence on the early Poirot stories is that of. In An Autobiography Christie admits, "I was still writing in the Sherloc ...
Sir Thomas Seymour... d many years abroad on command of King Henry himself, Catherine's old love,returned to court. Catherine, who still harbored feelings for Seymour, was ...
Moshe Dayan... he Israelis managed to occupy one-third of Missouri Ridge. Defense Ministercountermanded orders from Sharon's superiors to continue the attack. Howev ...
Thucydides... ed by the historian Xenophon, who evidently saw his work as continuation of's History of the Peloponnesian War. Xenophon, who idolized Sparta and its ...
Duke of Somerset... ne began having altercations with the Lord Protector, the King's uncle, theand a rivalry developed between Catherine and his wife, her former lady-in ...
He Yingqin... the Kuomintang armies for the rescue of Chiang. Historians used to say thatstrongly supported solving this incident by force, for which He contacted ...
Emperor Xuan of Chen... e country through his short reign, eventually deposed him and took power as. At that time, the Northern Wei intended to conquer Northern Qi and thus ...
Isoroku Yamamoto... Oak Leaves; 160 both the Oak Leaves and Swords (including Japanese Admiral(posthumously)); 27 with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds; and one with the ...
Yang Hucheng... il War. In the Xi'an incident (12 December 1936), Zhang and another generalkidnapped Chiang Kai-shek and imprisoned the head of the Kuomintang govern ...
Shigeyoshi Inoue... city available to conduct such an operation. At the same time, Vice Admiral, commander of the IJN's 4th Fleet (also called the South Seas Force) whic ...
Ariel Sharon... uld visit Schneerson and corresponded extensively with him. Menachem Begin,, Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Katzav, and later, Benjamin Netanyahu - who was pre ...
Lew Wallace... ng liberties" with the young boys in their boarding house. She hired lawyer, the author of , and filed a suit demanding that Marshall pay her $20,000 ...
Pliny the ElderAccording to(The Natural History, Book XIX, Chapter 23), the Ancient Greeks grew cucum ...
Stoneman's... nsive line to protect Richmond. The Danville supply train ran until GeneralUnion cavalry troops tore up the tracks. This event was immortalised in th ...
George Washington... the seventh year of the war, Continental Army troops, commanded by General, were encamped in Dobbs Ferry and neighboring localities, alongside allie ...
Enver Hoxha... Republic, Oskar Fischer. In 1985, Tirana served as the ceremonial venue of's funeral. A few years later, Mother Teresa became the first religious fi ...
Romuald Traugutt... ted to the Kingdom and lasted from January 1863 to the spring of 1864, when, the dedicated last supreme commander of the insurgence, was captured by ...
Stonewall Jackson... cellorsville, the Wilderness, Fredericksburg, and Spotsylvania Court House.was shot and mortally wounded in Spotsylvania County during the Chancellor ...
the Duke of Edinburgh... were made for Queen Elizabeth II by the Regency Act 1953, which stated that(the Queen's husband) could act as regent in these circumstances
Dwight D. Eisenhower... s once bestowed in special circumstances, as with Franklin D. Roosevelt and, but this practice was officially discontinued in 1953
King Talal... in, among them Muammar Gaddafi, who mocked him and his schizophrenic father. The attempt to establish a peace agreement between the two sides failed. ...
George WashingtonWhen the American Revolutionary War began,was selected to head the colonial army. During the war, the capital was mo ...
Edward VII... s. The bridge was opened on 4 March 1890 by the Prince of Wales, later King, who drove home the last rivet, which was gold plated and suitably inscri ...
Queen Anne... eached the shore, leading to rumours that she had called them home herself.died on 1 August 1714 at Kensington Palace; the Protestant Whig Privy Coun ...
Julius Caesar... n Emperor Augustus referred to his relation to the deified adoptive father,as "son of a god" via the term divi filius which was later also used by Do ...
Joseph Bell... in, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on, who in his use of "" prefigured Poirot's reliance on his "little grey ce ...
Alejandro O'Reilly... in the vicinity. More cattlemen would follow after 1770, when Spanish Gov.(English: Alexander O'Reilly) decreed that "a grant of 42 arpents in front ...
Julius Caesar... nerary of Antoninus, the description of the road system, after the death ofand during Augustus tenure, is as follows
Xenophon... iod of Greek history from 411–362 BC is primarily attested by the historian, who evidently saw his work as continuation of Thucydides's History of th ...
Wojciech Jaruzelski... embly, with the support of a number of Solidarity deputies, elected Generalto that office. However, two attempts by the communists to form government ...
Russell WillsonIn April 1941 superintendent Rear Admiralrefused to allow the school's lacrosse team to play a visiting team from H ...
Agesilaus... 15,000 Molossians, and Alcetas regained his throne. Sparta intervened under, however, and with aid from Thessaly, Macedonia, and the Molossians thems ...
George Washington... he site was purchased by William Dobson and was called Dobson's Crossroads.was served breakfast at Dobson's tavern on June 2, 1791. Joseph Kerner bou ...
Stonewall Jackson... y. Resigning when his home state of Virginia seceded, he served first underin the Shenandoah Valley, but then in increasingly important cavalry comma ...
Alexander the Great... the Achaemenid Persian Empire until the fall of the Empire in c. 333 BCE to. The period under Persian rule after the construction of the second Templ ...
Marquis de Lafayette... he could save France alone, he refused to act with the Comte de Mirabeau or. He caused the king's acceptance of the suspensive veto, by which he sacr ...
Mustafa Kemal AtatürkOn 3 March 1924, the Turkish Grand National Assembly, on the initiative of, dissolved the institution of the Caliphate, transferring its powers to t ...
Dr. Lemuel Gulliver... hard Sharpe, an officer in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars; and, the title character of Johnathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels who, in the ...
Jimmy Doolittle... eld's customers, including Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Benjamin Foulois, and. Doolittle, awarded the Medal of Honor for his 1942 Tokyo raid, was the f ...
Marcus Furius Camillus... d was added in the following century, possibly by the soldier and statesman. A long held tradition of speaking from the elevated speakers' Rostra—ori ...
Gustav Krukenberg... dammer Bridge area. What was left of the 11 SS Nordland under Brigadeführerfought hard in that area but Soviet artillery and anti-tank guns dispatche ...
Alejandro O'ReillyDon, Spanish governor of Louisiana, issued a land ordinance to allow settlers ...
Anakin SkywalkerOn May 12, 2000, Christensen announced that he would be starring asin the next two prequels (2002) and (2005). Director George Lucas had turn ...
John Thach... tigate the contact. These two planes, under command of Lieutenant Commandershot down a four-engined Kawanishi H6K4 Type 97 ("Mavis") flying boat abou ...
Omar al-BashirIn December 1999, a power struggle climaxed between presidentand NIF founder, Islamist ideologue, and then speaker of parliament Hassan ...
Agesilaus II... s of Epaminondas's life can be found in Plutarch's "Lives" of Pelopidas and, who were contemporaries. There is also a surviving (and possibly abridge ...
Ulysses S. Grant... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician.to cut Robert E. Lee's final supply line—the South Side Railroad—in the sp ...
James Bryce... n T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius,, Anatole France, Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict XV, Fritjof Nansen, Fayez el H ...
Gian Giacomo Trivulzio... , in the course of the Italian Wars. Louis XII invaded Italy in 1499: afterhad ousted its duke Ludovico Sforza, Cesare accompanied the king in his en ...
Earl of Marlborough... ed to restore the collection from a dilapidated condition. He persuaded theto ask for additional rooms in the palace for the books. This was granted, ...
William III of England... r fish." This land was located in the eastern segment of an tract that Kinggranted to Stephanus Van Cortlandt of New York City in 1697. The part of V ...
George Washington... ted by straw. Many farmers and plantation owners, including U.S. Presidentsand Thomas Jefferson, cut and stored ice in the winter for use in the summ ...
General Langeron... lleurs, French skirmishers. Initial Allied assaults proved unsuccessful andordered the bombardment of the village. This deadly barrage forced the Fre ...
Mark W. Clark... m admitting to participating in germ warfare, United Nations commander Gen.denounced said: "Whether these statements ever passed the lips of these un ...
Tōgō HeihachirōDuring the Russo-Japanese War, Katō served as chief of staff to Admiralon the battleship , assisting in Japan's victory at the Battle of Tsushima ...
Benjamin Harrison... s in search of a defence lawyer and employed future United States President, then a prominent lawyer in the area. Harrison had the suit dropped by sh ...
Indiana Jones... e Township High). Actor Harrison Ford known as playing the lead role in themovies, went to Maine East, and has been credited as being the radio stati ...
Dwight Eisenhower... the well-being of the town despite the refusal of the townspeople to help.loved the film and frequently screened it in the White House, as did many ...
Benjamin Lincoln... reation of a privately funded militia army. Former Continental Army Generalsolicited funds, and had by the end of January raised more than £6,000 fro ...
William Moultrie... he Cherokee War and remained loyal to the British Crown. Moultrie's brotherof whom Fort Moultrie in South Carolina is named was a general in the Cont ...
Elias Dayton... 8, British soldiers near the Crosswicks Creek shot the horse out from under, a captain with the New Jersey militia. A cannon ball from the period rem ...
Prince Albert... oria", which also featured the tenor Ian Partridge singing songs written by
George McClellan... rain robberies during the 1850s, first bringing Pinkerton into contact withand Abraham Lincoln
Oliver CromwellSir Owen's descendants include Charles I of England and; King Juan Carlos of Spain and Elizabeth II, the current Queen regnant of ...
Julius Caesar... II of Macedon (336 BC), the father of Alexander the Great, and Roman consul(44 BC) are famous victims. Emperors of Rome often met their end in this w ...
Thomas Picton... the left failed to storm La Haye Sainte, which was most well defended, and's division met the remainder of D'Erlon's corps face to face, engaging th ...
Lusius Quietus... his Eastern armies over to the high ranking legate and governor of Judaea,, who in early 116 had been in charge of the Roman division who had recove ...
Zachary Taylor... May 1846. The first battle of the war occurred on 8 May 1846, when Generalreceived word of the siege of the fort. They rushed to help, but were inte ...
Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union... sov was made Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Forces. His rank was raised toand he was awarded the Marshal's Star
Tadeusz Kościuszko... at on his way to Philadelphia to meet Washington, Little Turtle met General, who presented him with a matching pair of pistols along with instruction ...
Frederick Maurice... battle. In compiling his biography of General Rawlinson, Major-General Sirwas supplied by the Reichsarchiv with a figure of 164,055 for the German k ...
Winfield Scott... medal for individual valor was proposed by Iowa Senator James W. Grimes to, the Commanding General of the United States Army. Scott did not approve ...
Clark Gable... e her flapper girl persona of the silent era. In 1931, she starred oppositein Possessed. They began an affair during the production, resulting in an ...
Grace Hopper... e Mark I were computing pioneers Richard Milton Bloch, Robert Campbell, and
Alexander the Great... scribed in the Book of Judges. Philip II of Macedon (336 BC), the father of, and Roman consul Julius Caesar (44 BC) are famous victims. Emperors of R ...
Vernon Sturdee... s accepted by Brigadier J. R. Stevenson, who represented Lieutenant General, the commander of the First Australian Army, on board the warship HMAS Di ...
Stepan Makarov... r-hour crossing to link the two railheads. The Russian admiral and explorer(1849–1904) designed Baikal and Angara but they were built in Newcastle-up ...
James Oglethorpe... ah in the Georgia Colony in British America at the request of the governor,. Charles was appointed Secretary of Indian Affairs and while John remaine ...
Andrew JacksonThe situation was complicated by the American spoils system. Afterassumed the U.S. presidency in March 1829, many competent Indian agents we ...
Sterling Price... ine in the Battle of Dry Wood Creek. The battle was a pro-South victory forand his Missouri State Guard. Price did not hold the fort and instead cont ...
Ulysses S. Grant... ntinued mostly to promote the large-scale corruption tolerated by Presidentran Horace Greeley for the presidency. The Stalwarts defended Grant and th ...
Bob Hope... th regular appearances on coast-to-coast broadcasts starring Jimmy Durante,and
Józef Piłsudski... f other contemporary socialists and communists, from Lenin (a communist) to(a socialist), were more sympathetic to national self-determination)
Heinrich Himmler... many leading Nazis, including Hitler himself, Schutzstaffel or "SS" leaderand Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. When Smith refused to include Naz ...
Douglas Bader... was born into a wealthy family in the area. The British World War II flierwas born in St. John's Wood
General Eisenhower... the U.S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946, under. His unit shot footage documenting D-Day—including the only Allied Europe ...
Pliny... (rather than topazios) wasn't really known about before the classical era.says that Topazos is a legendary island in the Red Sea and the mineral "to ...
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Prince William... from William Congreve and John Arbuthnot. In 1727 he wrote for six year old, later the Duke of Cumberland, Fifty-one Fables in Verse, for which he na ...
Winston Churchill... Cyril Newall, then Chief of the Air Staff, resisted repeated requests fromto weaken the home defence by sending precious squadrons to France. When t ...
Themistocles... eavily outnumbered, the Greek Allies were persuaded by the Athenian generalto bring the Persian fleet to battle again, in the hope that a victory wou ...
Francisco Franco... Spanish Civil War between the socialist Republicans and nationalists led by, Italy sent arms and over 60,000 troops to aid the nationalist faction. T ...
Isoroku YamamotoAdmiral, commander of Japan's Combined Fleet, was concurrently planning an operat ...
Duke of Wellington... e Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 with the
George S. Patton... Divisions belonging to the XX Corps of the 3rd US Army commanded by General
Roussel de Bailleul... e. They included intrigues for the throne, the horrific fate of Romanos andattempting to carve himself an independent kingdom in Galatia with his Fra ...
George Washington... of the numerous trees and undergrowth. During the American Revolution, Gen.and many of his troops camped at Malin Hall here. They were preparing for ...
Marshal Ney... s. Wellington's pursuit was frustrated by a series of reverses inflicted byin a much-lauded rear guard campaign
John McAllister Schofield... as Wahiawā Reservoir). Schofield Barracks is named after Lieutenant General, Commanding General United States Army August 1888 to September 1895. He ...
President SoehartoHis state visit to Indonesia as invited byto discuss Indo-Japanese trade relations was protested by a number of loca ...
Bagration... . The Russian Imperial Guard was held in reserve while Russian troops underguarded the Allied right. Furthermore, the Russian Tsar rudely stripped th ...
García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of VillafrancaIn 1564, after a failed attempt in 1563, the Spaniards under command oftook the place from a garrison of 150 Ottoman soldiers, that were all kill ...
Jan Smuts... interpretation alone. Another scientist who held a similar view to this waswho took a holistic approach to science and offered a compromise between m ...
Alan Shepard... rthplace of Louise Brewer Shepard, the wife of the first American in space,. The population was 7,565 at the 2010 census
Julius CaesarIn the 50s BC, Aquitania was conquered by lieutenants ofand became part of the Roman Empire
Julius CaesarOver time the Comitium was lost to the ever-growing Curia and to's rearrangements before his assassination in 44 BC. That year two supreme ...
Ulysses S. Grant... n was the first President to arrest and prosecute members of the Klan sinceabout 93 years earlier. He turned the themes of Christian redemption to pu ...
Terry Wogan... rision of the song, including the usual sardonic words from BBC commentator("a nicely understated performance there")
Emperor Wen of Sui... ror Jing of Northern Zhou and established the Sui Dynasty, crowning himself. He proceeded to invade the south to reunify China. Emperor Xuan had just ...
Benjamin Harrison... ere U.S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, andhave all attended services. Because of this, it is now called the "Church ...
Moshe Gidron... isoner. Two Israeli soldiers were also killed, including the son of General. Meanwhile, Magen's division moved west and then south, covering Adan's f ...
William Henry Harrison... 1809, Little Turtle suffered a break with other Miami leaders when Governorcame to Fort Wayne to renegotiate treaty terms. Little Turtle admitted Pot ...
Prince William of Orange... spread. In 1688, a group of politicians known as the Immortal Seven invited, husband of James's Protestant daughter Mary, to invade England and remov ...
Queen Anne... ttlefield victories, Marlborough received no personal letter of thanks from. Richard Blackmore's Instructions to Vander Beck was virtually alone amon ...
King William III... ounty was established in 1691 from New Kent County. The county is named forand Queen Mary II of England. King and Queen County is notable as one of t ...
Enver Hoxha... Albania, where his films were the only ones by Western actors permitted byto be shown. Charlie Chaplin once referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clo ...
Balcha Safo... cant, and its administration was left to Menelik's loyal general, Dejazmach. Balcha Safo's administration of Harar was ineffective, and so during the ...
James IIThe early reign ofwas relatively successful; it was not expected that a Catholic king could ...
James Edmonds... while the Germans had suffered irreplaceable losses. British historian Sirstated, "It is not too much to claim that the foundations of the final vic ...
John Paul Jones... minal prison, and the debtors' prison. One of its most famous prisoners was, hero of the American navy, who was born in nearby Kirkbean
Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union... of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR reinstate Kuznetsov to his former rank of. Kuznetzov is now recognized as one of the most prominent men in the hist ...
Jefferson Davis... s v. White ruled Texas' declaration of secession was legally null and void., former President of the Confederacy, and Alexander Stephens, its former ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... of American presidents include former Secretary of Agriculture to President, Ezra Taft Benson '26 and Rex E. Lee '60, who was United States Solicitor ...
Wang Mang... t was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (9–23 CE) of the former regent. This interregnum separates the Han into two periods: the Western Han (20 ...
Zheng He... prominent in the trading ports of the Song Dynasty. Later, Muslims such as, Lan Yu and Yeheidie'erding became influential in government circles, and ...
George Washington... arding acts of individual gallantry by American soldiers was established byon August 7, 1782, when he created the Badge of Military Merit, designed t ...
John Winslow... to the summit. The state park and the Winslow Trail are named after Captain, the commander of the USS Kearsarge, which in June 1864 sank the CSS Alab ...
Churchill... ght through 1940 and again in 1941, drew peak audiences of 16 million; onlywas more popular with listeners. But his talks were cancelled. It was thou ...
Richard III of EnglandHe was appointed Lord High Steward and walked in front of King, carrying the crown at his coronation. However, John was the eldest (alth ...
William Tecumseh Sherman... g as the men marched southward headed indirectly to Vicksburg. When General's XV Corps joined Grant's forces, however, the soldiers became lawless. O ...
Arthur Conan Doyle... er, and also in the "Song of the Bow", a poem from The White Company by Sir
Alexander the Great... depicted barefoot, and the hoplite warriors fought battles in bare feet andconquered half of the ancient world with barefoot armies
Rodolfo GrazianiThe Italian General's 11th Italian army continued to advance, supported on the right by the 9 ...
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher... their allied Dutch-Belgians, all stationed alongside the Prussian forces of
Henry Jackson... assachusetts, where the rebellion had a polarizing effect. Richards records's observation that opposition to ratification in Massachusetts was motiva ...
Alexander the Great... thod described above involved the Macedonian sarissa, used by the troops of's father, Philip II of Macedon, and successive dynasties, which dominated ...
Józef Piłsudski... nrest, political maneuvering, strikes and rebellion, with Roman Dmowski andactive as leaders of the nationalist and socialist factions respectively. ...
Clark GableSaratoga Springs has graced the silver screen since the days ofand Edward G. Robinson. The following is a list of movies filmed in and ar ...
Anthony Wayne... In 1836 the name of the settlement was changed to Wayne in honor of General. In 1869 Wayne was incorporated as a village. Its population and industri ...
Michael H. Miller... o the Chief of Naval Operations. The current Superintendent is Vice Admiral
Andrew Jackson... resentatives, Henry Clay backed John Quincy Adams to deny the presidency to, a longtime political rival
Wang Mang... held the title of regent. Following the death of Ai, Wang Zhengjun's nephew(45 BCE–23 CE) was appointed regent for Emperor Ping (r. 1 BCE – 6 CE). Wh ...
George Washington... Thomas Jefferson, and it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence., Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams are also said to ha ...
Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-ZerbstCatherine's fatherbelonged to the ruling family of Anhalt, but held the rank of a Prussian g ...
Duke of Wellington... n. Sparrows became a nuisance; Queen Victoria mentioned this problem to the, who offered the famous solution, "Sparrowhawks, Ma'am"
Oliver Cromwell... rmy detachment, was a decisive victory for the Parliamentarians and allowedto conquer Wales. It is the last major battle to occur in Wales, with abou ...
Pyotr Grigorenko... family of Russian ethnicity. However, according to the Soviet Major GeneralVoroshilov himself was pointing out to his Ukrainian heritage and previous ...
Mustafa Kemal... th of The First World War Greece fought against Turkish nationalists led by, a war which resulted in a massive population exchange between the two co ...
Grace Hopper... s in high demand during the war and the funds ($50,000 or more according to) could have been used to build additional computer equipment
Rudolf Hess... the Tower was once again used to hold prisoners of war. One such person was, Adolf Hitler's deputy, albeit just for four days in 1941. He was the las ...
Quintus LabienusAfter Julius Caesar was murdered in 44 BCE,, a Roman republican general and ambassador to the Parthians, sided with B ...
Hernán Cortés... iscovered by Europeans. The first states that two years after the Conquest,sent explorers west to find gold. The explorers had subdued this area afte ...
Philip St. George Cooke... ghter of the commander of the 2nd U.S. Dragoon Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel. Burke Davis described Flora as "an accomplished horsewoman, and though n ...
George V... wfoundland Regiment was given the name "The Royal Newfoundland Regiment" byon 28 November 1917. Because of the slaughter, the first day of the Battle ...
Winston Churchill... y the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to the mostly disbelievingand Franklin D. Roosevelt. Before leaving, Karski was visited by two leade ...
Alexander Haig... Red" China), and active defense of human rights. These nominations included, Chester Crocker, John Louis, and Lawrence Eagleburger, all of whom were ...
Reinhard HeydrichThe relevant text is a handwritten cover letter, byto Martin Luther of the Foreign Office, dated February 26, 1942, forwardin ...
Queen Anne... seven inches in diameter, i.e. . It had been redefined during the reign of, in 1706, as 231 cubic inches exactly , which is the result of the earlie ...
Arleigh Burke... hat the United Kingdom might use Polaris. In 1957 Chief of Naval Operationsand First Sea Lord Louis Mountbatten began corresponding on the project. A ...
Emperor Wu of Liu Song... Jin in 420 AD, ending the Eastern Jin dynasty. Even after crowning himself, he remained diligently frugal. However, he did not care for education an ...
Albert I... m, such as hosting foreign dignitaries. Among these was the King of Belgium, the first European monarch to visit the United States. Edward, Prince of ...
Baybars... l history of Ashkelon was brought to an end in 1270, when the Mamluk sultanordered the citadel and harbour at the site to be destroyed. As a result o ...
Duke of Marlborough... sive lines and the Marshal's orders from Versailles not to risk battle, theconcentrated instead on taking the fortresses of Tournai and Ypres. Tourna ...
Bronislav Kaminski... e SS RONA (1st Russian) were dropped after the execution of their commander; instead the Waffen Grenadier Brigade of SS (Italian no. 1) became the 29 ...
Ulysses S. Grant... hurches in Oakland is St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, where U.S. Presidents, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison have all attende ...
Philip Sheridan... light tank developed by the United States and named after Civil War General. It was designed to be landed by parachute and to swim across rivers. It ...
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Henry Lee... been calling for constitutional reform for many years, wrote in a letter to, "You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease the present tu ...
Huo Guang... d court politics in Emperor Wu's reign and during the subsequent regency of(d. 68 BCE). The Modernists argued for an aggressive and expansionary fore ...
Michael Collins... country and the last resting place, among a host of historical figures, of, Eamon DeValera, Charles Stewart Parnell and also Arthur Griffith. This g ...
William IV... y coin between 1797 and 1970, occasional issues such as the fourpence underbetween 1836 and 1837, and on the 50 pence coin between 1969 and 2008. See ...
Zachary Taylor... arrow victory. He was the first president elected from the Deep South sincein 1848
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés... ty, Florida, United States. Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorer and admiral, it is the oldest continuously occupied European-established city and por ...
William Erskine... nd four Portuguese (Arentschildt (2), Da Cunha, Rozierres) 6-gun batteries.(5th Division), Alexander Campbell (6th Division) and 300 Portuguese caval ...
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk... e a visit to Cairo and several visits to Ankara where (at the invitation of) he led the task of reorganizing Turkish music education and the early ef ...
Lord Nelson... his fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October (the British commander,, died in the battle). Napoleon would never again have the opportunity to ...
Alp Arslan... aud, took possession of Merv and Herat. Toghrul was succeeded by his nephew(the Great Lion), who was buried at Merv. It was about this time that Merv ...
Arthur St. Clair... county seat is Osceola. The county was organized in 1841 and named for Gen., governor of the Northwest Territory. St. Clair was also the 9th Presiden ...
Suharto... se as guerrillas. In September 1974, Whitlam met with Indonesian President,, in Indonesia and indicated that he would support Indonesia if it annexed ...
Gottlob BergerIn August 1940,approached Himmler with a plan to recruit volunteers in the conquered terr ...
Christopher Cradock... Monmouth class cruisers) which had previously been sent to Rear-Admiral Sir's North America and West Indies command to help protect British interests ...
Aëtius... agistri militum who dominated the state, such as Stilicho, Constantius III,, Boniface, and Ricimer. Zeno granted it to Odoacer to legitimize the late ...
First Sea Lord... gdom might use Polaris. In 1957 Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke andLouis Mountbatten began corresponding on the project. After the cancellati ...
Lord Gambier... mudians had preceded him into senior ranks, including Bahamian-born Admiral, and Bermudian-born Royal Marines Brigadier Harvey, who, when promoted to ...
King Constantine I... its territory and population. In the following years, the struggle betweenand charismatic Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos over the country's fo ...
Spock... kerous McCoy frequently argues with Kirk's other confidant, science officer, and occasionally is bigoted toward Spock's Vulcan heritage. McCoy often ...
Franz Joseph I of Austria... of his Catholic Austrian relatives, particularly that of his uncle, Emperor
Oliver Cromwell... ution, but word is brought that, although the Royalists have been defeated,has pardoned all prisoners. The lovers are finally united for good
Gao Jiong... eat the Chen dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui took the suggestion of his generaland waited until the South were harvesting their crops to entirely burn th ...
Turan-Shah... id dynasty founded and brought to peak by Ali al-Sulayhi between 1047-1063.annexed Yemen to the Ayyubid Empire of Saladin in 1173. The Rasulid dynast ...
Creighton AbramsIt entered U.S. Army service in 1967. Under the urging of General, the US Commander of Military Forces in Vietnam at the time, the M551 was ...
Alexander the Great... in pike square formations. A similar weapon, the sarissa, was also used by's Macedonian phalanx infantry to great effect
Ian Standish Monteith HamiltonIn 1904–1905,was the military attaché of the British Indian Army serving with the Japan ...
Jeremiah Denton... nd that the worst that especially resistant prisoners such as Stockdale andencountered was being confined to small cells. Tran Trong Duyet, a jailer ...
Rafael del Riego... of the typical dance "The dance of majordomos" from Benasque was enjoyed bywhen he was in Benasque so he ordered to copy it and as a result the "himn ...
James H. Ledlie... s draw lots. The division chosen by chance was that commanded by Brig. Gen., who failed to brief the men on what was expected of them and was reporte ...
Richard Whitehead Young... right activist Susa Young Gates, NFL Hall of Fame athlete Steve Young, and, U.S. Army Brigadier General and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Cour ...
Francisco FrancoDuring the dictatorships of Primo de Rivera and especially of(1939–1975), all regional cultures were suppressed. All of the languages s ...
Wilhelm Koppe... lice in the General Government. Krüger himself was ultimately replaced with
James Edmonds... s, and who put German losses at 530,000. The British official historian Sirhad unofficially advised Churchill but queried his figures, claiming that ...
James T. Kirk... Coy was posted as chief medical officer of the USS Enterprise under Captainwho calls him "Bones". McCoy and Kirk are good friends, even "brotherly". ...
Saladin... ulayhi between 1047-1063. Turan-Shah annexed Yemen to the Ayyubid Empire ofin 1173. The Rasulid dynasty ruled Yemen, with Zabid as its capital, from ...
Glyn Charles Anglim Gilbert... ians served in the British armed forces. Among the latter was Major-General, Bermuda's highest ranking soldier. After the war, he was instrumental in ...
Edward Bingham... the Admiralty in recognition of the valorious conduct of Commander The Hon.whilst on board HMS Nestor while fighting in the Battle of Jutland in July ...
Julius Caesar... , and the organization and histories of other nations, while statesmen like, Cicero and others provided us with examples of the politics of the repub ...
AegidiusFrom 457 to 486, underand his son Syagrius, Noviodunum was the capital of the "Kingdom of Soisso ...
Nicholas II of Russia... d Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the daughter of the murdered Tsar. However, the ultimate test for her is to convince the Dowager Empress, M ...
Lando Calrissian... ies, although he is attributed as the A-wing pilot that acts as a decoy forduring the attack run on the second Death Star. Celchu, however, plays a m ...
Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria... ience and effectiveness of the German army. The German Army Group Commanderstated: "What remained of the old first-class peace-trained German infantr ...
Rollo Gillespie... Admiral Robert Stopford, General Frederick Augustus Wetherall, and Colonel, who led a well-organized army against an army of mostly French conscript ...
Ivan Paskevich... d Russian-Persian war, Yerevan was captured by Russian troops under generalon 1 October 1827. It was formally ceded by the Persians in 1828, followin ...
Fitzhugh Lee... h the Lee family, seeing them socially on frequent occasions. Lee's nephew,, also arrived at the academy in 1852. In Stuart's final year, in addition ...
SyagriusFrom 457 to 486, under Aegidius and his son, Noviodunum was the capital of the "Kingdom of Soissons", until it fell t ...
Ulysses S. Grant... ewellton is the Winter Quarters Plantation restoration, where Union Generaland his men spent the winter of 1862-1863, prior to launching the assault ...
Winston Churchill... h parties, the guests at which included Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks,and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's, George Bernard Sha ...
King Edward VII... ormed National Battlefields Commission, a group that, following the lead of, began to collect historical data relating to the plains and the battles ...
Baden-Powell... form is a specific characteristic of the Scouting movement, in the words ofat the 1937 World Jamboree, "it covers the differences of country and race ...
Robert PearyOn September 30, 1897 Lieutenantbrought six Inuit people from Greenland to the American Museum of Natural ...
Jefferson Davis... , North Carolina Governor David Lowry Swain persuaded Confederate Presidentto exempt some students from the draft, so the university was one of the f ...
William IIIHenley suffered from both parties in the Civil War.on his march to London in 1688 rested here, at the nearby recently rebuilt ...
Charles George GordonAfter time spent in Palestine in 1882–83, Generalfound a location outside the old city walls that he suggested to have been ...
Charles II... parliaments during the Interregnum, but reinstated with the restoration ofin 1660. 1 May 1707 was the day the Act of Union came into effect, joining ...
Sir Thomas Graham... d a column against the French centre, while other columns were commanded byand Rowland Hill and looped around the French right and left (this battle ...
Jan Smuts... ns was repealed and all Indian political prisoners were released by General
Thucydides... nals, iii. 30); and Quintilian does not hesitate to put him on a level with
Benito MussoliniBetween 1924 and 1945,'s Fascist government forced minorities living in Italy to assume the Ital ...
Arthur WellesleyAfter Light's demise, Lieutenant-Colonelarrived in Penang to co-ordinate the defences of the island. In 1800, Lieu ...
Ulysses S. Grant... corps at Knoxville contributed to Gen. Braxton Bragg's defeat by Maj. Gen.at Chattanooga. Troops under Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman marched to Burns ...
Prince Albert... nd led a further programme for a comprehensive restoration at the behest of. Salvin was succeeded in the work by John Taylor. When a feature did not ...
Pliny the Elder... ii. 42, 46. 166), Diodorus (i. 84), Strabo (xvii. p. 802), Mela (i. 9 § 9),(v. 10. s. 12), Ptolemy (iv. 5. § 51), and Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v.). ...
Anakin... proof" domed buildings. It is home to a podracing track and was the home ofand Shmi Skywalker in . There was a large slave quarter within the rugged ...
Saladin... army because of their anger for the massacre at Acre. It was believed thateven told the Crusaders to shield themselves in the Citadel until he had r ...
Ernest King... Allied bases in Samoa and at Suva. Nimitz, after consultation with Admiral, Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet, decided to contest the Ja ...
Benito Mussolini... ercion by the paramilitary Blackshirts under the regime of Italian dictator. Dissidents and regime opponents were forced to ingest the oil in large a ...
Heinz Guderian... 24 May. Becoming part of the XIX Panzer Corps under the command of General, they took up a position 15 miles south west of Dunkirk along the line of ...
Arthur Conan Doyle... e first Scottish scientific surgeon. His great grandson was Joseph Bell whohas credited Sherlock Holmes as being loosely based on from Bell's observa ...
Rowland Hill... French centre, while other columns were commanded by Sir Thomas Graham andand looped around the French right and left (this battle became the subjec ...
Frederick Augustus Wetherall... ndonesia. The war was swiftly conducted by Admiral Robert Stopford, General, and Colonel Rollo Gillespie, who led a well-organized army against an ar ...
elder brother... s the Commonwealth realms; however, after the births of two children to his, and an evolution of the Commonwealth, Prince Andrew is currently fourth ...
Pliny... yrus the Great (558–530 BC), or in the first year of Darius I. According to's evidence, Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) had destroyed Kapisa in Capiscene ...
Alexander the Great, on his march from Pelusium to Memphis, halted at this city (Arrian, iii. ...
Alcibiades... dialogues, some of them being vehement attacks on his contemporaries, as onin the second of his two works entitled Cyrus, on Gorgias in his Archelaus ...
Muhammad Zia-ul-HaqThe final say-so came down to, the Pakistani dictator, through whom the CIA had to pass all of its fund ...
Robert M. KimmittDeputy Secretary of the Treasuryserved as Acting Secretary of the Treasury from June 30, 2006, to July 9, ...
Lachlan Macquarie... of North Ryde, and it was decided that the future university be named after, an important early governor of the colony of New South Wales
Richard Montgomery... ryon County was changed to Montgomery County in order to honor the general,, who had captured several places in Canada and died attempting to capture ...
Aubrey Fitch... abu on 27 April en route to the Coral Sea. TF 11, commanded by Rear Admiraland consisting of the carrier with two cruisers and five destroyers, was b ...
Vahriz... ntrol in Yemen ended in 570 with the invasion of the elder Sassanid generalwho, according to later legends, famously killed Masruq with his well-aime ...
Pericles... in Glory and the Lightning (1974), Aspasia, mistress of the Athenian leader
Edward, Prince of Wales... of Belgium Albert I, the first European monarch to visit the United States., the future monarch of the United Kingdom, spent two days with Marshall a ...
Alan Shepard... onauts, including John Glenn (Ed Harris) of the United States Marine Corps,(Scott Glenn) of the United States Navy, Cooper, Grissom, and three others ...
John Hancock... ts passed on this demand to their customers, although the popular governor,, did not impose hard currency demands on poorer borrowers and refused to ...
Seleucus I... empire, Chandragupta Maurya, confronted a Macedonian invasion force led byin 305 BC and following a brief conflict, an agreement was reached as Sele ...
Ulysses S. Grant... t about $450/person. Catching a fatal disease was a distinct possibility asin 1852 learned when his unit of about 600 soldiers and some of their depe ...
Joachim von RibbentropAlthoughhad been named Foreign Minister in February 1938, Göring continued to invo ...
Pompey... Lucullus against Mithradates VI of Pontus (75-66 BC), and the victories ofin the East (66-62 BC)
Alexander the Great... " appears in the Eastern versions of the Alexander romance, which describesand his servant crossing the Land of Darkness to find the restorative spri ...
James Oglethorpe... hed in 1902 by the United States Army was later named Fort Oglethorpe after, the founder of the Colony of Georgia. The base served largely as a caval ...
Ricimer... , as well as that of the army and its commanders (the generals Majorian and) and the Vandals of Gaiseric
AlexanderIt had takenonly six months to conquer Persia (Iran), but it took him nearly three yea ...
Anakin Skywalker... ugh it is mentioned at the end of the movie. Since it is the home planet ofand Luke Skywalker, it easily became one of the most iconic planets in the ...
Gert Bastian... dead in Bonn while sleeping by her partner, ex-general and Green politician(born 1923), who then killed himself. She was 44, he was 69. Her body was ...
Robert E. Lee... West Virginia, which chose to remain loyal to the Union. Virginian generaltook command of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862, and led invasions i ...
Zachary Taylor... River. Black Hawk rejected the messages advising him to turn back. Colonel, a regular army officer who served under Atkinson, later stated that Atki ...
SavaryThe luring plan did not stop at that. On November 25, generalwas sent to the Allied headquarters at Olmutz in order to secretly examine ...
Winston Churchill... lew to Britain to discuss the weakness of Singapore's defences and sat with's British War Cabinet. En route he inspected Singapore's defences – findi ...
Mark Antony... ian Empire. This short independence was rapidly crushed by the Romans underand Octavian. The installation of Herod the Great (an Idumean) as king in ...
King William IV... t acceptable replacement among the Whig leaders, and became Prime Minister.'s opposition to the Whigs' reforming ways led him to dismiss Melbourne in ...
Thucydides... ns, despite following in his footsteps, criticised Herodotus, starting with. Nevertheless, Thucydides chose to begin his history where Herodotus left ...
General Sumner... Confusion prevailed over landing priorities and the chain of command. Whenrefused to allow the Army's Gatling Gun Detachment - which had priority - ...
John Hancock... to revolution in which Madeira played a key role was the British seizure of’s sloop the Liberty on May 9, 1768. Hancock's boat was seized after he ha ...
Abd er RahmanThe city was plundered by the troops ofin 732, after he had defeated Duke Eudes in the Battle of the River Garonn ...
Constantine IIKing's dismissal of George Papandreou's centrist government in July 1965 promp ...
Aleksei Antonov... erence on 4 February, the Deputy Chief of the Soviet General Staff, General, raised the issue of hampering the reinforcement of German troops from th ...
Lucullus... period, embracing the war against Sertorius (died 72 BC), the campaigns ofagainst Mithradates VI of Pontus (75-66 BC), and the victories of Pompey i ...
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher... on the Killingworth wagonway, and named Blücher after the Prussian general. It was constructed in the colliery workshop behind Stephenson's home, Di ...
Mikhail Kutuzov... is supply lines, he faced a larger Austro-Russian army under the command of, with the Emperor Alexander I of Russia personally present. On 2 December ...
Otto Kerner... Commission to study the problem of urban riots, headed by Illinois Governor
George WashingtonRobert Morris was the first person appointed Secretary of the Treasury by, but Morris declined this office; thus the first Secretary of the Treasur ...
Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly... fter a siege of two months, the armies of the Catholic League, commanded by, captured Heidelberg. He gave the famous Bibliotheca Palatina from the Ch ...
Nearchus... was referred to by the Greeks as "Tylos", the centre of pearl trading, whendiscovered it while serving under Alexander the Great. From the 3rd centur ...
Rowland Hill... ellington withdrew his army and, joined with the smaller corps commanded by, began to retreat to Portugal. Marshal Soult declined to attack
Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke... ed by William Kent; and the Doric Column of Victory in the park designed by, and finished by Roger Morris. The latter rose to a height of , complete ...
Ernest O. ThompsonTexas Railroad Commissioner, who also served as a mayor of Amarillo and became an expert on petroleum ...
General Charles Cornwallis... the American Revolution. Hillsborough served as a military base for Britishin late February 1781. The United States Constitution drafted in 1787 was ...
Oliver Cromwell... members of the Council were elected by the Commons; the body was headed by, the de facto military dictator of the nation. In 1653, however, Cromwell ...
Duke of York and Albany... nglish conquered New Netherland and renamed it "New York" after the English, the future King James II. Stuyvesant and his council negotiated with the ...
El Supremo... ovel The Happy Return, set in Central America in 1808, features a characterwho claims to be a descendant of Alvarado by a (fictional) marriage to a d ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... of the next three decades, excepting the two-term presidency of Republican. African Americans moved into the Democratic Party during Roosevelt's tim ...
Oskar Dirlewanger... soldiers during the liberation of Dachau concentration camp, and SS officerwas beaten and tortured to death at the end of the war. In addition at lea ...
Pliny the Elder... ephus, Ant. Jud. xiii. 3, C. Apion. i. 26; Cicero, De Natura Deorum iii. 21;, v. 9. § 11; Tacitus, Ann. vi. 28; Pomponius Mela, iii. 8. The city also ...
Alexander the Great... d later Persians in the mid 6th century BC. In 331 BC, Van was conquered byand after his death became part of the Seleucid Empire. By the early 2nd c ...
Richard III of England... t Howard Duke of Norfolk. He was a close friend and loyal supporter of Kingwith whom he died in combat at the Battle of Bosworth Field
VahrizThe Persian king Khosrau I, sent troops under the command of, who helped Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan to drive the Ethiopian Aksumites out of Ye ...
George Washington... rolina State Legislature met here once in 1787 and again in 1987. Presidentis known to have slept in Tarboro during a visit on his 1791 Southern tour ...
Zheng He... ared in the "The Nautical Charts of Zheng He" written on the expeditions of(Cheng Ho) in Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Yongle Emperor. In 15 c ...
Quebec lieutenant... ador to France. In 1988, Bouchard returned to Canada to serve as Mulroney's, and was elected as a Progressive Conservative from a Saguenay-area ridin ...
Alcibiades... rstand that he attracted the attention of the most admired men, Critias andwho were young, and Thucydides and Pericles who were already old. Agathon ...
Prince Eugene of Savoy... h considerable British and Prussian contingents, was led by Marlborough and, while the French and a contingent of Bavarians were commanded by Villars ...
Thucydides... tention of the most admired men, Critias and Alcibiades who were young, andand Pericles who were already old. Agathon too, the tragic poet, whom Come ...
Rommel... d Men of War, the first single volume dual military biography of Patton and
Thucydides... phanes are also a treasure trove of comic presentation, while Herodotus andare two of the most influential historians in this period
Heinrich Himmler... leased on 14 April 1945. In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from, though the offer was ultimately rejected
Pervez Musharraf... s in the Kargil district led to the Kargil War of 1999, after which Generaltook over through a bloodless coup d'état and assumed vast executive power ...
Maio of Bari... n 1071, Bari was captured by Robert Guiscard, following a three-year siege.(d. 1160), a Lombard merchant's son, was the third of the great admirals o ...
XenophonThe Greek generalrecords in his Anabasis that the Armenians burned their crops and food sup ...
Antoine Brenier'sTwo nights after Masséna's withdrawal,1,400-man French garrison of Almeida slipped through the British lines dur ...
Tan Daoji... his generals, decreasing weakening the dynasty. Because of his jealousy of, a noted leader of the Army of the Northern Garrison, he deprived himself ...
Clark Gable... This part of the town's history was chronicled in the movie Boom Town withand Spencer Tracy. The Great Depression would have a negative impact on th ...
Bradley Center... lwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association play home games at the. The Bucks won the NBA Championship in 1971
Obi-Wan KenobiMos Eisley is a spaceport town. In ,described Mos Eisley as a "wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Robert E. Lee... olina History) in an attempt to reach Weldon to cut off supplies to Generalduring the Civil War. The fort protected Weldon until the day after the Ge ...
Alan Shepard... of the "Grads in Space" exhibit on 23 September 1998. The late Rear Admiral, class of 1945, had flown Freedom 7 into space on 5 May 1961. His histori ...
John C. Frémont... d Spanish by José Antonio Carrillo, approved by American Lieutenant-Coloneland Mexican Governor Andrés Pico on January 13, 1847 at Campo de Cahuenga ...
Queen Anne of Great Britain... fluential women in British history as a result of her close friendship with
King William IIIIn 1702,died, and Anne became Queen. Anne immediately offered John Churchill a duk ...
Wedge Antilles... le of Yavin scene, where he joined Luke Skywalker and Luke's other wingman,, in their attack run on the first Death Star. Biggs was killed when Darth ...
Ludwig BeckGeneralof Wiesbaden was one of the planners of the July 20, 1944 assassination at ...
Milwaukee AdmiralsThe state also has minor league teams in hockey () and baseball (the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, based in Appleton and the B ...
