| Hans Herzog | The first complete mobilization, under the command of | , was triggered by the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. In 1875, the army was ... |
| 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 Braddock | The city served as a major crossroads from colonial times. British | marched 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Fidel V. Ramos | ... Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and AFP vice-chief of staff Lt. General | took a stand against Marcos, ushering in the bloodless People Power Revolu ... |
| Belisarius | ... h a rebellion. As a result, the armies of the Byzantine Empire commanded by | were 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 ... |
| Koxinga | ... by the Kingdom of Tungning government founded by Ming Dynasty loyalists of | in 1662. Zheng Jing, the son of Koxinga, renamed the village Wannian Zhou ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Heinz Lammerding | By 1958, all of the German defendants had been released as well. General | of 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 Thompson | St. 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 Intelligence | had 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, under | and 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. Patton | On December 9, 1945, US Army General | had 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, the | of the United States Army. Scott did not approve the proposal, but the med ... |
| 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", after | whose armies introduced eastern parakeets to Greece. Linnaeus' trivial nam ... |
| Balcha Safo | ... n 1928, the authority of Ras Tafari Makonnen was challenged when Dejazmatch | went to Addis Ababa with a sizeable armed force. When Tafari consolidated ... |
| Theodoros Kolokotronis | ... as in open revolt against the Ottomans and by October 1821 the Greeks under | had 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 ... |
| Julius Caesar | ... of his successor Augustus. Quintilis was renamed Iulius (July) in honour of | in 44 BC and Sextilis was renamed Augustus (August) in honour of Augustus ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... Seville in Spain. During his papacy, he purported to canonize Generalissimo | and 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. President | studied in Turkey and spoke Turkish fluently |
| 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. Steuart | Kinzie's granddaughter, Maria Kinzie, married | , a captain in the US cavalry who went on to become a general in the Confe ... |
| 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 ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... beth, and in the French TV mini-series, Le Grand Charles, about the life of | |
| 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 Bonneville | It was explored and mapped by | in 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 from | to 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 ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... known as the "Saal-Schutz" (Hall-Protection). Later under the leadership of | between 1929 and 1945, the SS was renamed the "Schutz-Staffel" and grew fr ... |
| Archidamus | ... d an audacious night-time march on Sparta itself. However, the Spartan king | was alerted to this move by an informant, probably a Cretan runner, and Ep ... |
| 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 ... |
| Douglas MacArthur | General | , 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 usurping | banned all two-character names outright. Although his Xin Dynasty was shor ... |
| Wesley Clark | ... w Dole had a heated exchange with Democratic presidential primary candidate | in 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 consuls | and Lucius Aemilius Paullus, both of whom advocated pursuing a much more a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Chen Qingzhi | ... uffered major revolts in their northern garrison towns, he sent his general | to support the pretender Yuan Hao. Despite the fact that Chen was only giv ... |
| William Jervois | ... ther exploits or give him much in the way of financial reward. Governor Sir | claimed on 11 October 1881, 'I am informed that he gambles and that his ha ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA). Privately, however, the CIA and President | were aware of progress being made by the Soviets on Sputnik from secret sp ... |
| 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 Great | Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias: Drawing inspiration from | , Veidt was once the superhero Ozymandias, but has since retired to devote ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... n sporting cologne), his serious work made him the trusted eyes and ears of | 's army and inspired Southern morale |
| Duke of Marlborough | King George also had a personal friendship with the Marlboroughs; the | had 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 President | in 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 the | Post No. 42 of the Grand Army of the Republic |
| Williams Carter Wickham | ... t Transcontinental Railroad. He was recruited by former Confederate General | to become a major investor and guiding light for a southern railroad. He h ... |
| 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 Schwan | Holbrook 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 ... |
| 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 as | and 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 Custer | Custer 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 ... |
| Guillermo Rodríguez | ... rthrew the government of Velasco Ibarra. The coup d'état was led by General | and 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, Governor | of the Indiana Territory appointed Kinzie as a justice of the peace |
| Alexander the Great | ... not mentioned in the book written by Arrian of Nicomedia about campaigns of | but 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 General | and 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 general | during 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 Gustaf | Under 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 | |
| General Cornwallis | ... nia along present-day Ashford Avenue and Broadway, en route to victory over | at 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 General | of Georgia who managed to break the Spanish-Seminole alliance when he gain ... |
| Wesley Merritt | ... rsaw the supplying of the expedition to the Philippines under Major General | |
| Mundo | ... sed the Nika riots of January, 532, which Belisarius and his fellow general | repressed with a massacre in the Hippodrome. In 533, he accompanied Belisa ... |
| Xiang Yu | ... d copies of the forbidden books but most of these were destroyed later when | burned the palaces of Xianyang in 206 BC |
| Władysław Anders | In 1943 the Polish II Corps, commanded by | , arrived in Palestine from Iraq. The British insisted that no Jewish unit ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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, and | were firm friends and all attended West Point together in 1854 |
| James A. Garfield | During the American Civil War, Union troops under future president | occupied the town from December 1861 until the end of the war, despite sev ... |
| John Churchill | | died at Windsor in 1722, and Sarah arranged a large funeral for him. Their ... |
| Agesilaus II | | was 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 |
| 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 ... |
| 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 Haig | By 19 December 1915, General | had replaced General Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the British ... |
| 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 by | in 1797. The Duchy of Warsaw, a small, semi-independent Polish state, was ... |
| George Washington | ... outing their choice to the clerk, as supporters cheered or booed. Candidate | spent 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 ... |
| 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 |
| 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 Mohnke | On 23 April, Brigadeführer | was appointed by Hitler the Battle Commander for the centre government dis ... |
| Ulrich Wille | A 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 accused | of 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 French | By 19 December 1915, General Sir Douglas Haig had replaced General | as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). Haig favou ... |
| John Stark | A 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 like | and 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 hegemon | appointed Liu Bang as prince of the small fief of Hanzhong, named for its ... |
| 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 ... |
| Andrew Jackson | On June 15, 1832, President | , displeased with Atkinson's handling of the war, appointed General Winfie ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 particular | as the founder of the movement |
| Hyder Ali | However, during 1750-60 | from 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 ... |
| 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 Wilkinson | In 1786 | purchased 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 |
| Walter Devereux | ... he 16th century in Ireland, where it was used by English commanders such as | and Richard Bingham. Its most infamous use was by Humphrey Gilbert during ... |
| Lamoral, Count of Egmont | Laakdal - 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 had | not used narrow-gauge tracks to repair bridges after the Spanish Civil War ... |
| George Washington | ... rtraits of