Saladin... , citing Richard's alliance with King Guy. He too had been negotiating with, as a defence against any attempt by Richard to wrest Tyre from him for G ...
Hasdrubal Gisco... BC Hasdrubal left Iberia and fought Syphax, though he may be confused with, however, it did bind Carthaginian resources. Hasdrubal Gisco is the son ...
Camillus... iance with Rome for over 300 years. It eventually fell to the Roman general's army in 396 BC. Veii continued to be occupied after its capture by the ...
Idi Amin... Emperor and Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia had an SM, while Ugandan dictatorhad seven of them. The Shah of Iran drove an SM. Actors Lorne Greene and L ...
Prince George, Prince of Wales... s that took place on them. Finally, on 24 July 1908, the King's eldest son,, dedicated the Quebec Battlefields Park at the Plains of Abraham, then pr ...
Patton... he published Men of War, the first single volume dual military biography ofand Rommel
Ricimer... te a further embassy by Marcian, with the destruction of Capua. Avitus sentto defend Sicily, and the Romans defeated the Vandals twice, once in a lan ...
Jervis... the Napoleonic Wars. Protected by naval supremacy (in the words of Admiralto the House of Lords "I do not say, my Lords, that the French will not co ...
Gorshkov... fell on deaf ears, particularly on those of Kuznetsov's successor, Admiral. Not until July 26, 1988 did the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U ...
Gerd von RundstedtIn September 1939 Frank was assigned as Chief of Administration toin the German military administration in occupied Poland. From 26 October ...
Andrew Jackson... on County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of, general in the United States Army and President of the United States of ...
Sir Philip Game... on as Governor-General. In so doing, Kerr was aware of the precedent set by, the Governor of New South Wales, who had dismissed Jack Lang's governmen ...
Miguel López de Legazpi... gellan expedition, King Philip II of Spain sent Ruy López de Villalobos andin 1543 and 1565 and claimed the islands for Spain. The Visayas region and ...
General William Rufus Shafter... dock along the Santa Fe Railroad right-of-way. The community was named forwho commanded US Forces in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Property ...
Julius Caesar... ristobulus II, Simon's great-grandsons, became pawns in a proxy war betweenand Pompey the Great. The deaths of Pompey (48 BCE), Caesar (44 BCE), and ...
Daniel Morgan... n from Cooper County. It is named in honor of the Revolutionary War General. Some parts of Morgan County touch the Lake of the Ozarks
Hirohito... ntentions on issues of utmost importance to the Japanese, including whetherwas to be regarded as one of those who had "misled the people of Japan" or ...
Zachary Taylor... after John Taylor of Caroline, while a minority believe it was named after
Alexios StrategopoulosOn 25 July 1261, Michael VIII's generalcaptured Constantinople from its last Latin Emperor, Baldwin II. Michael V ...
Alexander the Great... he centre of pearl trading, when Nearchus discovered it while serving under. From the 3rd century BC to the arrival of Islam in the 7th century AD, B ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... stinguished Flying Cross, and he was awarded the Harmon Trophy by President
Braxton Bragg... de the city. Tying down Longstreet's corps at Knoxville contributed to Gen.'s defeat by Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Chattanooga. Troops under Maj. ...
Joseph Warren... y is the name of fourteen counties in the USA. They are named after General, who was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill in th
Douglas MacArthur... s regarded Port Moresby as a key base for a planned counteroffensive, under, against Japanese forces in the southwest Pacific area. Nimitz's staff al ...
Charles III of SpainIn the 18th century Kingcommissioned Anton Raphael Mengs to paint The Triumph of Trajan on the cei ...
James A. Garfield... at is at Pomeroy, the county's only city. It was named after U.S. President
Hannibal... expansion into Greece itself. Encouraged by the exiled Carthaginian general, and making an alliance with the disgruntled Aetolian League, Antiochus l ...
James II of England... 77, William married his cousin Mary Stuart, the daughter of the future king. In 1688, William embarked on a mission to depose his Catholic father-in- ...
George Armstrong Custer... wea. The name honors White Shield, an Arikara chief and a scout for General
Pliny the Elder... found to date is in 1787, in translator Gottfried Große’s interpretation of’s Natural History
Leopold Okulicki... Komorowski commanded from July 1943 until his capture in September 1944 and, pseudonym Niedzwiadek ("Bear Cub") led the organisation in its final day ...
Duke of Wellington... inaries from the government and industry, including the Prime Minister, the. The day started with a procession of eight trains setting out from Liver ...
William Henry Harrison... buy as much Native American land as possible. In 1804, territorial governornegotiated a treaty in St. Louis in which a group of Sauk and Meskwaki lea ...
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani... akistan ever since. The three main branches are the Army (headed by General), the Navy and the Air Force, and they are supported by a number of param ...
Michelle J. HowardIn 2006,, class of 1982, became the first female graduate of the Naval Academy to ...
William III... tion; and she promoted her interests during the rule of James's successors,and Mary II. When Anne came to the throne after William's death in 1702, t ...
Gastañaga... troops were replaced with men from fortress garrisons. Spanish troops underjoined the main Allied army, as did the Count of Tilly with troops from Li ...
George Washington... vernment through the war that raised an army to fight the British and namedits commander, made treaties, declared independence, and instructed the co ...
Reinhard Heydrich... des in World War II used operatives specifically trained for assassination.was killed after an attack by British trained Czechoslovak soldiers on beh ...
Richard Byrd... board the USS Alabama to observe the operation was the retired Rear Admiral, the famed polar explorer
Duke of Norfolk... ng Catherine and her step-children penniless. The King himself wrote to thepressing him to make sure Latimer would 'condemn that villain Aske and sub ...
Duke of Wellington... ical actors, a squirrel-hating transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the(played by Stephen Fry)
John W. Frazer... Knoxville unopposed, he sent troops back to the Cumberland Gap. Brig. Gen., the Confederate commander, refused to surrender in the face of two Union ...
John B. Floyd... a call for 100,000 states' militia to defend the newborn nation. Previously, U.S. Secretary of War under President James Buchanan, had moved arms sou ...
Queen Anne... great contempt. This book offended Prince George of Denmark, the consort of; and the Danish Minister protested
Winston Churchill... ran Conference, during a ceremony to receive the "Sword of Stalingrad" from, he took the sword from Stalin but then allowed the sword to fall from it ...
Viscount Wellington... ttle of Fuentes de Oñoro ( 3–6 May 1811), the British-Portuguese Army underchecked an attempt by the French Army of Portugal under Marshal André Mass ...
Alexander Suvorov... temkin. Assisted by highly successful generals such as Pyotr Rumyantsev and, and admirals such as Fyodor Ushakov, she governed at a time when the Rus ...
Charles II... store the monarchy. In 1660, the monarchy was restored when Charles I's sonwas declared king
Werner von Blomberg... ch Affair, which led to the resignations of the War Minister, Field Marshal, and the army commander, General von Fritsch. Göring had acted as witness ...
Jefferson DavisThe new Confederate President, a former "Cooperationist" who had insisted on delaying secession until a ...
Pyotr Rumyantsev... Orlov and Grigory Potemkin. Assisted by highly successful generals such asand Alexander Suvorov, and admirals such as Fyodor Ushakov, she governed a ...
Alexander the Great... a card game. He gives him a pocket knife and a small statue of Bucephalus,'s horse, from the loot and tells him the story of how Alexander became Bu ...
Johann von Thielmann... Prussian III Corps rear guard under the command of Lieutenant-General Baronat the Battle of Wavre. Moreover, Soult's letter ordering Grouchy to move ...
Duke of Wellington... n the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play Other Lives, playing the
Marshal Ney... with false intelligence. He divided his army into a left wing commanded by, a right wing commanded by Marshal Grouchy, and a reserve, which he comma ...
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus... nvasion force was underway to northern Iberia. Its commanders, the brothersand Publius Cornelius Scipio, knew that Hannibal had crossed the Ebro, but ...
Gundobad... or was abandoned by his partisans, captured in a church and put to death by, Ricimer's nephew. This version implies that Olybrius was secretly suppor ...
Joseph E. Johnston... aign against Richmond, Virginia, and Stuart's cavalry brigade assisted Gen.'s army as it withdrew up the Virginia Peninsula in the face of superior n ...
Alexander the Great... of France, and the Black Sea coasts. Greeks founded more than 400 colonies.'s conquest of the Achaemenid Empire marked the beginning of the Hellenist ...
Reginald Dyer... cre) in Amritsar, Punjab. The British military commander, Brigadier-General, blocked the main entrance-cum-exit, and ordered his soldiers to fire int ...
Kirill Razumovsky... o wished to be with her including Peter and Catherine and Counts Alexey and. Finally on 25 December 1761, the Empress died. She was buried in the Pet ...
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick... d when Henry VI was captured at the Battle of Northampton. With the help of(nicknamed "the Kingmaker") Henry recaptured the throne for a short time i ...
Charles II... ewels of the United Kingdom. From the early 14th century until the reign of, a procession would be led from the Tower to Westminster Abbey on the cor ...
Jonathon BandAdmirals George Anson. and Admiral, current First Sea Lord are both notable in Portsmouth
Zinovy Rozhestvensky... ir Far East Fleet by sending the Baltic Fleet, under the command of Admiral. The squadron sailed half way around the world from the Baltic Sea to the ...
Franz Joseph I of Austria... printed with a variety of colored inks ranging from sepia, blue, and green.was the first person to purchase Das Werk Gustav Klimts in 1908
Duke of Marlborough... same year he published Rufinus, a historical essay; and a political poem onand his adherents
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski... r "Arrowhead"), served as the AK's first commander until his arrest in 1943;commanded from July 1943 until his capture in September 1944 and Leopold ...
Winston Churchill... rliament (MP) is Nicholas Soames, the grandson of former Prime Minister Sir, and a former junior minister in the Government of John Major (1990–97). ...
James II... she married in 1677. Sarah acted as Anne's agent after the latter's father,, was deposed during the Glorious Revolution; and she promoted her interes ...
Hans Landa... Göth, immortalized in the film Schindler's List. The fictional character of, seen in the film Inglorious Basterds was also depicted as a member of th ...
GöringHitler,and Dr. Schacht bestowed upon Kung an honorary degree, and attempted to op ...
AetiusHe then started a military career: he served under the magister militumin his campaign against the Juthungi and the Norics (430–431) and also aga ...
Sadamichi Kajioka... with one light cruiser and six destroyers under the command of Rear Admiral. Abe's ships departed Rabaul for the trip to Port Moresby on 4 May and we ...
L. Iunius Brutus... ween the Romans and the Carthaginians, which he dated to the consulships ofand L. Tarquinius Collatinus (509 BC)
Julius Caesar... prolifically on military campaigning. Among the best-known Roman works are's commentaries on the Gallic Wars and the Roman Civil war - written about ...
Wu Sangui... id 17th century, allowed through the northern passes by the Chinese generalonce the Ming capital at Beijing had fallen into the hands of a rebel army ...
Fidel V. Ramos... eer military officer who reached the five-star general/admiral is President(USMA 1950) (president from 1992–1998) who rose from second lieutenant up ...
Julius Caesar... ay. In 1912, Robeson attended Somerville High School, where he performed in, Othello, sang in the chorus, and excelled in football, basketball, baseb ...
Julius Caesar... ons, Gwenwynwyn and Gwanar, who both accompany Caswallawn in his pursuit of, who has been chased from Britain. This triad is the only source connecti ...
Aylmer Hunter-Weston... ore dangerous. A report from a senior British officer in the field, Generalof the VIII Corps, added to the myth that the wire could be cut by bombard ...
John J. Pershing... artermaster at Fort Riley, until July 1916. In 1916, he served with General's Mexican Expeditionary Forces, as commander of the bakeries. This was th ...
James Longstreet... was defeated at the Battle of Chickamauga, Burnside was pursued by Lt. Gen., against whose troops he had battled at Marye's Heights. Burnside skillfu ...
DatisDarius thus put together an amphibious task force underand Artaphernes in 490 BCE, which attacked Naxos, before receiving the sub ...
Kiyohide Shima... invasion of Tulagi was the Tulagi Invasion Force, commanded by Rear Admiral, consisting of two minelayers, two destroyers, six minesweepers, two subc ...
Schofield... ttles of Bentonville and Wyse Fork, Sherman's forces met with the armies of, their troops taking over the city in March. During the following three w ...
Sir James Douglas... ly under the youthful Walter the Steward, but actually under the command of
Charles de Gaulle... the author himself. Subsequently, French General (later, French President), whom Saint-Exupéry and others held in low regard, publicly implied that ...
Saladin... used as a prison for captured "Franks" during the Crusades, as a stable by, as a fortress by Napoleon, and as a local school. In 1980 the mosque was ...
Aragorn... Shire. A day's ride east along the road lay The Forsaken Inn, according to, although nothing more is known of it
Cimon/KimonIn the first ten years of the league's existence,forced Karystos in Euboea to join the league, conquered the island of Skyr ...
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Sir Cloudesley Shovell... ted by this problem and by the 1707 grounding of four ships of Vice-Admiral's fleet off the Isles of Scilly, resulting in heavy loss of life. Establi ...
King Charles IIHe visited the City as a courtier toin 1671 and described it thus
Nicholas II... s of the Russian Imperial Family ("Nicky" was particularly used to refer to, the last Tsar) so they changed it to Dickie
Francisco de Miranda... n the Venezuelan War of Independence emerged. Among them were Generalissimo, Simón Bolívar (Bolívar's own father had been Colonel of the Militia of A ...
Zebulon Baird Vance... n. Captain Oscar R. Rand recruited willing men of all ages to join Governor's 26th Infantry Regiment in the Confederate States Army. On a single day ...
Ariel Sharon... 's water as a vital regional resource was the cause of the war confirmed bywho has said, People generally regard June 5, 1967, as the day the Six Day ...
Marcus Licinius Crassus... mpany. San Simeon was also used in the 1960 film Spartacus as the estate of(played by Laurence Olivier). According to Hearst Over Hollywood, Jack and ...
Ernst Kaltenbrunner... many which would eventually occur in 1938. The early Austrian SS was led byand Arthur Seyss-Inquart and was technically under the command of the SS i ...
Aritomo Gotō... carrier , four heavy cruisers, and one destroyer, commanded by Rear Admiral. A separate Cover Force (sometimes referred to as the Support Group), com ...
Ptolemy I Soter... al of the diadochic Ptolemaic Kingdom under Alexander's immediate successor
Lord Edward Somerset... The 1st Brigade, known as the Household Brigade, commanded by Major-General, consisted of guards regiments: the 1st and 2nd Life Guards, the Royal Ho ...
Aharon Yariv... place on October 28, 1973 at "Kilometer 101" between Israeli Major Generaland Egyptian Major General Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy. Ultimately, Kissinger to ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... oquent orator. The Republican Party countered with popular war hero Generaland won in a landslide, ending 20 consecutive years of Democratic control ...
Phil Collins... st post-Abba solo album. This was also her first solo album in English. The-produced album was called Something's Going On, and became a big success ...
Arthur Seyss-Inquart... lly occur in 1938. The early Austrian SS was led by Ernst Kaltenbrunner andand was technically under the command of the SS in Germany, but often acte ...
Lon Nol... uation created by the removal of Sihanouk as head of state in 1970. Premier, with the support of the National Assembly, deposed Sihanouk. Sihanouk, i ...
Julius Caesar... e beginning of his public career, Sallust operated as a decided partisan of, to whom he owed such political advancement as he attained. In 50 BC, the ...
James Taylor Jr.Bellevue was named for the plantation of Gen., Quartermaster General of the western US Army in the War of 1812. The Cit ...
SaladinAyyubid Sultanhad conquered most of the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem, including the anc ...
Hernán Cortés... vanilla orchid, called tlilxochitl by the Aztecs, and Spanish conquistadoris credited with introducing both vanilla and chocolate to Europe in the 1 ...
Ernest SwintonBritish Majorsaw the potential of a track-laying tractor. He proposed that the Army sho ...
William Edward Parry... am Bay was named after the famed British Arctic explorer and navigator, Sir, as were two other nearby features, Parry Inlet and Edward Point. The bay ...
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés... ing to dissuade further French colonization. The Spanish quickly dispatchedto go to Florida and establish a base from which to attack the French
SaladinThe Kurdish Muslimretook Hebron in 1187 – again with Jewish assistance according to one late ...
Winston Churchill... nrich Himmler asked Bernadotte to convey a peace proposal to Prime Ministerand President Harry S. Truman without the knowledge of Adolf Hitler. The m ...
James Warren... sful in shutting courts down in those communities in September and October.wrote to John Adams on October 22, "We are now in a state of Anarchy and C ...
Sir Robert Baden-Powell... ich are used by most national Scout organizations. The symbol was chosen byas it had been the arm-badge of those soldiers qualified as "Scouts" (reco ...
John Hunt Morgan... at he was a civilian). Burnside also dealt with Confederate raiders such as
Scipio Africanus... ed action to thought. The panegyrist of 289, after comparing his actions to' victories over Hannibal during the Second Punic War, suggested that Maxi ...
William III... ight of succession was closely guarded. Ultimately, in the conflict between, and James II, it was William, the foreign usurper, who became the popula ...
Yang Hucheng... a CPC conspiracy (as opposed to a spontaneous act motivated by patriotism).probably lost the most in the incident, as he was removed from his positio ...
Ariel Sharon... Egyptian losses were higher, especially in the sector controlled by General, who ordered his troops to respond with massive firepower to any Egyptian ...
Julius Caesar... of the old Roman aristocracy throughout his career, and later a partisan of. Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to hi ...
Gao Huan... ain authority. As conflict swelled in the north between successive leaders,took control of the east and Luoyang (holding Emperor Xiaojing of Eastern ...
Hannibal... ist of 289, after comparing his actions to Scipio Africanus' victories overduring the Second Punic War, suggested that Maximian has never heard of th ...
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose... ort time only to become a covenanter again and was present at the defeat ofin 1650. During the Civil War at the Battle of Carbisdale the Clan Ross an ...
Marcus Livius Salinator... ated long ago. Livius Salinator might be Gaius Livius Salinator, his father, or his grandfather Marcus. If Jerome means that the liberation took plac ...
Li LingIn 99 BC, Sima Qian became embroiled in the Li Ling affair, whereand Li Guangli (李廣利), two military officers who led a campaign against the ...
George II of Greece... Within days, Philip received a command from his cousin and sovereign, King, to resume his naval career in Britain which, though given without explan ...
Ken Mattingly... e and his crew will fly the Apollo 13 mission instead of Apollo 14. Lovell,(Gary Sinise), and Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) begin training for their new m ...
Feng Yi... wu made Luoyang his capital in 25 CE, and by 27 CE his officers Deng Yu andhad forced the Red Eyebrows to surrender and executed their leaders for tr ...
William Richardson Davie... to change their minds partly by the strenuous efforts of James Iredell andand partly by the prospect of a Bill of Rights. The Constitution was later ...
General Wesley Clark... he mistake on his May 31, 2011 show. Both times he was interviewing retired
Tadeusz Kościuszko... the Polish national hero and hero of the American Revolutionary War General, because of its perceived resemblance to the Kościuszko Mound in Krakow
Meng Tian... s the construction of his own tomb. In 215 BC Qin Shi Huang ordered Generalwith 300,000 men to begin construction. Other sources suggested he ordered ...
Richard Montgomery... y County was also separated from Frederick County and was named for General. Washington County as created included land later to become Allegany Coun ...
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba... as a member of the converso family of Pacheco, together with his brother D.("El Gran Capitán"), and a troop of soldiers, hastened to protect the New ...
Stanley Savige... e Gippsland Campus of Monash University. A commemorative bust of Lt Gen Sirwas erected in 2006. Born in Morwell, Savige founded Legacy Australia foll ...
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus... ia to a pitched battle, so it continued on its way to northern Iberia under, a move which proved decisive for the outcome of the war. Their other com ...
Patton... attack, starting on 7 August, at Mortain, in the Falaise pocket, threatened's break-out from the beachhead. This was repulsed by 2nd TAF Typhoons, wh ...
Zebulon Pike... ssissippi, Micropolitan Statistical Area. Pike County is named for explorer
Muhammad Ali... ith Jack Paar in the 1960s, with memorable exchanges with Zsa Zsa Gabor and, and later with Johnny Carson. He was also Red Skelton's 1969 CBS summer ...
Yuan Shikai... advisors, and Yan was soon recognized as the military governor of Shanxi by, and effectively controlled Shanxi until 1949, when the Communists took c ...
Heinrich Müller... he became the overall supreme commander of the Reich Main Security Office.became Gestapo Chief, Arthur Nebe, chief of the Criminal Police (Kripo), a ...
Wilgelm Vitgeft... miral Stepan Makarov during the siege of Port Arthur in April 1904, Admiralwas appointed command of the battle fleet and was ordered to sortie from P ...
Hunter S. Thompson... kshi attempted several projects that fell through, including adaptations of's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man, Eric ...
Gaius Livius Salinator... en being honored, having been liberated long ago. Livius Salinator might be, his father Marcus Livius Salinator, or his grandfather Marcus. If Jerome ...
General Pershing... ddition, the Medal of Honor was presented to the British Unknown Warrior byon October 17, 1921. On November 11, 1921, the U.S. Unknown Soldier was re ...
Augustus Pitt Rivers... was influenced greatly by the work of the archaeologist Lieutenant General(1827–1900). The two constant themes in his attempts to improve archaeolog ...
Publius Cornelius Scipio... ve which proved decisive for the outcome of the war. Their other commander,, returned to Rome, realizing the danger of an invasion of Italy where the ...
Jerry Mateparae... monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister. , the Governor-General is Sir. The Governor-General's powers are primarily symbolic and formal in natur ...
Thucydides... fragments survive). Sallust was primarily influenced by the Greek historian, and amassed great (and ill-gotten) wealth from his governorship of Afric ...
Francis Marion... bia. Marion County is named for American Revolutionary War guerrilla leader
Zog of Albania... while Władysław Sikorski, military leader of Poland, lived at Iver and Kinglived at Frieth. Much earlier, King Louis XVIII of France lived in exile a ...
Prince Albert... s later extended artificially. The event became Royal in 1851. In that yearbecame the patron of the regatta
Pliny the Elder... me authors identify the old settlement of Bilbao as Amanun Portus, cited by, or with Flaviobriga, by Ptolemy. There are also ancient walls, discovere ...
Gainas... ch the good Osiris and the evil Typhon, who represent Aurelian and the Goth(ministers under Arcadius), strive for mastery, and the question of the di ...
John Rodgers... fluences toward peace, negotiated in June 1805 by Tobias Lear and Commodorewith the Pasha of Tripoli
Idi Amin... omplaining of the inconsistency of lifting them on Uganda immediately after's departure, but not Zimbabwe Rhodesia after Ian Smith's. Helms hosted Mu ...
Earl of Bothwell... ssination in 1567, Mary contracted an even more unpopular marriage with the, who was widely suspected of Darnley's murder. The nobility rebelled agai ...
Ernst von Pfuel... r Napoleon's defeat in 1814 and the Prussian occupation of Paris by General, the Quadriga was restored to Berlin and Victoria's wreath of oak leaves ...
Ibrahim Pasha... oman Sultan negotiated with Mehmet Ali of Egypt, who agreed to send his sonto Greece with an army to suppress the revolt in return for territorial ga ...
Deng Yu... tored. Guangwu made Luoyang his capital in 25 CE, and by 27 CE his officersand Feng Yi had forced the Red Eyebrows to surrender and executed their le ...
Anthony Zinni... pt is probably the strongest aspect of their strategic partnership. General, the former Commandant of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), once said, "E ...
George Washington... States to be named for the Revolutionary War general (and later President). Its county seat is
Publius Cornelius Scipio... ern Iberia. Its commanders, the brothers Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus and, knew that Hannibal had crossed the Ebro, but were surprised by the Carth ...
George Washington... is the debate over the beliefs of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and
Ricimer... d by Majorian, who ruled for four years, before being killed by his general(461)
3rd Duke of Norfolk... dy seems to have been moved at the Reformation, possibly to the tomb of theat Framlingham Church. The monumental brass of his first wife Katherine Mo ...
Gaius Marius... decisively. Frustrated at the apparent lack of action, Metellus' lieutenantreturned to Rome to seek election as Consul. Marius was elected, and then ...
Joseph Bell... me considered the first Scottish scientific surgeon. His great grandson waswho Arthur Conan Doyle has credited Sherlock Holmes as being loosely based ...
Jefferson Davis... s. Delegates from those seven formed the C.S.A. in February 1861, selectingas the provisional president. Unionist talk of reunion failed and Davis be ...
Abiye Abebe... arried Dejazmatch Haile Selassie Gugsa. Princess Tsehai married Lt. General
Arnaldo Ochoa... of Interior, convicting Army Major General and Hero of The Republic of Cuba, Ministry of Interior Colonel Antonio de la Guardia (Tony la Guardia), an ...
Prince of Orange... the Duchess of Richmond's ball in Brussels, he received a dispatch from theand was shocked by the speed of Napoleon's advance. He hastily ordered his ...
King James'... region to Prince Waldeck (William was himself busy in Ireland forestallingattempt to regain his throne). In other theatres Marshal de Lorge commande ...
Kōsō AbeThe Japanese Port Moresby Invasion Force, commanded by Rear Admiral, included 11 transport ships carrying about 5,000 soldiers from the IJA's ...
John C. Breckinridge... cast its electoral votes for the Southern Democratic choice, Vice Presidentof Kentucky. Regular Democratic nominee Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois ran ...
Spock... f in their performances as McCoy, Captain James T. Kirk and science officer, respectively. Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, referred to Kelley as ...
James II... n was closely guarded. Ultimately, in the conflict between William III, and, it was William, the foreign usurper, who became the popular defender of ...
Moshe Dayan... ters, a Bell 205 and a CH-53, were also lost. According to Defense Minister, nearly half of these were shot down during the first three days of the w ...
Heinrich HimmlerIn April 1945,asked Bernadotte to convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister Winston Chur ...
John Allen CampbellOn December 10, 1869, territorial Gov.extended the right to vote to women, making Wyoming the first U.S. state t ...
King Richard III... , someone had left John Howard a note attached to his tent warning him that, his "master," was going to be double-crossed (which he was)
Chester W. Nimitz... he lead ship of the class is named for World War II Pacific fleet commander, who was the Navy's last fleet admiral. With an overall length of and ful ...
Oliver Cromwell... m Abbey. His possession of the living was in jeopardy on the appointment of's "Tryers"; but he evaded their inquisitorial questions by his ready wit. ...
John Rogers Cooke... ming war, Stuart wrote to his brother-in-law (future Confederate Brig. Gen.), "He will regret it but once, and that will be continuously." On June 26 ...
current Prince of Wales... y dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the). However, due to a misunderstanding between Oliver Cromwell (guest-star ...
Iftach Spector... ich arrived at the Liberty at about 2:00 p.m. The formation leader, Captain, made two reconnaissance passes at 3,000 feet. He reported the vessel app ...
Alexander the Great... contains at least one potential historical error: It apparently claims thatintended Alexandria to be the capital of his empire. Actually, he built it ...
Francis Austen... Famous Engineer of the Industrial Revolution, was born in Portsmouth., Sir(brother of Jane Austen) briefly lived in the area, James Callaghan (Briti ...
James T. Kirk... and Leonard Nimoy manifested itself in their performances as McCoy, Captainand science officer Spock, respectively. Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhur ...
Isoroku Yamamoto... s allowed the U.S. to carry out a targeted attack, killing Japanese Admiralwhile he was travelling by plane. The Polish Home Army conducted a regular ...
Mobutu Sese Seko... sident Micombero declared martial law on May 30 and asked Zairean Presidentfor assistance. Congolese paratroopers were deployed to secure the airport ...
Lucius Cornelius Sulla... d then returned to Numidia to take control of the war. He sent his Quaestorto neighbouring Mauretania in order to eliminate their support for Jugurth ...
Baibars... after the Mongol raids into Palestine, one of which touched Hebron, Sultan's Mamluk rule established peace. The minarets were built onto the structu ...
Chewbacca... Jedi Order series of novels, and kept an eye on Han Solo after the death of. He was known as a skilled pilot and an expert shot, and personality-wise ...
Yuwen Tai... Emperor Xiaojing of Eastern Wei as a puppet ruler) by 534, while his rivaltook control of the west and the traditional Chinese capital of Chang'an b ...
Oliver Cromwell... establishment of a republic known as the Commonwealth of England. In 1653,, the most prominent military and political leader in the nation, seized p ...
John Foster... ategically significant Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Bridge. Union Generalarrived with his troops on December 17, aiming to destroy this bridge in o ...
Andrew Jackson... 9 and named after John C. Calhoun, who was at the time Vice President under, making it one of Michigan's Cabinet counties. County government was firs ...
Emperor Wu of Southern Qi... eign and his heir, who was only 13 years younger than him, succeeded him as. Emperor Wu made peace with the Northern Wei, content to protect his bord ...
Chen Mu... a garrison at Hami. After the new Protector General of the Western Regions(d. 75 CE) was killed by allies of the Xiongnu in Karasahr and Kucha, the ...
Marius... umidia from c. 112 BC to 105 BC. Its true value lies in the introduction ofand Sulla to the Roman political scene and the beginning of their rivalry. ...
Thomas J. Ryan... yrd and Floyd Bennett received the medal for exploration of the North Pole.received it for saving a woman from the burning Grand Hotel in Yokohama, J ...
Julius Caesarinitially supported Aristobulus against Hyrcanus and Antipater. Between th ...
Benedict Arnold... adio" from AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted: Ice Cube is first addressed by the name(after the infamous traitor of the American Revolution) but then named out ...
Richard III... ared illegitimate. Richard was sent to the Tower of London by the new king,, in mid-1483, thus ending his claim to both York and Norfolk
Xenophon... d to some universally read and admired history, the works of Thucydides and. Slightly less known because they are more technical and legal are the or ...
Alan Shearer... and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick and. John Dunn, inventor of keyed Northumbrian smallpipes, the most character ...
Primo de RiveraDuring the dictatorships ofand especially of Francisco Franco (1939–1975), all regional cultures were ...
William Houston... brigades. Brent Spencer commanded the 1st Division, Thomas Picton the 3rd,the 7th and Robert Craufurd the Light Division. Stapleton Cotton commanded ...
Benito Mussolini... hist Michele Schirru was executed after a failed assassination plot against
Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-DessauIt was only thanks to the tremendous resistance of the rearguard underthat Styrum could save his army and reach Nordlingen
Takeo Takagi... sortied from Truk on 1 May. The strike force was commanded by Vice Admiral(flag on cruiser ) with Rear Admiral Chūichi Hara, on Zuikaku, in tactical ...
Arthur St. Clair... acket and Miami Chief Little Turtle, defeated an American expedition led by, governor of the Northwest Territory. The engagement, known as the Battle ...
John de Chastelain... ce for a prosecution. The decommissioning was confirmed by Canadian General, chairman of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, ...
Zieten... d his line and strengthened the torn centre. Lucky for him, Pirch I. 's and's corps were now at hand. Pirch I. moved to support Billow; together they ...
Charles II of England... been made official by law. Virginia was given the title "Dominion" by Kingat the time of The Restoration, because it had remained loyal to the crown ...
Thucydides... he Athenians led to some universally read and admired history, the works ofand Xenophon. Slightly less known because they are more technical and lega ...
Alexander the GreatAfterconquered the Near East in 334 BCE, the existing settlement was named Heli ...
Edmund P. Gaines... an officials determined to force the British Band out of the state. General, commander of the Western Department of the United States Army, assembled ...
Winston Churchill... es, increased anti-aircraft batteries were installed at crucial points, andordered the construction of a series of causeways to block the eastern app ...
Uhura... Kirk and science officer Spock, respectively. Nichelle Nichols, who played, referred to Kelley as her "sassy gentleman friend"; the friendship betwe ...
Prince George, Duke of YorkAlbert Victor's brother,, now second in line to the throne, evidently became close to May during t ...
Cornelius Sisenna... storiae), a history of Rome from 78 to 67 BC, intended as a continuation of's work
Prince Albert... . It was a commission on behalf of Queen Victoria in memory of her husband,
Mark Antony... e so manifest that, when he defended Herod against the Sanhedrin and before, the latter stripped Hyrcanus of his nominal political authority and his ...
Shi Lang... and China and abandoning the island. It was only the campaigning of admiraland other supporters that convinced the Emperor not to abandon Taiwan. Kox ...
Heinrich Himmler... ank later claimed that the extermination of Jews was entirely controlled byand the SS and that he, Frank, was unaware of the extermination camps in t ...
Antigonus... st themselves over the succession. Lycia fell into the hands of the generalby 304 BC. In 301 BC Antigonus was killed by an alliance of the other succ ...
Benito Mussolini... inilli and only partly realized in 1925, under pressure from Prime Minister's more conservative coalition partners
Heinrich HimmlerEven with the difficulties of the quota systemformed two new SS regiments, the SS Germania and SS Deutschland, which tog ...
James II... st. Richard Jennings came into contact with James, Duke of York (the future, brother of King Charles II) in 1663, during negotiations for the recover ...
HannibalThe war is marked by's surprising overland journey and his costly crossing of the Alps, follow ...
Stepan MakarovWith the death of Admiralduring the siege of Port Arthur in April 1904, Admiral Wilgelm Vitgeft was ...
Cuthbert Collingwood... ishop of Westminster (1976–1999) was born in the city in 1923. Vice Admiral, 1st Baron Collingwood (1748–1810) born in Newcastle upon Tyne; admiral o ...
Victor Emmanuel II... h 17, 1861, when most of the states of the peninsula were united under kingof the Savoy dynasty, which ruled over Piedmont. The architects of Italian ...
Pompey... ued to be governed by native princes until the civil war between Caesar and. After Cato the Younger was defeated by Caesar, he committed suicide (46 ...
Zachary Taylor... ing back to the 1830s. Fort Jesup was founded in 1822 by Lieutenant Colonelwho later became the 12th President of the United States. Taylor's troops ...
Shen Youzhi... ther who became Emperor Shun of Liu Song. After defeating his rival general, Xiao forced Emperor Shun to yield to throne and crowned himself as Emper ...
Chūichi Hara... commanded by Vice Admiral Takeo Takagi (flag on cruiser ) with Rear Admiral, on Zuikaku, in tactical command of the carrier air forces. The Carrier S ...
Philip Game... instead of into Government bank accounts. The New South Wales Governor, Sir, intervened on the basis that Lang had acted illegally in breach of the s ...
John Hancock... st rocket engine test facility. Hancock County is named for Founding Father
Kit Carson... xico in the Mexican–American War in 1846, U.S. military forces commanded byforced more than eight thousand Navajo men, women and children from their ...
Benito Mussolini... ey claimed to recognize women's equality in employment. However, Hitler anddeclared themselves as opposed to feminism, and after the rise of Nazism i ...
Yongle Emperor... 4). A magistrate of Jining, Shandong sent a memorandum to the throne of theprotesting the current inefficient means of transporting 4,000,000 dan (42 ...
Barry Goldwater... essional elections. The last Republican to win a majority in the county wasin 1964. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama won 81% of the county's vote
Harry TurtledoveHumble is the site of a Confederate concentration camp in's alternate history novel
Benito Mussolini... was thus Sicilianized as "Girgenti". It retained this name until 1927, when's government reintroduced an Italianized version of the Latin name
Alexander B. Yano... largely unprotected. In 2008, The Irrawaddy reported a statement by General, then Chief of Staff of the AFP, that the Philippine military cannot full ...
Joseph Hooker... ncoln chose the latter option on January 26 and replaced him with Maj. Gen., one of the officers who had conspired against Burnside
George Washington... rea that would lie between the Capitol building and an equestrian statue ofto be placed directly south of the White House (see L'Enfant Plan). The Na ...
Anthony Wayne... . Clair's disaster and raised a new professional army, commanded by General. On August 20, 1794, Blue Jacket's confederate army clashed with Wayne at ...
King Richard III... Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends thatwon the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and ...
George V... , the Festival of Empire was held at the building to mark the coronation ofand Queen Mary
John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham... der intense French pressure. It ended in disaster after the Army commander,, failed to capture the objective, the naval base of French-controlled Ant ...
Heinrich HimmlerIn the spring of 1945, Bernadotte was in Germany when he met, who was briefly appointed commander of an entire German army following t ...
Wilhelm Groener... h the OHL (supreme army command), now led by Ludendorff's successor General. The 'Ebert–Groener pact' stipulated that the government would not attemp ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... Service officials have attempted to avoid the term. Franklin D. Roosevelt,and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes each referred to the America ...
Jean-Baptiste Drouet... Jean Andoche Junot's VIII Corps, only Jean Solignac's division was present.'s IX Corps included the divisions of Nicholas Conroux and Claparede. Loui ...
Timoleon... r fully recovered its former status, though it revived to some extent underin the latter part of the 4th century
William III... f Indulgence. The bishop who himself was afterwards specially excepted from's Act of Indemnity
Reinhard Heydrich... rned that Ernst Röhm, the chief of the SA, was planning a coup. Himmler andplotted with Göring to use the Gestapo and SS to crush the SA. Members of ...
king... to. Many leading revolutionaries wanted a republic, but eventually it was aand his chief minister who had the power to unite the Italian states as a ...
George Washington... ss takes various steps toward organizing an American government, appointingcommander-in-chief (June 14), Benjamin Franklin postmaster general (July 2 ...
Alexander III (the Great)... al dynasts the freedom to rule. Persia held Lycia until it was conquered byof Macedon during 334–333 BC
Belisarius... was a prominent Byzantine scholar from Palestine. Accompanying the generalin the wars of the Emperor Justinian I, he became the principal historian ...
Princess AnneSarah became close to the youngin about 1675, and the friendship grew stronger as the two grew older. In ...
Francisco Franco... extended but in the 1950s, the Esperanto movement was tolerated again withaccepting the honorary patronage of the
Captain Jack Sparrow... in search of the Fountain of Youth. This was alluded to at the end of wherehad taken the map from Captain Hector Barbossa. The Fountain from On Stran ...
Muhammad AliIn 1971,attempted to purchase a home in Virginia Manor, but racial discrimination ...
Claparede... n-Baptiste Drouet's IX Corps included the divisions of Nicholas Conroux and. Louis-Pierre Montbrun headed the cavalry reserve. The two divisions of J ...
Faramir... hope for Minas Tirith, driving him to suicide, and nearly to the murder of
Evelyn Barker... rd Montgomery had told the British army commander in Palestine, General Sir, to emphasise to the British servicemen that they were "facing a cruel, f ...
SpockMcCoy is someone to whom Kirk unburdens himself and is a foil to. He is Kirk's "friend, personal bartender, confidant, counselor and pries ...
Clark Gable... noted the "retrospective atmosphere of doom" which now hangs over the film., the star, died of a heart attack a few days before the filming was compl ...
Pietro Badoglio... and requested combat and Italian advancement to cease. The Italian Generalsharply rejected the proposal, and threatened to stop all negotiations and ...
Gainas... two parts, also known as The Egyptian Tale, about the war against the Gothand the conflict between the two brothers Aurelianus and Caesariu
Charles II... into contact with James, Duke of York (the future James II, brother of King) in 1663, during negotiations for the recovery of an estate in Kent (Agne ...
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge... United Kingdom impaled with her family arms – the arms of her grandfather,(the royal arms used by the House of Hanover), in the 1st and 4th quarters ...
Chevalier de Levis... plan even precisely locating an Abraham Street. Later, the journals of theand the Marquis de Montcalm referred to the Heights of Abraham, as did the ...
Robert E. LeeMcClellan was removed after failing to pursue General's retreat from Antietam, and Burnside was assigned to command the Army of ...
W. S. Gilbert... d, an American critic, claims that Wilde drew inspiration for his plot from's Engaged. Meticulous revisions continued throughout the Autumn—such that ...
Kuninori Marumo... rce (sometimes referred to as the Support Group), commanded by Rear Admiraland consisting of two light cruisers, the seaplane tender , and three gunb ...
Marquis de Montcalm... ng an Abraham Street. Later, the journals of the Chevalier de Levis and thereferred to the Heights of Abraham, as did the diaries of British soldiers ...
Prince HenryPrussia (through the agency of), Russia (under Catherine), and Austria (under Maria Theresa) began prepa ...
Dou Gu... Xiongnu in 63 CE and used as a base to invade Han's Hexi Corridor in Gansu.(d. 88 CE) defeated the Northern Xiongnu at the Battle of Yiwulu in 73 CE, ...
Field Marshal Montgomery... d of 19 August 1942 (which certain elements of the Allied military, notably, later claimed was ill-conceived from the start. However at a meeting in ...
Duke of Norfolk... liam Parr and uncle, William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Horton fought with theand the Duke of Suffolk against the rebellion. It is to most likely to Cat ...
Lord Uxbridge... in an infantry duel in which Picton fell. It was during this struggle thatlaunched two of his cavalry brigades on the enemy; the "Union brigade" cat ...
Lord Dorchester... s, and pockets of local resistance continued. Some rebel leaders approached, the British governor of Quebec for assistance, who was reported to promi ...
Prince George of Denmark... treated the Danes and their monarch with great contempt. This book offended, the consort of Queen Anne; and the Danish Minister protested
Augusto Pinochet... also traveled to Chile where he met with its military junta ruler, General
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk... city to the Democratic Republic of Armenia. Turkish revolutionaries, led byrejected the terms of the treaty and instead waged the Turkish War of Inde ...
Captain Hector Barbossa... alluded to at the end of where Captain Jack Sparrow had taken the map from. The Fountain from On Stranger Tides requires two people to drink from si ...
Muhammad Alilit the Olympic torch during the opening ceremonies of the games and recei ...
AragornIn The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo Baggins met Strider () at the largest and most popular inn in Bree, The Prancing Pony, owned by ...
Victor Emmanuel II... ore conservative constitutional monarchic figures included Count Cavour and, who would later become the first king of a united Italy
Wu Sangui... oncurrently the last Ming pretender had been captured and killed by General, extinguishing any hope Koxinga may have had of re-establishing the Ming ...
Louis LoisonMasséna's army was organized into four corps and a cavalry reserve.'s VI Corps had three divisions, led by Jean Marchand, Julien Mermet and C ...
Julian Hatcher... lowback than as an adhesion-locked breech action. Some authorities, such as, felt the Blish Lock as employed in the submachine gun did not accomplish ...
James Chesnut, Jr.... South Carolina legislature to call for a Secession Convention. U.S. Senatorresigned, and U.S. Senator James Henry Hammond followed
Duke of Wellington... ies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied army under the command of thecombined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. It ...
Paul HausserIn 1936, Himmler selected former Lieutenant Generalto be Inspector of the SS-VT with the rank of Brigadefuhrer, and he set ab ...
Ricimer... mans abandoned their policy of war against the Vandals. The Western generalreached a treaty with the Vandals, and in 476 Genseric was able to conclud ...
Jean Marchand... and a cavalry reserve. Louis Loison's VI Corps had three divisions, led by, Julien Mermet and Claude Ferey. In Jean Andoche Junot's VIII Corps, only ...
Julius Caesar... and its inhabitants received full Roman citizenship following the death ofin 44 BC
Albert, Prince Consort... nand II of Portugal, and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband, Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother Leopold II of Belgium. These l ...
Grigory Potemkinhad had involvement in the coup d'état of 1762. In 1772, Catherine's close ...
Nathan TwiningSeaton and Stevens worked with Gen., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had served in Alaska; and Jac ...
Themistocles... 2 BCE the decision was taken, under the guidance of the Athenian politician, to build a massive fleet of triremes that would be necessary for the Gre ...
John Madejski... appointment of Mark McGhee as player-manager, shortly after the takeover by, in June 1991 saw Reading move forward
King Hussein of Jordan... ardas set up various companies offering these products to royalty and VIPs.bought a fleet of cars that Mardas had customised, but the cars proved to ...
George Washington... . stamps were created, 5 and 10 cent issues depicting Benjamin Franklin and. A few other countries issued stamps in the late 1840s. Many others, such ...
Pervez MusharrafPakistani President- then as Army Chief of Staff - was responsible for sending thousands of P ...
Gebhard von Blücher... f the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of. It was the culminating battle of the Waterloo Campaign and Napoleon's la ...
Heinrich Himmler... was named Reich Interior Minister. Frick and head of the Schutzstaffel (SS)hoped to create a unified police force for all of Germany, but Göring on 3 ...
Felix Steiner... r Division of the SS (1st Estonian), under the command of Obergruppenführer. Also in Army Group North was the VI SS Corps, which consisted of the 15t ...
António CorreiaIn 1521, a Portuguese force led by commanderinvaded Bahrain to take control of the wealth created by its pearl industr ...
Shi LangIn 1683, following a naval engagement with Admiral, one of Koxinga's father's trusted friends, Koxinga's grandson Zheng Kesh ...
George Washington... l carved nobs of wood shaped to look like nutmeg to unsuspecting customers.gave Connecticut the title of "The Provisions State" because of the materi ...
Wilgelm Vitgeft... breakout attempt by the Russian squadron, now under the command of Admiral, failed. By the end of the month, Japanese artillery was firing shells in ...
Alva R. FitchThe first Eagle Scout in Nebraska wasof Norfolk
James, Duke of York... timate children, and was due to be succeeded by his Roman Catholic brother,. A parliamentary effort to exclude James from the line of succession aros ...
Oliver Cromwell... to Varney, he was cursed with vampirism after he had betrayed a royalist toand accidentally killed his own son afterwards in a fit of anger, although ...
King Charles IIDuring the reign of, Britannia made her first appearance on English coins on a farthing of 16 ...
Rudolf Diels... y, but Göring on 30 November 1933 established a Prussian police force, withat its head. The force was called the Geheime Staatspoliei, or Gestapo. Gö ...
Anthony Barber... ibes an earlier period of rapid expansion under the tenure as chancellor ofin the Conservative government of Sir Edward Heath (1970 to 1974). Critics ...
Heinrich Himmler... Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during ...
Oliver Cromwell... s restoration and the end of the stalemate between Parliament and the King.and Sir Henry Vane the Younger both opposed this measure. This should have ...
Barry Goldwater... n. McCain succeeded longtime American conservative icon and Arizona fixtureupon the latter's retirement as United States Senator from Arizona
Baibars... Byzantines. He also signed a treaty in 1263 with the Egyptian Mamluk sultan, and the Mongol Khan of Kipchak
John Churchill... the two grew older. In late 1675, when she was still only fifteen, she and, began courting after having danced together at parties and balls. Church ...
Piet Joubert... blic. Kruger was re-elected president in 1888 and 1893, each time defeating
Montgomery Scott... ed to say it on The Wrath of Khan when Spock is near death; James Doohan assays "He's dead already" instead. The line has entered popular culture as ...
Lord Melchett... he often comes into contact with the Queen, her obsequious Lord Chamberlain(Stephen Fry) with whom he has a rivalry, and the Queen's demented former ...
Juan Vicente Gómez... first half of the 20th century, is the political figure of General in Chief, who originally based on the plans of General in Chief Cipriano Castro, b ...
Aulus GabiniusIn 57–55 BCE,, proconsul of Syria, split the former Hasmonean Kingdom into Galilee, Sam ...
Pliny... Classical sources on the Seres (Greek and Roman name of China) (essentiallyand Ptolemy) gives the following account
Winston Churchill... der the direction of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE). Prime Ministertasked the Royal Navy with helping locate and retrieve the wreckage so tha ...
Gongsun Kang... y inheritance. His brothers Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi were killed in 207 CE by(d. 221 CE), who sent their heads to Cao Cao
George Henry Thomas... ted States 6th Army. Several famous U.S. generals, such as William Sherman,, and John Pershing made their homes here
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Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive... igin of the city's name is unknown, it is believed to have been named after
Winston Churchill... ommittee report titled German Strategy and Capacity to Resist, prepared for's eyes only, predicted that Germany might collapse as early as mid-April ...
Zheng He... n the early Ming Dynasty, Quanzhou was the staging area and supply depot of's naval expeditions. Further development was severely hampered by the sea ...
Fitz John Porter... egrams extremely critical of Pope's abilities as a commander from Maj. Gen.that he received at this time and forwarded on to his superiors in concurr ...
ElessarOn May 1, 3019 King's coronation took place on the plain outside Minas Tirith, he then entere ...
The Duke of Kent... ose friend of the convicted Libyan gun smuggler Tarek Kaituni’. It was fromthat the Duke took over in this position, which involves him representing ...
Arthur Nebe... er of the Reich Main Security Office. Heinrich Müller became Gestapo Chief,, chief of the Criminal Police (Kripo), and the two branches of SD were co ...
Daniel Tyler... 1872, the Woodstock Iron Company, organized by Samuel Noble and Union Gen., rebuilt the furnace on a much larger scale, as well as started a planned ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... Commission. He was appointed chairman of a similar commission by Presidentin 1953. Both found numerous inefficiencies and ways to reduce waste. The ...
Bacchides... A little later the Jordan was the scene of the battle between Jonathan and, in which the latter was defeated
Bernardo O'Higgins... San Martín (United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, Chile, and Peru), and(Chile) led their independence struggle. Although Bolivar attempted to kee ...
Leopold Wilhelm... assistance; a powerful Spanish army assembled in Artois under the archduke, governor-general of the Spanish Netherlands. But peasants of the country ...
Pliny the Elder... f Ptolemaic Egypt and contemporary of Ashoka the Great, is also recorded byas having sent an ambassador named Dionysius to the Mauryan court
Jefferson Davis... biographies of major southern figures, such as Varina Davis' of her husband. Later, women began adding more of their own experiences to the "public d ...
Faramir... sed the herb athelas to treat victims of the Black Breath, including Frodo,, Éowyn, and Merry
Fritz von Below... south of the river. They were opposed by the German Second Army of General. The axis of the advance was centred on the Roman road that ran from Albe ...
Bonifacius... 0,000. According to Procopius, the Vandals came to Africa at the request of, the military ruler of the region. However, it has been suggested that th ...
Leo Phokas... prompting the renewal of hostilities with Bulgaria. With her main supportercrushingly defeated by the Bulgarians at the Battle of Acheloos in 917, Zo ...
Yuan Shikai... uangxu's consort became the Empress Dowager Longyu. In another coup de'tat,overthrew the last Qing emperor, and forced empress Dowager Longyu to sign ...
Richard, Duke of Gloucester... out the alliance between Hastings and the Woodvilles which was formed while, was Protector, before he took the throne as King Richard III. She was ac ...
Theodor Eicke... d and the particularly fierce fighting of the Totenkopf", Obergruppenführerwas awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross on 20 May 1942
Reinhard Heydrich... orces of the Kriminalpolizei, and the Gestapo, police and security offices.is viewed as the mastermind behind the SS security forces and held the tit ...
Oliver Cromwell... ards the king was high enough to allow republican roundhead leaders such asto abolish the monarchy completely and establish the republican Commonweal ...
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus... ation brought a second, distinct stage in the ancient history of Catalonia.arrived in Empúries, with the objective of cutting off the sources of prov ...
Hasdrubal Gisco... ad been very bitter arguments between him and the oligarchy. His co-generalwas forced to commit suicide by a violent mob after he spoke in support of ...
Robert SedgwickColonelled one hundred New England volunteers and two hundred of Oliver Cromwell' ...
Manuel BelgranoOn August of 1812, Argentine Generalleaded the Jujuy Exodus, a massive forced displacement of people from the ...
Winston Churchill... emed destined to reach. This sense of opportunities missed was summed up byin his book Great Contemporaries (1937)
Arthur Conan Doyle... n 1880 at the recommendation of his Edinburgh physician Dr. George Balfour.wrote an article about skiing in Davos in 1899. A sanatorium in Davos is a ...
Hannibal... he Carthaginian formation to disintegrate and collapse. After their defeat,convinced the Carthaginians to accept peace. Notably, he broke the rules o ...
Alexander the Great... eece played an important role in the art of the western world. In the East,'s conquests initiated several centuries of exchange between Greek, Centra ...
Hannibal... in Empúries, with the objective of cutting off the sources of provisions of's Carthaginian army during the Second Punic War. After the Carthaginian d ...
Muhammad Ali... on. King has promoted some of the most prominent names in boxing, including, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Julio César ...
Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg... -Division divisions assigned to it. The corps was to form a part of General's Panzer Group West, the Western theatre's armoured reserve. The Corps wa ...
Jefferson Davis... the appointment of John H. Reagan to the position of Postmaster General, byin 1861, making him the first Postmaster General of the Confederate Post O ...
Sun Quan... divided into three spheres of influence, with Cao Cao dominating the north,(182–252 CE) dominating the south, and Liu Bei (161–223 CE) dominating the ...
Andrew JacksonJackson Township, named after, is a township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 ...
Ernst Kaltenbrunner... enberg. Heydrich was assassinated in 1942. His positions were taken over byin January 1943, following a few short months of Heinrich Himmler personal ...
Andrew Waugh... her restricted work to the last three months of the year. In November 1847,, the British made several observations from Sawajpore station located in ...
John Burgoyne... of Bemis Heights in Saratoga. The reinforcements for which British Generalwas waiting were held up, and Burgoyne was forced to surrender at Saratoga ...
Pliny the Elder... man and Arabic naturalists and physicians. Several ancient writers, such asand Scribonius Largus, attested to the numbing effect of electric shocks d ...
Andronikos Doukas... eror from entering the church and may have become involved in the revolt of. He was deposed as patriarch on February 1, 907 and replaced by Euthymios ...
Saladin... 1177, at the head of the army of the kingdom, he helped King Baldwin defeatat the Battle of Montgisard; Saladin narrowly escaped. In 1181 the temptat ...
William IV... e British throne in 1714. The last British monarch who ruled in Hanover was: Salic law, which required succession by the male line, forbade the acces ...
Patrick SinclairThe origin of the name has also been confused with that, a British officer who purchased land on the St. Clair River at the outle ...
PlinySeveral authors of antiquity (Apollonius Rhodius,, Philostephanus) discussed the hypothetical shape of the ship. Generally ...
Gwyn Nicholls... eiled on 26 December 1949 in honour of the Welsh international rugby player. The Cardiff Athletic Clubhouse is situated in the corner of the ground b ...
Ptolemy I Soter... vity. His fourth wife was Lanassa and fifth wife was Ptolemais, daughter ofand Eurydice of Egypt, by whom he had a son called Demetrius the Fair. He ...
Avigdor Ben-Gal... ays of fighting, the Israeli 7th Armored Brigade in the north (commanded by) managed to hold the rocky hill line defending the northern flank of thei ...
Arthur St. Clair... American Revolutionary War General and Governor of the Northwest Territory, but the name was in use with the current spelling long before St. Clair ...
Richard III... t, Elizabeth Woodville. When the Duke of Gloucester became King in 1483, as, both Elizabeth and her mother Alice were appointed ladies-in-waiting to ...
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset... ok, that it was published as "propaganda" for reformist interests backed byor other high-placed aristocrats, and that Crowley added interpretive glos ...
Melchett... t characters, though several reappear in one series or another, for exampleand Lord Flashheart
Colin Powell... to a straining of relations between the two nations. However, Schröder metand a rapprochement was established after the Iraqi regime was overturned. ...
Charles II... was very politically astute and secured the charter from the newly restored, who granted the most liberal political terms
Tipu Sultan... the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War broke out in 1798 against the Sultan of Mysore,. Arthur's brother Richard ordered that an armed force be sent to capture ...
Andrew Waugh... ial English name by the Royal Geographical Society upon a recommendation by, the British . Waugh named the mountain after his predecessor in the post ...
Charles IIThe principal advisor to, the Earl of Clarendon remarked on the matter, "and from those contestati ...
Winston Churchill... he gold standard and in 1925 they were able to convince the then Chancellorto re-establish it, which had a depressing effect on British industry. Key ...
d'Erlon... es up symmetrically about the Brussels road. On the right was I Corps underwith 16,000 infantry and 1,500 cavalry, plus a cavalry reserve of 4,700. O ...
Char Aznable... Amuro Ray, to whom the young Japanese of that time could easily relate, and, who was "simply [...] fascinating", made a major contribution to the ser ...
Lucius Cornelius Sulla... ilius Lepidus on the site of the Curia Hostilia, which had been restored bybut demolished by Caesar in 44 BC. This temple no longer existed by the ti ...
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger#Elizabeth Alexandrovna Alexeeva (1761–1844), married to, fathered by Catherine's lover, Count Grigory Grigoryevich Orlo
Scipio Africanus... al siege of the Celtiberian town Numantia, Hispania, by the Roman forces of
Adna Chaffee... he population was 1,519 at the 2000 census. It is the birthplace of General, and of Russell Allen, as of 2006 the oldest living American Olympic cycl ...
Walter Schellenberg... ches of SD were commanded by various SS officers such as Otto Ohlendorf and. Heydrich was assassinated in 1942. His positions were taken over by Erns ...
Jack Charlton... on the touchline resulted in fines for both Republic of Ireland's manager,, and their striker John Aldridge. Fortunately for Ireland, Aldridge was a ...
Stonewall Jackson... th flower petals thrown in his path at Richmond. He had become as famous asin the eyes of the Confederacy
George V... rincipally at English speakers in the outposts of the British Empire, or asput it in the first-ever , the "men and women, so cut off by the snow, the ...
Arthur Conan Doyle... er Twist, David Copperfield and the Pickwick Papers was born in Portsmouth,Author of the Sherlock Holmes Novels. Sir Walter Besant, a novelist and hi ...
Winston Churchill... temperatures and pressures. Two months later Cunard received a letter from, then First Lord of the Admiralty, ordering the ship to leave Clydeside a ...
Winfield Scott... porated in about 1897, the name was changed to Winfield in honor of General. This area was once the Chickasaw Indian domain. Although there were no k ...
Amuro RayJohn Oppliger observes that the characters of, to whom the young Japanese of that time could easily relate, and Char Az ...
Erich Ludendorff... : the 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic and the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch involvingand Adolf Hitler took place in the same city. For most of the Weimar Repub ...
Liu Bei... o Cao dominating the north, Sun Quan (182–252 CE) dominating the south, and(161–223 CE) dominating the west. Cao Cao died in March 220 CE. By Decembe ...
Aragorn... ess, nightmares, and eventual death: an effect known as "the Black Breath".used the herb athelas to treat victims of the Black Breath, including Frod ...
Charles II... stic office despite the changes through the course of several monarchs fromto George I. A comic opera covers a later period in 18th century history, ...
Otto Ohlendorf... ), and the two branches of SD were commanded by various SS officers such asand Walter Schellenberg. Heydrich was assassinated in 1942. His positions ...
Zheng He... and economically fortified. In the early fifteenth century the Ming Admiralhad established one of his bases of operation in the port city, so the Chi ...
Benjamin Bonneville... of the Oregon Trail and wrote extensively about their explorations. Captainon his expedition of 1832 to 1834 explored much of the Oregon trail and br ...
Jesse L. Reno... refusing to give up his higher authority, Burnside treated first Maj. Gen.(killed at South Mountain) and then Brig. Gen. Jacob D. Cox as the corps c ...
Harpagus... further west, to be carried out by his successors. He assigned the task to, a Median general, who proceeded to subdue the various states of Anatolia ...
Feng Yuxiang... Chiang in his war of unification against other warlords such as Li Zongren,and Yan Xishan. As a reward, Zhang remained ruler of Manchuria and even ex ...
Pyrrhus of Epirus... nd wife was Eurydice of Athens and his third wife was Deidamia, a sister of. Deidamia bore him a son called Alexander who is said by Plutarch to have ...
John Buford... on's brigade to pursue the Federals and in a sharp fight against Brig. Gen.'s brigade, Col. Thomas T. Munford's 2nd Virginia Cavalry was overwhelmed ...
Charles II... e of quo warranto was the action taken against the Corporation of London byin 1683. The King's Bench adjudged the charter and franchises of the city ...
Alexander the Great... lity of advanced civilizations in ancient Turkmenistan including finds at .conquered the territory in the 4th century BC on his way to South Asia. In ...
Prince George of Denmark... her out when Anne suffered bereavement. After the death of Anne's husband,in 1708, Sarah arrived uninvited at Kensington Palace to find Anne with th ...
Zebulon Baird VanceIn the 1890 Census, Vance County was more than 63 percent African American.was a Governor of North Carolina (1862–1865, 1877–1879) and United States ...
Marc Mitscher... 26 February. There she served temporarily as the flagship for Vice Admiral, the Commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force, called Task Force 58 at th ...
Erich von Falkenhayn... of surprise; they did not expect such a big attack by the British. General, agitated by the additional losses in one sector of the Somme front, sack ...
Julius CaesarPliny claims that this very painting had been part of the collection of, but was destroyed when Caesar's mansion on the Palatine Hill burned down ...
William R. Peers... p, and pressed for a full and impartial investigation by Lieutenant General. Westmoreland also made efforts to investigate the Phong Nhi and Phong Nh ...
Winston Churchill... ich derives its fame from the Potsdam Conference of the World War II allies, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin in 1945. The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in ...
Andrew Jackson... tatistical Area. The county seat is Jackson. It is named for U.S. President. It is considered to be one of Michigan's "Cabinet counties", named for m ...
Joseph E. JohnstonIn March 1865, Confederate Generalwintered just outside of Hillsborough at the Dickson home, which now serve ...
Barry Goldwater... nvention, ill health prevented him from attending. The Presidential nomineeacknowledged Hoover's absence in his acceptance speech
Earl of Strafford... n of the term to a remark made by Queen Henrietta Maria at the trial of theearlier that year; referring to John Pym, she asked who the roundheaded ma ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... een chosen as the headquarters for the Supreme Allied Commander, US General, during D-Day
Wilfrid Laurier... on of a museum of Canadian history. The federal prime minister at the time,, suggested, however, that a preservation of the plains themselves would b ...
Beverly Robertson... y, protecting its flank with artillery batteries. Stuart ordered Brig. Gen.'s brigade to pursue the Federals and in a sharp fight against Brig. Gen. ...
William, Prince of Orange... should the battle be lost. They were mostly composed of Dutch troops under's younger brother Prince Frederik of the Netherlands
Eli Zeira... ella to protect any crossing operation from air attack. However, Aman Chiefwas still confident that the probability of war was low
Theodore Alyates... Turkish positions, with the left wing under Bryennios, the right wing under, and the centre under the emperor. At that moment, when a Turkish soldier ...
William IIIThe following century,'s massive rebuilding and expansion project intended to rival Versailles w ...
Michael Collins... including the complete crews of Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and) and Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders)
Richard III... England, founding the Tudor dynasty, when his supporters defeated those ofat Bosworth Field in 1485. While the Wars of the Roses effectively ended a ...
Churchill... if it reduced casualties elsewhere by greater amounts. It was thought thatwould reverse this decision later (he was then away at a conference); but ...
Julius CaesarAnother temple in Rome was planned byand was erected after his death by Marcus Aemilius Lepidus on the site of ...
Duke of Wellington... ng scale and during the next year Huskisson and the new Prime Minister, the, devised a new sliding scale for the Importation of Corn Act 1828 whereby ...
Oliver Hazard Perry... ish the Village in 1813 news reached of the monumental victory of Commodorein the Battle of Lake Erie, and so the residents decided to name the villa ...
Rahul Dravid... ers have come from Bangalore, including former Indian cricket team captainsand Anil Kumble. Some of the other players who have represented India incl ...
Lord Cochrane... ower and real naval officers of the period, among them Sir George Cockburn,, Sir James Gordon, Sir William Hoste and many others. The actions of the ...
Toussaint Louverture... he Jacobins, endorsed abolition and extended it to all the French colonies., a former slave and leader in the slave revolt—a man who rose in importan ...
Charles II... tability (some would say amorality) over half a century, from the reigns ofto George I. Over this period, he embraced whichever form of liturgy, Prot ...
Ludwig III of Bavaria... A year later, Ludwig deposed his cousin, Otto, and proclaimed himself King. During the First World War, Ludwig's eldest son, Crown Prince Rupprecht, ...
Joseph Tarchaneiotes... ach taking about men. It is unknown what happened to the army sent off with—according to Islamic sources, Alp Arslan smashed this army; however Roman ...
Douglas MacArthur... ng as it did just after the deaths of President John F. Kennedy and General, former Chaplain of the Senate Frederick Brown Harris officiated. All thr ...
Prince George of DenmarkIn 1702, he was at Epsom when, husband of Queen Anne fell ill. According to tradition, Arbuthnot treate ...
Sir George Cockburn... allels between Hornblower and real naval officers of the period, among them, Lord Cochrane, Sir James Gordon, Sir William Hoste and many others. The ...
George Washington... on. He was a Revolutionary War soldier who was a personal bodyguard to Gen.at Valley Forge. He was also one of the pioneers at Fort Boonesborough in ...
Leopold I of Belgium... Bedford in 1825, and The Fountain (Royal Palace, Brussels) commissioned byin 1826. The latter picture likely influenced J. M. W. Turner's major work ...
Blücher... 15, he commanded the allied army which, together with a Prussian army under, defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Wellesley's battle record i ...
Alp Arslan... manus IV, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (reigned 1068–1071), faced Sultanof the Seljuk Turks (reigned 1059–1072) in the Battle of Manzikert. The ba ...
Karol Świerczewski... e was also asserted by commanders of the late and post-war Polish military., commander of the 2nd Polish army, briefed his soldiers to "exact on the ...
Emilio AguinaldoIn the hunt for the Guerrilla GeneralAmerican troops also poisoned water wells to try to force out the Filipino ...
William Bligh... island with a European settlement at the time, Timor was the destination ofand seamen loyal to him following the infamous mutiny on the Bounty in 178 ...
Edwin V. Sumner... e regimental quartermaster and commissary officer under the command of Col.. He was promoted to first lieutenant in 1855
Anil Kumble... m Bangalore, including former Indian cricket team captains Rahul Dravid and. Some of the other players who have represented India include Javagal Sri ...
Christine Chapel... s an American actress and producer. She is best known for her role as Nursein the , Lwaxana Troi on , and for being the voice of most onboard compute ...
Paul von Hindenburg... icher asked for new elections. On 28 January, von Papen described Hitler toas only a minority part of an alternative, von Papen-arranged government. ...
Avigdor Kahalani... turning their attention back to the oncoming forces. Israeli tank commanderlined up his tanks and began a barrage of gunfire into the valley beyond t ...
Beauvoir De Lisle... argely ignorant of the progress of the battle. A mistaken report by Generalof the 29th Division proved to be fatal. By misinterpreting a German flare ...
Andrew Jackson... nowledge among men". After the nephew died without issue in 1835, Presidentinformed Congress of the bequest. Richard Rush was appointed as agent of t ...
Alexander the Great... dence was put to an end. Three years later, heartened by a false rumor thathad been assassinated, the Thebans revolted; Alexander squashed the revolt ...
Thomas T. Munford... ederals and in a sharp fight against Brig. Gen. John Buford's brigade, Col.'s 2nd Virginia Cavalry was overwhelmed until Stuart sent in two more regi ...
Sir James Gordon... aval officers of the period, among them Sir George Cockburn, Lord Cochrane,, Sir William Hoste and many others. The actions of the Royal Navy at the ...
Irvin McDowell... officer of the Presidio when the 1906 Earthquake hit San Francisco; Generalwho commanded the Union Army in the early days of the American Civil War a ...
Joseph TarchaneiotesRomanos ordered his generalto take some of the Roman troops and Varangians and accompany the Pecheneg ...
Ulysses S. Grant... eer among other animals, is located on property formerly owned by presidentin the period between the Mexican War and the Civil War
Lord Fairfax... ican Commonwealth. The roundhead commander-in-chief of the first Civil War,, remained a supporter of constitutional monarchy, as did many other round ...
Lucius Licinius Lucullus... when a temple was dedicated to her in the Velabrum in the Campus Martius by, using booty from his 151–150 BC campaign in Spain. The temple was destro ...
Jefferson Davis... vote in both houses of Congress. The only person to serve as president was, due to the Confederacy being defeated before the completion of his term
Romanos Lekapenos... ther failures, she and her supporters were supplanted in 919 by the admiral, who married his daughter Helena Lekapene to Constantine VII and finally ...
King Richard IIIFor his support ofduring the deposition of King Edward V in 1483, he was created The Duke of ...
Paul Hausser... grenadier divisions. Thanks to the efforts of Himmler and Obergruppenführer, the new commander of the SS Panzer Corps, the three SS Panzergrenadier d ...
Gaius Fulvius Plautianus... and her brother and other members of the family of his former father-in-law. Plautianus had already been executed for alleged treachery against emper ...
Germanicus... d not only Ptolemy but also the poet Aratus, the orator Cicero, and generalas colouring the star red, though acknowledging that none of the latter th ...
Moses Cleaveland... ty with the Iroqois tribe in 1796 by the Connecticut Land Company. In 1797,named the area east of the Cuyahoga River Euclid, after the Greek Mathemet ...
Charles Leclerc... on of more than 20,000 men under the command of his brother-in-law, Generalin 1802 to retake the island. Leclerc's mission was to oust Louverture and ...
Theodor Eicke... S formation known as the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV), under the command of. Known as the "Death's Head Units", the SS-TV was first organized as seve ...
Julius Caesar... own incident of a leader extending his term indefinitely was Roman dictator, who made himself "Perpetual Dictator" (commonly mistranslated as 'Dictat ...
George WashingtonDuring the American Revolutionary War, both Comte de Rochambeau &'s troops camped on what is now the site of the Pequannock Valley Middle S ...
William III of Orange... ampton Court Maze; planted in the 1690s by George London and Henry Wise for. The maze covers a third of an acre and contains half a mile of paths. It ...
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig... cey, Roger Blake, Denis Lill, Warren Clarke and Geoffrey Palmer, who playedin "Goodbyeee", the final, fatal episode of Blackadder Goes Forth
Thucydides... , Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo,, and Xenophon
Augusto Pinochet... neoliberal governments being created in Chile, where a military coup led bytook place in 1973
John Whitelocke... Plata, at the command of Home Riggs Popham and William Carr Beresford, and. The invasions were repelled, but powerfully affected the Spanish authori ...
Augusto Pinochet... e Juan Guzmán Tapia (the first judge who prosecuted former Chilean dictator), Armin von Bogdandy (Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparativ ...
Cromwell... is only to be remembered because a body of 6,000 English infantry, sent byin pursuance of his treaty of alliance with Mazarin, took part in it. The ...
Saladin... power in Arabic poetry, and was according to legend the personal emblem of. The specific depiction of Golden Eagle legendarily considered to be Sala ...
Herbert Cyril ThackerCanadian military attachéserved in the field with Japanese forces in the Russo–Japanese War (1904–0 ...
Hernán CortésIn 1519 Alvarado accompaniedin his expedition to Mexico, commanding one of the eleven vessels in the f ...
King George VGuisborough has a King George's Field in memory of, and the town's football team Guisborough Town FC plays on the King Georg ...
Charles de Gaulle... leaders at state events, such as the state funerals of John F. Kennedy and, the summits of the Non-Aligned Movement, and the 1971 celebration of the ...
Gustav Lombard... rder by RFSS: All Jews must be shot. Drive the female Jews into the swamps., on receiving the order, advised his Battalion that "In future not one ma ...
Grigori Alexandrovich PotemkinAfter her affair with her lover and adviserended in 1776, he allegedly selected a candidate-lover for her who had the ...
Edmund P. Gaines... anization as he was the oldest township resident. He named it after General, an acquaintance of his noted for his service in the War of 1812, the Sem ...
Earl of Uxbridge... y of his staff officers on Wellington, including his second-in-command, the. Uxbridge commanded the cavalry and had carte blanche from Wellington to ...
Alexander the Great... y other general in Greek history (unless the Macedonian kings Philip II andare included), although modern historians have questioned his larger strat ...
Richard Montgomery... e of Tryon County was changed to Montgomery County in honor of the general,, who had captured several places in Canada and died attempting to capture ...
Benjamin Lincoln... At the 2010 census the population was 6,266. It was named for Major General, who served in the American Army during the Revolutionary War
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus... ple in Rome was planned by Julius Caesar and was erected after his death byon the site of the Curia Hostilia, which had been restored by Lucius Corne ...
Home Riggs Popham... y forces tried to invade the area of the Rio de la Plata, at the command ofand William Carr Beresford, and John Whitelocke. The invasions were repell ...
"Mad Anthony" Wayne... on November 2, 1779 from the western part of Dobbs County. It was named for, a general in the American Revolutionary War. The act, establishing the C ...
Aristides... sea to symbolize the permanence of their alliance. The Athenian politicianwould spend the rest of his life occupied in the affairs of the alliance, ...
Liu YuThe dynasty was founded by劉裕 (363–422), whose surname together with "Song" forms the most commonly u ...
Wojciech Jaruzelski... jailed when martial law came into effect on December 13, 1981 under General. After a one year prison term the high-ranking members of the union were ...
Scipio Africanus... rom Augustus to Trajan, which was originally introduced among the Romans by. This new Roman imperial fashion lasted until the reign of Phocas
Stefan Rowecki... ible to the Government Delegate's at Home in the civilian chain of command.(pseudonym Grot, or "Arrowhead"), served as the AK's first commander until ...
Benito Mussolini... ollapsed owing to poverty, violence and social unrest. The Fascists, led by, took over and set up an authoritarian dictatorship. Italy joined the Axi ...
George Washington... built the first water-works in America to pump water for public use. Whileand his troops stayed in Valley Forge, Washington stored his personal effe ...
Ernst Udet... as a design weakness. Heinrich Koppenbrug, the director of Argus, met withon 6 January 1941 to try to convince him that the development should be co ...
David Hunter... iecemeal, and took over division command temporarily for wounded Brig. Gen.. After his 90-day regiment was mustered out of service on August 2, he wa ...
Koxinga... Kangxi Emperor, a measure intended to counter the refuge Ming government ofin Taiwan. Incoming refugees, however, did not translate into a major labo ...
Ferdinand of Brunswick... of the Invasion of Hanover. It was recaptured by Anglo-German forces led bythe following year
Lothar Rendulic... forces utilized scorched earth tactics, and though initially German Generalordered only the public buildings in Rovaniemi to be destroyed, on 13 Octo ...
Kuldip Singh Brar... n, Operation Blue Star (June 1984), the Indian Army led by the Sikh Generalforcibly entered the Harmandir Sahib (the Golden Temple) to overpower the ...
Charles II... ore the restoration of the monarchy, the Protector's Council was abolished.restored the royal Privy Council, but he, like previous Stuart monarchs, c ...
Benito MussoliniIn 1941, Alfa Romeo was confiscated by the fascist government ofas part of the Axis Powers' war effort. Enzo Ferrari's division was small ...
Romanos I... e supporters of Euthymios followed, which did not end until the new EmperorLekapenos promulgated the Tomos of Union in 920. In the meantime Alexander ...
Ulysses S. Grant... sville was the Battle of Cold Harbor, the final battle of Union Lieut. Gen.'s 1864 Overland Campaign. This was fought over the same ground as the Bat ...
John Bell Hood... ated outside of Killeen, Texas. The post is named after Confederate General. It i
Montgomery C. Meigs... aph lines, and then famously sent a telegram to Union Quartermaster Generalcomplaining of the poor quality of the mules he had captured
Charles de Gaulle... 3, the emperor was among other heads of state, including France's President, who traveled to Washington D.C. and attended the funeral of assassinated ...
John McColl... ince September 2011, the incumbent Lieutenant Governor has been General Sir
Arthur MacArthur, Jr.... st and famous military men such as Ulysses S. Grant, Philip Henry Sheridan,, and George Crook were stationed at the fort at various times. Finally, o ...
Erwin Rommel's... ground for Eisenhower's combat command skills; during the initial phase ofmove into the Kasserine Pass, Eisenhower created some confusion in the ran ...
Ranald S. MackenzieA military expedition led by U.S. Army Colonelwas sent to the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma Territory Panhandle area in 1 ...
Nicholas II... ho were personally appointed by the Tsar Alexander III and by his son, Tsar. The additional Chinese Eastern Railway was constructed as the Russo-Chin ...
Andrew Johnson... in the state and features call boxes built prior to the American Civil War., later president of the United States, was an apprentice tailor in Moores ...
Wilhelm Groener... r William II to abdicate. Despite similar advice by Paul von Hindenburg andof the General Staff, the Emperor considered abdication only as Emperor, n ...
Ludwig von Reuter... of Versailles. On 21 June 1919, after nine months of waiting, Rear Admiral, the German officer in command at Scapa Flow, made the decision to scuttl ...
Jean-Bédel Bokassa... ally profited. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was at first a friend of its ruler,; he supplied Bokassa's regime with much financial and military backing. H ...
Stephen G. BurbridgeIn October 1864, Union raiders under Brigadier Generalpassed through Grundy on their way to destroy the saltworks near Saltville ...
Lucius Cornelius Sulla... e. Kim Il-Sung was named Eternal President of the Republic after his death.appointed himself in 82 BC to an entirely new office, dictator rei publica ...
Paul von Hindenburg... Brüning was appointed as successor of Chancellor Müller by Reichspräsidenton 29 March 1930, after months of political lobbying by General Kurt von S ...
Erhard Milch... s Fieseler was to be the chief contractor. On 19 June, Generalfeldmarschallgave Fi 103 production high priority, and development was undertaken at th ...
Francisco Franco... ea forces of the republican government. A monument was constructed to honorcalled the Llano Amarillo, which was inaugurated on the 13th of July 1940 ...
Richard Glücks... rtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (WVHA). Oswald Pohl commanded the WVHA, whileserved as the Inspector of Concentration Camps
George Crook... such as Ulysses S. Grant, Philip Henry Sheridan, Arthur MacArthur, Jr., andwere stationed at the fort at various times. Finally, on June 14, 1860, th ...
Paul von Hindenburg... Maximilian urged Emperor William II to abdicate. Despite similar advice byand Wilhelm Groener of the General Staff, the Emperor considered abdicatio ...
Lt Colonel PicquartIn August 1896, the new chief of French military intelligence,, reported to his superiors that he had found evidence to the effect that ...
J.E.B. Stuart... ed by Union troops. On December 28, 1862, Confederate cavalry under Generalraided the station. Stuart seized supplies from the area, destroyed a near ...
Sir James Anderson... ng them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank,, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable ...
Shmuel Gonen... d disengagement, which would allow soldiers to be redeployed to the Sinai ('s defeat at Hizayon in the Sinai had taken place two days earlier). Other ...
Göring... Heydrich. He was acting under the authority given to him by Reichsmarschallin a letter dated July 31, 1941. Göring instructed Heydrich to devise "... ...
Fritz von Lossberg... sacked the Chief of Staff of the Second Army and replaced him with Colonel, his operations officer. Lossberg did not readily accept this promotion, ...
Georges Doriot... e a profit in the market. The only serious expression of interest came fromand his American Research and Development Corporation (AR&D). Worried that ...
Alexander the GreatAshkelon was soon rebuilt. Until the conquest of, Ashkelon's inhabitants were influenced by the dominant Persian culture. ...
Heinrich Himmler... elia, based on wartime Nazi activities. Created on order of Reichsführer-SS, a Nazi ethnic German organisation called Selbstschutz carried out execut ...
George B. McClellan... orked for, and became friendly with, one of his future commanding officers,
Oswald Pohl... placed under the command of the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (WVHA).commanded the WVHA, while Richard Glücks served as the Inspector of Concen ...
Jefferson DavisWhen General Grant's forces broke through Richmond's defenses,ordered the destruction of Richmond's militarily significant supplies; the ...
Nick Fury... nough for Gail Richards (his mother) to say her goodbyes. Skull explains tothat all he wanted to do with the Cosmic Cube was to turn back time and pr ...
Antipater... metrius was married five times; his first wife was Phila daughter of Regentby whom he had two children: Stratonice of Syria and Antigonus II Gonatas. ...
William IV'sIn 1837, the personal union of the United Kingdom and Hanover ended asheir in the United Kingdom was female (Queen Victoria). According to Salic ...
Nicolas Luckner... rote Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin and dedicated the song to Marshal, a Bavarian in French service from Cham. The melody soon became the rally ...
Kit Carson... ive American tribes of the American West, under James Carleton's direction,instituted a scorched earth policy, burning Navajo fields and homes, and s ...
King Charles II... ry of New Providence begins in 1664 when James, Duke of York and brother to, purchased the land from the Lenni Lenape Native Americans. This acquisit ...
Rudolf Diels... mbers were arrested. Göring demanded that the detainees should be shot, but, head of the Prussian political police, ignored the order. Researchers, i ...
Li Zongren... d supported Chiang in his war of unification against other warlords such as, Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan. As a reward, Zhang remained ruler of Manchu ...
Oliver Cromwell... legislation, such as the Navigation Acts, were enacted by the government of
Mobutu Sese Seko... ummit which was discussing Angola at that precise moment. Zairian Presidentcalled for a referendum on the future of the Cabinda. Lopes is reported to ...
King James IIPrincess Louisa Maria (1692–1712), the last daughter of(d. 1701), born after he lost his crown in the Glorious Revolution, was gi ...
Edward VII... es from 1403. The office was raised to the dignity of lord mayor in 1910 by"in view of the position occupied by that city as the chief city of East A ...
Lysimachus... admit him into their city. But he soon afterwards ravaged the territory ofand effected a reconciliation with Seleucus, to whom he gave his daughter ...
Ernest Augustus... herited by males. As a consequence, Hanover passed to William IV's brother,, and remained a kingdom until 1866, when it was annexed by Prussia during ...
Muhammad bin QasimThe Arab generalconquered Sindh and Multan in southern Punjab in 711CE. The Pakistan gover ...
Stonewall Jackson... to legend waved the Stars and Stripes in defiance of Confederate commanderand his troops as they marched through downtown Frederick in 1862, stands ...
Charles II... handed over to England, as promised, so flying the St George's Cross untilsold it to the king of France in 1662
Frank J. Fletcher... alian-American cruiser force, under the overall command of American Admiral, to oppose the Japanese offensive
Oreste Baratieri... Major Giuseppe Galliano, and took the bulk of his troops to Adigrat, where, the Italian commander, was concentrating the Italian Army
George Armstrong Custer... neral in the Union Army who commanded an 1876 expedition in connection with’s campaign against Native Americans, specifically in the west
Álvaro ObregónPresidentwas awarded Japan's Order of the Chrysanthemum at a special ceremony in Me ...
Franz HalderAt the Nuremberg Trials, Generaltestified that Göring admitted responsibility for starting the fire. He sa ...
Benito Mussolini... uivalent honorifics for knights, such as Cavaliere in Italy (e.g. Cavaliere), and Ritter in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (e.g. Georg Ritte ...
Wedge Antilles... pilots, including Biggs Darklighter ("Red Three"), Jek Porkins ("Red Six"),("Red Two"), and Luke Skywalker ("Red Five"). The squadron went on to appe ...
James Clinton... that may be sent to harass the inhabitants on the borders of said river…" .and Christopher Tappan, both lifetime residents of the area, were sent to ...
Decimus Junius Brutus... s of memory loss as the legendary Lethe River. In 138 BC, the Roman generalsought to dispose of the myth, as it impeded his military campaigns in the ...
Duke of Gloucester... arl Rivers, father of King Edward IV consort, Elizabeth Woodville. When thebecame King in 1483, as Richard III, both Elizabeth and her mother Alice w ...
Caesar Rodney... nce. The tie in the Delaware delegation was broken by the timely arrival of, who voted for independence. The New York delegation abstained once again ...
Francisco FrancoOn July 1936, Generaltook command of the Spanish Army of Africa and rebelled against the Spanis ...
Zhang Xueliang, known also as The Young Marshal, was the son of Zhang Zuolin, warlord of ...
Charles Leclerc... rn to a disaster, with the French commander and Bonaparte’s brother-in-law,, dying of yellow fever and almost his entire force destroyed by the disea ...
José de San Martín... ican wars of independence. Simón Bolívar (Greater Colombia, Peru, Bolivia),(United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, Chile, and Peru), and Bernardo O ...
Aristides... under which at least two ostracised leaders—Pericles' father Xanthippus and'the Just'—are known to have returned. Similarly, Cimon, ostracised in 461 ...
Charles WilkesThe United States Exploring Expedition undervisited Funafuti, Nukufetau and Vaitupu in 1841. During this expedition, o ...
Pliny the ElderMuch of what we know of Apelles is derived from(Natural History, XXXV). His skill at drawing the human face is the point ...
Queen Anne... example of the five original towers; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built forand George I; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls
Lysimachus... he other successors of Alexander, and Lycia became a part of the kingdom of, who ruled until he was killed in battle in 281 BC. By 240 BC Lycia was p ...
Jacob Brown... 2,285 in 2000. The county seat is Georgetown. It is named for Major General, an officer in the War of 1812 who was wounded at the Battle of Lundy's L ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... ng by U.S. presidents. It has been cited as the favorite film of Presidentsand Bill Clinton
Hernán Cortés... settlement of certain Caribbean islands such as Cuba, Spanish conquistadorsand Pizarro were carried by the Spanish navy to the mainland, where they c ...
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney... Henrietta married Governor Edward Rutledge, and Sarah was the first wife of
Yishiha... d at present) as Kuye . There is some evidence that the Ming eunuch admiralreached Sakhalin in 1413 during one of his expeditions to the lower Amur, ...
Manuel A. Odría... the Cathedral is based on the tyrannical dictatorship of Peruvian President. The protagonist, Santiago, rebels against the suffocating dictatorship b ...
John Hancock... lsworth. It was incorporated on June 25, 1789. Hancock County was named for, the first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
George B. McClellanFollowing Maj. Gen.'s failure in the Peninsula Campaign, Burnside was offered command of the ...
Nicholas II of Russia... 1 biographical film which tells the story of the last Russian monarch, Tsar, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra
Abner Doubleday... ceived a letter that (erroneously) declared baseball to be the invention of. The commission, though, was biased, as Spalding would appoint anyone to ...
Cimon... Xanthippus and Aristides 'the Just'—are known to have returned. Similarly,, ostracised in 461 BC, was recalled during an emergency
John Tyler Morgan... to represent the U.S. and intervene in Hawaii without Senate confirmation., an expansionist pro-annexation Senator from Alabama, chaired the commiss ...
Eoin O'Duffy... and later Samuel Beckett (who became a courier for the French Resistance).led a brigade of 700 Irish volunteers to fight for Franco during the Spani ...
SaladinIn 1187invaded the kingdom, defeating the Crusaders at the Battle of Hattin. The ...
Ptolemy I Soter... skill at drawing the human face is the point of a story connecting him with. This onetime general of Alexander disliked Apelles while they both were ...
Braxton Bragg... s into Union territory had been launched in August and September 1862. Both's invasion of Kentucky and Lee's invasion of Maryland were decisively rep ...
Zachary Taylor... residency. (The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover.
King George VI... x years after he stepped down as prime minister, elevated to the peerage byas the Viscount Bennett of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgar ...
Prince Eugene of SavoyIn July 1708, the Duke of Marlborough, with his ally, won a great victory at the Battle of Oudenarde. On the way to the thanks ...
Brice Disque... home of the Army's Spruce Production Division under the command of Colonel. In the interwar years, the 5th Infantry Brigade was based there and from ...
Julius Caesar... 49 BC. She organized an army on the site but did not need to use it due to's arrival in Alexandria. Ashkelon was later placed under the rule of Hero ...
Ulysses S. Grant... other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor,, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover.
Muhammad AliIn 1972set his training camp in Deer Lake, and it still stands today complete wit ...
Mr. Spock... en." Barrett often joked that Roddenberry, given the choice between keeping(whom the network also hated) or the woman character, "kept the Vulcan and ...
Benito Mussolini... 35,000 men, with 80 battle tanks and 200 field artillery — was deployed, aswanted the victory to be credited to Italy. On 9 March 1937, the Italians ...
Grant... l War. It lasted through the administrations of Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and, and saw the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to free slaves, the Fou ...
Gn. PompeiusThe last two treatises are supplemented by letters toand Ammaeus (two)
Harry Turtledove... al characters in the alternate history novel The Man with the Iron Heart by
Andrew Jackson... ed for Samuel D. Ingham, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President, making Ingham one of Michigan's so-called Cabinet counties
Roussel de Bailleul... umber from the eastern provinces; 500 Frankish and Norman mercenaries under; some Turkic (Uz and Pecheneg) and Bulgarian mercenaries; infantry under ...
Heinrich Himmler... ad reached 3,000 "Jews and Partisans". On 1 August, after a meeting between, Erich von Bach-Zelewski and Hinrich Lohse, the brigades received the fol ...
Heraclius... under Khosrau II, invaded Jerusalem and captured the Cross. In 630, Emperormarched triumphantly into Jerusalem and restored the True Cross to the reb ...
Ambrose, Earl of Warwick... n debt. In accordance with his will, the castle passed first to his brother, and after the latter's death in 1590, to his illegitimate son, Sir Rober ...
Pericles... 79 BC, an amnesty was declared under which at least two ostracised leaders—' father Xanthippus and Aristides 'the Just'—are known to have returned. S ...
Oliver Hazard Perry... on was 28,712. Its county seat is Hazard. The county is named for Commodore, a naval hero in the War of 1812
Don Juan of AustriaDunkirk was besieged promptly and in great force, and whenand Condé appeared with the relieving army from Fumes, Turenne advanced bo ...
Hermann Göring... us of the occupied nation. Hoover toured what was to become West Germany in's old train coach and produced a number of reports critical of U.S. occup ...
Idi Amin... gether with his wife, Frances, and their four children, Waite witnessed thecoup in Uganda, he and his wife narrowly escaping death on several occasio ...
Sir John Hawkins... d the islands on their way back from their exploration of Brazilian waters.visited the island three times, firstly in 1542 and then again in 1563 wit ...
General Lu Bode... Han Dynasty established a military garrison there following the arrival of(路博德). In 46 BC the Han court decided that the conquest was too expensive ...
William Orlando Butler... tates. Formed in 1848 from part of Barry Township, it is named for war hero
Lord Cardigan... in the fashionable 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons. The 11th, commanded by, later involved in the Charge of the Light Brigade, had just returned fro ...
PolyperchonWhen Antipater died in 319 BC, he gave the regentship to, excluding Cassander, his son. Antigonus and the other dynasts refused to ...
George Washington... uccess of the Canadiens was underscored during the French and Indian War by's defeat at Great Meadows and Edward Braddock's embarrassment at the Mono ...
Montgomery C. Meigs... mmanders and Stuart sent a personal telegram to Union Quartermaster General, "General Meigs will in the future please furnish better mules; those you ...
John Malcolm... nce in the Persian Gulf, a policy originally proposed by British politician. Indeed the British government was engaged in making agreements with loca ...
Charles II... which related unfavourable anecdotes about the prospective king of England,. In July 1660, following the Restoration, a royalist tract called The Pic ...
Sir Henry Clinton... y 2,100 Loyalists, Hessians, and British regulars led by Lieutenant Generalattacked Forts Montgomery and Clinton from the landward side (which was on ...
Heinrich Himmler... , a member of the SS, lampooned Benn in his book Säuberung des Kunsttempels;, however, stepped in to reprimand Willrich and defended Benn on the grou ...
Timur... (1282), during which Abulfeda describes it as a very strong place. In 1400pillaged it
Chris Gayle... ng or kept up with it would include Ravindra Jadeja, Yuvraj Singh of India,of West Indies. There were other players who were considered pure left arm ...
Winston Churchill... e and the exclusive Bangalore Club, which counts among its previous membersand the Maharaja of Mysore. The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited SC is based ...
Charles IIAfter the Restoration, Kingand his successor James II visited Hampton Court but largely preferred to ...
Lord Hill... de batterie drew up in the centre. These opened fire at 11:50, according to(commander of the Anglo-allied II Corps), while other sources put the time ...
Winston Churchill... ied Europe. The Allied leaders, Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States,of the United Kingdom and Joseph Stalin of the USSR, had agreed in general ...
Kit Carson... Ashley, Jedediah Smith, William Sublette, Andrew Henry, Thomas Fitzpatrick,, Jim Bridger, Peter Skene Ogden, David Thompson, James Douglas, Donald Ma ...
Edward Rydz-Śmigły... ken (one Camp of National Unity was connected to the new strongman, Marshal)
Sir James Anderson... asting connections were achieved by the ship SS Great Eastern, captained by
John Pope's... tation the following day, managed to overrun Union army commander Maj. Gen.headquarters, and not only captured Pope's full uniform, but also intercep ...
King Edward VII... he set up the National Council to campaign against the visit to Ireland ofhis consort Alexandra of Denmark
Vo Nguyen Giap... criticized the battlefield prowess of his opponent North Vietnamese General. "Of course, he [Giap] was a formidable adversary," Westmoreland told cor ...
Zachary Taylor... itary service. Other notable American participants included Winfield Scott,, and Jefferson Davis. The war gave impetus to the US policy of Indian rem ...
James T. KirkIn the year 2293, recently retired Captain, Montgomery Scott, and Pavel Chekov attend the maiden voyage of the Stars ...
OliverAfter Richard Cromwell, who had succeeded his fatheras Lord Protector in 1658, was effectively deposed by an officers' coup in ...
George S. Patton... las MacArthur and helped by lower ranking officers Dwight D. Eisenhower andto stop a march. MacArthur, believing he was fighting a communist revoluti ...
Lord Dundonald... ul) modifications to test a newly-developed rotary steam engine designed by. At a cost of nearly £80, Rockets cylinders and driving rods were removed ...
Oliver Cromwell... ero-worship", lavishing largely uncritical praise on strong leaders such as, Frederick the Great and Napoleon. Romantic nationalism had a largely neg ...
General William Howe... at the Emlen House, built by Quaker George Emlen in 1745. British commanderobserved the American lines from the belltower of St. Thomas' Episcopal Ch ...
Julius Caesar's... ssed that of the Aediles under the Republic, as could have been seen duringAedileship
Moshe Dayan... ite this, at 7 AM, that is, four hours later, Israel’s minister of defense,, “gave the order to go into action against Syria.” He further writes that ...
Montgomery ScottIn the year 2293, recently retired Captain James T. Kirk,, and Pavel Chekov attend the maiden voyage of the Starship USS Enterprise ...
Yoda... command during the "unexplained" absence of Skywalker while he trained withat Dagobah. After the events of The Empire Strikes Back, Skywalker and Ant ...
John S. McCain, Sr.... Scots-Irish and English ancestors. His father and his paternal grandfather,, both became four-star United States Navy admirals. His family, including ...
Rommel... seek Axis help to raise an army to fight the British. Here, he raised with's Indian POWs what came to be known as the Free India Legion. Bose made h ...
King Edward VIIgranted Cardiff city status on 28 October 1905, and the city acquired a Ro ...
Charles de Gaulle... known for its green tiled roof; Erell also designed a house in the city for. Other buildings include the Nabemba Tower and the Congressional Palace. ...
Wu Sangui... he city fell. The Manchu Qing Dynasty then allied with Ming Dynasty generaland overthrew Li's short-lived Shun Dynasty, and subsequently seized contr ...
Benedict Arnold... Boston, and who also served in the Invasion of Canada (1775) under Colonel. Samuel carried Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr, his Princeton classmate, ...
Porfirio Díaz... mber 20, 1910 when Francisco I. Madero planned an uprising against dictator's 31-year-long iron rule. Article 74 of the Mexican labor law (Ley Federa ...
LysimachusFollowing his and' victory over Antigonus Monophthalmus at the decisive Battle of Ipsus in ...
George J. Stannard... oshen Gore No. 1, the town was incorporated as Stannard in honor of General, a Union Army hero of the Civil War. Stannard and his 2nd Vermont Brigade ...
Jefferson Davis... notable American participants included Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, and. The war gave impetus to the US policy of Indian removal, in which Native ...
Mobutu Sese SekoDuring the crucial period of July–August 1960,built up "his" national army by channeling foreign aid to units loyal to h ...
Sun Li-jen... . Chiang orchestrated the controversial court-martial and arrest of Generalin August 1955, allegedly for plotting a coup d'état with the American CIA ...
William the third... all Dutch monarchs have been buried in the same church. His great-grandson, King of England and Scotland and Stadtholder in the Netherlands, was bur ...
Michael Collins... this idea was never really embraced by later separatist leaders, especially, and never came to anything, although Kevin O'Higgins toyed with the idea ...
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland... enclosure was a result of inflation, he was only ignored. It was not untilwas Protector that his finance minister William Cecil took action on debas ...
Reinhard Heydrich... il late 1942 they were assigned to the Reich Main Security Office headed by. The brigades were now used for rear area security and policing, and, mos ...
Daniel Vettori... were other players who were considered pure left arm orthodox bowlers like, Nicky Boje but picked up their game as batsman over time and got better ...
Winfield Scott... ln his brief military service. Other notable American participants included, Zachary Taylor, and Jefferson Davis. The war gave impetus to the US poli ...
Penelope Keith... series alongside guests including John Wells, Willie Rushton, Kenny Lynch,and Nerys Hughes. Mays Records released The Best of - Tickle on the Tum in ...
Cassander... Antipater died in 319 BC, he gave the regentship to Polyperchon, excluding, his son. Antigonus and the other dynasts refused to recognize Polypercho ...
Frederick Steele... was fought and won by the Confederates. Ulysses S. Grant sent Union Generalto Brownsville to patrol the Mexican-American border after Civil War to ai ...
Francisco de Miranda... the Spanish colonies in South America (to assist the Latin American patriot) his force was instead ordered to sail for Portugal, to take part in the ...
Oliver Cromwell... her at Lincoln's Inn. The same year he married Elizabeth French, a niece of; and he also became Tuesday lecturer at St Lawrence, Jewry (where he was ...
Oliver Hazard Perry... of Alabama. It was established in 1819, and is named in honor of Commodoreof Rhode Island and the United States Navy. As of 2010 the population was ...
Robert E. Rodes... l, bypassing the next most senior infantry general in the corps, Brig. Gen., sent a message ordering Stuart to take command of the Second Corps. Alth ...
Charles III of Spain... ssion, the bells have rung faithfully every evening, a promise made to Kingwhen he sent the original bells to the Mission in 1777. He asked that the ...
Camillus... iance with Rome for over 300 years. It eventually fell to the Roman general's army in 396 BC. Veii continued to be occupied after its capture by the ...
Edward Braddock... he French and Indian War by George Washington's defeat at Great Meadows and's embarrassment at the Monongahela River. The British response was to cre ...
Gebhard von Blücher... the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, was awarded only twice, to Field Marshalin 1813 and to Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg in 1918. A third award wa ...
Wedge Antilles... place for urgent missions that would arise. Their core was Luke Skywalker,, Zev Senesca, and Wes Janson
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham... liament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of Francis Bacon by, leading to Bacon's impeachment before the Lords, the first of its kind w ...
Themistocles... uarter. Around the same time, due to encouragement from influential speaker, the Athenians also constructed the Long Walls connecting their city to t ...
Philip St. George Cooke... t in California was scouted by Stephen Kearny's troops and later by Captain's Mormon Battalion in 1846 who were the first to take a wagon the whole w ...
Charles II of England... ox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, a legitimate descendant of an illegitimate son of. In 1744, Lady Caroline eloped with Henry Fox, a politician who was eight ...
James IIAfter the Restoration, King Charles II and his successorvisited Hampton Court but largely preferred to reside elsewhere. By this t ...
Princess Anne... o have a number of prestigious guests on the show, including Angela Rippon,, Cliff Richard, Laurence Olivier, John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda ...
Hasdrubal Gisco... er Roman ally. For this bargain Syphax was to marry Sophonisba, daughter of. Massinissa, who had thus lost his fiancee, went over to the Romans with ...
King George VI... usiastic. It was St-Laurent who drafted the London Declaration, recognizingas Head of the Commonwealth as a means of allowing India to remain in the ...
Chuck YeagerThe story contrasts the "Mercury Seven" and their families with pilots like. While never selected as an astronaut, Yeager was considered by many test ...
Stilicho... some scattered orthodox Vandals, among whom was the famous magister militum, the chief minister of the Emperor Honorius
Benito MussoliniThenceforth, the National Fascist Party ofsuccessfully exploited the claims of Italian nationalists and the quest fo ...
D.H. Hill... tening Turner's Gap, and required assistance from the infantry of Maj. Gen.to defend the South Mountain passes in the Battle of South Mountain. His h ...
Charles Martin... or Charles McNary, Washington Senator Clarence Dill, and Oregon Congressman, among others
Francisco Franco... Republic (founded 1931) in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) brought Generalto power. Even though public use of the Catalan language was banned some p ...
Marquess of Clydesdale... ouston Everest Flight of 1933, which saw a formation of aircraft led by thefly over the summit in an effort to deploy the British Union Flag at the t ...
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of RichmondThe Lennox sisters were daughters of, a legitimate descendant of an illegitimate son of Charles II of England. ...
Alexander the Great... ic Greek by king Philip II of Macedon (382-336 BC), father of the conqueror, were the two keys that ensured the eventual victory of Attic over other ...
George Washington... zation of the U.S. federal government upon the 1787 Constitution, Presidentwrote a now venerated letter to the Sultan Sidi Mohamed strengthening the ...
Saladin... Zengi; but after 1145 it remained attached to Damascus and was captured byin 1175. The Crusaders raided its valley more than once but never took the ...
Orde Wingate... rican and South African colonial troops under the "Gideon Force" of Colonel, coordinated the military effort to liberate Ethiopia. The emperor himsel ...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle... Robert Bloch, H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson,, Mark Twain and the creator of The Three Investigators, Robert Arthur
Joseph Smith, Jr.... t introduced to the church body in a general conference on August 17, 1835.and Frederick G. Williams, two of the Presiding Elders on the committee, w ...
William of Orange... s strategic position, Harwich was the target for the invasion of Britain byon November 11, 1688. However, unfavourable winds forced his fleet to sail ...
Jean Reynier... ede. Louis-Pierre Montbrun headed the cavalry reserve. The two divisions of's II Corps hovered off to the northeast threatening Almeida
George Washington... ating a war with Native Americans, which angered colonial land speculators.was given of wild land in the Ohio region for his services in the French a ...
Edward VIII... due at least in part to the constitutional crisis of that year surroundingand his relationship with Wallis Simpson
Thomas Jefferson Rusk... n of the newspaper (in Spanish) is preserved and shown at the local Museum.was one of the most prominent early Nacogdoches Anglo settlers. A veteran ...
Caesar... ity) continued to be governed by native princes until the civil war betweenand Pompey. After Cato the Younger was defeated by Caesar, he committed su ...
Alexandros Ypsilantis... egan on 6 March 1821 in the Danubian Principalities under the leadership of, but it was soon put down by the Ottomans. The events in the north urged ...
Duke of Wellington... inaries from the government and industry, including the Prime Minister, the. The day started with a procession of eight trains setting out from Liver ...
Charles II... during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem Shetland, without success, andratifying the pawning in the , explicitly exempting them from any "dissolu ...
Alexander the Great... is, Lycia, a port on the Pamphylian Gulf. The city was visited in 333 BC by, who envisioned himself as the new Achilles and carried the Iliad with hi ...
Hjalmar Siilasvuo... rthern part of the country. Finnish forces, under the leadership of general, struck aggressively in August 1944 by making a landfall at Tornio. This ...
King Alfonso XIII of Spain... ousin of Alexandra, was also a carrier of the haemophilia gene. She marriedand two of her sons were haemophiliacs. As an incurable and life-threateni ...
Robert Craufurd... manded the 1st Division, Thomas Picton the 3rd, William Houston the 7th andthe Light Division. Stapleton Cotton commanded John Slade's and Frederick ...
Duke of Cambridge... donations. Sidney Herbert served as honorary secretary of the fund, and thewas chairman. Nightingale was considered a pioneer in the concept of medic ...
Thomas Cochrane... talemate during the siege of Sevastopol. The proposal was backed by Admiralof the Royal Navy. It was considered by the Prime Minister, Lord Palmersto ...
Frank S. Besson, Jr.... om the Fort Eustis Military Railroad. It is officially dedicated to General, who was the first four-star general to lead the transportation command, ...
Arthur Conan DoyleIn A Study in Scarlet, a novel by, the retribution of the Mormons is compared to that of the Vehmgericht
Queen Anne... oak reredos in Baroque style carved by Grinling Gibbons during the reign of. Opposite the altar, at first floor level, is the royal pew where the roy ...
King James II & VII... ater Queen Mary II of England and Scotland) (1662–1694), eldest daughter of, and Princess Sophia Dorothea (1687–1757), only daughter of King George I ...
Robert Napier... dros II for its safe return to Empress Zewditu. The crown had been taken byduring the
Benito Mussolini... ture was partly excavated in 1810–1814 and 1874 and was fully exposed underin the 1930s
Winston Churchill... ategy; he was a gracious host but was kept out of the important meetings byand Roosevelt
Pliny the Elder... f Kos (flourished 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece., to whom we owe much of our knowledge of this artist (Naturalis Historia ...
Oliver Cromwell... In 1656 he became tutor to the son of Edmund Prideaux, attorney-general to. About 1661 he was ordained without subscription by Thomas Sydserf, a Sco ...
Nicky Boje... ers who were considered pure left arm orthodox bowlers like Daniel Vettori,but picked up their game as batsman over time and got better at it. Sanath ...
Sterling Price... supporters of the Union during the U.S. Civil War. The Confederate Generalled his troops in ransacking the area during the war
Jubal Early... ense of exhausted men and animals, without gaining much military advantage.referred to it as "the greatest horse stealing expedition" that only "anno ...
Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa... nst terrorism (especially against the Red Brigades), by Carabinieri general(who was later killed by the Mafia)
Władysław Sikorski... ously diminished by the death of its most prominent leader — Prime Minister— on July 4, 1943
Martin Bormann... l, Court Of Honor, features the Fehme being revived by a German officer and(a featured character in other semi-historical novels with post-war 'Nazi ...
Ulysses S. Grant... the Indian Wars were happening in the west and famous military men such as, Philip Henry Sheridan, Arthur MacArthur, Jr., and George Crook were stat ...
Henry Edward Fox... ons, including the great Whig politician, Charles James Fox and the general. Their home, Holland House, Kensington, was a social and political gather ...
George of Antioch... Norman Roger II of Sicily (1095–1154), employed a Greek Christian known as, who previously had served as a naval commander for several North African ...
Erich ToppGerman World War II veteran and sub commanderwas one of the game's technical advisers
George WashingtonAccording to local tradition,spent the night in a local home, which still stands to this day. Supposedl ...
Julius Caesar... initiated the Julian calendar of that name, 46 BC was allotted 445 days by. Before then, the Romans added whole intercalary months in an unsystemati ...
Emperor Wu of Liu Song... use the general Liu Yu seized the throne from Emperor Gong of Jin, becoming(reigned 420–422 AD), starting the Southern and Northern Dynasties period
Ulysses S. Grant... House, the Battle of Palmito Ranch was fought and won by the Confederates.sent Union General Frederick Steele to Brownsville to patrol the Mexican-A ...
Thucydides... ssion of rebellions, Athens exercised hegemony over the rest of the league.describes how Athens's control over the League grew
John B. Floyd... the Burnside carbine. The Secretary of War under President James Buchanan,, contracted with the Burnside Arms Company to equip a large portion of th ...
Richard III... d intermittently during his reign and those of his son Edward V and brother. Edward V disappeared, presumably murdered by Richard. Ultimately, the co ...
Augusto Pinochet... he arranged for the escape of numerous refugees from the military junta of; this brought him into conflict with the regime, and he was eventually fo ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... a part of government operations since at least the Cold War, when Presidentprovided (via executive order) various measures designed to ensure that th ...
Arthur Wellesley... onnected passenger, Lady Barbara Wellesley, the fictional younger sister of(later to become the Duke of Wellington) become dangerously attracted to e ...
Charles II... fused to follow the rules of the Church of England after the Restoration ofin 1660, and when Newton settled in Olney the village still supported two ...
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg... wn in Essex County, Vermont, United States. The town was named after Prince. The population was 107 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Berlin, NH– ...
Eumenes... lon. He incurred the enmity of Perdiccas, the regent, by refusing to assistto obtain possession of the provinces allotted to him, Paphlagonia and Cap ...
Phil Collins... deluxe double-disc issue in 2007, containing the original album remastered.played drums and sang backing vocals on Grace and Danger and subsequently ...
George Somers... In 1609, a flotilla of ships left England under the Company's Admiral, Sir, and the new Governor of Jamestown, Sir Thomas Gates, to relieve the colo ...
Jacques Duchesne... of the Keelung Campaign. The battalion played an important role in Colonel's offensive in March 1885 that captured the key Chinese positions of La T ...
Lázaro Cárdenas... ry competitive and they were. Leftist candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, son ofone of the most beloved Mexican presidents, created a successful campaign ...
Thomas Picton... igade and three cavalry brigades. Brent Spencer commanded the 1st Division,the 3rd, William Houston the 7th and Robert Craufurd the Light Division. S ...
Arthur Conan Doyle... cations for people from the conurbations to purchase weekend holiday homes.first conceived the idea for The Hound Of The Baskervilles whilst holidayi ...
Winston Churchill... g the war her photograph was a sign of resistance against the Germans. Like, Queen Wilhelmina broadcast messages to the Dutch people over Radio Oranj ...
Mikhail Lazarev... Coventry and the owner of the Rebecca's cargo. In 1820 the Russian explorervisited Nukufetau as commander of the Mirny. Following 1819 whalers were r ...
Paul von Hindenburg... erman Chief of the General Staff, Erich Falkenhayn, was replaced by General, with General Erich Ludendorff as his deputy, but in effect the operation ...
Charles de GaulleIn reaction to Hallstein's proposals and actions, then-French President,, who was sceptical of the rising supranational power of the Commission, a ...
Joseph HookerArmy of the Potomac commander Maj. Gen.interpreted Stuart's presence around Culpeper to be indicative of preparat ...
Nicholas II of Russia... ad 21 godparents, among them his great-grandfather Christian IX of Denmark,, George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Fre ...
Antipater... the war against Eumenes, who had joined Perdiccas against the coalition of, Antigonus, Ptolemy, Craterus, and the other generals. Eumenes was defeat ...
Leonidas Polk... merican War (including Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis), but some such as(who had attended West Point but did not graduate) had little or no experi ...
Joseph Warren... ren County was erected May 1, 1803, from Hamilton County, and named for Dr., a hero of the Revolution who sent Paul Revere on his ride and who died a ...
Franco... . Before the second leg, Barcelona's players had a changing room visit from's director of state security. He "reminded" them that they were only play ...
Rudolf Hess... played hostess to meetings of leading Nazis, including her husband, Hitler,, Alfred Rosenberg, and Ernst Röhm. Hitler later recalled his early associ ...
Oliver Cromwell... not sympathetic to the Army's concerns. In the chaos following the death ofin 1658, General George Monck allowed the members barred in 1648 to retake ...
Sanath Jayasuriya... ky Boje but picked up their game as batsman over time and got better at it.is an interesting story as he was sent up the order to open the batting an ...
Alexander the Great... 112th Olympiad (332-329 BC), possibly because he had produced a portrait of
James Wolfe... n built on the site, and monuments commemorate the Battle of Sainte-Foy and, the latter being an astronomic meridian marker raised in 1790 by the Sur ...
Eumenes... s and Antigonus found himself entrusted with the command of the war against, who had joined Perdiccas against the coalition of Antipater, Antigonus, ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... alf of the 20th century saw election or succession of Republican presidents, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George ...
Data... ryone, except Doctor Tolian Soran, has been killed by Romulans. The android, who recently installed a chip that enables emotions, helps engineer Geor ...
Alfred Pleasonton... ply lines. In reaction to this, he ordered his cavalry commander, Maj. Gen., to take a combined arms force of 8,000 cavalrymen and 3,000 infantry on ...
Erich Ludendorff... Erich Falkenhayn, was replaced by General Paul von Hindenburg, with Generalas his deputy, but in effect the operational commander. The immediate effe ...
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe fight for the Republican (GOP) nomination was between General, who became the candidate of the party's moderate eastern establishment; ...
Stephen W. Kearny... d as a stop on the Santa Fe Trail. During the Mexican-American War in 1846,delivered an address at the Plaza of Las Vegas claiming New Mexico for the ...
Joseph Smith, Jr.... er Day Saint revelations. This committee of Presiding Elders, consisting of, Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, and Frederick G. Williams, began to revie ...
John A. Logan... ral John Murray, a distinguished citizen of Waterloo, New York, and General, who helped bring attention to the event nationwide, was likely a factor ...
Charles III of Spain... is still colloquially named Ciutat ("city") in Catalan. In the 18th centuryremoved interdiction of commerce with Spanish colonies in America and the ...
Emperor Wu of Liu SongWhensubdued Guanzhong he obtained the south-pointing carriage of Yao Xing, but ...
Jarosław Dąbrowski... ees and exiles in Paris: one of them, the Polish ex-officer and nationalist, was to be the Commune's best general. The Council was fully committed to ...
Benjamin Harrison... e Provisional Government was dealt a huge blow when United States President, who was supportive of the annexation of Hawaiʻi, was voted out of the Wh ...
James II... 1687. Three months later, Josiah Child and his deputy had an audience with, and as per the ensuing discussions, a Charter was issued by the king on ...
Moshe Dayan... not a casus belli justifying an attack on Jordan. Israeli Defense Ministerdeclined to offer any such assurance, but said that Israel had no intentio ...
Ulysses S. Grant... on, the sister of John Simpson of Ohio. John Simpson was the grandfather ofwho became President of the United States. This family bond meant that man ...
Creighton AbramsWestmoreland was replaced by Generalin June 1968, the decision being announced shortly after the Tet Offensive ...
Admiral of the FleetLouis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbat ...
Ephialtes... imon was ostracized and was succeeded in his influence by democrats such asand Pericles. This signaled a complete change in Athenian foreign policy, ...
Winston Churchill... on was 12,790 in the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Callaway County.made his famous "Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain) speech in Fulton at Westm ...
Heinrich Himmler... m “Final Solution” to refer to their plan to annihilate the Jewish people.”was the chief architect of the plan, and the German Nazi leader Adolf Hitl ...
Hugh Halkett's... Foot, a British infantry regiment. Adam's brigade was further reinforced by3rd Hanoverian Brigade, and successfully repulsed further infantry and cav ...
Craterus... here he obtained the favour of Antipater, regent of Macedonia (321 BC), and
Alan Shepard... ere Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra,, and Deke Slayton
Thucydides... t of the Ionic dialect group. "Old Attic" is a term used for the dialect of(460-400 BC) and the dramatists of Athens' remarkable 5th century; "" is u ...
Norwich DuffIn 1819,made the following observations about Mannheim
Thucydides... he works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides
Zheng He... y and a flourishing of the arts and culture. It was during this period thatled explorations throughout the world, possibly reaching America. During t ...
Hasdrubal Gisco... ly decline it. By this stratagem he convinced the Punic commanders Mago andthat they could expect the Romans to hold the centre of their line. On the ...
George Washington... eat significance: 1876 was the nation's centennial year and February 22 was's birthday
CimonAn aftermath of the war was thatwas ostracised, and the relations between Athens and Sparta turned hostile ...
Michael Collins... ions in London that produced the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, attending with
William III... On being offered the dukedom of Gelderland by the States of that province,let the offer lapse as liable to raise too much opposition in the other pr ...
Benjamin Adekunle... rts of 3 Marine Commando Division of the Nigerian Army, led by then Colonel, popularly called 'The Black Scorpion' and later Olusegun Obasanjo. Ojukw ...
Joseph Mauborgne... uring the 1920s, the one-time pad cipher was invented by Gilbert Vernam andat the laboratories. Bell Labs' Claude Shannon later proved that it is unb ...
Clark Gable... such as Ciro's and Mocambo's, for Hollywood stars such as Rosalind Russell,, Gloria Swanson, and Shirley Temple. He did not always play to packed roo ...
Gawhar al-SiqilliThe city of Cairo was founded in 969 CE byas the royal city of the Fatimid Caliphate, with a defensive wall. In 1092 ...
Isaac Brock... rit of British professional commanders was illustrated by Major-General Sirin Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lieutenant-Colonel Charles de Salaberry, a F ...
Oliver Cromwell... he Nominated Assembly, set up after the expulsion of the Rump Parliament by. The Assembly very quickly became known as Barebone's Parliament by criti ...
Pompey... n king Tigranes the Great and their ultimate overthrow by the Roman general
Benito Mussolini... od, attempting to gain supporters in a bid for political power. Inspired by's March on Rome, the Nazis attempted to seize power in Munich on 8–9 Nove ...
Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey... es appear in Hughes's novel. Fraser uses them to make an ironic allusion to, and one of the heroes of Waterloo, who cuckolded the Duke of Wellington' ...
Charles II... th the earls of Monmouth acting as stewards once again, but after her deathgave the castle to Sir Edward Hyde, whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon a ...
Mussolini... ri developed into the most important port city of the region. The legacy ofcan be seen in the imposing architecture along the seafront
Julius Caesar... hillfort". At Roman contact, it was a town of the Suessiones, mentioned by(B. G. ii. 12). Caesar (B.C. 57), after leaving the Axona (modern Aisne), ...
Louis Lepic... tch it. Oudinot had encountered the Guard cavalry deputy commander, General, who sharply refused to commit his men, saying that he only recognised th ...
John Buford... o columns on June 9, 1863, the first crossing at Beverly's Ford (Brig. Gen.'s division) catching Stuart by surprise, waking him and his staff to the ...
Wang Yangming... Dynasty in 1368 and founded the Ming Dynasty. Ming Dynasty thinkers such aswould further critique and expand Neo-Confucianism with ideas of individua ...
Hafez al-Assad... ing even a limited defeat on the Israelis, the status quo could be altered., the leader of Syria, had a different view. He had little interest in neg ...
Tom Paris... Beltran), (Martha Hackett) and B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson), as well as(Robert Duncan McNeill), a regular character that had been captured and im ...
Phil Collins... n Vevey (there is a memorial statue of him along the promenade). Pop singerlives in a home overlooking the lake. Rock band Queen owned and operated M ...
Amuro Ray... deration crew and civilians in the process. Out of desperation, citizen boyaccidentally finds the Federation's new arsenal—the RX-78 Gundam, and neut ...
Erich Ludendorff... f the party in July 1921. On 8 November 1923, the Kampfbund, in a pact with, took over a meeting by Bavarian prime minister Gustav von Kahr at a beer ...
Han Solo... long with Nick Nolte, Walken was considered by George Lucas for the part ofin ; the part ultimately went to
John Leake... 02. In August of that year, an English fleet under the command of Commodoredescended on the outlying French communities but made no attempts on Plais ...
Fitzhugh Lee... aking his three best brigades (those of Brig. Gen. Wade Hampton, Brig. Gen., and Col. John R. Chambliss, the latter replacing the wounded Brig. Gen. ...
Aleksandr Danilovich MenshikovSo long asremained in power, Elizabeth was treated with liberality and distinction b ...
Perdiccas... t heir. The empire was put under the authority of a regent in the person ofin 323 BC, and the territories were divided between Alexander's generals, ...
John S. McCain, Jr.In mid-1968,was named commander of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater, and the Nor ...
Michael Collins... ed as being due to heart failure. He died at the age of 50, ten days before' assassination in County Cork. He was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery four d ...
Joseph Smith, Jr.... his earlier book contained 65 early revelations to church leaders includingand Oliver Cowdery. Before many copies of the book could be printed, howev ...
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester... urer under Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, died. His vacant post was offered to, who declined it and proposed Burghley, stating that the latter was the m ...
Reinhard Heydrich... ter the Babi Yar massacre was carried out and the conference was chaired by. He was acting under the authority given to him by Reichsmarschall Göring ...
Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon)... rsian army to make it part of the Zoroastrian Achaemenid Empire. In 330 BC,invaded the land after defeating Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gau ...
Braxton Bragg... t. Burnside served two years on the western frontier, serving under Captainin the 3rd U.S. Artillery, a light artillery unit that had been converted ...
Ariel Sharon... he Forward reported that sometime before March 2003, Israeli Prime Ministertold Bush that Israel "would not push one way or the other" for or against ...
HannibalThe Barcids, the family to whichbelonged, claimed descent from a younger brother of Dido according to Sili ...
Suharto... b speech while visiting Washington, and a statement to Indonesian Presidentthat Australia was a "West European nation", also damaged the government
Charles OudinotTime was at the essence and Masséna at once sent one of his aides-de-camp,, the son of Marshal Duke of Reggio, with orders to bring forward the Guar ...
Chuck Yeager... ther pilot demands $150,000 to attempt to break the sound barrier, war hero(Sam Shepard) receives the chance to fly the X-1. While on a horseback rid ...
George V... Alexandre Millerand and Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré of France, to Kingof the United Kingdom, and to the Zoological Garden (Jardin Zoologique) of ...
Zebulon PikeReports from expeditions in 1806 by Lieutenantand in 1819 by Major Stephen Long described the Great Plains as "unfit for ...
Ibrahim Pasha of EgyptA Palestinian Arab revolt broke out in April 1834 whenannounced he would recruit troops from the local Muslim population. An est ...
José María Morelos... 1810 by Miguel Hidalgo, starting the Mexican War of Independence. In 1813,and the Congress of Anáhuac signed the Solemn Act of the Declaration of In ...
Israel Putnam... years later during a British raid on Greenwich on February 26, 1779 General, who had stayed at Knapp's Tavern the previous night, rode away on his ho ...
Arjuna Ranatunga... y as he was sent up the order to open the batting and attack as a tactic bywho was the captain of Sri Lanka in the mid to late 90s. The gamble had se ...
Khair ad Din... ishing its presidios in the Maghrib, the Muslim privateer brothers Aruj and—the latter known to Europeans as Barbarossa, or Red Beard—were operating ...
Huan Xuan... otably won the Battle of Fei River in 383 AD. In 404 AD, he helped suppress's rebellion, leading to his dominance over the Eastern Jin court. In orde ...
He Yingqin... along the Great Wall in 1933. Then in 1935, under the accord signed between, the commander of Kuomintang armies in Northern China, and Yoshijiro Umez ...
Hans von Seeckt... onservative reactionaries who were sympathetic to right wing organizations., the head of the Reichswehr, declared that the army was not loyal to the ...
Cimon... heir control over Cyprus, and 200 ships were sent out to counter them under, who returned from ostracism in 451 BC. He died during the blockade of Ci ...
Gnaeus Manlius Vulso... Having become a thorn in the side of Rome, they attracted the attention of, commander of the Roman armies successfully fighting the Galatian War of ...
SpockLeonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley declined to appear. Their lines, asand McCoy, were modified for Doohan and Koenig. In Scotty's case, it creat ...
General Tomoyuki Yamashita... red Baguio City and fought against the Japanese Imperial Army forces led bywhich started the Battle for the Liberation of Baguio City during World Wa ...
Juan Vicente Gómez... ns. The original holiday was officially established in 1921 under President. In 2002, under president Hugo Chávez, the name was changed to Día de la ...
Oliver Cromwell... d began to settle around the Mystic River. George Denison, a war veteran of’s army, was given his own strip of , just south of Gallup’s land in 1654. ...
B'Elanna Torres... regular Maquis characters, Chakotay (Robert Beltran), (Martha Hackett) and(Roxann Dawson), as well as Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill), a regular c ...
Joseph Smith, Jr.... s on numerous topics, most of which were dictated by the movement's founder, supplemented by materials periodically added by each denomination
Clark GableTest Pilot is a 1938 film directed by Victor Fleming and featuring, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, and Lionel Barrymore. The movie tells the stor ...
Winston Churchill... as Adam Smith represented the ideals of classical liberalism. After the warattempted to check the rise of Keynesian policy-making in the United Kingd ...
Yang Hucheng... rred to Shaanxi again for suppression in 1936, where he worked with General, who used to be a general of Northwestern China Army and a favorite of Fe ...
General Tomoyuki YamashitaBaguio is the site of the formal surrender ofand Vice Admiral Okochi. It is where they gave up the entire Imperial Japa ...
Philip C. Wehle... ilitary District of Washington during those funerals was Army Major Generaland the riderless horse was Black Jack, who also served in that role durin ...
Hermann Göring... ful individual, makes him appear more human and draws sympathy towards him.propagated s and jokes against himself, with the aim of humanizing his ima ...
Xenophon... be traced back to the Socratic political philosophers, Plato (427–347 BC),(c. 430–354 BC), and Aristotle ("The Father of Political Science") (384–32 ...
Hannibalwas a faithful worshiper of Melqart: the Roman historian Livy records the ...
Yahya Khan... economic downfall and internal instability. Ayub Khan's successor, General(President from 1969 to 1971), had to deal with a devastating cyclone whic ...
Barry Goldwater... er taking alternate measures against vision problems: United States Senatorand comedian Drew Carey continued to wear non-prescription glasses after b ...
Zhang QianEven before Han's expansion into Central Asia, diplomat's travels from 139 to 125 BCE had established Chinese contacts with many ...
Marcus Caecilius Metellus... ns of the interior resisted the Roman colonization for more than a century,subduing them only in 127 BC
Augusto Pinochet... the organisation supported radical right-wing governments, such as those ofand Alberto Fujimori of Peru during the 1990s. Both Pinochet's and Fujimor ...
Hannibal... sue for peace. Others pleaded for the recall of the sons of Hamilcar Barca,and Mago, who were still fighting the Romans in Bruttium and Cisalpine Gau ...
John R. Chambliss... igades (those of Brig. Gen. Wade Hampton, Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, and Col., the latter replacing the wounded Brig. Gen. W.H.F. "Rooney" Lee) between ...
Edward Hatch... that it was re-occupied and at that time it was renamed for Indian fighter, who was then commander of the New Mexico Military District
Julius CaesarIn 44 BCadded two plebeian aediles, called Cereales, whose special duty was the ca ...
Lord Robert Baden-Powell... tradition on their own. Scouts do not necessarily encounter this tradition., the founder of Scouting and the Chief Scout of the World, would gather s ...
John of Austria... nd others, under the command of King Philip II's illegitimate half brother,) that defeated the Ottoman fleet on October 7 in the Gulf of Lepanto near ...
PericlesIn 454 BC, the Athenian generalmoved the Delian League's treasury from Delos to Athens, allegedly to keep ...
Douglas MacArthur... ile many officers were injured. Hoover sent U.S. Army forces led by Generaland helped by lower ranking officers Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Pa ...
Ariel Sharon... ncreased and Israeli counter strikes intensified. Following the election ofin February, the peace process took a steep downfall. Palestinian election ...
Barry Goldwater... elections. In 1964, it was one of two Oregon counties to give a majority to. The last Democratic candidate to win the county was Franklin D. Roosevel ...
Alexander the Great... bylonian Sibyl", the Persian Sibyl is said to have foretold the exploits of. The Persian Sibyl, by name Sambethe, was reported to be of the family of ...
Hannibal... t Ba‘l "Lord" as a name-element in Carthaginian names such as Hasdrubal andalmost certainly does not refer to Melqart but either to Ba`al Hammon, chi ...
Pliny the Elder... around topsy-turvy under the Earth to be absurd. But by the 1st century AD,was in a position to claim that everyone agrees on the spherical shape of ...
Aragorn... m Saruman's corpse instead of Wormtongue throwing it from the tower window.also reveals himself to Sauron after the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in ...
Chaim HerzogAccording to
Tariq ibn Ziyad... ims to invade the Iberian Peninsula. Under the leadership of Berber General, the Muslims used Ceuta as a staging ground for an assault on Visigothic ...
John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower... ree; Eisenhower was mostly reticent to discuss his death. Their second son,, was born on August 3, 1922 while they were in Panama; John served in the ...
Thomas J. Jackson... w commanding the armed forces of Virginia, ordered him to report to Colonelat Harper's Ferry. Jackson chose to ignore Stuart's infantry designation a ...
King George V... ily. Despite the fact he was a first cousin of both Nicholas and Alexandra,refused to allow them to evacuate to the United Kingdom, as he was alarmed ...
Chester A. Arthur... ng newspapers, and their numbers included five future U.S. presidents, fromto Theodore Roosevelt. Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all ...
Richie Benaud... ber one hit, 19, with Bremner impersonating cricket commentators, includingand Brian Johnston, and replacing references to the Vietnam War with refer ...
Hyder Ali... were utilized as battleships by the Sultanate of Mysore during the rule of
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh... ebruary 1960), is the second son, and third child of Queen Elizabeth II and. At the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the ...
Queen Anne... om his injuries at Kensington Palace. He was succeeded by his sister-in-lawwho continued the decoration and completion of the state apartments. On Qu ...
M. Jeff ThompsonOn September 1, 1861, Confederate Generalrobbed the Union Bank of Charleston. Thompson, who handed the cashier a no ...
Noel Gayler... t Vunakanau airdrome and Ittō Hikō Heisō Bin Mori was later shot down by LT("White F-1", VF-3) when trying to escape 40 miles from Lexington
HRH The Princess Royal... etes worldwide to compete in the forthcoming Olympic Games. Former Olympianunveiled medals up for grabs, after both Prime Minister David Cameron and ...
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron... orces, commanded by King Charles I, battled the Roundhead army commanded by. The battle resulted in a decisive Royalist defeat
Dwight D. Eisenhower... with demands that could not be met. In 1952, with the support of President, he began Mission 66, a ten-year effort to upgrade and expand park facili ...
Alexander the GreatEuropeans first came in contact with elephants in 327 BC, whendescended into India from the Hindu Kush, but Alexander was quick to adopt ...
Marcus Aemilius ScaurusWhile this civil war was going on the Roman generalwent to Syria to take possession, in the name of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, o ...
Duke of MarlboroughNamed "New Marlborough" for theuntil 1800, the town was a New Hampshire grant chartered on April 29, 1751 ...
Jefferson Davis... April 26 to mid-June. By 1916, the June 3 birthday of Confederate Presidentwas observed as a state holiday in 10 southern states. Across the South, a ...
Wilhelm Bittrich... ion was dropped in Oosterbeek, to the west of Arnhem. Realizing the threat,, commander of II SS Panzer Corps, ordered Hohenstaufen and Frundsberg to ...
George V... he London premiere of Der Schwanendreher when he heard news of the death of. He quickly wrote this piece for solo viola and string orchestra in tribu ...
David Hemp... herefore Bermuda were knocked out of the World cup. Also very well known is, who is a former captain of Glamorgan in English first class cricket. The ...
James Grant... lmost all of the population of 3,100 Spaniards departed from St. Augustine.was appointed the first governor of East Florida, and served from 1764 unt ...
King William IIIWilliam Prince of Orange (afterwards) landed in Brixham on 5 November 1688, during the Glorious Revolution, an ...
David Wooster... tal Army supply depots in Danbury on April 22, 1777. American Major General(1710–1777), who was born in Stratford
Wilfrid Laurier... rter of the Liberal Party of Canada and was particularly enamoured with Sir. When Laurier led the Liberals to victory in the 1896 election, 14-year-o ...
Georges Doriot... imarily the domain of wealthy individuals and families. ARDC was founded by, the "father of venture capitalism" and founder of INSEAD, with capital r ...
Tuvok... lingon in "Invasive Procedures", and later joined the cast of as the Vulcan
Alp Arslan... dan Savaşı) was fought between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuq Turks led byon August 26, 1071 near Manzikert (modern Malazgirt in Muş Province, Turke ...
Duke of Montemar... Kébir and Oran in 1708. The Spanish returned in 1732 when the armada of thewas victorious in the Battle of Aïn-el-Turk and took again Oran and Mers E ...
Noel Edmonds... BC's It Started With Swap Shop programme in 2006 in which he was talking toabout Tiswas being their rival during the whole era of Swap Shop
TuvokSpecies 8472 is telepathic and in sends Kes andtelepathic messages
Ney... o Berlin and was victorious in battle against Oudinot in August and againstin September at the Battles of Grossbeeren and Dennewitz; but after the Ba ...
Pavel Chekov... he year 2293, recently retired Captain James T. Kirk, Montgomery Scott, andattend the maiden voyage of the Starship USS Enterprise-B. During the voya ...
George Clinton... y rising 100 feet (30 m) above the river. The fort was commanded by General, who was the newly appointed governor of the state. Fort Montgomery and i ...
Lysimachus... r of the city, Seleucus fled to Ptolemy and entered into a league with him,and Cassander (315 BC) against Antigonus. In 314 BC Antigonus invaded Phoe ...
Sun Quan... t the end of the 2nd century AD, paving the way for the Three Kingdoms era., the founder of the Kingdom of Wu, spent nearly twenty years subduing the ...
David Gower... trous 1984 home series against the West Indies in which the England captainhad averaged 19
Thomas L. KaneKanesville was named for. The name Kanesville was adopted when an LDS Ward was first organized the ...
Heinrich Himmler... s of thousands had already been killed by death squads and in mass pogroms.'s speech at the Posen Conference of October 6, 1943, for the first time, ...
Sir Charles Middleton... ifteen years, he accepted the living of Teston, Kent in 1781, and there met, Lady Middleton, Thomas Clarkson, Hannah More and others, a group that la ...
Han Solo... st the Empire, in an attempt to capture the bounty hunters who had abducted
John Lort Stokes... The English name of Mount Cook was given to the mountain in 1851 by Captainto honour Captain James Cook who first surveyed and circumnavigated the is ...
William BlighIn 1789 the Mutiny on the Bounty againstled to several of the mutineers escaping the Royal Navy and settling on Pi ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... orces led by General Douglas MacArthur and helped by lower ranking officersand George S. Patton to stop a march. MacArthur, believing he was fighting ...
Clark Gable... Neill's four hour experimental Strange Interlude (1932), which also starred, was critically panned but managed to turn a profit at the box office
Arthur Conan Doyle... ing us by not admitting it." The famous author and believer in spiritualismhad years earlier made a similar accusation against the magician Harry Hou ...
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria... conveyed. An attempt supported by a wide coalition of parties, to establish, as a Staatskommisar with dictatorial powers in 1932 to counter the Nazis ...
Lon Nol... alindromic names are: Hannah, Maham, Ada, Anna, Bob, Eve, Otto, and Renner.(1913–1985) was Prime Minister of Cambodia. Nisio Isin is a Japanese novel ...
Frederick C. Sherman... essive feat of marksmanship. In the opinion of Admiral Brown and of Captain, commanding the Lexington, Lieutenant O'Hare's actions may have saved the ...
General Winfield Scott... s welcomed on his visit to the New York State Fair in 1849. Daniel Webster,, Louis Kossuth, John Brown, Stephen A. Douglas, and other notables were g ...
John J. Pershing... onded to the Columbus raid by sending 10,000 troops under Brigadier Generalto Mexico to pursue Villa. This was known as the Punitive Mexican Expediti ...
Douglas MacArthurJayu (Freedom) Park- The statue of General,, as well as a memorial to the centennial anniversary of U.S. and Korea re ...
Hafez al-Assad... infrastructure and perhaps attacking Damascus" Ultimately, Syrian Presidentdecided to cancel the offensive. On October 23, the day the offensive was ...
Emperor Wen of Sui... the military power amassed in the north by Yang Jian, who declared himselfand invaded the south to reunify China
Michael von Melas... d-morning they were in control of the field of battle, and their commander,sent this news south towards Rome. However, fresh French troops arrived in ...
Clark GableReckless test pilot Jim Lane () is forced to land on a Kansas farm in his aircraft, the "Drake Bullet" ( ...
Pliny... lured to Colossae and slain by an agent of the party of Cyrus the Younger.tells that the wool of Colossae gave its name (colossinus) to the colour o ...
Michael Collins... ident of Dáil Éireann (1919–21), President of the Republic (1921–1922), and, Minister for Finance, head of the IRB and the Irish Republican Army's Di ...
Marcus Furius Camillus... , allegedly built by Servius Tullius, destroyed in 506 B.C., and rebuilt byin 396 B.C., and she was also associated with the sea harbors and ports, w ...
Hasdrubal Gisco... anding in Africa, Scipio twice routed the regular Carthaginian forces underand his Numidian allies. The main native supporter of the Carthaginians, k ...
Quintus Fabius Maximus... lect a dictator itself. As this was unconstitutional, the person appointed,, was given the title of prodictator (acting dictator) although he held th ...
Geordi La Forge... d Data, who recently installed a chip that enables emotions, helps engineersearch the station. The two discover a compound called trilithium in a hid ...
Adam Johann von KrusensternThe Russian explorervisited Sakhalin in 1805, but regarded it as a peninsula
Mark Antony... gyptian Queen Cleopatra, as a major threat to his power. That occurred when, the other most influential member of the Triumvirate, abandoned his wife ...
Hernán Cortés... catán Peninsula of present day Mexico and northern Central America. The daylanded ashore at present day Veracruz, April 22, 1519, marks the beginning ...
Cayetano Valdés... n in June 1792 during the Spanish expedition of Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and. Their report read, in part
Peter LacyOn 30 June 1734, a Russian army of 20,000 under, after proclaiming August III the Saxon at Warsaw, proceeded to besiege S ...
Winfield Scott... Wisconsin legislature in that same year. Scott County is named for General, who was the presiding officer at the signing of the peace treaty ending ...
Francisco Franco... uthoritarian, anti-communist, and régimes such as Vichy France, Spain under, and Portugal under Antonio Salazar. Communist ideologues often label all ...
Pompey... rful men in Rome: Marcus Licinius Crassus, his sponsor, and Crassus' rival,. The First Triumvirate ("three men"), had satisfied the interests of thes ...
Lord Acton... ecursor of state crimes in the 20th Century. Others, including Macaulay and, have historicized Machiavelli's Borgia, explaining the admiration for su ...
Edmund Fanning... omas H. Patterson and Lt. Carlile Pollock Patterson USN, achieved success)., also a Loyalist exiled by the Revolution, took over as the second govern ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... ing for Northcutt Ely, Stevens volunteered for the presidential campaign of, writing position papers for the campaign on western water law and lands. ...
Edward Porter Alexander... ulated at headquarters that Lee's greeting was "abrupt and frosty." Colonelwrote, "Although Lee said only, 'Well, General, you are here at last,' his ...
Benjamín Hill... ed to formalize Obregón’s and his allies’ (primarily Abelardo L. Rodríguez,and Plutarco Elías Calles) resistance to Carranza. This movement soon came ...
Andrew Moray... aking place across Scotland, including those of several Scottish nobles andin the north
Eumenes II of Pergamon... mies, and again by the Macedonians. In 170 BC the Roman armies and those ofbesieged and sacked it
Shmuel GonenOn October 7, David Elazar visited, commander of the Israeli Southern front—who had only taken the position ...
Karl Dönitz... any. The main body effectively ends when Speer, by this point having joined's government seated in Schleswig-Holstein, receives news of Hitler's deat ...
Alexander the Great... the satrapys of Margiana, Chorasmia and Parthia. Later conquerors included, the Parni, Ephthalites, Huns, Göktürks, Sarmatians, and Sassanid Iranian ...
Pagondas... the enemy's attack". The tactic of the deep phalanx had been anticipated by, another Theban general, who used a 25 man deep formation at the . Diodor ...
Joseph Smith, Jr.... of Mormonism. In 1833, early in the Latter Day Saint movement, its foundertaught that just as Jesus was coeternal with God the Father, "Man was also ...
SaladinNo one controls the main entrance. In 1192,assigned responsibility for it to the Muslim Nuseibeh family. The Joudeh A ...
AegidiusIn 463 in Orléans, in conjunction with the Roman General, who was based in Soissons, he defeated the Visigoths, who hoped to exten ...
Alp Arslan... d another brother, Andronikos. When Romanos IV was defeated and captured byof the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Manzikert in August 1071, Michael VII ...
General William Sherman's... r, the Confederacy commandeered the iron works for production of munitions.Union Army soldiers destroyed the Tellico Iron Works. Sherman pardoned Eli ...
George Armstrong Custer... ft rear of the Confederate battle lines, and Hampton fought with Brig. Gen.at the Battle of Hunterstown before joining Stuart at Gettysburg
General Lake... uccessful attack at the fortress at Gawilghur, combined with the victory ofat Delhi forced the Maratha to a peace settlement (not concluded until a y ...
Julius Caesar... m in 38 BC, broke down when Octavian came to perceive Caesarion, the son ofand the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, as a major threat to his power. That occ ...
Edward VIII... married Edward "Fruity" Metcalfe, the best friend, best man and equerry of. Mosley exercised a strange fascination for the Curzon women: Irene had a ...
Andrew JacksonThe town was named in 1825 for future president, the commander of American forces at the Battle of New Orleans (1815) and ...
Rutherford B. Hayes... was encouraged. Opposition in Congress to Chinese immigration led Presidentto authorize James Burrill Angell to renegotiate the treaty in 1880. The t ...
Commandant Goudraud... bes. On the 29th of September, 1898, Samori Ture was captured by the Frenchand exiled to Gabon, marking the end of the Wassoulou Empire
General Wolfe... of the 18th century who worked in Britain, based his canvas of the death ofat Quebec on Poussin's example. As a result, the image is one in which eac ...
Charles II of England... e Edward Morgan was Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica after the Restoration ofin 1660. Henry Morgan married his uncle's daughter Mary, a cousin. Morgan ...
Arrian... the Prince de Ligne — were unanimous in thinking Aelian greatly inferior to, but Aelian exercised a great influence both on his immediate successors, ...
General Grievous... ddition to a brief appearance as Orn Free Taa, Wood plays the voice-role of, a role originated by voice-actors John DiMaggio and Richard McGonagle in ...
Andronikos Doukas... hing", Alp Arslan is told to have said "Then we are also approaching them".led the reserve forces in the rear—a foolish mistake, considering the loya ...
Ariel Sharon... nt—who had only taken the position three months before at the retirement of—and met with Israeli commanders. The Israelis planned a cautious countera ...
Victor Lahorie... was a Catholic Royalist who is believed to have taken as her lover General, who was executed in 1812 for plotting against Napoléon. Since Hugo's fat ...
Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of SudeleySix months after Henry's death, she married her fourth and final husband,. The marriage proved to be short-lived as she died in September 1548, pro ...
Nikephoros Melissenos... ros Basilakes in the Balkans (1079) and was charged with containing that ofin Anatolia (1080). The Byzantine Empire also faced foreign invasion, as t ...
King George V... e attracted many famous people, among them Agatha Christie, Beatrix Potter,and Haile Selassie who was so impressed with his visit that he gave his gu ...
Christopher Myngs... cousin. Morgan was reportedly the "Captain Morgan" who joined the fleet ofin 1663. He was part of the expedition of John Morris and Jackmann when th ...
George Armstrong Custer... United States Supreme Court on several occasions. However, in 1874, Colonelled an expedition into the Hills and announced the discovery of gold on Fr ...
Lucius Papirius Cursor... ea have been discovered; on the hill, there was the tomb of Quirinus, whichtransformed into a temple for his triumph after the third Samnite war. Som ...
William and Mary... rother George, who fled to France and became a wine merchant. However, whencame to the throne and the new Act of Settlement required all ministers to ...
Captain Blood... ere never linked romantically. The eight films in which they co-starred are(1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Adventures of Robin Ho ...
Lysimachos of Thrace... sacked: by the Triballi in 376 BC, Philip II of Macedon in 350 BC; later by, the Seleucids, the Ptolemies, and again by the Macedonians. In 170 BC th ...
Mussolini... itic ethnic origin, and African civilization. As an innocuous example: when's regime named the streets of new quarters in Rome with the characters of ...
Parmenion... He sent an advance force into Asia Minor under the command of his generalsand Attalus to "liberate" the Greeks living under Persian control. After t ...
King James II... now Lakeville Road. In 1691 Dongan fled to New England and then Ireland, asand his Catholic forces failed to regain power in England and Ireland
Alexander the Great... ites. Writing in the 3rd century BCE, Kleitarchos, one of the historians of, described that the infants rolled into the flaming pit. Diodorus Siculus ...
Chen Tang... s rival claimant to the throne, Zhizhi Chanyu (r. 56–36 BCE), was killed byand Gan Yanshou (甘延壽/甘延寿) at the Battle of Zhizhi, in modern Taraz, Kazakh ...
Nikephoros Bryennios... emperor his nickname Parapinakēs, "minus a quarter". In 1078 two generals,and Nikephoros Botaneiates, simultaneously revolted in the Balkans and Ana ...
Hyder Ali... sore for 300,000 rupees. After the death of Krishnaraja Wodeyar II in 1759,, Commander-in-Chief of the Mysore Army, proclaimed himself the de facto r ...
John FordJohn Wayne played screenwriter Frank "Spig" Wead two decades later in thefilm The Wings of Eagles
Pietro BadoglioOn 5 May, Marshalled Italian troops into Addis Ababa, and Mussolini declared Ethiopia an It ...
Mori Ōgai... ukiyo-e. Okakura Kakuzō kept an interest in traditional Japanese painting.and Natsume Sōseki studied in the West and introduced a more modern view o ...
Joseph WarrenWarren County was formed in 1846. It was named for General, a hero in the American Revolutionary War. The present was opened in 1939
George Rogers Clark... te followed the Kaskaskia/Big Muddy divide, which went through Walnut Hill.marched through Walnut Hill in February, 1779 in his march from Fort Kaska ...
Captain Mercer... lington's order to seek shelter in the adjacent squares during the charges., who commanded 'G' Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, thought the Brunswick tr ...
Narses... ), which brings the history to 552/553, when a Roman army led by the eunuchfinally destroyed the Ostrogothic kingdom. This eighth book covers campaig ...
Kit Carson... were discouraged by the cost, effort and danger of the trip. Western scoutreputedly said, "The cowards never started and the weak died on the way." ...
Augusto Pinochet... throw of the Salvador Allende government in Chile by military leaders under, produced by documentarians Ari Martinez and José Garcia
Andrew Jackson... st because of a policy of Indian removal developed by the administration of. Then, in 1831, Jacob Stem, the founder of Green Springs, bought the land ...
Alexander the Great... s a Greek-Macedonian state that was created out of the eastern conquests of. At the height of its power, it included central Anatolia, the Levant, Me ...
Bacchides... I Soter, the nephew whose throne he had usurped. Demetrius sent the generalto Israel with a large army, in order to install Alcimus with the office o ...
W.H.F. "Rooney" Lee... ee, and Col. John R. Chambliss, the latter replacing the wounded Brig. Gen.) between the Union army and Washington, moving north through Rockville to ...
Alexander the Great... Macedonian, drill and tactics as practiced by the Hellenistic successors of. The author claims to have consulted all the best authorities, the most i ...
William Henry Harrison... lle, wrote the "Log Cabin Song." It would inspire the Log Cabin Campaign of, who would go onto win the Presidential election that year
Winston Churchill... provided valuable preparation for handling the challenging personalities of, George S. Patton, George Marshall and General Montgomery during World Wa ...
Winston ChurchillMountbatten was a favourite of(although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famou ...
Benjamin Grierson... eenactment celebration is named for Jacksonville resident U.S. Army General
NicanorA Seleucid army under Generalwas defeated by Judah (ib. 7:26–50) at the Battle of Adasa, with Nicanor h ...
Seleucus... seized the treasures at Susa and entered Babylon. The governor of the city,fled to Ptolemy and entered into a league with him, Lysimachus and Cassand ...
Quebec lieutenantFollowing the death of his, Ernest Lapointe, in November 1941, King was well aware of the need for t ...
King James VII... ith his father. These brothers included Robert, who fled after fighting forin 1689 and became a banker in Rouen and half-brother George, who fled to ...
Peter Lacy... e siege began in October 1734. On 17 March 1735, Marshal Münnich superseded, and on 20 May 1735 the long-expected French fleet appeared and disembark ...
Heinrich Himmler... nomy under his control. (Some aspects of it had fallen under the control of's secret police, and remained so until the collapse of government.
Andrew Jackson... of Oregon. As of 2010, its population was 203,206. The county is named for, the seventh president of the United States. There are 11 incorporated ci ...
Captain Blackadder... in the trenches of the First World War. Another "big push" is planned, and's one goal is to avoid being killed, so he plots ways to get out of it, b ...
Reinhard Heydrich... of Czechoslovakia, especially after the reprisals for the assassination of, most of the Czech resistance groups demanded that the "German problem" b ...
Alfred Thayer Mahan... ting vote from the United States. The American representative, Navy Captain, justified voting against the measure on the grounds that "the inventiven ...
Ernest LapointeFollowing the death of his Quebec lieutenant,, in November 1941, King was well aware of the need for the government to ...
Umberto II... society. Following Victor Emmanuel III's abdication, his son, the new king, was pressured by the threat of another civil war to call a referendum to ...
Clark Gable... 1936 Robert E. Sherwood play. It was the last of Shearer's three films with, after A Free Soul (1931) and Strange Interlude (1932). The Women (1939) ...
SaladinIn 1187took Ashkelon as part of his conquest of the Crusader States following the ...
Harry Hess... s the continents with it) as it expands from a central axis was proposed byfrom Princeton University in the 1960s. The theory is well-accepted now, a ...
Yigal Allon... ing by Levinger, the settlement gained the tacit support of Levi Eshkol and, while it was opposed by Abba Eban and Pinhas Sapir. After more than a ye ...
Barry Goldwater... unty was in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson won by a landslide nationwide against— but only by three percentage points in Klamath County
Francisco Franco... ction and a nostalgia for a more rural society. The Vichy regime in France,'s regime, the Salazar regime in Portugal, and Maurras's Action Française ...
Barry Goldwater... ublican county. It was one of only three counties in the state to be won byin 1964. Along with Lincoln County it is the only county in Washington tha ...
Julius Caesar... risis and social unrest. Into this turbulent scenario emerged the figure of. Caesar reconciled the two more powerful men in Rome: Marcus Licinius Cra ...
Myronides... them to return home via the Megarid. Two months later, the Athenians underinvaded Boeotia, and winning the Battle of Oenophyta gained control of the ...
William Whipple... als; 5% of George Washington's forces consisted of African-American troops., a signer of the Declaration of Independence who had fought in the war, f ...
Julius Caesar... Among those who performed this duty in connection with particular roads was, who became curator (67 BC) of the Via Appia, and spent his own money lib ...
Kellermann's... mperial Guard, some 4,800 sabres, were committed. When these were repulsed,heavy cavalry corps and Guyot's heavy cavalry of the Guard were added to t ...
Lewis Cass... ine from 14,684 in 2000. Its county seat is Atlantic. It was named to honor, who was the 1848 Democratic nominee for President
Francis, Duke of Teck... emberg, she was born and brought up in the United Kingdom. Her parents were, who was of German extraction, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, a ...
William C. Lee... ommands the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. Generalis often referred to as the "Father of the U.S. Airborne.
Walter Krueger... ifornia and Texas. In June 1941, he was appointed Chief of Staff to General, Commander of the 3rd Army, at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. He ...
George Washington... e served in the U.S. Congress between 1833 and 1843. The town was named for's plantation, Mount Vernon, which was named for Edward Vernon, a British ...
Barry Goldwater... g defeated Democrats that year was McFarland, who lost to then-little-known, Johnson's future presidential opponent
Bob Hope... s. A few famous entertainers have performed at the Canfield Fair, including, Dolly Parton, Rascal Flatts, The Beach Boys, The Monkees, "Weird Al" Yan ...
Judson Kilpatrick... n the city of Baltimore. The head of Stuart's column encountered Brig. Gen.'s cavalry as it passed through Hanover and scattered it on June 30; the B ...
Nikephoros Bryennios... catching Arslan before he was ready. Some of the other generals, including, suggested they wait there and fortify their position. Eventually it was ...
Chen Cheng... n October 10, 1949 was the first public military parade held in Taiwan withserving as the Grand Review Officer. The 1964 National Day parade was stru ...
TimurIn 1526, Zahiruddin Babur, a Timurid descendant ofand Genghis Khan from the Fergana Valley (in modern day Uzbekistan), invad ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... rnher von Braun was MSFC's initial Director. On September 8, U.S. Presidentformally dedicated the MSFC
Buenaventura Durruti... ombardment, with bayonet and grenade fights, room by room. Anarchist leaderwas shot there on 19 November 1936, and died the next day. The battle in t ...
Paul von Hindenburg... lternatives to this policy during the Great Depression is an open question.became Reichspräsident in 1925
Henry H. ArnoldAt the end of May 1942, Eisenhower accompanied Lt. Gen., commanding general of the Army Air Forces, to London to assess the effec ...
Porfirio DíazDuring the regime offrom the 1800s to the 1900s, major economic changes occurred. These change ...
Eugène de Beauharnais... axony and Bavaria. In addition, to the south, Murat's Kingdom of Naples and's Kingdom of Italy had a total of 100,000 armed men. In Spain, another 15 ...
Sam Newman... ckyard with Don Burke, Rex Hunt's fishing show, and The AFL Footy Show with. Stuart Littlemore, who at the time was hosting the media commentary show ...
Lord Kitchener... ifference of opinion with the British military Commander-in-Chief in India,, regarding the status of the military member of the council in India, led ...
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa... Roman province of Epirus vetus in Greece. Octavian's fleet was commanded by, while Antony's fleet was supported by the ships of Queen Cleopatra of Pt ...
Chester NimitzAdmiral, the new commander of Allied forces in the Pacific, and his staff discuss ...
Colin Powell... thy. He also reveals that President George W. Bush, then–Secretary of State, and other GOP leaders played a major role in ending his career as Senate ...
Major-General Baird... opened in the main walls of the fortress of Seringapatam. An attack led bysecured the fortress. Wellesley secured the rear of the advance, posting g ...
Eisenhower... eventually assumed control of South Vietnam. In the words of U.S. President
Leonard T. Gerow... ge of Pacific Defenses under the Chief of War Plans Division (WPD), General, and then succeeded Gerow as Chief of the War Plans Division. Then he was ...
Caesar... later speculatively 'identified' by the writer Daniel Defoe (1659–1731) as(100–44 BC) and Pompey (106–48 BC) responsible for the decline of the Roma ...
Alexey Leonov... r importance in Russian space history is only surpassed by Yuri Gagarin and. Since her retirement from politics, she appears infrequently at space-re ...
Lefebvre-Desnoëttes'Initially Milhaud's reserve cavalry corps of cuirassiers andlight cavalry division of the Imperial Guard, some 4,800 sabres, were comm ...
Liang Ji... either killed or exiled, and her eunuch allies were slaughtered. The regent(d. 159 CE), brother of Empress Liang Na (d. 150 CE), had the brother-in-l ...
Charles II... so referred to as the Cromwellian Interregnum, was declared. Charles's son,, who dated his accession from the death of his father, did not take up th ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... help pass measures favored by the Democrats. Johnson, Rayburn and Presidentworked smoothly together in passing Eisenhower's domestic and foreign agen ...
George Washington... first settler, Ariel Bradley, was only nine years old when he was a spy forduring the American Revolution. Born in Salisbury, Connecticut, Bradley ca ...
Indiana Jones... ecific version is "nuking the fridge", referring to the scene in the fourthmovie (Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) when Jones hides inside an inexplicab ...
Belisarius... ining books cover the Gothic War (Latin De Bello Gothico), the campaigns byand others to recapture Italy, then under the rule of the Ostrogoths. This ...
Thomas L. Rosser... in part by opinions of less partisan writers, such as Stuart's subordinate,, who stated after the war that Stuart did, "on this campaign, undoubtedly ...
Pliny the Elder... via comes from the Latin for "sea mew", as used by ancient Roman naturalist
Julius Caesarat:44 text:murdered. (44 BCE
Julius Caesar... e Saint-Paul. Bernadotte himself added Jules to his first names later, from, in the classicizing spirit of the French Revolution
Julius Caesar... n Aurelian's time. (It had already been damaged by fire during the visit ofto Alexandria.
Germanicus... Orion a horse. Fontenrose, Orion, p. 26–27, note 9, citing the scholion to' translation of Aratus, line 331 (p 93, l.2 Breysig's edition. It is so l ...
Edward Vernon... named for George Washington's plantation, Mount Vernon, which was named for, a British naval hero
Dimitrios Ioannidis... ent shockwaves through the regime, and a counter-coup established Brigadieras dictator. On 20 July 1974, as Turkey invaded the island of Cyprus, the ...
Lavr KornilovAnother problem for the government centered around General, who had been Commander-in-Chief since 18 July. In response to a Bolshevi ...
Alexander the Great... Epirus claimed to be descended from Achilles through his son, Neoptolemus., son of the Epirote princess Olympias, could therefore also claim this de ...
Eugène de Beauharnais... for this accession of dignity was the marriage of his daughter Augusta with. On March 15, 1806 he ceded the Duchy of Berg to Napoleon
Georges Vanier... h parliament approved. In 1967, the Prime Minister advised Governor Generalto appoint the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons ...
Arthur Balfour's refusal to recommend an earldom for Curzon in 1905 was repeated by Sir ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... on one day, firing 2,088 rockets and dropping 80 tons (73 tonnes) of bombs., the Supreme Allied Commander, said of the Typhoons; "The chief credit in ...
Narses... efensive, and in 548, Justinian relieved him in favor of the eunuch general, of whom he was more trustful
Hernán Cortés... eca War, Red Cloud's War, the Second Seminole War, and Pontiac's Rebellion.eventually conquered Mexico and the Tlaxcala in 1519-1521, while the conqu ...
Pyrrhus... r V, the son of Cassander. In 291 BC he married Lanassa, the former wife of. But his new position as ruler of Macedonia was continually threatened by ...
Marcus Licinius Crassus... gure of Julius Caesar. Caesar reconciled the two more powerful men in Rome:, his sponsor, and Crassus' rival, Pompey. The First Triumvirate ("three m ...
John Ford... s commissioned by the American Film Institute to direct a documentary aboutfor their tribute, Directed by John Ford (1971). The resulting film includ ...
Alan Shearer... tball for the first time since 1966. In 1992, Dalglish signed Southampton'sfor a British record fee of £3.5 million. Despite a serious injury which r ...
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk... ine Howard, second and fifth wives of Henry VIII. Both women were nieces of, who played a major role in the machinations behind their relationships, ...
Charles WilkesThe United States Exploring Expedition led by Lieutenantwas tasked with a vast survey of the Pacific Ocean starting in 1838. In Se ...
Henry Ireton... on 7 December 1648, when, under the orders of Oliver Cromwell's son-in-law, Colonel Pride physically barred and arrested 41 of the members of Parlia ...
Zebulon Baird Vance... officially recognized as Zebulon, North Carolina. The town was named after, the Governor of North Carolina during the American Civil War. The first ...
Julius CaesarIn 42 BC,was formally deified as "the divine Julius" (divus Iulius). His adopted so ...
Field Marshal Montgomery... beret suppliers to the armed forces during World War II, including famously
Clark Gable... being sold and was heavily modified into a yacht, which was leased to actor. He named the boat Tarbaby VI, and used her through the 1950s. The boat w ...
Chewbacca... archetype. The theme of the "Friendly Monster" is pervasive in pop-culture., Elmo, and Shrek are notable examples of friendly "monsters". The creatur ...
Julius Caesarat:48 text:Pompey murdered (48 BCE); Hyrcanus and~Antipater aidat Alexandri
François Darlan... Tunisia, and intending to facilitate that objective, he gave his support toas High Commissioner in North Africa, despite Darlan's fascist leanings. T ...
Arrian... ut Darius was still outflanked, defeated, and forced to flee. It is told bythat at the Battle of Issus the moment the Persian left went to pieces und ...
Wojciech Jaruzelski... g Poland's border in December 1980. In February 1981, Defense Minister Gen.assumed the position of Prime Minister, and in October 1981, was named Fir ...
Benedict Arnold... tly been moved from Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1816, James Arnold, the son of, fortified Bermuda's Royal Naval Dockyard against possible U.S. attacks. ...
Hugh Shelton... General Maxwell R. Thurman, a former Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army., now retired, was a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a fo ...
J.E.B. Stuart... Union cavalry under Judson Kilpatrick encountered Confederate cavalry underand a sharp fight ensued in the town and in farm fields to the south, part ...
Timoleon... ed in 344 BC, when it was one of the first cities that declared in favor ofafter his landing in Sicily. At a later period we find it mentioned as esp ...
Richard III of England... hers, George, Duke of Clarence, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later King), were married to Isabella Neville and Anne Neville. They were both daugh ...
Antipaterat:48 text:Pompey murdered (48 BCE); Hyrcanus and~aid Julius Caesar at Alexandri
Oliver Cromwell... culminating in Pride's Purge on 7 December 1648, when, under the orders of's son-in-law Henry Ireton, Colonel Pride physically barred and arrested 4 ...
John C. FrémontEven the Governor of the Arizona Territory,, reported after the gunfight, "Many of the very best law-abiding and peac ...
Wilfrid Laurier... November, making him Canada's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, after
Xiao Daocheng... peror Houfei of Liu Song. The political situation was volatile. The generalslowly gained power and eventually deposed Emperor Houfei in favor of his ...
John L. DeWitt... evidence of actual malfeasance. Major Karl Bendetsen and Lieutenant General, head of the Western Command, each questioned Japanese American loyalty. ...
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford... made among his high-born clients, Ogilby was eventually taken to Ireland by, on his appointment as lord deputy there, and became tutor to his childre ...
George Washington... bout historic figures, such as those surrounding Pocahontas and John Smith,'s childhood, or the plantation elite in the slave society of the antebell ...
Ulysses S. Grant... es, including three votes cast for the deceased Greeley. However, President, the Republican incumbent, had already won an absolute majority of electo ...
Mark Antony... the dictator's leadership, the city was ruled by his friend and colleague,. Octavius (Caesar's adopted son), along with general Mark Antony and Marc ...
Blanton Winship... ard of the typical U.S. state and which answered to U.S.-appointed governor, opened fire upon unarmed and defenseless cadets and bystanders
Lloyd Fredendall... ans by his subordinates. He also was initially indecisive in his removal of. He became more adroit in such matters in later campaigns. In February 19 ...
Mark Antony... h of which he played the title roles, and Carry On Cleo, in which he played. Most notably, in Carry On Cowboy, he adopted an American accent for his ...
Agesilaus II... the city, but turned back without engaging the Thebans. Another army underwas then dispatched to attack the Thebans. However, the Thebans refused to ...
Belisarius... ld and certainly would not pass up the opportunity. In 535, he commissionedto attack the Ostrogoths. Belisarius quickly captured Sicily and then cros ...
Fitzhugh Lee... nk, while at the same time promoting Stuart's subordinates Wade Hampton andto major generals, could be considered an implied rebuke. Jeffry D. Wert w ...
Charles de Gaulle... s a minister in French governments, 1945–1958. He was minister of supply in's government (1945) and minister of public works (1947–1950) in various g ...
William B. Caldwell... the war. According to Holmes, the orders came from the command of Lt. Gen., a three-star general in charge of training Afghan troops. Gen. David Pet ...
Lewis CassCass County is named in honor of, a Michigan senator and an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the pres ...
James II... spurning their original legitimist ultra-royalist principles in regards toto uphold it
Mark Antony... engagement fought between the forces of Octavian and the combined forces ofand Cleopatra VII. The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC, on the Ioni ...
Francisco Franco... the Republic. It staved off the prospect of a rapid defeat at the hands of's forces. The role of the International Brigades in this victory was gene ...
Richard III of England... er sister to Margaret of York, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and
SeleucusHe also roused the jealousy of Alexander's Diadochi;, Cassander and Lysimachus united to destroy him and his father. The host ...
Alexander the Great... ures, were considered sons of gods such as Zeus, from around 360 BC onwardsmay have implied he was a demigod by using the title "Son of Ammon–Zeus". ...
Phil Collins... award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk awards. The award was presented by his friend. The BBC website says of Martyn, "his heartfelt performances have either ...
Henry KnoxIn 1776passed through Hillsdale while transporting cannons from Albany, New York ...
Alfonso XIII... yal Command Performance at Buckingham Palace in honor of the King of Spain,. and he was befriended by MPs from the House of Commons Consequently, fee ...
Porfirio Díaz... they had become much more secure. George Hearst was on friendly terms with, the Mexican dictator, who helped him settle boundary disputes profitably ...
Bernard MontgomeryIn a visit made sometime before the attack,had told the British army commander in Palestine, General Sir Evelyn Barke ...
Blue EnsignAs was the case throughout the British Empire, the Red andwere the official flags for merchant and government vessels at sea, and th ...
Shamil Basayev... UK citizens Osman Larussi and Yacine Benalia, was loyal to Chechen warlord. Basayev has boasted of training the men who took control of the school i ...
Perdiccas... exander's death in 323 BC, Antigonus also received Pamphylia and Lycia from, regent of the empire, at the Partition of Babylon. He incurred the enmit ...
Benito Mussolini... ation (though without serfdom) in their enthusiasm for the corporate state.said that "fascism is reaction" and that "fascism, which did not fear to c ...
Stephen D. Lee... turgis, after some doubts and trepidation, departed Memphis on June 1. Gen., alerted of Sturgis's movement, warned Forrest. Lee had also planned a re ...
Nader Shah... Empire lost the Battle of Karnal, following which the victorious forces of, the Turkic ruler of Afsharid dynasty, invaded and looted Delhi, carrying ...
Pasha Glubb... es from Bethlehem to Hebron had been cut off from their lines of supply andsent 350 Arab Legionnaires and an armoured car unit to Hebron to reinforce ...
Red EnsignFile:South Africa Flag 1910-1912.svg|Thewas South Africa's de facto national flag 1910-1928
Gaius Suetonius Paulinus... victory at the Battle of Watling Street in 61 AD between the Roman governorand the Briton leader Boudica
Nathanael Greene... Hobkirk Hill was fought between around 1,400 American troops led by Generaland 950 British soldiers led by Lord Francis Rawdon on April 25, 1781. The ...
Moshe Dayan... been buried. In July 1950, the shrine was destroyed at the instructions of
William de la Pole, 1st Duke of SuffolkHis paternal grandparents wereand Alice Chaucer. Suffolk was an important English soldier and commander ...
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh... rg title. His siblings were Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark (mother of), Queen Louise of Sweden, and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford ...
Chaim Herzog... enty helicopters, inflicting heavy casualties. Israeli Major General (res.)placed Egyptian helicopter losses at fourteen. Still, other sources claim ...
Abraham Adan... ers. The Israelis planned a cautious counterattack for the following day by's 162nd Armored Division. The same day, the Israeli Air Force carried out ...
Muhammad Ali... s via satellite when it showed the "Thrilla in Manila" boxing-match betweenand Joe Frazier
Stansfield TurnerFormer CIA chief, Admiral, claimed that De Beers restricted US access to industrial diamonds needed ...
Yamamoto GonnohyōeOn February 12, 1913succeeded Katsura as prime minister. In April 1914, Ōkuma Shigenobu replac ...
Samantha Carter... a'uld Apophis attacks Earth. He is given command of SG-1, which consists of, Teal'c and Jackson. Eventually O'Neill gets the Repository of the Ancien ...
Gaius Claudius NeroThe Battle of Grumentum was an inconclusive fight in 207 BC betweenand Hannibal. In the aftermath of the battle Nero was able to trick Hannib ...
King George VI... e B of the Constitution Act, 1982, and the Letters Patent issued in 1947 by. The office and its functions are instead governed by constitutional conv ...
Pedro de Alvarado... of power. Governors hung and removed. In this situation, the settlers askedto end the anarchy. With the arrival of Alvarado in 1536, chaos decreased, ...
General George Crook... ing sick that tents had to be set up to quarantine them. Also in that year,pursued the Sioux Indians from the Battle of Little Big Horn on an expedit ...
Belisarius... onstantinople in 542. They also cover the early career of the Roman general, Procopius' patron, in some detail. The next two books, the Vandal War (L ...
Robert FitzRoyThe voyage of the Beagle brought the survey ship HMS Beagle, under captain, to the Galápagos on 15 September 1835 to survey approaches to harbours. ...
Memnon of Rhodes... re. Following Alexander's victory at Issus, the Persian mercenary commanderordered a counter-attack into Asia Minor in an attempt to sever Alexander' ...
Charles Granville Bruce... ell for tournaments: Pierre de Coubertin presented a prize for alpinisme to, the leader of the expedition that tried to climb Mount Everest in 1922
Ma Zhancang... e Chinese Muslim 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army) led by Generalat the Battle of Kashgar and Battle of Yarkand. All the Afghan volunteers ...
Mark Antony... colleague, Mark Antony. Octavius (Caesar's adopted son), along with generaland Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Caesar's best friend, established the Second ...
Kurt Daluege... po, uniformed police, were placed under the command of SS Obergruppenführer. Further, the Gestapo and the Kripo or Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police) ...
George S. Patton... He also had to skillfully manage to retain the services of the often unruly, by severely reprimanding him, when Patton earlier had slapped a subordin ...
Stonewall Jackson... nearby William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital. Jackson's Mill, a childhood home of, is approximately four miles (6 km) north of Weston; it has been operated ...
Plutarco Elías Calles... regón’s and his allies’ (primarily Abelardo L. Rodríguez, Benjamín Hill and) resistance to Carranza. This movement soon came to dominate the politica ...
Xiang Yu... fall of the Qin Dynasty, however, civil war broke out between two warlords,and Liu Bang; the Minyue king Wuzhu sent his troops to fight side-by-side ...
Bruno Loerzer... a result of the damp of trench warfare. While he was recovering, his friendconvinced him to transfer to the Luftstreitkräfte ("air combat force") of ...
Alexander the Great... achines and (what we today call) submarines, attributing their first use to
Archytas... s observances and scientific pursuits, while individuals, as in the case of, acquired now and then great political influence. Concerning the fate of ...
Kuropatkin... m other Russian units the attack stalled, Gripenberg was ordered to halt byand the battle was inconclusive. The Japanese knew that they needed to des ...
Pliny... coast of Sicily which, in his time, still deserved the name of cities; andgives it the title of a Colonia. It is probable that it received a colony ...
CortésIn 1528, soon after the Spanish conquest,sent a troupe of ōllamanime (ballplayers) to Spain to perform for Charles ...
Benjamin Harrison... celebrated the 300th anniversary of his landing in the New World. Presidentcalled upon the people of the United States to celebrate Columbus Day on t ...
Belisarius... etail. The next two books, the Vandal War (Latin De Bello Vandalico), cover' successful campaign against the Vandal kingdom in Roman Africa. The rema ...
Pancho Villa... ted: The Sundance Woman, starring Katharine Ross as Etta Place working with. In addition a TV movie called The Legend of Butch & Sundance premiered i ...
Katsura Tarō... lic outrage over the military manipulation of the cabinet and the recall offor a third term led to still more demands for an end to genrō politics. D ...
Muhammad Ali... gation cases with boxers that were focused on fraud. In 1982 he was sued byfor underpaying him $1.1 million for a fight with Larry Holmes. King calle ...
von Hindenburg... bowed in apparently respectful humility before President and Field Marshal
Alexander the GreatIn 334 BC,began his invasion of the Persian Empire and subsequently defeated the Per ...
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of WarwickWith the support of his cousin("The Kingmaker"), Edward defeated the Lancastrians in a succession of bat ...
Lavr Kornilov... Petrograd immediately after the failed military coup of monarchist General, an attempt to topple the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky by ...
Adam von Krusenstern... in island chain was named the Gilbert Islands in 1820 by a Russian admiral,, and French captain Louis Duperrey, after a British captain named Thomas ...
King Abdullah I of Jordan... agreement Shaykh Muhamad 'Ali al-Ja'bari, Mayor of Hebron and supporter ofattended the Jericho Conference presided over a meeting hoping to pass a r ...
Rehavam Ze'eviIsraeli tourist ministerwas assassinated on October 17, 2001, by Hamdi Quran and three other membe ...
KoxingaIn 1662,(Zheng Cheng-gong), a loyalist of the Ming Dynasty, which had lost control ...
Alexander the Great... ning the Silk Road between the East and the West came with the expansion of's empire into Central Asia. In August 329 BCE, at the mouth of the Fergan ...
Pliny... When Horace criticized Augustus, he used veiled ironic terms. In contrast,reports that the 6th century BC poet Hipponax wrote satirae that were so c ...
Colin Powell... Secretary of State and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Generalwas the speaker for Damascus High School's Class of 2000 commencement cere ...
George Meade... ed at Gettysburg, Coddington points out that the Union commander, Maj. Gen., was just as surprised, and the initial advantage lay with Lee. Eric J. W ...
General Harris... force be sent to capture Seringapatam and defeat Tipu. Under the command of, some 24,000 troops were dispatched to Madras (to join an equal force bei ...
Lucien Bouchard... out "REFOOOOOOORM!", a screaming, bitchy Sheila Copps (Goy), the tyrannical, the dopey and overly-image conscious Stockwell Day, the strutting, cluck ...
George MeadeThe commander of the Army of the Potomac, Maj. Gen., and his cavalry commander, Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, quarreled about th ...
Alexander the Great... f Philip from Elimeia, was a Macedonian nobleman, general, and satrap under. During his early life he served under Philip II, and he was a major figu ...
James Wolfe Ripley... pparently never acted on, as it was probably presented to Brigadier General, Chief of Ordnance, who was described as being congenitally immune to new ...
Huo Qubing... ault culminated in 119 BCE at the Battle of Mobei, where the Han commanders(d. 117 BCE) and Wei Qing (d. 106 BCE) forced the Xiongnu court to flee no ...
Wade Hampton... reach Ewell's flank by taking his three best brigades (those of Brig. Gen., Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, and Col. John R. Chambliss, the latter replacin ...
William... Garter; the same month he proceeded with Buckingham on a mission, first toat The Hague, and afterwards to Louis at Utrecht, endeavouring to force up ...
Francisco Franco... , Israel, India, and undemocratic anti-communist states such as Spain under, South Africa under apartheid, Greece under the military junta (1967–74), ...
Andrew Johnson... took an erratic course, mostly favoring the Radicals and opposing presidentin 1865–66. In 1867 Greeley was one of 21 men who signed a $100,000 bond f ...
Feng YuxiangIn 1930, when warlordsand Yan Xishan attempted to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang governm ...
Zebulon Pike... An early reference to the river as the Smoky Hill was by American explorerduring his 1806 expedition to visit the Pawnee. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of ...
Joseph B. Kershaw... alry. His defense at Laurel Hill, also directing the infantry of Brig. Gen., skillfully delayed the advance of the Federal army for nearly 5 critical ...
Hermann Göring... oduction improved greatly. Prior to his appointment, the economy was run by. However, Göring had fallen out of favor. After a power struggle, Speer m ...
Gnaeus Ahenobarbus... suls of that year had determined to conceal the extent of Antony's demands.seems to have wished to keep quiet; but Gaius Sosius on 1 January made an ...
Ioannis Metaxas... rchy via a referendum in 1935. A coup d'état followed in 1936 and installedas the head of a fascist regime known as the 4th of August Regime. Althoug ...
Nathan Bedford Forrest... ivil War. It pitted a 4,787-man contingent led by Confederate Major Generalagainst an 8,100-strong Union force led by Brigadier General Samuel D. Stu ...
Royal Air Force Ensign... re adopted. Such ensigns may be divided into air force ensigns (such as the) and civil air ensigns. Air ensigns are often light blue in colour
John Coffee... , Mississippi. The population was 930 at the 2000 census. It is named after(1772 – 1833), a planter and military leader
Harry Turtledove... fictional Byzantine Emperor ruling in the beginning of the 14th century in's alternate history novel Agent of Byzantium
PhoebidasIn 382 BC, however, the Spartan commandercommitted an act that would ultimately turn Thebes against Sparta for good ...
Hernán Cortés... Spanish conquest of Yucatán. The former is conquest of the campaign, led byfrom 1519–21 and his Tlaxcala and other 'indigenous peoples' allied agains ...
Abelardo L. Rodríguez... a Prieta which was signed to formalize Obregón’s and his allies’ (primarily, Benjamín Hill and Plutarco Elías Calles) resistance to Carranza. This mo ...
Earl of Strafford... h legal campaigns, as it later did against Buckingham, Archbishop Laud, theand Charles I. However, Parliament and James came to blows when the issue ...
Yamagata Aritomo... the army minister resigned, bringing down the Rikken Seiyūkai cabinet. Bothand Saionji refused to resume office, and the genrō were unable to find a ...
François de Négrier... of its departure for Tonkin to take part in the Bắc Ninh Campaign, Generalpronounced a famous mot: Vous, légionnaires, vous êtes soldats pour mourir ...
José Enrique Varela... de Campo. There the Nationalist troops were Moroccans, commanded by General. They were excellent fighters in the open, but were ill-trained for urban ...
George V... o under the British Raj (1857–1920). British had captured Delhi by 1803 andannounced in 1911 that the capital of British controlled parts of India wo ...
Nicholas II... va (6 June 1872 – 17 July 1918), was Empress consort of Russia as spouse of, the last Emperor of the Russian Empire. Born a granddaughter of Queen Vi ...
Zebulon Pike... me a state. It was formed from Gibson and Perry counties, and was named for, famous for his Pike Expedition of 1806 - 1807, exploring the southwest p ...
Andrew Johnson... ch events as the process of Reconstruction and the impeachment of President
Jefferson Davis... gned a $100,000 bond for the release of former president of the Confederacy. The move was controversial, and many Northerners thought Greeley a trait ...
Prince Henry... ries from all over the world. Among those in attendance were George V's son, Marshal Franchet d'Esperey of France, and the Prince of Udine representi ...
William Tecumseh ShermanThe Newberry Historic Court House was burned by's Troops during the Civil War
Gorgidas... the leaders of the pro-Spartan government, and supported by Epaminondas and, who led a group of young men, and a force of Athenian hoplites, they sur ...
Hernán Cortés... urisdiction over the former Governorship of the Indies. He initially backed's famous expedition to Mexico, but pulled back his support before the exp ...
AlexanderHe also roused the jealousy of's Diadochi; Seleucus, Cassander and Lysimachus united to destroy him and ...
Oliver Cromwell... 1488. The lower part of the rood screen survived the destruction visited byand the Puritans, although some of the painted panels were disfigured
Duke of Wellington... Marquess of Anglesey, and one of the heroes of Waterloo, who cuckolded the's brother Henry Wellesley and later - in one of the period's more celebra ...
Wei Qing... t the Battle of Mobei, where the Han commanders Huo Qubing (d. 117 BCE) and(d. 106 BCE) forced the Xiongnu court to flee north of the Gobi Desert
William Tecumseh ShermanUnion Gen.had long known that his fragile supply and communication lines through Ten ...
Philip Schuyler... was formed in 1825 out of Pike and Fulton Counties. It is named in honor of, member of the Continental Congress and Senator from New York
Lepidus... lating. Antony complained that Octavian had exceeded his powers in deposing, in taking over the countries held by Sextus Pompeius, in enlisting soldi ...
Pedro de AlvaradoDuring the period leading up to the conquest of Honduras by, many indigenous people along the north coast of Honduras were captured a ...
Roman Ungern von Sternberg... rederick Rolfe, Joseph Conrad, Sukhbaatar, John Reed, White Russian generaland Enver Pasha of Turkey. His acquaintances treat him with great respect, ...
Ariel Sharon... ed Operation Gazelle, was launched on October 15. IDF forces spearheaded by's division broke through the Tasa corridor and crossed the Suez Canal to ...
Paul Hausser... n the SS-Verfügungstruppe: two Standarten (regiments) under retired generalarmed and trained to Army standards, and held ready at the personal dispos ...
Ulysses S. GrantThe Overland Campaign, Lt. Gen.'s offensive against Lee in the spring of 1864, began at the Battle of the ...
Prince Rupert of the Rhine... ooning military leaders for political purposes. A pamphlet directed againstis a typical example. During the 19th century, irreverence towards authori ...
Titus Manlius Torquatus... e aware of their intentions and had reinforced the unpopular garrison underto 20,000 infantry and 1,200 cavalry. These engaged and defeated the Carth ...
Prince Eugene of Savoy... strian defeat. The territorial advances made in the last Turkish War, under, in Bosnia, Serbia and Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia), were obliterated. Popu ...
Albert Pike... number of 19th century thinkers such as William Blake, Arthur Schopenhauer,and Madame Blavatsky studied Gnostic thought extensively and were influenc ...
Gordon Granger... the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas by Union Generalat Galveston in an event commemorated as Juneteenth. Black communities suc ...
John C. Frémont... -day Saints in the Utah Territory, and a close friend of Arizona's governor. Virgil and Morgan remained bedridden throughout the trial and did not te ...
Xenophon... early example of the Greek form of the name is in a 4th century BC work by, the Cyropaedia, which is a biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great
General Patton... d food, medicine, and weaponry. On December 26, troops under the command ofbroke the deadlock. The official end of the Battle of Bastogne only occurr ...
Álvaro Obregón... orfirian elite. After Díaz was deposed, Carranza competed for power againstand others. The Yaquis joined with Álvaro Obregón’s forces after 1913
Andrew MorayOn 11 September 1297, an army jointly led by Wallace andwon the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Although vastly outnumbered, the Scotti ...
Muhammad Ali... ,000 for facing Earnie Shavers, was underpaid $2 million for his fight with, that King cut his purse by $700,000 for his fight with Tex Cobb and was ...
Ariel Sharon... es of Israel – Gad, Reuven, and Menashe. Zeevi urged Israeli Prime Ministerto "lay waste to the Palestinian Authority" and assassinate PLO leader
Hafez al-Assad... rown out of the window of a three-story building and Syrian police loyal to(Assad and Orabi were "close friends"), suspected Arafat was involved in t ...
John Crace... .S. warship force under MacArthur's command, led by Australian Rear Admiral, made up of the cruisers , , and , along with three destroyers. Once comp ...
FrancoSpain sent many political activists into exile during's military regime from 1936 to his death in 1975
Phil Collins... an unbearable sense of loss we must announce that John died this morning."paid tribute, saying: "John's passing is terribly, terribly sad. I had wor ...
Ma Fuxiang... northern provinces of Ningxia and Suiyuan in China, Chinese Muslim Generalboth prohibited and engaged in the opium trade. It was hoped that Ma Fuxia ...
Marc Caron... personnel and also in military justice. Retired Canadian Lieutenant Generalalso served for a time as Security Sector Reform advisor to the head of MO ...
William IV... eat, death, or resignation. The last monarch to remove a Prime Minister was, who dismissed Lord Melbourne in 1834. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 201 ...
Georgios Kondylis... a referendum in 1924 and the Second Hellenic Republic was declared. Premiertook power in 1935 and effectively abolished the republic by bringing back ...
Julius Caesar... – began about 449 BC and lasted the approximately 400 years to the death ofin 44 BC. Many historians mark the end of the Republic on the passage of a ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... ion focused on Aurora for seven weeks during the fall of 1955, as Presidentrecovered from a heart attack at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center. In 1943 t ...
Ali Abdullah Saleh... ion of Yemen. The protestors' demands then escalated to calls for Presidentto resign
Admiral NelsonA lock of's hair was given to the Imperial Japanese Navy by the British Royal Navy ...
Alan Shearer... ecord in 1996 by paying £15million for Blackburn Rovers and England striker, one of the most prolific goalscorers of that era. A host of other high p ...
Andronikos DoukasAccompanying Romanos was, the co-regent and a direct rival. The army consisted of about profession ...
Charles de GaulleA World War II French Resistance leader and a close ally of, Pineau was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and survived Buchenwald conce ...
Lord Kitchener... s Act 1986. In addition, the wreck of the , which hit a mine while carryingnorth to Murmansk on 5 June 1916 and sank off the west coast of the mainla ...
Aragorn... nadvertently contacted Sauron, after which Gandalf turned the stone over to
William Shirley... al town and government, but the British colonial Governor of Massachusetts,, denied their request since he wanted to keep the number of towns to a mi ...
Samuel D. Sturgis... edford Forrest against an 8,100-strong Union force led by Brigadier General. The battle ended in a rout of the Union forces and cemented Forrest's re ...
Indiana Jones... red Serpent. Similarly, Thom Duncan published an independent novel where an-type character escapes from a curelom, described as a mammoth. In another ...
Attalus... vance force into Asia Minor under the command of his generals Parmenion andto "liberate" the Greeks living under Persian control. After they took the ...
Braxton Bragg... art of the city. Among their targets were companies led by such officers as, many of whose soldiers would end up in their own ranks later in the war. ...
Yorck... within the Duchy of Warsaw. During Napoleon's invasion of Russia, following's Convention of Tauroggen of 1812, von Stein's Treaty of Kalisz was signe ...
PericlesThe greatest and longest lasting democratic leader was; after his death, Athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oli ...
Gareth EdwardsBarbarians: Tries:, Fergus Slattery, John Bevan, J P R Williams; Conversions: Phil Bennett ( ...
Yuan Shao... ef He Jin (d. 189 CE), half-brother to Empress He (d. 189 CE), plotted with(d. 202 ) to overthrow the eunuchs by having several generals march to the ...
John Paul Jones... ast of Flamborough Head in Britain in September 1779. In that final action,defeated and captured the British ship HMS Serapis, which he sailed to Tex ...
Gaius Sosius... ding out Octavian's ships which up until now were tightly arranged. He sentdown to the south to spread the remaining ships out to the south. This lef ...
Edward VIISince the reign ofa clerk in holy orders in the Church of England or in another Anglican Chu ...
Franz Joseph I... elm II, and with the emperors of Austria-Hungary, in particular with Kaiser
Charles de Gaulle... ies such as Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and General. He had serious disagreements with Churchill and Montgomery over question ...
Andrew Jackson... eacher" urban legend supposes the town is named after, as well as President(President from 1829–1837) after whom the town's officials say it is actua ...
King Hussein... other Arab states showed much more reluctance to fully commit to a new war.of Jordan feared another major loss of territory as had occurred in the Si ...
Uhura... mmunications officer named M'Ress, an ailuroid officer who served alongside. She would return years later in , cast as the outrageously self-assertiv ...
Chares of Mytilene... s), while others took it to be only fiction (so Aristobulus of Cassandreia,, Ptolemy I of Egypt, Duris of Samos)
Benito Mussolini... he consorted with Nazi industrialists. In Ecstasy and Me, Lamarr wrote thatand Adolf Hitler attended Mandl's grand parties. She related that in 1937 ...
Stand Watie... also known as the Hay Camp Action). Confederate troops led by Brig. Generaland Brig. General Richard Gano captured 85 Union troops and killed even mo ...
Alexander Posey... The militia was divided into three brigades commanded by Brigadier Generals, Milton Alexander, and James D. Henry. Since many men were assigned to lo ...
Winston Churchill... respect of front-line commanders. He interacted adeptly with allies such as, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and General Charles de Gaulle. He had s ...
Nelson A. Miles... sued for any cause other than distinguished service. The commission, led by, identified 911 awards for causes other than distinguished service. This ...
Ardabur... n 471 an imperial conspiracy caused the death of Aspar and of his elder son: it is possible that Patricius died on this occasion, although some sourc ...
Juan José Flores... uccession of rulers. The first president of Ecuador was the Venezuelan-born, who was ultimately deposed, followed by many authoritarian leaders such ...
Augusto Pinochet... language. Nonetheless, Helms was a supporter of the late Chilean President, who supported the United Kingdom in the Falklands conflict. Helms was st ...
Jesse L. Reno... n the poem of the same name by John Greenleaf Whittier. Union Major General's IX Corps followed Jackson's men through the city a few days later on th ...
Marcus Claudius Marcellus... three times, by assault or siege, to take this city, which was defended byin the battle of Nola (216 BC), Battle of Nola (215 BC) and battle of Nola ...
David Farragut... Metropolitan Area. The town is named in honor of American Civil War Admiral, who was born just east of Farragut at Campbell's Station in 1801
King William III and Queen Mary IIColleges created by royal charter fromof England
Zhang Xueliang... the leader of the Kuomintang was suddenly arrested and kidnapped by Marshal, a former warlord of Manchuria, then Japanese-occupied Manchukuo
Ali ibn Abi Talib... four Caliphs: Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan andare commonly known by Sunnis, mainly, as the Khulafā’ur-Rāshideen ("rightl ...
Alexander the Great... was half Persian, his mother Apama being one of the eastern princesses whomhad given as wives to his generals in 324 BC. In 294 BC, prior to the deat ...
Helena Cain... the Pegasus in the latter half of Season 2, while "flashback" scenes depict's command in the period between the Cylon attack (shown in the 2003 mini- ...
Winston Churchill... first summit was held in December 1953, at the insistence of Prime Minister, to discuss relations with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Particip ...
Erwin Rommel... he landings were a diversion and of keeping reserves away from the beaches.was the primary target of the psychological aspects of this operation. Con ...
Onesicritus... urce, Plutarch. He mentions 14 authors, some of whom believed the story (so, Cleitarchus), while others took it to be only fiction (so Aristobulus of ...
Bernardo O'Higgins... overnments there. In the 1820s, some of them helped liberate the continent.was the first Supreme director of Chile. When Chilean troops occupied Lima ...
Rommel... to find dispersal units. A back-handed compliment was paid by Field Marshalto the workers at Radford Works when he used a captured Daimler Scout to e ...
He JinGeneral-in-Chief(d. 189 CE), half-brother to Empress He (d. 189 CE), plotted with Yuan Sha ...
William Shirley... rge-scale action was a major expedition organized by Massachusetts Governorthat successfully besieged the French fortress of Louisbourg in 1745. The ...
Robert E. Lee... n of Sharpsburg, where they engaged Confederate troops commanded by Generalat the Battle of Antietam
Muhammad bin Qasim... sian Achaemenid Empire. The Arabs ruled Sindh for more than 150 years afterconquered it in 712 AD, remaining there for three years to set up Arab rul ...
Takatsugu Jōjima... ed, Shōkaku was unable to conduct further aircraft operations. Her captain,, requested permission from Takagi and Hara to withdraw from the battle, t ...
Julius Caesar... village in Armorica, a province of Gaul (modern France), in the year 50 BC.has conquered nearly all of Gaul for the Roman Empire. The little Armorica ...
Albert Sidney Johnston... tually routed by the sudden appearance of the Confederate States Army under, Grant sent orders for Wallace to move his division up to support the div ...
Winston Churchill... night of 26/27 August 1944 and three nights later on the 29/30 August 1944.(The Second World War, Book XII) had erroneously believed it to be "a mode ...
Andrew MorayAlong with, Wallace defeated an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 129 ...
Muhammad AliKing entered the boxing world after convincingto box in a charity exhibition for a local hospital in Cleveland with the ...
Lü Buwei... irst emperor was not the actual son of King Zhuangxiang of Qin. By the timeintroduced the dancing girl Zhao Ji (趙姬, or the Concubine from Zhao) to th ...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle... iarty is the archenemy of Sherlock Holmes, a fictional detective created by. Moriarty is a criminal mastermind, described by Holmes as the "Napoleon ...
Jefferson Davis... s and sent them by steamboat to Jefferson Barracks, escorted by Lieutenantsand Robert Anderson
Francis, Duke of Teck... was born on 26 May 1867 at Kensington Palace, London. Her father was Prince, the son of Duke Alexander of Württemberg by his morganatic wife, Countes ...
Hajime Sugiyama... . Those orders were transmitted either by prince Kotohito Kan'in or general
Jean-Luc Picard... ter in the series. Her character often vexed the captain of the Enterprise,, who spurned her amorous advances. Barrett later appeared as Ambassador T ...
John Maclear... outh, England, on 21 December 1872. Other naval officers included Commander. Under the scientific supervision of Thomson himself, she travelled nearl ...
William Tecumseh Sherman... s for Wallace to move his division up to support the division of Brig. Gen.located at Shiloh Church
John Ford... gdanovich showcased the work of American directors such as Orson Welles and, whom he later wrote a book about based on the notes he had produced for ...
Oliver Cromwell... n 1649, the palace became the property of the Commonwealth presided over by. Unlike some other former royal properties, the palace escaped relatively ...
George Clinton... rr, who later became the third Vice President of the United States; General, who became the first (and longest-serving) elected Governor of New York, ...
Christine ChapelHer role in subsequent episodes of was altered to that of Nurse, a frequently recurring character, known for her unrequited affection for ...
Onesicritus... Plutarch also makes mention of when Alexander's secondary naval commander,, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimach ...
SaladinHe was planning to star in an $80 million movie aboutand the Crusades that would be filmed in Jordan before the producer Mousta ...
Quintus DelliusBefore the battle, one of Mark Antony's generals,, had defected to Octavian, bringing with him Mark Antony's battle plans. ...
Frederick C. Sherman... arrier's survivors were rescued, including Fitch and the carrier's captain,, at 19:15 the destroyer fired five torpedoes into the burning ship, which ...
Benito Mussolini... akie as "Benzino Napaloni", dictator of Bacteria, a jab at Italian dictator
Rudolf Diels... cal police under the control of Hermann Göring and commanded by his protege. Early Gestapo activities came into direct conflict with the SS and it wa ...
Benito MussoliniThe Harmony Boys of 2 May 1940 depicts Hitler, Stalin, Italian dictator, and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco "harmonizing" and getting along qu ...
Lysimachus... e also roused the jealousy of Alexander's Diadochi; Seleucus, Cassander andunited to destroy him and his father. The hostile armies met at the Ipsus ...
Daniel Morgan... f the daughters of the original owners, Kate Moore, was a scout for Generalduring the Battle of Cowpens
Lysimachus... nesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to Kingof Thrace who was on the original expedition, the king smiled at him and s ...
Philip Sheridan... f the Potomac, Maj. Gen. George Meade, and his cavalry commander, Maj. Gen., quarreled about the Union cavalry's performance in the first two engagem ...
Adam Johann von Krusenstern... Empire. After attending the St Petersburg school of cadets, he accompaniedon his voyage of 1803–1806. On promotion to lieutenant, Kotzebue was place ...
Bestuzhev... ssia in order to weaken Austria's influence and ruin the Russian chancellor, on whom Empress Elizabeth relied, and who acted as a known partisan of R ...
Michael CollinsOn 14 September 1921 the Dáil ratified the appointment of Arthur Griffith,, Robert Barton, Eamonn Duggan and George Gavan Duffy as envoys plenipoten ...
Wellington... dominion in parts of Catalonia lasted until 1814, when the British Generalsigned the armistice by which the French left Barcelona and the other stro ...
Pliny the Elder... liary cavalry unit. The thermal springs of Wiesbaden are first mentioned in's Naturalis Historia. They were famous for their recreation pools for Rom ...
Guillermo Rodríguez Lara... cial government. It was made a province by presidential decree by Presidenton 18 February 1973. The province is divided into cantons, each covering c ...
George Nares... oratories for natural history and chemistry. The expedition, led by Captain, sailed from Portsmouth, England, on 21 December 1872. Other naval office ...
Oreste Baratieri... he Italians in Akkele Guzay, claiming support of Mengesha. Units of General's army under Major Pietro Toselli crushed the rebellion and killed Hagos. ...
Emperor Wu... stability eventually led to the dynasty's destruction. However, its founderwas considered one of the greatest generals during the Southern and Northe ...
William S. Knudsen... ge summer homes at the north end of Parke Lane (one remains today). General, president of General Motors Corporation from 1937 to 1940, lived during ...
EphialtesSolon (594 BC), Cleisthenes (508/7 BC), and(462 BC) all contributed to the development of Athenian democracy. Histori ...
James Wolfe... teenth century, is evident from the fact that General (then Lieut.-Colonel), writing from Paris in 1752, speaks of the people there using umbrellas f ...
The Black Douglas... for that magazine, portrays the life of William Wallace, Robert the Bruce,, and others, while dovetailing the events of his novel with historical fi ...
Idi Amin... ted and/or military-backed leaders. Such is the case in many African states;in Uganda, Adolf Hitler in Germany, Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines, for ...
Joseph Warren... stern corner of Nobles County, and was originally named Warren, in honor ofwho fell at the Battle of Bunker Hill. The town was surveyed and platted i ...
George Washington... that was chosen was the Pony Express. Up until this time only the faces of, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were found on the ...
JominiGeneral Baron, one of the leading military writers on the Napoleonic art of war had a n ...
George V... he idea received the support of the Dean of Westminster and later from King, responding to a wave of public support. At the same time, there was a si ...
Fritz Sauckel... emberg defendants in positions similar to Speer's were hanged, most notably, who actually worked under Speer's orders. His claim to have tried to kil ...
Francisco Franco... cts Hitler, Stalin, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, and Spanish dictator"harmonizing" and getting along quite well. When this cartoon was publishe ...
Alexander the Great... nd kingdoms ruled the region: the Persian Achaemenid Empire around 519 BCE,'s empire in 326 BCE and the Maurya Empire founded by Chandragupta Maurya ...
Antonio López de Santa AnnaThey then marched northward after joining a larger force commanded bysent from Mexico City, the "liberating army of the North". At the Battle o ...
Arthur Conan Doyle... ut for Bluehouses at the Nevill Ground, where he sometimes played alongside. He also played cricket for his house at Marlborough College, once taking ...
Themistocles... ey appear to have been written by fourteen individuals and bear the name of, ostracised before 471 BC and were evidently meant for distribution to vo ...
Cassander... ed with a fleet of 250 ships to Athens. He freed the city from the power ofand Ptolemy, expelled the garrison which had been stationed there under De ...
William Henry Harrison... the Log Cabin which reached 90,000 subscribers nationwide, and helped electpresident on the Whig ticket. In 1841 he merged his papers into the New Yo ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower... er, former president of the university and brother of former U.S. president. JHU's library was previously housed in Gilman Hall, and other smaller de ...
General de Gaulle... ion, many officers and men were arrested or deserted to escape persecution.considered disbanding it altogether. But after being downsized to 8,000 me ...
Tipu Sultan... har, and Orissa, following the Battle of Buxar in 1765. After the defeat of, most of South India came either under the Company's direct rule, or unde ...
George Washington... some of which date back to the 17th century. During the Revolutionary War,passed through Farmington on several occasions and referred to the town as ...
Lü Buwei... throne by his 13-year-old son. At the time, Zhao Zheng was still young, soacted as the regent prime minister of the State of Qin, which was still wa ...
Charles II of EnglandThe Royal Declaration of Indulgence was's attempt to extend religious liberty to Protestant nonconformists and Ro ...
George V... of Commons, but in private admitted that he was prejudiced against Curzon., who shared this prejudice, was grateful for the advice and authorised St ...
John Pope's... f military experience—he detached part of his corps in support of Maj. Gen.Army of Virginia in the Northern Virginia Campaign. Telegrams extremely cr ...
Braxton Bragg... d to command the defense of Cincinnati in the Department of the Ohio during's incursion into Kentucky
James II... on and take Anglican communion. When Charles II's openly Catholic successorattempted to issue a similar Declaration of Indulgence, an order for gener ...
Hiero... raecia cities led by Syracuse. A few years later, in 474, Syracuse's tyrantdefeated the Etruscans at the Battle of Cumae. Etruria's influence over th ...
Clark Gable... n debut was in Algiers (1938). Her many films include Boom Town (1940) withand Spencer Tracy, Comrade X with Gable, White Cargo (1942), and Tortilla ...
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond... ldings, such as Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, at Goodwood House, and the Mansion House, nicknamed the "Egyptian Hall" ...
Creighton Abrams... ld." He was a member of a distinguished West Point class that also includedand Benjamin O. Davis Jr.. Westmoreland graduated as first captain - the h ...
Joseph Hooker... n arrived to inform General George Meade that he would be replacing Generalafter the latter's disaster at Chancellorsville in May. The Army of the Po ...
Ethan Allen... olled the area where New Hampshire grants had been issued. They were led by, his brother Ira Allen, and their cousins Seth Warner and Remember Baker. ...
Lucius Cornelius SullaFlorence was established byin 80 BC as a settlement for his veteran soldiers and was named originally ...
Bob HopeThe fathers of modern American stand-up comedy, Jack Benny,, George Burns, Fred Allen, Milton Berle and Frank Fay all came from vaude ...
Lü BuDong was killed by his adopted son(d. 198 CE) in a plot hatched by Wang Yun (d. 192 CE). Emperor Xian fled f ...
Paul von Hindenburg... ly twice, to Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher in 1813 and to Field Marshalin 1918. A third award was planned for the most successful German general ...
Benito Mussolini... opia became the target of renewed Italian imperialist designs in the 1930s.'s Fascist regime was keen to avenge the military defeats Italy had suffer ...
Hans von Seeckt... sued a recapture of their preeminent position in chemical warfare. In 1923,pointed the way, by suggesting that German poison gas research move in the ...
Rudolf Hess... of my Browning"). Nor was Göring the only Nazi official to use this phrase:used it as well, and it was a popular cliché in Germany, often in the form ...
Aragorn... Men of the West, an island sea-people, founders of Gondor and ancestors offrom The Lord of the Rings; the fate of the Númenóreans, and so the fate o ...
Idi Amin... mentaries include The Man Who Ate His Archbishop's Liver? (Channel 4) about; Alchemists of Sound, about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop; a biography of ...
Gaius Sosius... ius commanded the centre, with Cleopatra's squadron positioned behind them.launched the initial attack from the left wing of the fleet, while Antony' ...
Hermann Göring... oup was originally the Prussian state political police under the control ofand commanded by his protege Rudolf Diels. Early Gestapo activities came i ...
Zhang Liao... Ford, was fought at what is currently Xiaoyao Ford (逍遥津) in Hefei. Generalof the Kingdom of Wei commanding 800 picked cavalry defeated the 200,000-m ...
Benjamin BonnevilleBonneville County was established in 1911, named after(1796–1878), a French-born officer in the U.S. Army, fur trapper, and expl ...
Marquis de Lafayette... War hero Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, better known as the
Pyrrhus of EpirusAfterfailed in his attempt to stop the spread of Roman hegemony in 282 BC, the ...
Clark Gable... ed in John Huston's The Misfits (1961), which was both Marilyn Monroe's and's last film. Monroe, who was also having emotional problems at the time, ...
Benito Mussolini... ish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published on its front page an open letter towritten by Kaj Munk criticising the persecutions against Jews
Anakin Skywalker... creen Actors Guild Award. He gained international fame portraying the young/ Darth Vader in and
Sir Cyril Newall... d troops during the Battle of France. He, along with his immediate superior, then Chief of the Air Staff, resisted repeated requests from Winston Chu ...
Queen Anne... all is chiefly attributed to her selfish and self-serving relationship with, she was a vibrant and intelligent woman, who loyally promoted Anne's int ...
David ElazarGolda Meir, Moshe Dayan, and Generalmet at 8:05 am the morning of Yom Kippur, six hours before the war began. ...
Andrew Davis (A.D.) Bruce... for the tank destroyer testing and training, which Texas had in abundance.was assigned to organize a new Tank Destroyer Tactical and Firing Center, ...
Dong ZhuoGeneral(d. 192 CE) found the young emperor and his brother wandering in the count ...
Barry Goldwater... isclosed details of CIA financial support for Duarte, earning a rebuke from, but Helms replied that his information came from sources in El Salvador, ...
George Washington... rmington en route to Westchester County to offer crucial support to General's army
John Forbes... of Denmark also lived at the Palace until the Union of the Crowns in 1603., a general in the French and Indian War who liberated Fort Duquesne and e ...
Jean Lapierre... is home province, even though the majority of Canadians opposed the accord.and his supporters, who were in favour of Martin, wore black armbands at t ...
Andrew Jackson... nly the faces of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson andwere found on the face of US Postage. Sometimes mistaken for an actual sta ...
Alexander the Great... eek Alexander Romance, Queen Thalestris of the Amazons brought 300 women to, hoping to breed a race of children as strong and intelligent as he. Acco ...
Bacurius... imperial scholae of shield-archers under the command of the Iberian princeattacked, but lacking support they were easily pushed back. Then the Roman ...
Kurt Daluege... any headquartered around Munich. The "Northern-SS" was under the command ofwho had close ties to Hermann Göring and enjoyed his position in Berlin wh ...
Richard Strachey... mon, London, the fifth son and the eleventh child of Lieutenant General Sir, an officer in the colonial British armed forces, and his second wife, th ...
Karl August Ferdinand von Borcke... ers during the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon. It was first awarded toon 21 April 1813
Hanns Johst... unclear; it did not originate with him. The line comes from Nazi playwright's play Schlageter, "Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browni ...
Manuel Antonio Flores... be the colonial power and despite the capitulation were signed, the Viceroydid not comply, and instead ran to the main leaders José Antonio Galán
Abdul Rahim Wardak... military, acting through the Ministry of Defense that is headed by General. The National Military Command Center in Kabul serves as the headquarters ...
Columbo... for their ability or tendency to ad-lib, such as Peter Falk (of the series), who would ad-lib such mannerisms as absent-mindedness while in characte ...
Nader Shah of Persia... Kandahar in 1747 by Ahmad Shah Durrani, an Afghan military commander underand chief of the Abdali tribe. After the death of Ahmad Shah in about 1773 ...
George Washington... th the county and the city were named for American Revolutionary War leader, later to become the first President of the United States. It was the fir ...
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge... rincess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, the third child and younger daughter of, and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel. She was baptised in the Chapel Roy ...
Anthony Zinni... entral Intelligence Agency. Clancy has also associated himself with General, a critic of the George W. Bush administration, and has been critical of ...
Thucydides... ss 2009. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 17 February 2011, a Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War, writes that the Spartan king ...
Lemuel Gulliver... bits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyh ...
Jacob D. Cox... irst Maj. Gen. Jesse L. Reno (killed at South Mountain) and then Brig. Gen.as the corps commander, funneling orders to the corps through them. This c ...
George Washington... r North Carolina Governor General Benjamin Smith, who was a special aide toduring the American Revolutionary War and was an early benefactor to the u ...
Ali Abdullah SalehIn November 1989, the leaders of the YAR () and the PDRY (Ali Salim al-Baidh) agreed on a draft unity constitution o ...
Roger of Lauria... ars were at the service of King commanded by King Peter or Roger of Lauria.had much more control over his captains than the enemies did. His crews we ...
Konstantin Rokossovsky... blic was led by discredited Moscow's operatives such as Bolesław Bierut and
William T. Sampson... d States Navy ships, among them the , , , , and , commanded by Rear Admiralarrived at San Juan Bay. The USS Yale captured a Spanish freighter, the Ri ...
Harry Hays... a rearguard action against Stuart's cavalry and the infantry of Brig. Gen.'s division near Auburn on October 14. Stuart's cavalry boldly bluffed War ...
Henry Knox... t of Starke County. The city was founded in 1851 and is named after General. Knox was the home of two-time Indiana Governor Henry F. Schricker
Kit Carson... te sympathizers in the area attempted to remove the flag. The Union officersought to discourage this activity by having guards surround the area and ...
Matome Ugaki... area in world history." Hara later told Yamamoto's chief of staff, Admiral, he was so frustrated with the "poor luck" the Japanese experienced on 7 ...
Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov... Petersburg, persistently urged his claims. The matter was arranged betweenand Count Andrei Osterman; and on 18 May 1727 Peter II, according to the t ...
Patricio Lynch... pied Lima during the War of the Pacific in 1881, they put in charge certain, whose grandfather came from Ireland to Argentina and then moved to Chile ...
Alexander the Great... legorical form by the actions of historical figures from the antique past (, Augustus, Cyrus, etc.). (Berger, 1986; Félibien, 1674; Verlet, 1985
General Mannerheim... art in the fighting at the front of the Finnish Civil War. When the regent,, later heard about this, he invited Gallen-Kallela to design the flags, o ...
Stonewall Jackson... is also notable for being the birthplace of Julia Neale Jackson, mother of, and Susan Catherine Koerner, mother of the Wright Brothers
George Meade... 1863, a messenger from President Abraham Lincoln arrived to inform Generalthat he would be replacing General Joseph Hooker after the latter's disast ...
Yuan Shu... 189 CE. Yuan Shao then besieged Luoyang's Northern Palace while his brother(d. 199 CE) besieged the Southern Palace. On September 25 both palaces wer ...
Marcus Lurius... from the left wing of the fleet, Lucius Arruntius commanding the centre andcommanding from the right. Titus Statilius Taurus commanded Octavian's arm ...
Princess Anne... rence House. Their first two children were born: Prince Charles in 1948 andin 1950
Seleucus'sIt is generally thought that Chandragupta marrieddaughter, or a Macedonian princess, a gift from Seleucus to formalize an a ...
Pliny the Elder... r along the River Hermus, where a town called Maeonia existed, according to(Natural History book v:30) and Hierocles
Alexander... er made use of assassinations against some of his enemies, including two of's generals Nicanor and Philip. Another famous example come from the Thugg ...
Titus Statilius Taurus... rruntius commanding the centre and Marcus Lurius commanding from the right.commanded Octavian's armies, who observed the battle from shore to the nor ...
Henry Martyn Robert... amentary authority for use by a deliberative assembly written by Brig. Gen.
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major... urce of manpower for the Carthaginian army, a second Roman expedition undertook New Carthage by assault and ended Carthaginian rule over Iberia in th ...
Douglas Haig... attle has been a source of controversy: senior officers such as General Sir, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force and Henry Rawlinson, th ...
Hermann Göring... e "Northern-SS" was under the command of Kurt Daluege who had close ties toand enjoyed his position in Berlin where most of the Nazi government offic ...
John VI KantakouzenosOn 2 February the Byzantine Empire's civil war betweenand the regency ended with John VI entering Constantinople. On 8 February, ...
Aragorn... y barricade was erected in place of the Great Gate. After the war on May 1,received the Crown of Gondor in front of the gate and then entered the Cit ...
George Villiers, 1st Duke of BuckinghamIn 1628 the unpopular favourite of Charles Iwas stabbed to death in an Old Portsmouth pub by a veteran of Villiers' mo ...
Saladin... and was also the site of the kingdom's scriptorium. The church was lost to, along with the rest of the city, in 1187, although the treaty establishe ...
Constantine II of Greece... nd VIPs, using the former King of Greece as his principal salesman. Ex-King(then exiled in Britain) provided contacts to a half a dozen royal familie ...
Richard HawkinsThe first English captain to visit the Galápagos Islands was, in 1593. Until the early 19th century, the archipelago was often used as ...
C. Aubrey Smith... oel Madison, Reginald Mason, Bradley Page, Willard Robertson, Ivan Simpson,, Charles Starrett, Richard Tucker, Arthur Vinton, Morgan Wallace and Lyle ...
Zachary TaylorIn frustration U.S. Commander, referring to the Saint Patrick's Battalion, ordered a squadron of the 1s ...
Moshe DayanGolda Meir,, and General David Elazar met at 8:05 am the morning of Yom Kippur, six h ...
Alfonso XIIIIn the early 1900s Santander became the favoured summer residence of King, who built the Palacio de la Magdalena as the residence of the royal fami ...
Takeo Kurita... n the Battle off Cape Engaño, the Japanese Central Force under Vice Admiralhad transited San Bernardino Strait and emerged off the coast of Samar, wh ...
Andrew Johnson... g his loyalty to the Union should a civil war break out, Tennessee Governorused his influence in the United States Department of War for Carter to or ...
Martin Bormann... , including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess,and, of course, Adolf Hitler himself
Julius Caesar... om time to time undertook to produce a master itinerary of all Roman roads.and Mark Antony commissioned the first known such effort in 44 BC. Zenodox ...
Zachary TaylorTaylor County was created in 1856. It was named for, twelfth President of the United States of America, who served from 1849 ...
John Maclear... most senior officer present throughout the entire expedition, was Commander. Willemoes-Suhm died and was buried at sea on the voyage to Tahiti. Lord ...
Benito Mussolini... of the year, the Germans had succeeded in occupying Liguria and setting up's puppet Republic of Salò in northern Italy. Now twenty years old, Calvin ...
Alan Shearer... include Bob Geldof, King Harald V of Norway, Nelson Mandela, Bobby Robson,and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Hoppings funfair, said to be the la ...
Rudolf Hess... azi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler,, Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitler himself
Antigonus MonophthalmusFollowing his and Lysimachus' victory overat the decisive Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC, Seleucus took control over east ...
John Sedgwick... s in American history. His friend and West Point classmate, Union Maj. Gen.said that Stuart was "the greatest cavalry officer ever foaled in America. ...
Kit Carson... . Frémont of the U.S. Army's Corps of Topographical Engineers and his guideled three expeditions from 1842 to 1846 over parts of California and Orego ...
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim... on the reform and modernization of the Qing Dynasty. The task was given to, at the time a colonel in the Russian army, who travelled to China with F ...
Andrew JohnsonOn the recommendation of Military Governor of Tennessee, U.S. naval officer Samuel Powhattan (S.P.) Carter was promoted to the br ...
Gerhard von Scharnhorst... away to the northwest, after having secured 34 cannon in co-operation with. At the Battle of Lübeck his force was defeated by two French corps on 6 ...
Benedict Arnold... in 1775, Ethan Allen and a troop of his men, along with Connecticut Colonel, marched up to Lake Champlain and captured the strategically important mi ...
George Custer... valry Field was repulsed by Union cavalry under Brig. Gens. David Gregg and
James B. Ricketts... stly hundred-days' men amalgamated from the VIII Corps) and the division offrom VI Corps was defeated by Confederate General Jubal A. Early, who had ...
Seleucus I Nicator... Myus. In the spring of 310, he was soundly defeated when he tried to expelfrom Babylon; his father was defeated in the autumn. As a result of this B ...
Charles de Gaulle... he Gaullists and left the majority coalition. The CNIP reproached Presidentwith his euro-scepticism. But Giscard refused to resign and founded the In ...
Lucius Arruntius... he experienced admiral Agrippa, commanding from the left wing of the fleet,commanding the centre and Marcus Lurius commanding from the right. Titus S ...
Judson Kilpatrick... War, the Battle of Hanover was fought on June 30, 1863. Union cavalry underencountered Confederate cavalry under J.E.B. Stuart and a sharp fight ensu ...
Henri Guisan... orld War II, Germany considered invading, but never attacked. Under General, the Swiss army prepared for mass mobilization of militia forces against ...
Scipio Africanus... for example, devoted much time to his Africa, a dactylic hexameter epic on, but this work was unappreciated in his time and remains little read toda ...
Clark Gable... io executives by singing a special arrangement of "You Made Me Love You" toat a birthday party held by the studio for the actor; her rendition was so ...
Armistead LongAt 5 p.m., however, Gen.'s ammunition train in the rear was attacked by advance elements of Forres ...
Cimon... Similar but more controversial claims have been made about the ostracism ofin
Gustav Graves... ast a radio adaptation of Goldfinger with Toby Stephens (who played villainin Die Another Day) as Bond, Ian McKellen as Goldfinger and Stephens' Die ...
Timur... he territory to his son, Chagatai and the area became the Chagatai Khanate.took over the area in 1369 and the area became the Timurid Empire
Mark Antony... dertook to produce a master itinerary of all Roman roads. Julius Caesar andcommissioned the first known such effort in 44 BC. Zenodoxus, Theodotus an ...
David Gregg... ttack on East Cavalry Field was repulsed by Union cavalry under Brig. Gens.and George Custer
Richard of GloucesterAlthough his son was quickly barred from the throne and replaced by, Edward IV's daughter Elizabeth of York later became the Queen consort of ...
Alexander the Great... t by hounds of Cocytus, Echidna, the Tartesian eel, and Tithrasian Gorgons.traced his ancestry (through his mother) to Aeacus
King Charles IIBy 1681, then-acting governor Morgan had fallen out of favour with, who was intent on weakening the semi-autonomous Jamaican Council, and wa ...
Alexander the GreatWhenentered Caria in 334 BC, Ada, who was in possession of the fortress of Ali ...
Henry Martyn Robert... rative Assemblies, was published in February 1876 by then U.S. Army Colonel(1837–1923) with the short title Robert's Rules of Order placed on its cov ...
James Oglethorpe... s founded on December 19, 1795, and is named for Georgia's founder, General
Jefferson Davis... . It was named for the only President of the Confederate States of America,. The 2007 Census Estimate showed a population of 13,291. The county seat ...
Reinhard HeydrichHeinrich Himmler, together with his right-hand man,, consolidated the power of the organization. In 1931, Himmler gave Heydri ...
John C. Frémont... his explorations in the west was published by Washington Irving in 1838.).of the U.S. Army's Corps of Topographical Engineers and his guide Kit Cars ...
Benito Mussolini... state had influence, if not power, over most of its citizens. According to, this system politicizes everything spiritual and human
George V... al Warrant. The firm received further warrants from Edward as king and fromboth as Prince of Wales and as king
Wade Hampton... sus. It is named for American Civil War general and South Carolina governor
Thucydides... stic; they wrote in Attic Greek, their models were Herodotus and especially, and their subject matter was secular history. They avoided vocabulary un ...
George WashingtonPresident of Congress John Hancock sent a broadside to General, instructing him to have it proclaimed "at the Head of the Army in the wa ...
Alexanderconquered the Persian Empire under its last Achaemenid dynast, Darius III, ...
Frank Armstrong... Missouri Regiment, Crossland's Kentucky Brigade, Roddey's Alabama Brigade,'s Mississippi Brigade, General Daniel W. Adams' state reserves, and the c ...
Joachim von Ribbentrop... . This directly contradicted the advice given to Hitler by Foreign Minister(a man whom Göring loathed at the best of times) that Chamberlain would no ...
Richard IIIPrior to his succession, on 22 June 1483,declared that Edward V was illegitimate, and three days later the matter w ...
Benjamin Harrison... n). The plan worked, and Michigan split its vote: nine votes for Republicanand five votes for Democrat Grover Cleveland. Once the Republican party re ...
Charles II... recognition for help given to him during his exile in Jersey in the 1640s,gave George Carteret, bailiff and governor, a large grant of land in the A ...
Francisco Franco... "53 nations" to fight against the Spanish Nationalist forces led by Generaland assisted by German and Italian forces
Winston Churchill... made about aerial bombardment of major cities with gas in Mesopotamia, with, then-Secretary of State at the British War Office, arguing in favor of i ...
Toussaint Louverture... ame more politically conscious of his roles. In 1936, he played the role ofin the play, of the same name, by C.L.R. James at the Westminster Theatre ...
Mussolini... gure could be found for Danes. However, Munk's attitude towards Hitler (and) turned to outspoken disgust, as he witnessed Hitler's persecution of the ...
Heraclius... rectly replaced. He pressed Emperor Constans II to withdraw the Ecthesis of. While his efforts made little impression on Constantinople, it increased ...
Percy Scott... re deemed somewhat ineffective, so a Royal Navy gunnery expert, Admiral Sir, was appointed to make improvements, particularly an integrated AA defenc ...
Jorge Rafael Videla... ach church's entries for the poor churches in the Third World. The visit of, president of the Argentine junta, to the Vatican caused considerable con ...
Cleomenes III... on in 227 BC between the Achaean League under Aratus and the Spartans under. Although the details are vague, both authors make it clear that the Acha ...
Hugh Trenchard... o. 16 Squadron. After the Battle of the Somme, Dowding clashed with General, the commander of the RFC, over the need to rest pilots exhausted by non- ...
Arthur Seyss-Inquart... ntered Austria, who met celebrating crowds, in order to install Nazi puppetas Chancellor. With a Nazi administration already in place and the country ...
Gaius Sosius... ntony's demands. Gnaeus Ahenobarbus seems to have wished to keep quiet; buton 1 January made an elaborate speech in favor of Antony, and would have p ...
Julian Thompson... y two years later. However, military historians such as former Royal Marinehave written that these lessons should not have needed a debacle such as D ...
Stonewall JacksonLike his intimate friend,, General J.E.B. Stuart was a legendary figure and is considered one of th ...
Heinrich Himmler... nalities of many Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring,, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitler himself
Oliver Hazard PerryThe Town is named for Commodore, the hero of the Battle of Lake Erie
Seleucus... new subdivision of the empire with the Partition of Triparadisus in 320 BC., who had been "Commander-in-Chief of the camp" under Perdiccas since 323 ...
Archduke Leopold William... he king"), which identified the tomb. Some 300 golden bees were also found., governor of the Southern Netherlands (today's Belgium), had the find pub ...
Douglas MacArthurJohnson reported to Generalin Australia. Johnson and two Army officers went to the 22nd Bomb Group ba ...
George Washington... after the Declaration of Independence was signed. The town was named after, who, in his capacity as Commander of the Continental Army during the Ame ...
Pliny the Elder... Pausanias argues for the Lykaian competition’s priority to the Panathenaia., an imperial Roman polymath, states that the games at Lykaion were the fi ...
Hernán Cortés... tecs were very upset and started to fight and put a siege to the Spaniards.ordered Moctezuma to ask his people to stop fighting. Moctezuma told him t ...
Hermann Göring... scribe the personalities of many Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels,, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitl ...
Katsura Tarō... y indemnity as well. The frustration caused the Hibiya riots, and collapsed's cabinet on January 7, 1906. The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 was fough ...
Winston Churchill... ndmother, heard of this suggestion, she informed the British Prime Minister, who himself later advised the Queen to issue a royal proclamation declar ...
Yakubu "Jack" Gowon... Christian from a small ethnic group (the Anga) in central Nigeria, General, as the head of the Federal Military Government (FMG). The two coups deep ...
Adolphus Frederick... named Point Adolphus (today a well-known humpback whale feeding area) after, seventh son of King George III. In 1878, W.H. Dall, while working on a c ...
Michel Ney... same day, the left wing of the Armée du Nord, under the command of Marshal, succeeded in stopping any of Wellington's forces going to aid Blücher's ...
Ariel Sharon... ng the 1970s about 163,000 people immigrated to Israel from the USSR. Later, in his capacity as Minister of Housing & Construction and member of the ...
Edward VIIIn the 1880s, Prince Edward (later) purchased his country seat of Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Tho ...
Nicias... erbolos is pictured urging the people to expel one of his rivals, but they,and Alcibiades, laying aside their own hostility for a moment, use their c ...
Albert I of Belgium... landers - Advisory Committee on European Affairs - African rap in Belgium -- Albert II of Belgium - Alfa Papa Tango - Alken - Alle maten - Alles Kan ...
Charles de Gaulle... mi-presidential system, developed at the beginning of the Fifth Republic by, are used in France, Finland, Romania, Russia, Sri Lanka and several post ...
German Emperor Frederick III... The tsar then sent emissaries to Princess Margaret of Prussia, daughter ofand sister of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Nicholas flatly declared that he ...
Shmuel Gonen... sed all of their crossing equipment along the canal. He then called General, who replaced him as head of Southern Command, and expressed his certaint ...
David Ben Ba'ashat... ) was the commander of the Israeli Navy from 2000-2004. He was succeeded by
Wade Hampton... major general rank, while at the same time promoting Stuart's subordinatesand Fitzhugh Lee to major generals, could be considered an implied rebuke. ...
George Rogers ClarkThe city fell on July 4, 1778 toand his force of 200 men including Captain Leonard Helm during one of the ...
Sima Yi... hey were initially in a relatively stable formation. After a 249 AD coup by, the Sima family essentially controlled Cao Wei and soon conquered Shu Ha ...
Ormsby M. MitchelOn the morning of April 11, 1862, Union troops led by Generalseized Huntsville to sever the Confederacy's rail communications. The Unio ...
Antigonus I Monophthalmus... – 283 BC), called Poliorcetes (Greek: Πολιορκητής - "The Besieger"), son ofand Stratonice, was a king of Macedon (294–288 BC). He belonged to the Ant ...
Reinhard Heydrich... for the "complete solution of the Jewish Question", as he issued a memo toto organize the practical details. Göring, who issued this memo in place o ...
Peter Gansevoort... ille's family was Hudson Valley Dutch. His maternal grandfather was General, a hero of the Battle of Saratoga; in his gold-laced uniform, the general ...
Gaius Julius Caesar... rived from the personal name of a branch of the gens (clan) Julia, to which, the forebear of the first imperial family, belonged. Although the Britis ...
Ion Mihai Pacepa... racted AIDS as a result of homosexual affairs with his bodyguards, based on's book Red Horizons in which Pacepa reported that he had a conversation w ...
Marquis of Townshend... ally named "Port Townshend" by Captain George Vancouver (for his friend the) in 1792. It was immediately recognized as a good, safe harbor although s ...
William Shirley... raiding on the northernmost communities of Massachusetts prompted Governorto order the construction of a chain of frontier outposts stretching all t ...
Charles II of England... stocrats. Eventually the bones were gathered up and placed in an urn, whichordered interred in Westminster Abbey in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Ch ...
Valuk... in southern Carinthia in the early 7th century. Historical sources mentionas the duke of Slavs (Wallux dux Winedorum)
Robert E. Lee... merican Civil War Brigadier General Robert H. Chilton (Chief of Staff under) was a native of Loudoun County. World War II general George C. Marshall ...
Ze'ev Almog... 00 ton capacity, sank after hitting mines in the Gulf. According to Admiral, the Israeli Navy escorted tankers from the Gulf to Eilat throughout the ...
Benjamin Harrison... chool District. Harrison City is named after former United States President
John HancockThe most famous signature on the engrossed copy is that of, who, as President of Congress, presumably signed first. Hancock's large, ...
King George V... ed in the town – and it was used as a troop staging area. In September 1915and Queen Mary visited. After the war the Great Western Railway launched a ...
Aulus Didius Gallus... om "Caer-Didi" ("the Fort of Didius"), a name supposedly given in honour of, governor of a nearby province at the time when the Roman fort was establ ...
Ariel SharonOn the day before the war, Generalwas shown aerial photographs and other intelligence by Yehoshua Saguy, his ...
The Prince of Wales... do on the city's southwestern end that hold annual polo and special events.and Sarah, Duchess of York were seen in the polo clubs
General Grievous... Kill Bill 1. In the science-fiction/fantasy Star Wars films, MagnaGuard is's bodyguard, duties performed on special occasions by the Jedi Knights. I ...
Yuan Xi... with his brothers over the family inheritance. His brothers Yuan Shang andwere killed in 207 CE by Gongsun Kang (d. 221 CE), who sent their heads to ...
Lü Buwei... ng Zhuangxiang of Qin. King Zhuangxiang of Qin saw a concubine belonging to, and she bore the first emperor. At birth, he was given the personal name ...
Tan Daoji... s reign, Emperor Wen was less than able. He wrongfully executed the general, who had hiherito commanded the Song armies, and took charge himself. The ...
Adam's... ces say four) just south of La Haye Sainte, for a last stand. A charge fromBrigade and the Hanoverian Landwehr Osnabrück Battalion, plus Vivian's and ...
Stonewall Jackson... g which both Union and Confederate troops marched through the city. Generalled his light infantry division through Frederick on his way to the battle ...
Charles II of England... Fundamental Orders, Connecticut was granted governmental authority by Kingthrough the Connecticut Charter of 1662
George WashingtonDuring the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War,and the Continental Army were encamped here after their October 4, 1777 de ...
John FordAnderson developed an acquaintance from 1950 with, which led to what has come to be regarded as one of the standard books o ...
Laurens Reael... mber 12, 1616. Here they were enthusiastically welcomed by Governor-General, admiral Steven Verhagen, and the governor of Ambon, Jasper Jansz
Pelham Aldrich... well as Nares and Maclear, others that were part of the naval crew included, Lord George Granville Campbell, and Andrew Francis Balfour (one of the s ...
Prince Wilhelm of BadenBorn in Baden-Baden, Maximilian was the son of, third son of Leopold, grand duke of Baden, and Princess Maria Maximilian ...
Belisarius... CE, and taken to their capital, Carthage. The Byzantine army under Generalmight have removed it in 533 and brought it to Constantinople. According t ...
Nick Fury... ences his fights with Captain America during World War 2, but is stopped by, Captain America, and Falcon
Oliver Cromwell... the "Tree" in the following centuries were John Bradshaw, Henry Ireton and, who were already dead but were disinterred and hanged at Tyburn in Janua ...
Martin Bormann... ity. In Hitler's reticence, Speer claimed that Hitler's personal secretary,, took advantage of the vacuum and controlled all information going to Hit ...
Nguyen Van Hinh... ained in Ecoles des Cadres such as Da Lat, including Chief of Staff Generalwho was a French Union airforce veteran
General DeWittA report byand Colonel Bendetsen depicting racist bias against Japanese Americans was ...
Karl Hanke... ity, and how she in turn had had an affair with one of Speer's old friends,. Personally meeting with Göring on his estate, Speer wrote how the by-the ...
Sylvester Stadler... nzer Grenadier Regiment ("Der Führer"). Its staff included Standartenführeras regimental commander, Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann as commander of th ...
Capt. John Pope... a transcontinental railroad be built south of the peaks. Three years later,was sent to scout out a railroad route, and in the succeeding year to sear ...
Ulysses S. GrantCrusading against the corruption of's Republican administration, he was the new Liberal Republican Party's ca ...
Julius Caesar... y, but not exclusively, associated with Emperor Augustus (as adopted son of). Later, it was also used to refer to Domitian (as son of Vespasian). Aug ...
Karl Wolff... lackshirts. According to SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS,, it was also based on the model from the Society of Jesus of absolute obe ...
John Hancock... was transposed on paper, adopted by the Continental Congress, and signed by, President of the Congress, on July 4, 1776. On August 2, 1776 a parchmen ...
Henry Ireton... ls suspended from the "Tree" in the following centuries were John Bradshaw,and Oliver Cromwell, who were already dead but were disinterred and hanged ...
Erhard Milch... intervened to shield individual Jews from harm, (including his own deputy,), sometimes in exchange for a bribe, sometimes in response to a request f ...
John Rushworth Jellicoe... main base of the British Grand Fleet, even though it was also unfortified., admiral of the Grand Fleet, was constantly nervous about potential subma ...
Shen Kuo... zi (c. 470–390 BCE) proposed a concept similar to inertia, while in optics,(1031–1095 CE) independently developed a camera obscura. The study of magn ...
Yuan Tan... the Battle of Guandu in 200 CE. After Yuan died, Cao killed Yuan Shao's son(173–205 CE), who had fought with his brothers over the family inheritance ...
Frank Marchant... of them". Sassoon wanted to play for Kent County Cricket Club; Kent Captainwas a neighbour of Sassoon. Siegfried often turned out for Bluehouses at t ...
Muhammad Ali... Martin Celebrity Roasts, most notably at the roasts for Sammy Davis Jr. and. In 1975, he released a comedy album that was taped live at Mr. Kelly's i ...
Pyrrhus of Epirus... mony in Italy came when Tarentum, a major Greek colony, enlisted the aid ofin 281 BC, but this effort failed as well. In the 3rd century BC Rome had ...
Robert GrayIn 1792, Captaindiscovered Grays Harbor and entered the Columbia River, the first non-indi ...
Colonel Andrew Rollo... 758). In the Ile Saint-Jean Campaign (1758) General Jeffery Amherst orderedto capture the island. Many Acadians died in the expulsion enroute to Fran ...
Jubal Early... at Gettysburg by proponents of the postbellum Lost Cause movement, such as. This was fueled in part by opinions of less partisan writers, such as St ...
Henry H. BinghamBingham County was created January 13, 1885, and named after, a congressman from Pennsylvania and friend of William Bunn, Idaho's Terr ...
Ma Yuan... m rebelled against Han in 40 CE. Their rebellion was crushed by Han general(d. 49 CE) in a campaign from 42–43 CE. Wang Mang renewed hostilities agai ...
Pliny the Elder... C (of grief, according to Cicero; Tusculan Disputations 3.31). According tothe craftsmen continued to work on the tomb after the death of their patro ...
Indiana Jones... is James Bond days. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas wanted "the father of" (although Connery is only 12 years older than Ford) to be Connery since ...
Lucius Junius Brutus... when the last of the seven kings of Rome, Tarquin the Proud, was deposed by, and a system based on annually elected magistrates and various represent ...
Admiral Arthur Phillip Memorial... ent by philanthropist Charles Wakefield in his capacity as President of the. Australian Prime Minister Joseph Lyons described the section of keel as ...
Oliver CromwellIn the wake of the mid 17th century Cromwellian conquest of Ireland,deported many Irish prisoners of war into slavery or indentured labour in ...
von Thielmann... chy engaged and defeated the Prussian rearguard under the command of Lt-Genin the Battle of Wavre (18–19 June) it was 12 hours too late. In the end, ...
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough... , not love, Sarah enjoyed an unusually close relationship with her husband,, whom she married in 1677. Sarah acted as Anne's agent after the latter's ...
Colin Powell... nd financial body listed Martin along with United States Secretary of Stateand United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan as top world leaders
Lü BuweiA rich merchant in the State of Han, named, met Master Yiren (公子異人). Lü Buwei's manipulation helped Yiren become Kin ...
Oliver Cromwell... e, the current Prince of Wales). However, due to a misunderstanding between(guest-star Warren Clarke) and Baldrick, the king is arrested and sent to ...
Charles de Gaulle... er complication occurred due to Saint-Exupéry's and others' view of General, who was held in low regard. Early in the war de Gaulle became the leader ...
Curtis LeMay... ld on disused air force bases, organized with the help of Air Force General, a renowned enthusiast of sports car racing. LeMay loaned out facilities ...
Alexander Haig... ime to Heal, Ford wrote about a meeting he had with Nixon's Chief of Staff,. Haig was explaining what he and Nixon's staff thought were Nixon's only ...
Pompey... dentified' by the writer Daniel Defoe (1659–1731) as Caesar (100–44 BC) and(106–48 BC) responsible for the decline of the Roman republic facing a sta ...
Vo Nguyen GiapIn 1972, Generallaunched the "Easter Offensive", an all-out attack against South Vietnam f ...
George Rogers Clark... here the Potawatomi lived as part of the British Empire. Twenty years lateroverran the British, claiming the land for the new and independent country ...
Alcibiades... various instances been risked, such as in the attempts to kill the Athenianduring the Peloponnesian War. A number of additional examples from World W ...
Andrew Jackson... imply was no popular vote for President in those states. Even in 1824, whenlost in spite of having pluralities of both the popular and electoral vote ...
Yuan Shikai... ional president of the republic. However, the presidency was later given to, a former Qing general, who had ensured the defection of the entire Beiya ...
Bob Hope... ure as the Biblical strongman. However, following her comedic turn oppositein My Favorite Spy (1951), her career went into decline. She appeared only ...
General Vaubois... ish navy intercepted a French relief force of Lampedusa Island. Eventually,, the commander of the French forces, surrendered to the British forces, r ...
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery... en travelling on the Continent, through his freemasonry, through his cousin, through Bishop Atterbury, through Dr Drake (the Jacobite historian of Yo ...
Aragorn... ver Isengard with Merry and Pippin as Théoden, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, andarrive to pick up the two hobbits
Robert H. Chilton... Hill near Aldie after his presidency. American Civil War Brigadier General(Chief of Staff under Robert E. Lee) was a native of Loudoun County. World ...
W. S. Gilbert... amples of Victorian satire, however, are to be found in the Savoy Operas ofand Sir Arthur Sullivan. In fact, in The Yeomen of the Guard, a jester is ...
Paul D. Harkins... ry Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), assuming direct control from General. As the head of the MACV he was known for highly publicized, positive ass ...
Sam Steele... nadian west, and members wore a Stetson type hat on patrol and around camp.is often credited with introducing the Stetson-type hat, and when he left ...
Gareth Edwards... as the venue for what is considered to be "the greatest try ever scored" byfor the Barbarians against the New Zealand All Blacks in what is also call ...

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Commandant of the Marine Corps... f of Naval Operations (CNO), and for matters regarding the Marine Corps the(CMC). The CNO and the Commandant act as the principal executive agents of ...
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Surgeon General... he was appointed deputy surgeon to the British Army and in 1790 he was made
Walter Hagen... at Ponte Vedra Country Club in Jacksonville, Florida but never took place.was chosen as non-playing captain of the United States team
Crown Prince... oops prevented German parachute troops from capturing Norway's King Haakon,, and Parliament while the Parliament was meeting to issue the Elverum Aut ...
Luuk... ysiology, during 1973) for his work in ethology, while his youngest brotherwould become a famous ornithologist. Tinbergen studied mathematics and phy ...
Mikhail Vorontsov... nging about Bestzuhev's ruin were his rivals the Shuvalovs, Vice-Chancellorand the Austrian and French ambassadors
John Gregson... by director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring, Anthony Quayle and Peter Finch. In the United States the film was retitl ...
Edward Montagu... ter of constitutional monarchy, as did many other roundhead leaders such as
Jimmy Adams... Cotton as captain. In August, eight players were named in the team: Cotton,, Dick Burton, Sam King, Alf Padgham, Dai Rees, Charles Whitcombe and Reg ...
Charles ByrneAlso in 1783 he acquired the skeleton of the 7' 7" Irish giantagainst Byrne's clear deathbed wishes—he had asked to be buried at sea. Hu ...
Alexander... jepan Radić was assassinated in the Yugoslav parliament, a year before kingwould establish his dictatorship, Šufflay wrote Hrvatska u svijetlu svjets ...
Charles PriceIn 1989, U.S. Ambassadorand British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dedicated a bronze statue of ...
Earl CadoganThe principal landowners in the area are the Duke of Westminster and. The two areas of aristocratic landholdings can be distinguished: red-bri ...
Richard Brooks... e Big Country (1958), Elmer Gantry (1960), (directed by her second husband,), Spartacus (1960), All the Way Home (1963) – a film of James Agee's nove ...
Chris Barrie... William Pitt the Younger (Simon Osborne), the French Revolution (featuring, Nigel Planer and Tim McInnerny as the Scarlet Pimpernel), over-the-top t ...
Harry Kim... artisan basis. In 2008, William "Billy" Kenoi was elected Mayor, succeedingwho had served a two-term limit. Legislative authority is vested in a nine ...
Admiral... Sir Henry Morgan (Harri Morgan in Welsh; ca. 1635 – 25 August 1688) was anof the Royal Navy, a privateer, and a pirate who made a name for himself d ...
Emperor Wen... the tribute and a negotiation between Laoshang Chanyu (r. 174–160 BCE) and(r. 180–157 BCE) to reopen border markets, many of the Chanyu's Xiongnu su ...
Stephen Báthory... ians of the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth, assertive militarily under King, suffered from dynastic distractions during the reigns of the Vasa kings ...
Sir Rowland Hill... n the United Kingdom on 1 May 1840, as a part of postal reforms promoted by. With its introduction, the postage fee was now to be paid by the sender ...
William Davis... n. They were marked by several severe labour disputes. The famous murder ofby strike breakers, and the seizing of the New Waterford power plant by st ...
Emperor GaozuQi was born in Dingtao, Shandong. She borea son Liu Ruyi, who was later instated as Prince of Zhao. Gaozu felt that ...
Edward NortonCritics mostly praised the film andwas given an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. It was also named by ...
JulianAround 710, as Muslim armies approached the city, its Byzantine governor,(described as King of the Ghomara) changed his allegiance, and exhorted th ...
James Geddeswas hired in 1797 to survey Onondaga Salt Springs Reservation and lay out ...
Lord GreyWhen the Whigs came to power underin November 1830 he became Home Secretary in the new government. During th ...
Memnon... of Patroclus, Achilles' closest companion was Nestor's son Antilochus. When, king of Ethiopia slew Antilochus, Achilles once more obtained revenge on ...
Dr. Nada Haffadh... ies. The country's first female cabinet minister was appointed in 2004 whenbecame Minister of Health, while the quasi-governmental women's group, the ...
Daud KhanAfter the exile of King Zahir Shah in 1973, Presidentforged stronger ties with the Soviets by signing two highly controversial ...
Lysias... ied in 163 BC., his 9-year-old boy son Antiochus V Eupator was made king by. Demetrius was then 22 years old (thus he was born in 185 BC). He request ...
James Fleet... performance. In the 2003 film Al sur de Granada, Strachey was portrayed by
Dr. Leonard Hayflick... senescence", the "Hayflick phenomenon", or the Hayflick limit in honour of, co-author with Paul Moorhead, of the first paper describing it in 1961.. ...
Minister of War... he Marquis de Galliffet, the fusilleur de la Commune who later took part asin Waldeck-Rousseau's Government of Republican Defence at the turn of the ...
King George II... of her £500 income as Ranger of Windsor Great Park. Sarah was also rude to–making it clear that he was "too much of a German"–which further alienate ...
Archduke FerdinandWorld War I begins with the assassination of. Germany declares war on Russia immediately after Nicholas has ordered th ...
John Nixon... e thirteen states. The first official public reading of the document was byin the yard of Independence Hall on July 8; public readings also took plac ...
Earl of Suffolk... ch included a mutual defence pact, the extradition of rebels, including thewho as an exile was a guest of Philip in the Low Countries, and a trade ag ...
Gaius Flaminius... under the recently elected consuls of 217 BC, Gnaeus Servilius Geminus and. The latter had long distrusted his fellow senators and feared they would ...
Henry Wise... 's grounds is Hampton Court Maze; planted in the 1690s by George London andfor William III of Orange. The maze covers a third of an acre and contains ...
Lysias... he faced there 1,207 warships, of which 207 were "fast ships". Diodorus andindependently claim there were 1,200 ships in the Persian fleet assembled ...
Matthew Butler... as part of a talent spot. This person was Matthew Lewis, formerly known as, who performed his unique rendition of the song back in 1980 on Tiswas wh ...
Anderson... ock County, the town sits along Indiana State Road 109, which runs north toand south to I-70 and Knightstown. Wilkinson is about 30 miles east of Ind ...
George Washington... Missile Crisis) and the initial operational availability of the first SSBN, which demonstrated the possibility to launch effectively SLBMs, solution ...
Le Soir... II of Belgium - Léopold III of Belgium - Leopoldsburg - Lernout & Hauspie -- Leterme, Yves - Leterme I Government - Leterme II Government - Les XX - ...
Jasper Johns... center of the American pop art movement, which gave birth to such giants asand Roy Lichtenstein. Perhaps no other artist is as associated with the do ...
Musaeus... r, modern day Turkey) bordering the Lydian empire. Some mythic masters like, and Thamyris were believed to have been born in Thrace, another place of ...
Japanese American... ent Bill Clinton presenting 21 new Medals of Honor in 2000, including 20 tomembers of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, among them Senator Daniel Ino ...
Alexander IIIThe reforms ofreplaced many of the traditional privileges of the German nobility with el ...
Edward Bates... circulation nationwide approached 300,000. In 1860 he supported the ex-Whigof Missouri for the Republican nomination for president, an action that we ...
generalEpaminondas (; ca. 418 BC – 362 BC), or Epameinondas, was a Thebanand statesman of the 4th century BC who transformed the Ancient Greek city ...
John de Vere, Earl of Oxford... ', 'idiot uncle'. From his first marriage to Dorothy de Vere, sister of the, he had two children, John and Margaret. Neville was one of fifteen child ...
Duke of Somerset... nes" – she became more enthusiastic about its construction and wrote to theabout the new waterworks: "I believe it will be beautiful. The Canal and B ...
Agathon... lcibiades who were young, and Thucydides and Pericles who were already old.too, the tragic poet, whom Comedy regards as wise and eloquent, often Gorg ...
Samuel Ferguson... Fanu, Charles Lever, George Petrie, Isaac Butt, William Rowan Hamilton and
King George I... James II & VII, and Princess Sophia Dorothea (1687–1757), only daughter of, were eligible for this honour but did not receive it. At the time she be ...
Prince Henry... or - described as the King's "familiar councillor" - and tutor to the young
Charles Donnelly... It suffered 120 killed and 175 wounded. Amongst the dead was the Irish poetand Leo Greene
Duke of Hamilton... g this section of the gorge, although the area was once the preserve of the, forming the hunting and pleasure grounds of the Dukes' former home, Hami ...
Henry Fox... legitimate son of Charles II of England. In 1744, Lady Caroline eloped with, a politician who was eighteen years her senior. Though her parents disap ...
Gaius CaesarThe heir of Augustus,, was killed there in 4 AD
Emperor Gaozu... ine Qi (died 194 BC), also known as Lady Qi or Consort Qi, was a consort of, founder of the Han Dynasty. Her personal name is unknown, but Taiwanese ...
John Louis... f human rights. These nominations included Alexander Haig, Chester Crocker,, and Lawrence Eagleburger, all of whom were confirmed regardless, whilst ...
Andrei... the Empress. Quite accurately, she considered their sons Kyrill, Boris andto be irredeemably immoral and in 1913 refused Boris's proposal for the ha ...
Lysias... back on the Syrian throne in 161 BC. He immediately killed Antiochus V and
Sertorius... age were tragedies. They included La Toison d'or (The Golden Fleece, 1660),(1662), Othon (1664), Agésilas (1666), and Attila (1667)
John Brown... cans and the violence of Bleeding Kansas. He participated in the capture ofat Harpers Ferry. Resigning when his home state of Virginia seceded, he se ...
Bryan Brown1980's Breaker Morant starring Jack Thompson anddramatised the controversial trial of an Australian soldier during the Boe ...
James Watson... sequent scientific events as much as the close friendship between Crick and. Crick and Wilkins first met at King's College and not, as erroneously re ...
Major General... he King on all matters pertaining to the (USDF). The (USDF) is commanded byStanley Dlamini; the deputy commander is Brigadier General Patrick Motsa, ...
Edward Norton... nent court cases, and befriends a young, whip-smart lawyer, Alan Isaacman (). In 1975, Flynt loses a smut-peddling court decision in Cincinnati, but ...
SoterDemetrius I (Greek: Δημήτριος Α`, born 185 BC, reign 161–150 BC), surnamed(Greek: Σωτήρ - "Savior"), was a ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire
John Curtin... f Japanese intentions. General MacArthur provided Australian Prime Ministerwith his assessment of the battle, stating that "all the elements that hav ...
John Holmes... he battle of N'Djamena, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairsexpressed "extreme concern" that the crisis would have a negative effect o ...
Manuel García... a family led by her father, tenor, singing teacher, composer and impresario. Her godparents were Ferdinando Paer and Princess Pauline Galitsin, who p ...
Edward BruceAround Lent of 1314,, brother of the Scottish King, began the siege of Stirling Castle, which ...
Duke of Northumberland#Lady Anne Stuart (born c. 1745), who married Lord Warkworth, later the 2nd, on 2 July 1764
Stanley Dlamini... matters pertaining to the (USDF). The (USDF) is commanded by Major General; the deputy commander is Brigadier General Patrick Motsa, and the formati ...
Zulfi Ali Bhutto... from Pakistan. Great ire was raised in Pakistan, Pakistan's Prime ministerdescribed this test as "Indian hegemony" to intimidate Pakistan. Gandhi di ...
Edward Thomas... Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas –– R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – ...
Infante Carlos... conflict over the succession between the absolutist "Carlist" partisans ofand the liberal partisans of Isabella II led to the First Carlist War, whi ...
Earl of Warwick... afford. Latimer's branch of the Neville family was in line for the title ofand because of this, Lord Latimer, dealt with quite a bit of sibling rival ...
Al Khalifa royal family... of 2010, roughly half of the cabinet ministers have been selected from the, including the Minister of Defence, Minister of Interior, Minister of For ...
Earl of Salisbury... so gave it to Elizabeth's (and his own) chief minister Robert Cecil, First, in exchange for Theobalds which was the Cecils' family home. Cecil liked ...
William Franklyn... adio series remained the same, except for the replacement of Peter Jones byas the Book, and Richard Vernon by Richard Griffiths as Slartibartfast, si ...
John D. RyanWith help from banker, Amalgamated acquired two large competitors, and soon controlled all the ...
Duke... e. Later additions included (1923), Virginia Military Institute (1924), and(1929)
Lord Fairfax... bitants living north of the river within the vast Northern Neck holdings of. His agent, Robert "King" Carter, promoted the establishment of the town, ...
John Shute... became the leading political figure under Edward VI. Dudley was a patron of, an early exponent of classical architecture in England, and began the pr ...
Sir John NorrisLater that year, he joinedin the Battle of Zutphen. During the siege, he was shot in the thigh and d ...
consort... ent of laws that de-emphasized the influence of the old Roman nobility. Hiswas Empress Euphemia
Geoffrey BourneBigfoot proponents Grover Krantz andbelieve that Bigfoot could be a relict population of Gigantopithecus. Bour ...
Stanisław PoniatowskiSir Charles Hanbury Williams, the British ambassador to Russia, offereda place in the embassy, in return for gaining Catherine as an ally. Poniat ...
Daniel ParkerPalestine, Texas was named after the city by
the Duke of Devonshire... iggism; and he criticised White Kennet's adulatory sermon at the funeral of
Admiral Graf Spee... it was a working vacation, and used the trip to research the defeat of the. They came across the "hook" for their story when one of the surviving Br ...
Duke of Norfolk... – d. 22 August 1485) was an English nobleman, soldier, and the first Howard. He was a close friend and loyal supporter of King Richard III of England ...
Eisenhower administration... Palestinians which began with 1951 Syrian border clashes. Mediation by thefailed because Arab states would not agree to diverting 33% of water to Is ...
Staurakios... propriate candidate for the throne than his severely injured brother-in-law. When Michael's wife Prokopia failed to persuade her brother to name Mich ...
James Geddes... on after, a settler named Bogardus opened a tavern and across Walton's landlaid out a corduroy road, which later became part of the Genesee Turnpike
Elizabeth... Queen and Earl Mountbatten asked Philip to escort the King's two daughters,and Margaret, who were Philip's third cousins through Queen Victoria, and ...
AmeliusHowever, by the 3rd century Neoplatonists, such as Plotinus, Porphyry andare all attacking the Sethians. It looks as if Sethianism began as a pre-C ...
Prince FaisalHis last words to his two sons, the future king Saud and the next in line, who were already battling each other, were: 'You are brothers, unite!
General Kléber... any — took up position at the Casa de Campo. In the evening, its commander,, launched an assault on the Nationalist positions. This lasted for the wh ...
Churchill... Virginia. Additionally, many students have won Truman, Goldwater, Mitchell,, Fulbright, Marshall, Udall, and Mellon scholarships
Dudley North... Smith developed an ideology that could fully replace it. Critics like Hume,, and John Locke undermined much of mercantilism, and it steadily lost fav ...
Joe Black... ime MVP Roy Campanella, Cy Young Award winner Don Newcombe, Jim Gilliam and. Robinson would eventually go on to become the first African-American ele ...
Albert Lee... John and Brian May called Putting on the Style. A follow-up album featuringsaw Donegan working in a less familiar country and western vein. By 1980, ...
Brigadier General... ommander is Brigadier General Patrick Motsa, and the formation commander isJeffry S. Tshabalala
James II... cution of several of his enemies. He was assassinated by a group of nobles.continued his father's policies by subduing influential noblemen but he wa ...
Arsames... i and was serving at the time as a royal courier. Codomannus was the son of, son of Ostanes, one of Artaxerxes's brothers, and Sisygambis, daughter o ...
James Geddes... ot 49, Manlius, to lot 38, Onondaga, east and west through the reservation.laid out the design of the new road in "rather an irregular form so that a ...
Liwanga Mata... Kabila was able to name the armed forces chief of staff, Lieutenant General, who previously served as navy chief of staff under Laurent Kabila. Kabil ...
George Colley... here was an open mutiny by many backbenchers when the Minister for Finance,, attempted to impose a 2% levy on farmers. Colley was forced into a humil ...
Fabius... ed by a blow to the head with a spade, wielded either by Romulus' commander(according to St. Jerome's version) or by a man named Celer. Romulus burie ...
William Mackinnon... n of Zanzibar's coastal possessions in 1885, followed by the arrival of Sir's British East Africa Company (BEAC) in 1888, after the company had recei ...
Sir Robert Dudley... of Warwick, and after the latter's death in 1590, to his illegitimate son,. Dudley went to Italy in 1605, and during 1611–12 arranged to sell Kenilw ...
Bülow... istance, and in communication with him throughout. The Prussians rallied ons IV Corps, which had not been engaged at Ligny and was in a strong positi ...
Brandenburg... ilhelm issued the Edict of Potsdam, which encouraged Protestants to come to
Alexander I... to await reinforcements and to link up with surviving Austrian units. Tsarthen appointed general Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov to the commander-in-c ...
Folsom... rst settled by prehistoric American Indians including the Clovis 11500 BCE,10600 BCE and Plainview 10000 BCE cultures. Western explorers came to the ...
Rear Admiral... docked in Chennai, India, in 2007. At that time, the Strike Group commanderJohn Terence Blake stated that: "The U.S. policy is that we do not routine ...
MacrinusCaracalla was succeeded by his Praetorian Guard Prefect,, who (according to Herodian) was most probably responsible for having the ...
Constantine Doukas... d of Apulia declared war under the pretext of defending the rights of young, who had been engaged to Robert's daughter Helena. As Alexios was entrust ...
Henry Blake... g whips to force their way through crowded bazaars (as recounted by General), and mistreating Indians (including the sepoys). In the years after the ...
Zhang Lihua... ptured the Chen capital of Jiankang. Chen Shubao and his favorite concubineattempted to hide in a well, but eventually were captured by Sui forces, t ...
Henry Lawson... haped by British and Irish folk ballads and Australian bush balladeers likeand Banjo Paterson. Country instruments, including the guitar, banjo, fidd ...
Jubal... characters have great importance to the plot. They were carefully selected:means "the father of all," Michael stands for "Who is like God"
Yahya Muhammad... er Yemen was formally recognized. Turkish forces withdrew in 1918, and Imamstrengthened his control over northern Yemen creating the Mutawakkilite Ki ...
Brigadier General... SDF) is commanded by Major General Stanley Dlamini; the deputy commander isPatrick Motsa, and the formation commander is Brigadier General Jeffry S. ...
Euston... ace railways (such as the Metropolitan Railway). Lines from Bow to Barking,to Watford Junction, Broad Street to Richmond and a number of related bran ...
Jasper Johns... Maria briefly formulated a musical group, which included lyrics written by
George Washington... members include East Carolina (1964–76), East Tennessee State (1978–2005),(1936–70), Marshall (1976–97), Richmond (1936–76), William & Mary (1936–77 ...
Earl of Loudoun... in 1757 from Fairfax County. The county is named for John Campbell, Fourthand Governor of Virginia from 1756–59. Western settlement began in the 172 ...
lieutenant general... te timeline where Ba'al controls the Goa'uld Empire. O'Neill reappears as ain Stargate Universe with Nicholas Rush, where he is recruiting Eli Wallac ...
Emperor Wen... ouse sponsored many literary works, and many wrote themselves. The court ofwas especially active in literary circles, with Liu supporting the compila ...
Duchess of Suffolk... abounded across Europe that the King was attracted to her close friend, the. However, she saw the warrant and managed to reconcile with the King afte ...
a character... rts about excavated dodo fossils, the newly vindicated bird was featured asin Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With the popularity o ...
Admiral of the Fleet... 31), Commander in Chief at Chatham (1832–1835) a Viscount (in 1850), and an, dying aged 80 on 12 January 1858
Chris Barrie... s "Mad Gerald"), Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Mark Arden, Stephen Frost,and Jeremy Hardy. Elton himself played an anarchist in Blackadder the Thir ...
Jeremy Black... character of Bond was developed more than in the previous novels; academicconsiders that, in Goldfinger, Bond "was presented as a complex character" ...
Mildred Bailey... ry influence on her vocal style, although she also expressed admiration for, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday
Brahms... e basis of works by many other composers. The most notable examples include's Variations on a Theme of Paganini and Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Them ...
M. Aemilius Lepidus... the Capitoline Hill end of the Forum by order of the consuls for that year,and Q. Lutatius Catulus. In 63 BC, Cicero delivered his famous speech deno ...
George McClellan... o circumvent that opposition, a group of Philadelphia physicians led by Dr.sent a letter to the trustees of Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylv ...
William Trevor... Nichols found work in television, notably playing opposite Alastair Sim in's production of The Generals Day. She made appearances in Flint, The Tea ...
Chris Barrie... B-sides also ostensibly featured voice parts by Reagan, as played by actor, who also voiced the character on Spitting Image. Barrie would return for ...
Hasdrubal... aged war against the Carthaginian ally Gala. According to Appian, in 213 BCleft Iberia and fought Syphax, though he may be confused with Hasdrubal Gi ...
Josiah Tattnall... S. naval forces were unable to break the Union blockade including Commodore’s ironclads from Savannah, in 1862 with the CSS Atlanta. Secretary of the ...
the Queen... ided to dismiss Whitlam as Prime Minister. Fearing that Whitlam would go toand have him removed, Kerr did not give Whitlam any hint of what was comin ...
King Charles II... y constituted in 1303, by Boniface VIII in a Papal Bull. Boniface VIII, andof Naples should be considered one of the first great protectors and benef ...
Wilhelm II... II, while the next two have a "W" for the respective kaisers, Wilhelm I and. The final version shows a swastika
Michael Pitt... miere for Boardwalk Empire, an HBO drama series, starring Steve Buscemi and, and based upon Nelson Johnson's book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High T ...
Neoptolemus... r of Metalcas and Zechis, of whom the former was slain in the Trojan War by, and the latter by Teucer
Gorgias... ilosopher and a pupil of Socrates. Antisthenes first learned rhetoric underbefore becoming an ardent disciple of Socrates. He adopted and developed t ...
Q. Lutatius Catulus... of the Forum by order of the consuls for that year, M. Aemilius Lepidus and. In 63 BC, Cicero delivered his famous speech denouncing the companions o ...
Robert Carey... ave the castle to his wife, Henrietta Maria; he bestowed the stewardship on, earl of Monmouth, and gave it to Carey's sons, Henry and Thomas, after t ...
Queen Anne... r the marriage of Princess Elizabeth, an entertainment for the amusement ofat Caversham House, and a third for the marriage of the Earl of Somerset t ...
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Harrison's... er does not appear until the sixteenth century, first occurring as Moule inDescription of Britain of 1577. The antiquarian William Camden uses the La ...
Nicholas I... lost its independence when Russia's army crushed the Polish Uprising under. Revival and reinterpretation of ancient myths, customs and traditions by ...
King William III... born on 31 August 1880 in The Hague, Netherlands. She was the only child ofand his second wife, Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Her childhood was charac ...
Nicholas BaconHe was born about 1550, in Norfolk, of a family related by marriage to, and probably to John Aylmer, Bishop of London. He matriculated at Clare ...
Alexander IIn 1812 Czarwas able to render Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Russia useless by util ...
Prince Henry... 613, issued a volume of "Songs of Mourning: Bewailing the Untimely Death of", set to music by John Cooper (also known as Coperario). The same year he ...
Prince of OrangeWilliam(afterwards King William III) landed in Brixham on 5 November 1688, during ...
Nobuyuki... character who was living a peaceful life in the countryside with his fatherand his grandfather Katsuhito, until he gets involved (by a series of circ ...
Duke of Devonshire... n was in Kensington, from 1818–1822. In 1821 the society leased part of the's estate at Chiswick to set up an experimental garden; in 1823 it employe ...
Hasdrubal... accept pitched battle before his troops had been united with the army under, the brother of Hannibal, despite being outnumbered 2 to 1. The result wa ...
Emperor Wen... Southern and Northern Dynasties period, and the reign of its third emperor,, is known for its political stability and capable administration, not onl ...
Gorgias... n. In his youth he fought at Tanagra (426 BCE), and was a disciple first of, and then of Socrates, at whose death he was present. He never forgave hi ...
Jeremiah Sullivan... artery. However, the waterway eventually proved to be too sandy for trade., a judge of the Indiana Supreme Court, invented the name Indianapolis by ...
Sir Rowland HillThe Englishmanstarted to take an interest in postal reform in 1835. In 1836, a Member of ...
George II... nglish merchant captain Robert Jenkins and told him to take it to his king,) broke out in 1739 between Spain and Great Britain, but was confined to t ...
Alexander I... n and many soldiers of allies or subject areas). He aimed to compel Emperorto remain in the Continental System and to remove the imminent threat of a ...
Hasse... ced annually a series of oratorios for the court which were set by Caldara,and others. Metastasio's best known oratorio libretto La passione di Gesù ...
Rip Van Winkle... appearance with Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) and(1819), followed from 1823 onwards by the Leatherstocking Tales of James F ...
Henry Corbin... and he studied, worked with, and published books by Nasr, Toshihiko Izutsu,and others. He was editor of Sophia Perennis, the Journal of the IIAP
Earl of Scarbrough... ication of status as a Privy Counsellor. The Earl of Mar and Kellie and theprefer not to be addressed as 'The Rt Hon' at all on the grounds that the ...
Donald Cook... 1951 Broadway production of F. Hugh Herbert's play with Barbara Bel Geddes,, and Barry Nelson in the lead roles. Its successful run of 924 performanc ...
John BrooksThe town was named after, the Federalist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1815-1816, whe ...
Alexander I... uslim regional powers. The first attempt at forging an alliance was made by, king of a small Georgian kingdom of Kakheti, who dispatched two embassie ...
Duke of Savoy... ne. Meanwhile Marshal Catinat led the French forces in Dauphiné against the, whilst Marshal Noailles commanded forces deployed on the border of Catal ...
James Fleet... om Courtenay, Judy Parfitt, Arthur Darvill, Russell Tovey, Janine Duvitski,, Ruth Jones, Eve Myles, Mackenzie Crook, Stephane Cornicard, Anton Lesser ...
Zhang Liang... BC, the state of Qin had defeated the state of Han. A Han aristocrat namedswore revenge on the Qin emperor. He sold all his valuables and in 218 BC, ...
Daniel O'Connell... e United Kingdom. The change was forced by the landslide by-election win of, an Irish Catholic proponent of emancipation, who was elected despite not ...
White Base... roduction stages, there were numerous references to the word "freedom": thewas originally "Freedom's Fortress", the Core Fighter was the "Freedom Win ...
Duke of Northumberland... me name in the English county of Northumberland. It is the residence of the, built following the Norman conquest, and renovated and remodelled a numb ...
James Livingston... rea. A tract at the hamlet of Tyre was granted to Revolutionary War ColonelThe first outside settler, Ezekiel Crane, arrived about 1794. Other early ...
Charles II... areas. However, at the end of the century, after the death of the childless(1700), the crown of Spain went to Philip V of the House of Bourbon. The G ...
Cromwell... ents, conflicting stories of which side Latimer was truly on began to reachand the King in London. The rebellion in Yorkshire put him in a terrible d ...
Mark ClarkKilbourne is the home of one baseball star. He and his family live right outside of town
Julius Caesar... ance on stage in 1977 in the title role of John Schlesinger's production ofat the Royal National Theatre. He also made a recording of many of Shakesp ...
King George II... n South Carolina. In 1730, Camden became part of a township plan ordered by. Kershaw County’s official web site states, “Originally laid out in 1732 ...
Longus... by Harry Graf Kessler in 1926–27. He also illustrated Daphnis and Chloe by(1937) and Chansons pour elle by Paul Verlaine (1939)
Brigadier General... ing the American Civil War, Camp Bidwell (named for John Bidwell, by then aof the California Militia), was established a mile outside Chico, by Lt. C ...
Forge... dditions to the X-Men during this time were Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat, Dazzler,, Longshot, Psylocke, Rogue, Rachel Summers/Phoenix, and Jubilee. In a con ...
William Seward... newspaper, the Jeffersonian, which reached 15,000 circulation. Whig leaderfound him "rather unmindful of social usages, yet singularly clear, origin ...
William HoustounHouston Street is named for, who was a delegate from State of Georgia to the Continental Congress fro ...
Edward Norton... uent clash with the law. The film stars Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, and
Gilbert... nkish kings. In 939 the East Frankish king Otto I brought the reigning duketo heel and incorporated Lotharingia into his realm as one of the "younger ...
William Waller... hough the Royalists under Lord Hopton forced the Parliamentarians under Sirto retreat from their hilltop position, they suffered so many casualties t ...
Lord Jim... 60s with six flms, including Fun in Acapulco with Elvis Presley in 1963 andwith Peter O'Toole in 1965. His final film, The Challenge, was released in ...
Caesar... all gave their votes for it. And when the senate was separated, Antony and[Augustus] went out, with Herod between them; while the consul and the res ...
John McGraw... s" or simply "the Elephants", in reference to then New York Giants' manager's calling the team a "white elephant". This was embraced by the team, who ...
Robert Richardson... orked with editor Thelma Schoonmaker, cinematographers Michael Ballhaus and, screenwriters Paul Schrader Mardik Martin, and John Logan, costume desig ...
Alexander I... lexander (whom she greatly favored, and who subsequently became the emperorin 1801). Her harshness towards Paul probably stemmed as much from politic ...
Juan Williams... st regular hosts have included John Hockenberry, Ira Glass, Ray Suarez, and. Each Friday Ira Flatow hosts Science Friday, with discussion topics from ...
Lord SalisburyCurzon became Assistant Private Secretary toin 1885, and in 1886 entered Parliament as Member for Southport in south-w ...
Charles Augustus... e family well: she herself had intended to marry Princess Johanna's brother(Karl August von Holstein), who had died of smallpox in 1727 before the we ...
William II... e received the area's submission. This fortress was destroyed by the Danes.gave the barony of Bedford to Paine de Beauchamp who built a new, strong c ...
Duchess of Kent... s only just breaking free from the domineering influence of her mother, the, and her mother's advisor, John Conroy. Over the next four years Melbourn ...
Bourbaki... ace of continuous functions with compact support. This approach is taken by(2004) and a number of other authors. For more details see Radon measure
Alexander BaranovIn 1791, the Russian fur trapperhad the post at Three Saints Bay, which was founded in 1784, moved to a ne ...
RoseKennedy's motherdied in January 1995. Kennedy intensified practice of his Catholicism from ...
King James IIIn 1323 the Catalan, under Peter, son of, disembarked near Iglesias, in Southern Sardinia. The Pisane intervened b ...
James II... Barcelona (as Alfonso III) from 1327 to his death. He was the second son ofand Blanche of Anjou. His reign saw the incorporation of the County of Urg ...
Forrest Gump... as "The Real Forrest Gump" since his Vietnam story is mirrored in the movieand his Medal of Honor ceremony footage is used in the movie
Carey... y 26, and U.S. Highway 93 between Craters of the Moon National Monument and, Idaho
Edward Norton... History X is a 1998 American drama film directed by Tony Kaye and starringand Edward Furlong. It was distributed by New Line Cinema
François de La Rochefoucauld... the rise of literary giants like Molière, Jean de La Fontaine, Boileau, andas well as Louis Le Vau's historic expansion of the Palace of Versailles, ...
Phil Harris... guitar. After a hiatus, I rejoined Mr. Halstead with a new group, including, on New Year's Eve the same year for the opening night of the , a memorab ...
David Cobb... . Michael Badnarik, mentioned above as the Libertarian Party candidate, andof the Green Party both have lived in Austin. During the run up to the ele ...
Charles HenryIn 1897 the Interurban Railroad was born in Anderson., a large stock holder, coined the term "Interurban" in 1893. It continued ...
Adam's... ( /) meaning "", "", or "lieutenant". It is used in the Qur'an to establishrole as representative of Allah on earth. Kalifa is also used to describe ...
Constantine Doukas... nia, daughter of King Bagrat IV of Georgia. By her he had at least one son,, co-emperor from c. 1075 to 1078 and from 1081 to 1087/8. He died c. 1095
Duke of Somerset... nd Sarah and she went to stay with their friends Charles Seymour, the sixth, and Elizabeth, the Duchess of Somerset at Syon House. Anne continued to ...
Josiah Wedgwood... ans, pins, wire, and other goods. Housing was provided for workers on site.and Matthew Boulton (whose Soho Manufactory was completed in 1766) were ot ...
Emperor... ed Kingdom of the Netherlands. An Imperial French army under the command ofNapoleon was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Angl ...
GorgiasIn ~400 BCE, pre-socratic philosopherargued in a lost work, On Nature or the Non-Existent
Robert Ford... om the home of infamous outlaw Jesse James, where he was shot and killed by
ErnestoTwo recent hurricanes, Isabel and, flooded much of the island. A few houses have been abandoned, while seve ...
Robert Lucas... m Hayek's Austrian School. So successful were these criticisms that by 1980was saying economists would often take offence if described as Keynesians
Reichsmarschall... red by Reinhard Heydrich. He was acting under the authority given to him byGöring in a letter dated July 31, 1941. Göring instructed Heydrich to devi ...
King of the Two Sicilies... nloading the treasure and refitting, his ship, HMS Atropos, is given to thefor diplomatic reasons, much to his disappointment. On his return to Engla ...
John Byron... hen this failed he fled the city, and Parliament retaliated by removing Sir, the Lieutenant of the Tower. The Trained Bands had switched sides, and n ...
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Wilhelm II... ple, who accused her of collaboration with the Germans. The German Emperor,, was also Alexandra's first cousin. Ironically, one of the few things tha ...
Grand Duke Constantine... Allies was confirmed by the decision to send in the Russian Imperial Guard;, Tsar Alexander's brother, commanded the Guard and counterattacked in Va ...
Joseph Conrad... d to look after the family's shipping business. During these travels he met, then the first mate of a sailing-ship moored in the harbour of Adelaide, ...
John Stuart... granted in 1770 and incorporated in 1795. Originally named Stuart after Sir, it was incorporated as Stewartstown after the Revolutionary War, followi ...
Duke LeopoldRichard was arrested and imprisoned in December 1192 by, who suspected him of murdering his cousin Conrad of Montferrat, and had ...
Benjamin Harrison... e declaration, Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, withof Virginia presiding, and resumed debate on Lee's resolution of independe ...
Jasper Johns... e "flatter" surfaces of Barnett Newman's work and the "target" paintings of. He began to produce works which emphasized the picture-as-object, rather ...
King George II... architect of Blenheim Palace, John Vanbrugh; prime minister Robert Walpole;; and his wife, Queen Caroline. The money she inherited from the Marlboro ...
Procopius... e and the Black Sea, invading the Danubian provinces of the Eastern Empire.wrote in 545 that "the Sclaveni and the Antae actually had a single name i ...
William Baldwin... ird Batman film after 1992's Batman Returns, due to "creative differences."(who previously worked with Schumacher on Flatliners) was reported to be a ...
Ted, Jr.... had three children together: Kara (February 27, 1960 – September 16, 2011),(born September 26, 1961), and Patrick J. (born July 14, 1967). By the mid ...
Richardson... Hollywood in 1953 that he began to earn the kind of money that Olivier andand Redgrave had earned for decades.
WolseyAfterfell, More succeeded to the office of Chancellor in 1529. He dispatched ca ...
George Colley... from the very beginning, however, other candidates such as Charles Haughey,and Neil Blaney threw their hats into the ring immediately. None of the ca ...
President Johnson... ski notes: “It was significant that, in contrast to his secretary of state,fully accepted the Israeli version of the tragic incident.” He notes that ...
Duke of Cumberland... ich was camping in a field not one hundred yards distant. A rumour that thewas approaching, made Bonnie Prince Charlie decide to leave with his army, ...
Princess Fawzia... asha was appointed as Egypt's first ambassador in Tehran. In the same year,of Egypt, the sister of King Farouk I, married Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the ...
Rumyantsev... d the capture of the Prussian fortress of Kolberg on Christmas Day 1761, by, was the sole Russian success. Frederick, however, was now at the last ga ...
Alexander III... only securely became part of Scotland during Alexander II's reign in 1234:visited Dumfries in 1264 to plan an expedition against the Isle of Man, pr ...
Coriolanus... f Porsena) is mentioned in about 500 BC; the Via Latina (during the time of) in about 490 BC; the Via Nomentana, or Via Ficulensis, in 449 BC; the Vi ...
Gordon Campbell... e effectively portrayed the BC Liberals' new leader, former Vancouver mayor, as a pawn of big business and a dangerous right-wing extremist. Clark wa ...
Lord Carrington... ancaster House Agreement a few months before the 1980 elections, chaired by, institutionalizes majority rule and protection of minority rights. Since ...
Prince Francis... y's Cambridge Emeralds from Lady Kilmorey, the mistress of her late brother. See also , Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. In 1924, the famous ...
Dwight David II "David"... Barbara Jean Thompson on June 10, 1947. John and Barbara had four children:, Barbara Ann, Susan Elaine and Mary Jean. David, after whom Camp David is ...
Earl of Strafford... o Governor Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire. The town was named after the
Edward Chapman... arely competent and in a junior position to a straight man, often played by(as Mr Grimsdale) or Jerry Desmonde. They benefited from Wisdom's capacity ...
Emperor Gaozu... eror" (huangdi) at the urging of his followers and is known posthumously as(r. 202–195 BCE). Chang'an was chosen as the new capital of the reunified ...
Duke of Suffolk... liam Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Horton fought with the Duke of Norfolk and theagainst the rebellion. It is to most likely to Catherine's credit that Lor ...
his generalsAfter the death of Alexander the Great in 324 BC,fought amongst themselves over the succession. Lycia fell into the hands o ...
Gardens... as a greater presence, with a large complex located at Longkloof Studios in. M-Net is not well represented with infrastructure within the city. Cape ...
Lord Ruthven... shifting is in his complete control unlike other vampires in his bloodline., the British prime minister, says of Dracula
Sher Khan... rule; Babur was styled 'Zahir-ud-Din Bábar Muhammad' during Friday khutbas., an adversary of the Mughal emperor Humayun, was content if Bengal was gi ...
Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Sr.... ast press conference" after his disastrous losing campaign against Democrat, for governor of California. In that exchange, the former vice president ...
Delbert D. Thiessen... beings" is "greater prolongation of childhood and retardation of maturity."claimed that "neoteny becomes more apparent as early primates evolved into ...
White BaseThe story begins with a newly deployed Federation warship, the, arriving at the secret research base located at the Side 7 colony to pic ...
Josiah Wedgwood... n of Staffordshire to the Trent and to the Mersey. The first sod was cut byin 1766 and Brindley carried it away in a barrow. From Runcorn, the canal ...
Hooray for Captain SpauldingThe program's theme music was an instrumental version of "", which became increasingly identified as Groucho's personal theme song. ...
Richard HawesIncorporated in 1836, the city is named for Richard Hawes I, father of, who owned the land the city now occupies
John Antill... continued to build, composers looked to their surroundings for inspiration.in his ballet Corroboree, Peter Sculthorpe and others began to incorporate ...
Field Marshal... own as "the Emperor of the Night" and Elizabeth would make him a Prince andon becoming Empress. The Holy Roman Emperor would also make Razumovsky a C ...
Wilton... ith a per capita income of $85,459. Darien, Greenwich, Weston, Westport andalso have per capita incomes over $65,000. Hartford is the poorest municip ...
Daniel Murphy... ecall if needed. One such system had been developed for the PDP-1 at MIT bybefore he joined BBN. Early DEC machines were based on an 18-bit word, all ...
Michael Scott... tion about the historical employment of vibrato by classical vocalists, see's two-volume survey The Record of Singing (published by Duckworth, London ...
George Colley... e untenable, with supporters of Haughey caucusing opinion within the party., the man who Lynch saw as his successor, went to him and encouraged him t ...
consort... ly son of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, son of Peter I of Russia by his firstEudoxia Lopukhina, and Princess Charlotte
Edward Nortonwas nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as D ...
Charles Grey... s by a large margin. Sensing a breakthrough that had been long anticipated,moved for a second reading in the Commons on 23 February 1807. As tributes ...
Reg Pollard... bor leaders, including Evatt, Deputy Leader Arthur Calwell, Eddie Ward, and, were in their sixties, twenty years older than Whitlam. In 1960, after l ...
Rufus King... President in Congress over William Crawford in 1816 and defeated Federalistin the general election
Earl of Arundel... years is Arundel Castle. Built in the 11th Century by Roger de Montgomery,, the castle was seized by the crown in 1102. King Henry II, who added on ...
Joseph SmithMitchell was succeeded as Chief Designer at Supermarine by, who was responsible for the further development of the Spitfire. Neverth ...
Lord Amherst... ar would be eventful with the suicide of Castlereagh and the appointment ofas the Governor-General of India, replacing Hastings. As Raffles grew rest ...
Gandhi... vil disobedience movement in India launched on 9 August 1942 in response to's call for immediate independence of India and against sending Indians to ...
Thomas McKean... the colonial assembly, and on June 18 a new Conference of Committees underauthorized Pennsylvania's delegates to declare independence. On June 15, t ...
John Gregson... e), with Captain Woodhouse (Ian Hunter) commanding the Ajax, Captain Bell () the Exeter and Captain Parry (Jack Gwillim) the Achilles. The British us ...
O.P.... contradictions that, e.g., the Society of St. Pius X mention—Brian Mullady,, has argued that the the religious freedom condemned in the Syllabus of E ...
Lagus... ty-two he was left by his father to defend Syria against Ptolemy the son of; he was defeated at the Battle of Gaza, but soon partially repaired his l ...
Sir Albert Hime... Irish prime ministers: Sir Thomas Upington, "The Afrikaner from Cork"; and, from Kilcoole in County Wicklow. Irish Cape Governors included Lord Maca ...
Titus Manlius Torquatus... crushing Roman defeat at Cannae (216 BC). A Roman army of 23,000 men, under, met the Carthagianian-Sardinian allied forces in the south of the island ...
Piero StrozziComposers and musicians who have lived in Florence include(1550 – after 1608), Giulio Caccini (1551–1618) and Mike Francis (1961–200 ...
James Davis... disappointment, she was not confident in the abilities of her leading man,in his first major screen role. She disagreed with amendments made to the ...
Queen Anne... dified Spanish Revival and Italian Renaissance Revival to Greek Revival and, from Victorian Gothic to Georgian Colonial. West Genesee Street, part of ...
Robert Lucas... tes economy recover from the late-2000s recession. Some economists, such as, questioned the theoretical basis for stimulus packages. Others, like Rob ...
Oudinot... ully defended the approaches to Berlin and was victorious in battle againstin August and against Ney in September at the Battles of Grossbeeren and D ...
Marquess of Lorne... een Victoria, Victoria Regina, by her daughter Princess Louise, wife of the, then the Governor General of Canada
Emperor Wu... state decisions and shaping government policy. However, the Han court undergave Confucianism exclusive patronage. He abolished all academic chairs or ...
Henry Vane... assistant, while the influx of migrants brought first John Haynes and thento the governorship. These two men, along with Anne Hutchinson and pastors ...
Emperor Xuan... ), and Emperor Yuan of Liang, as well as the later Western Liang emperors (, Emperor Ming, and Emperor Jing), also set their capital at Jiangling, an ...
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John Ford... From the Bridge (Cottesloe), his own A Small Family Business (Olivier) and's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Olivier again). During this time, Alan Ayckbou ...
Kléber... home matches and tying their away games, no least thanks to figures such as, Alecsandro, Giuliano and Argentine midfielder Andrés D'Alessandro. This ...
Daniel O'Connell... e". This was in fact a quote made about him by Irish Nationalist politician
Gerald Thomas... he film was shot on location in southern Spain. He also had a minor role in's thriller Time Lock (1957) as a welder, appearing alongside Robert Beatt ...
Lieutenant ColonelOther guests who took advantage of Suffern's hospitality includedAaron Burr, who later became the third Vice President of the United States ...
John ReithFirst hopes for the Empire Service were low. The Director General, Sir(later Lord Reith) said in the opening programme: "Don't expect too much i ...
Plutarco Elías Calles... he state, and are mostly found in Caborca, Puerto Peñasco, Sáric, Altar andin the north of the state. However, most people of this ethnicity now live ...
Rear AdmiralThe Alabama, as flagship forE. W. Hanson, Commander, Battleship Division 9 (BatDiv 9), left Eniwetok o ...
Lysias... hey are more technical and legal are the orations by Antiphon, Demosthenes,, Isocrates and many others. The Attic Greek of the philosopher Aristotle ...
William Franklin... een governing the province since January 1776, resolved that Royal Governorwas "an enemy to the liberties of this country" and had him arrested. On J ...
Constantine II... in 317, and agreed to a settlement in which Constantine's sons Crispus and, and Licinius' son Licinianus were made caesars
King George II... of Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, eldest daughter of British. However, under the British Act of Settlement, Prince Willem-Alexander fo ...
Lord Frederick Cavendish... eland (the British Cabinet minister with responsibility for Irish affairs),, and his Undersecretary (chief civil servant), Thomas Henry Burke, were s ...
Lord Cobham... n was instituted as the rector of Radwinter in Essex, by the appointment of, who owned the right, and to whom he was also household chaplain. The liv ...
Freiherr von BülowAt about 16:30 the first Prussian corps arrived. Commanded by, IV Corps arrived as the French cavalry attack was in full spate. Bülow s ...
Edward Thomas... tershire, part of a community that included Rupert Brooke and Robert Frost.also visited. In 1922 he was appointed Professor of English at the Univers ...

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Archduke Charles, brother of the Austrian Emperor, had started to reform the Austrian army ...
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Henry Knox... he site of the Springfield Armory, a site selected by George Washington andin 1777. Closed controversially during the Vietnam War, the Springfield Ar ...
John of Lancaster... Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, at Greenwich in the 1430s, as well by his son,at Fulbrook. The Pleasance was eventually dismantled by Henry VIII and par ...
Banks... keep a few students until April 23, when the excitement of the approach of's army caused him to close the school and send the cadets home to fight."
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Indy... hronicles, each episode was framed as though it were being told by an older(usually a very elderly George Hall, though one featured Harrison Ford)
King George VI... he "King of Italy and Emperor of Abyssinia," others to the "King of Italy.", as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, add ...
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Leonard Wood... popular Spanish-American War of 1898, the name of the county was changed toCounty after the Presidential physician, Major-General in the Rough Riders ...
the Prince of Wales... ey, Archbishop of Canterbury, and her three godparents were Queen Victoria,(later King Edward VII and May's father-in-law), and Princess Augusta, the ...
Hornblower... aser stated that his favourite maritime historical novels were those of theseries by C.S. Forester
Ethan Allen... he omnipotent being create a stone so heavy that the being cannot lift it?"'s Reason addresses the topics of original sin, theodicy and several other ...
John S. McCain, Jr.... , at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone, to naval officer(1911–1981) and Roberta (Wright) McCain (b. 1912). At that time, the Panam ...
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Stanley Jackson... uropean club in Chittagong in 1932, while Bina Das attempted to assassinate, the Governor of Bengal inside the convocation hall of Calcutta Universit ...
Franz Joseph... dinand I were forced to resign to be replaced by the emperor's young nephew. Separatist tendencies (especially in Lombardy and Hungary) were suppress ...
Albert, the Prince Consort... cess Alice of the United Kingdom, the second daughter of Queen Victoria and
John Lambert... 1659, but after five months in power it again clashed with the army (led by) and was again forcibly dissolved on 13 October 1659. Once again, Sir Hen ...
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William II... ded to abdicate in 1840. Royal power was curbed during the reign of his sonin a constitution ordered by the King to prevent the Revolution of 1848 fr ...
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Karol "Walter" Świerczewski... ment centre was in Paris, under the supervision of Polish communist colonel. On 17 October 1936, an open letter by Joseph Stalin to José Díaz was pub ...
Georg von Pirch... r of IV Corps, attacked Lobau at 16:30, while Zieten's I Corps and parts ofs II Corps engaged at about 18:00.
Charles Boyle... ject of academic controversy. The Christ Church College editor of Phalaris,, resented Bentley's paper. He had already quarreled with Bentley in tryin ...
Ormonde... ndeavouring to bring about some evil measure, such as the ruin of the great, who was an opponent of their policy and their schemes. Another object of ...
Nearchus... Pytheas of Marseilles, Scylax of Caryanda who sailed to Iberia and beyond,, the 6th century merchant and later monk Cosmas Indicopleustes (Cosmas wh ...
Franco... he stones was inscribed with the name of long-time Real Madrid chairman andsupporter Santiago Bernabéu. In preparation for the 1992 Summer Games two ...
Comte D'Erlon... r a barrage of 80 cannons the first French infantry attack was commenced by's I Corps. As D'Erlon's troops advanced through the centre, the Allied tr ...
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Duke of Cumberland... uding the Queen's Staircase, (1733) and the Cumberland Suite (1737) for the. Today, the Queen's Private Apartments are open to the public and include ...
"Warwick, the Kingmaker"... ter of Henry, 5th Lord FitzHugh and Lady Alice Neville. Alice was sister to. Lady Alice's family, the Neville's, were already established at court be ...
new king... sensitive diplomatic duties connected with the problematic behaviour of the, and as the 1936 abdication crisis looms, he gloomily predicts the coming ...
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Paskevich... ty of Yerevan, to build a new cultural businesslike centre near the hill of, where the Noragyugh neighborhood is located. The project will link Admir ...
Tsar... moves further away from the customs of his faith—and with the edict of thethat evicts the Jews from their village
Charles II... vention Parliament which restored Charles I's eldest son to the monarchy as. Following the Restoration, Oliver Cromwell was exhumed and posthumously ...
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General Maurice Challe... d the Suez Crisis, the Battle of Algiers and various offensives launched byincluding Operations Oranie and Jumelles
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Herzog... eli service. Between 341 and 514 Arab aircraft were shot down. According to, 334 of these aircraft were shot down by the in air-to-air combat for the ...
Schomberg... nglish Channel and eventually land at Torbay. Due to the involvement of thefamily in the invasion, Charles Louis Schomberg was made Marquess of the t ...
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King Abdullah... ian revolution in 1935 which led him and his followers in rebellion againstof Jordan. And later at 1937, when they were forced to leave Jordan, Princ ...
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William III... r (Stadhouder, Dutch) and later also King of England, Scotland and Ireland,from the Dutch House of Orange-Nassau. In 1703 Spanish and French allied f ...
William WallaceBruce's army, like's before him, was chiefly composed of infantry armed with long spears. It ...
Demetrius of Macedon... acedonian rhetorician Polyaenus describes a battle between the Spartans andin 294 BC. Mt. Lykaion extended between the camps of both sides, causing s ...
Richard... sumed killed) within a year of Edward's death. The king's youngest brother,, (later Richard III) was famously killed in battle against Henry Tudor at ...
Philip... Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince Charles, and Prince
Charles Middleton... p of anti-slave-trade activists, including Granville Sharp, Hannah More and. They persuaded Wilberforce to take on the cause of abolition, and he soo ...
William Lipscomb... EHT) applies to both sigma and pi electrons, and has its origins in work byand Roald Hoffmann for nonplanar molecules in 1962
Sharif Hussein... Al-Khuzai and his tribe had dominated eastern Jordan before the arrival of. Ibn Saud supported Prince Rashed Al-Khuzai and his followers in rebellio ...
Gareth ThomasFollowed two months later by, a professional rugby player
Joseph Smith... urrently in use by the church. These were accounts of two visions, one fromand the other from his nephew, Joseph F. Smith in 1918. The revelations we ...
Governor Isaac I. StevensBelieved to be named after, Lake Stevens was first settled in 1886 on a homestead along the east sho ...
Queen Anne... nge extinct, and leaving Scotland, England and Ireland to his sister-in-law
McCoy... ard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley declined to appear. Their lines, as Spock and, were modified for Doohan and Koenig. In Scotty's case, it created a seem ...
M... he also has a brief affair with Masterton. Back in London, Bond's superior,, tasks him with determining how Goldfinger is smuggling gold out of the c ...
Thomas WentworthBy this stage, created Earl of Strafford and elevated to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in ...
Col. Felix Norton... tish climbing establishment—except for its "unsporting" nature. Mallory andmade a second unsuccessful attempt. Mallory was faulted for leading a grou ...
CharlesPhilip has four children with Elizabeth:, Anne, Andrew and Edward. Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, des ...
Albert... George, who liked a relatively simple life. They had six children: Edward,, Mary, Henry, George, and John
Earl of Leicester... (said by John Strecche to have encouraged the Agincourt campaign), and the's lavish reception of Elizabeth I in 1575
Bligh... d Aitutaki around AD 900. The first known European contact was with Captainand the crew of the HMS Bounty when they discovered Aitutaki on April 11, ...
Gen. Chuck Yeager... he chaired from its 1992 inception to 1994 (succeeded by former test pilot). He was flying a private Beechcraft Baron directly over New York City on ...
WarwickCecil ingratiated himself with, and after less than three months he was out of the Tower. On 5 September ...
William Henry Harrison... expedition to the west coast. A disputed 1804 treaty between Quashquame and(future ninth President of the U.S.) that surrendered much of the future s ...
her father's... Alice herself soon fell ill with diphtheria, and died on the anniversary ofdeath, 14 December 1878, when Alix was only six years-old. Alix, Victoria, ...
Prince... shops such as Boots the Chemists, which was opened in November 1981 by theand Princess of Wales. It has entrances located opposite Chesterfield Mark ...
Jeffery, Lord Amherst... he institution was named after the town, which in turn had been named after, a veteran from the Seven Years' War and later commanding general of the ...
William of Orange... alace's antiquated state was addressed. England had two new joint monarchs,and his wife, the daughter of James II, Queen Mary II. Within months of th ...
Degrelle, Léon... ium) - Declaration of Revision of the Constitution - Deerlijk - De Gordel -- De Haan - Dehaene, Jean-Luc - de Haussy, François-Philippe - Deinze - De ...
Vittorio Emmanuele II... more formal street plan with newer houses. The Piazza (first renamed Piazza, then Piazza della Repubblica, the present name) was significantly widene ...
King'sand three at the hotel itself. The intention was to fire them on thebirthday, but the Haganah learned about the plan and warned the British th ...
Price... the capture of significant war material, it had little long-term benefit aswas ultimately defeated at Westport a week later, bringing his campaign in ...
De Gaulle era... bstitution Industrialization regimes include the Dirigisme of France in the, Stalin's advocacy of Socialism In One Country and the economic policies ...
Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson... lina, is the youngest of three children. He was named after the Confederate, who he claims was an ancestor; the name is not a nickname. His father di ...
grandfather... leagh all titles previously held by both his maternal great-grandfather and. Prince Andrew had known Miss Ferguson since childhood, and they had met ...
Robert Dudley, the Earl of LeicesterThe remainder of the inner court was built by, in the 1570s. He built a tower now known as Leicester's building on the ...
Ptolemy... g afterwards we find the citizens receiving the present of a gymnasium from, and building in his honour a stoa or portico. Halicarnassus never recove ...
CromwellIn the middle 19th century, a nostalgic interest in pre-Christmas traditions swept Victorian England following the publications of ...
Robert Anderson... teamboat to Jefferson Barracks, escorted by Lieutenants Jefferson Davis and
Ethan Allen... States. The population was 448 at the 2010 census. The town is named after
General Tellini... lian soldiers captured the Greek island of Corfu after the assassination of. In 1925, Italy forced Albania to become a de facto protectorate. Relatio ...
Henry... iked a relatively simple life. They had six children: Edward, Albert, Mary,, George, and John
Joseph Smith... lated films) to play the lead role in a film entitled Prophet: The Story of, although the project never materialized. Kilmer performed in The Postman ...
John Beresford... British naval vessels led by HMS Poictiers under the command of Captain Sirbriefly and ineffectually bombarded the town. A cannonball from the bombar ...
Thomas... e, Martha Rainsborough. She was the widow of Thomas Coytmore, and sister ofand William Rainborowe. Winthrop died of natural causes on 26 March 1649, ...
Demetrius... west towards Phrygia in order to humble Antigonus, who escaped with his sonto Greece, where he obtained the favour of Antipater, regent of Macedonia ...
King Charles III... children sent to orphanages. Similar prohibitions took place in 1783 under, who prohibited the nomadic lifestyle, the use of the Calo language, Roma ...
Charles... led royal family in 1650, and in 1654 became official secretary to James on's recommendation, who had already been attracted by his "pleasant and agr ...
maternal great-grandfather... l of Inverness, and Baron Killyleagh all titles previously held by both hisand grandfather. Prince Andrew had known Miss Ferguson since childhood, an ...
Kalfun... the center of the Emirate of Bari; the city was captured by its first emirin 847, who had been part of the mercenary garrison installed there by Rad ...
Robert Blake... ase for the Parliamentary Navy during the war. The father of the Royal Navyduring the Commonwealth would use Portsmouth as his main base, during both ...
John W. "Iron Mike" O'Daniel... ina, who were fighting the First Indochina War. Eisenhower sent Lt. Generalto Vietnam to study and "assess" the French forces there. Chief of Staff M ...
the historian of the same name... For instance, in 443 BC Thucydides son of Milesias (not to be confused with) was ostracised. He led an aristocratic opposition to Athenian imperialis ...
Ali... iving an oath of allegiance to him. Those opposing this method thought that, Muhammad's nearest relative, should have succeeded him. However the appo ...
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf... emical agents against coalition forces. The commander of the Allied Forces,, suggested this may have been due to Iraqi fear of retaliation with nucle ...
Prince Charles... gh took up residence at Clarence House. Their first two children were born:in 1948 and Princess Anne in 1950
Rupprecht... I of Bavaria. During the First World War, Ludwig's eldest son, Crown Prince, commanded the Bavarian army and became one of the leading German command ...
grandfatherMcCain followed his father and, both four-star admirals, into the United States Navy, graduating from th ...
Hooray for Captain Spaulding... his career he introduced a number of memorable songs in films, including "" and "Hello, I Must Be Going", in Animal Crackers, "Whatever It Is, I'm A ...
Duke of Richmond... t and was then appointed to serve as Chief Secretary for Ireland, under the. At the same time, he was made a privy counsellor
Prince William of Orange's... kely that she was protecting herself and her husband. If James had defeatedarmy, he could have imprisoned and even executed Lord and Lady Churchill f ...
KrusensternKiribati was named in French by captainsand Louis Isidore Duperrey "îles Gilbert", Gilbert Islands, after the Brit ...
The Duke of Gloucester... en Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, the Prince's godparents were:(his maternal granduncle); Princess Alexandra of Kent (his 1st cousin once ...
James... d the exiled royal family in 1650, and in 1654 became official secretary toon Charles's recommendation, who had already been attracted by his "pleasa ...
Perikles'... led an aristocratic opposition to Athenian imperialism and in particular tobuilding program on the acropolis, which was funded by taxes created for t ...
first emperor... n securely identified as belonging to the Liu Song: the Chuning Tomb of theof the dynasty. Two qilin statues of this tomb survive in the appropriatel ...
Josef "Sepp" Dietrich... n be traced back to the selection of a group of 120 SS men in March 1933 byto form the Sonderkommando Berlin. By November 1933 the formation was 800 ...
Philip... gonus I Monophthalmus (, "Antigonus the One-eyed", 382 BC – 301 BC), son offrom Elimeia, was a Macedonian nobleman, general, and satrap under Alexand ...
her husband... s permanent mourning and lengthy period of seclusion following the death ofin 1861
Gen. J. Lawton CollinsIn late 1954,was made ambassador to "Free Vietnam" (the term South Vietnam came into us ...
Henryk Dąbrowski's... itions were first based on Polish alliances with post-revolutionary France.Polish Legions fought in French campaigns outside of Poland, hoping that t ...
Ormonde... Lord Digby at Oxford, and was employed as a messenger between the queen andin Ireland
Adolphus... e was only one short visit, by George IV in 1821. From 1816 to 1837 Viceroyrepresented the monarch in Hanover
Bagration's... g, but the French ultimately prevailed. Lannes then led his V Corps againstmen and after hard fighting managed to drive the skilled Russian commander ...
Thomas Seymour... ears old, Elizabeth was under suspicion of having illegally agreed to marry, the House and her servants were seized by Edward VI's agent Robert Tyrwh ...
Ethan Allen... e directly deist. These include James Madison, possibly Alexander Hamilton,
Krusenstern... he islands in 1788. The islands were named after the first in the Russian () and French (Duperrey) maps (1820), later in the English maps. However, t ...
9th Duke... lived in the castle after marrying the Lord Charles Cavendish, a son of theand, after his death in 1944, continued to use the castle until shortly be ...
William II... ds and Hendersons were killed by the Campbells acting on the orders of King. The village is not actually in Glencoe but occupies an area known as Car ...
PtolemyAt the age of twenty-two he was left by his father to defend Syria againstthe son of Lagus; he was defeated at the Battle of Gaza, but soon partiall ...
Montrose... t and, in September 1640, moved into Northumberland under the leadership of, Strafford was sent north to command the English forces following Northum ...
William III... illiam died of smallpox on November 6, 1650, leaving only a posthumous son,(*November 14, 1650). Since there was no Prince of Orange upon the death o ...
James StewartMCA head Lew Wasserman, whose client list included, Janet Leigh and other actors who would appear in Hitchcock's films, had ...
King James... r in 1692, the seating was described in the court memoirs of Saint-Simon: "having his Queen on his right hand and the King on his left, and each with ...
First Sea Lord... ern Republic of India would emerge in 1950. From 1954 until 1959 he was the, a position that had been held by his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, ...
Lan Yu... in the trading ports of the Song Dynasty. Later, Muslims such as Zheng He,and Yeheidie'erding became influential in government circles, and became a ...
General Christian de Castries... nto its ranks. During the siege of Dien Bien Phu this honour was granted to, Colonel Pierre Langlais, Geneviève de Galard ("The Angel of Dien Bien Ph ...
Charles II... he was one of the commissioners sent to Holland for the purpose of invitingto Scotland, and of settling the terms of his admission to the government. ...
Heraclius... ncreasingly influenced by Greek culture after the 7th century, when Emperor(AD 575 - 641) decided to make Greek the empire's official language. Certa ...
James Carleton'sDuring the wars with Native American tribes of the American West, underdirection, Kit Carson instituted a scorched earth policy, burning Navajo f ...
Edward... urite of George, who liked a relatively simple life. They had six children:, Albert, Mary, Henry, George, and John
BuckinghamThe war with Spain under the leadership ofwent badly, and the House of Commons began proceedings for the impeachment ...
Franco... rd, General Motors, and Studebaker used this loophole to sell such items toon credit. By 1939, Franco owed these and other companies more than $100,0 ...
William IV... reign, the power of the monarchy declined and by the time of his successor,, the monarch was no longer able to effectively interfere with parliamenta ...
William of Orange... nown as the Immortal Seven invited James II's daughter Mary and her husbandto depose the king. William obliged, arriving in England on 5 November 168 ...
fatherHis(or possibly grandfather), of the same name, the governor of the theme of ...
John SheppardIn the pilot of Stargate Atlantis, O'Neill convincesto join the Atlantis expedition to the Pegasus Galaxy. He, along with Rich ...
Cromwellian... officer. Some navies have also used army-type titles for them, such as the"general at sea"
Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union... cember 6, 1974, Moscow) was a Soviet naval officer who achieved the rank ofand served as People's Commissar of the Navy during The Second World War
Samantha "Sam" Carter... of the primary SG team, SG-1, which consists of Daniel Jackson, Teal'c and. Promoted to brigadier general in season 8, O'Neill is chosen as the Comm ...
Prince George... nt at Abigail’s secret wedding to Samuel Masham, groom of the bedchamber to, in 1707, without Sarah’s knowledge
Thomas SeymourIn 1952, a romanticised version of's obsession with Elizabeth I saw Stewart Granger as Seymour, Jean Simmons ...
legendary chief... ontrol, but ready to follow its equally dissatisfied, at that time retired,
John HowardFor his support of Richard III's claim to the throne,, the son of Thomas Mowbray's elder daughter Margaret, was created 1st Duk ...
HarwoodThe British are led by Commodore(Anthony Quayle), with Captain Woodhouse (Ian Hunter) commanding the Ajax, ...
Grand Duke Nicholas, heir to the throne of RussiaAlix had already met and fallen in love with, whose mother was the sister-in-law of Alix's uncle, the Prince of Wales, ...
WoodhouseThe British are led by Commodore Harwood (Anthony Quayle), with Captain(Ian Hunter) commanding the Ajax, Captain Bell (John Gregson) the Exeter a ...
John Dickinson... Virginia presiding, and resumed debate on Lee's resolution of independence.made one last effort to delay the decision, arguing that Congress should n ...
Col. Edward Anson... the White Flag, which the British under newly appointed lieutenant-governorput down with sepoy reinforcement after days of chaos
Panfilov... re raised in Alma-Ata, including the well-known 8th Guards Rifle Division '' (originally the 316th rifle division), along with 2 rifle battalions and ...
AnnePhilip has four children with Elizabeth: Charles,, Andrew and Edward. Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, descendan ...
the Prince of Wales... ved, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the eldest son of. The choice of May as bride for the Duke owed much to Queen Victoria's fo ...
his fatherMcCain followedand grandfather, both four-star admirals, into the United States Navy, gra ...
MaitlandFurther to the west, 1,500 British Foot Guards underwere lying down to protect themselves from the French artillery. As two ba ...
Franz Joseph I... w of Napoleon Bonaparte and first cousin of Emperors Napoleon II of France,(Francis Joseph I) of Austria-Hungary and Don Maximiliano I (Maximilian I) ...
Seleucus I... ives to his generals in 324 BC. In 294 BC, prior to the death of his father, Antiochus married his stepmother, Stratonice, daughter of Demetrius Poli ...
ScipioIn 203 BC, whilewas carrying all before him in Africa and the Carthaginian peace party wer ...
Ptolemy... r's generals (the Diadochi) jostled for supremacy over parts of his empire., a former general and the satrap of Egypt, was the first to challenge the ...
James II... d with a prebend had not Baker incurred his displeasure by refusing to read's Declaration of Indulgence. The bishop who himself was afterwards specia ...
William ReidSir(b. April 25, 1791, Kinglassie - d. October 31, 1858, London, England), go ...
Richard Byrd... the medal for saving the ship's cook from drowning. Even after World War I,and Floyd Bennett received the medal for exploration of the North Pole. Th ...
AndrewPhilip has four children with Elizabeth: Charles, Anne,and Edward. Through an Order in Council issued in 1960, descendants of Phi ...
Alexander IIILydia remained a satrapy after Persia's conquest by the Macedonian kingof Macedon. When Alexander's empire fell apart after his death, Lydia went ...
McCulloughForrest's defenders consisted of his Tennessee escort company,'s Missouri Regiment, Crossland's Kentucky Brigade, Roddey's Alabama Briga ...
Tsar... revolutionary government, was refused asylum, possibly in part because the's wife was German-born. News of the Tsar's abdication provided a boost to ...
Don Carlos... whose settlement saw Austria cede Naples and Sicily to the Spanish Infantein exchange for the tiny Duchy of Parma and Spain and France's adherence t ...
Don Carlos... gression than Sardinia. The treaty also recognised Philip V of Spain's son,, as the heir to the Duchy of Parma and Grand Duchy of Tuscany; Charles ha ...
Oskar GripenbergThe Russian Second Army under General, between January 25–29, attacked the Japanese left flank near the town of ...
Barbarossa... m privateer brothers Aruj and Khair ad Din—the latter known to Europeans as, or Red Beard—were operating successfully off Tunisia. In 1516 Aruj moved ...
Richard Taylor... rrest arrived at Selma, "horse and rider covered in blood." He advised Gen., departmental commander, to leave the city. Taylor did so after giving Fo ...
William Wallace... the site of the present Castledykes Park. In the latter part of the centurychased a fleeing English force southward through the Nith valley. The Engl ...
William of Orange... lowing the Battle of the Boyne, Finglas was used as a camp for four days byen route to Dublin city. He is believed to have camped near the Labour Exc ...
Xenophon... vid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and
Prince Charles... celebrated the tenth anniversary of its magazine supplement at the pyramid.of Britain surveyed the new site with curiosity, and declared it "marvelou ...
Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom)... Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, theand his uncle Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Parry... er) commanding the Ajax, Captain Bell (John Gregson) the Exeter and Captain(Jack Gwillim) the Achilles. The British use their superior numbers to "sp ...
Svoboda... ng political and social organizations not under Communist control. "Dubcek!!" became the popular refrain of student demonstrations during this period ...
P. I. Bagration... he "suicidal" Austrian defense plan, Kutuzov decided to retreat. He orderedto command 600 troops to contain the French at Vienna, and instructed the ...
Francis "The Swamp Fox" Marion... 217 in 2000. Its county seat is the city of Marion and is named for General, an officer in the Revolutionary War
Don Carlos... throne, however, Charles was obliged to surrender the Kingdom of Naples toof Spain, in exchange for the minuscule Duchy of Parma
Joseph SmithWhile in jail awaiting trial for alleged treason charges,, president of the church, was killed by an armed mob in 1844. Several cla ...
Warwick... nd cousin, a twice-widowed descendant of George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer,, the 'Kingmaker's', 'idiot uncle'. From his first marriage to Dorothy de ...
Prince AlbertThe 2009 film The Young Victoria includes an episode in whichis told that I puritani is the favorite opera of Queen Victoria (which ind ...
Prince Charles... Howells made a scathing criticism of the exhibits as "conceptual bullshit".wrote to him: "It's good to hear your refreshing common sense about the dr ...
Vance... r and statesman of early North Carolina, under whom North Carolina Governorclerked as an attorney. Woodfin, North Carolina is the only municipality b ...
Alexander the Great... oaning that he was too old to go on any further and repeat the conquests ofA province of Assyria was also proclaimed, apparently covering the territo ...
William Wallace... mprisoned in Newcastle in 1174, and Edward I brought the Stone of Scone andsouth through the town. Newcastle was successfully defended against the Sc ...
Sikorski... rom Sarny, when local Poles complained about massacres, answered: "You want, the Ukrainians want Bandera. Fight each other." In massacres of Poles in ...
Aragorn... ve battle; a descendant of kings is restored to his ancestral throne (Bard/); and the questing party returns home to find it in a deteriorated condit ...
Charles "Chuck" Yeager... project, using the experimental Bell X-1 research rocket plane, piloted by. The first production plane to break the sound barrier was an F-86 Canada ...
Portuguese sea captainIn the shipping lanes he is rescued by a, a level-headed individual albeit full of concern for others, whose tempe ...
William of Orange... s Anne, who followed his advice in regard to the settlement of the crown on. He possessed the special confidence of William and Mary, and was made cl ...
ChurchillsThewere invited to this wedding and sent a book as a wedding present. Wheeler ...
James StirlingPerth streets were often sandy bogs which caused Governorin 1837 to report to the Secretary of State for Colonies
D'UrvilleCuvier Island in New Zealand was named after Cuvier by
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SS-Brigadeführer Bronislav Vladislavovich Kaminski... rest of the SS formation and wiped out by the Poles. Following the fiasco,the unit's commander was called to Łódź to attend a SS leadership conferen ...
James II... ow Revolution House, was the site of a meeting between conspirators againstin 1688. Among those meeting there were the Earls of Danby and Devonshire, ...
Ethan Allen... e New Hampshire Grants (which later became the state of Vermont). Headed byand members of his extended family, they were instrumental in resisting Ne ...
Muhammad Bin Qāsim... opulations in the Malabar Coast since the 7th century, and the Arab invaderhad converted large swathes of Sindh to Islam at about the same time. The ...
Prince Charles... a sermon preached on 10 May 1644, at St Mary's, Oxford, before the king and, called Jacob's Vow. The spirit of Fuller's preaching, characterized by c ...
descendant... tein, a grandson of queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Their female-linetoday holds the throne of Sweden
Aragorn... egacy comes in the form of her progeny (from Lúthien to Elrond to Arwen and, who share somewhat of her temperament — especially the healing, though t ...
John of Lancaster... ital city of English power in occupied France and when the duke of Bedford,bought Joan of Arc from his ally, the duke of Burgundy who had been keepin ...
Prince of Wales... as the nearest stop to Althorp, it was the final stop on the journey by theand his two sons during the funeral of the Princess of Wales, and was seen ...
William Wallace... he Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace as a compatriot of, and Alexander Nisbet recorded his tombstone in 1718, in the floor of the ...
Colonel Pierre Langlais... of Dien Bien Phu this honour was granted to General Christian de Castries,, Geneviève de Galard ("The Angel of Dien Bien Phu") and Marcel Bigeard, t ...
Charles II... enure at the pleasure of James I of England (VI of Scotland), Charles I and
King Edward VIIIIn 1920, the Prince of Wales (the future) visited the area. Impressed by what he saw, he recommended the place in ...
Prince... ryday I Write the Book", aided by a music video featuring lookalikes of theand Princess of Wales undergoing domestic strife in a suburban home. The s ...
Saladin... d by his fellow crusaders, and acted as Richard’s principal negotiator withfor a peace treaty. After the conclusion of the treaty with Saladin, Walte ...
Albert of Saxony... ory of petrifying fluids (succus lapidificatus), which was elaborated on byin the 14th century and accepted in some form by most naturalists by the 1 ...
1st Duke of ArgyllA close relative of the Clan Campbell (his mother was a daughter of the), Bute succeeded to the Earldom of Bute (named after the Isle of Bute) up ...
General Kuropatkin... nown Military Governor to have ruled the region from Ashkhabad was probably, whose authoritarian methods and personal style of governance made the pr ...
MaitlandFurther to the west, 1,500 British Foot Guards underwere lying down to protect themselves from the French artillery. As two ba ...
Captain Blood... rish in Us, she played opposite Errol Flynn in such highly popular films as, The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), and as Maid Marian to Flynn's Ro ...
General St. Clair... thwest Indian Wars, also called Little Turtle's War. In 1791, they defeated, who lost 600 men, the most decisive loss by the US against Native Americ ...
Admiral Aznar... public, the Navy of the Spanish Kingdom became the Spanish Republican Navy.'s casual comment: "Do you think it was a little thing what happened yeste ...
George Owen... lizabeth I granted Cardiff its first royal charter. Pembrokeshire historiandescribed Cardiff in 1602 as "the fayrest towne in Wales yett not the welt ...
General Ira Eaker... ut was then later reinstated to flight duty on the personal intervention of, Deputy Commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces
Eisenhower... UPI) had 950 client newspapers. Fearing possible anti-trust issues with theAdministration Justice Department, Scripps and Hearst rushed the merger th ...
Elphinstone... did him the (very much unwanted) favour of assigning him as aide to Generalin Afghanistan. Flashman survived the ensuing debacle by a mixture of shee ...
Brigadier General McAuliffe... ng the sparsely deployed American troops around Bastogne. A few days later,and the 101st Airborne Division along with elements of the 10th Armored Di ...
MIn 1995, she took over the role of(James Bond's boss) with the James Bond film series, starting with GoldenE ...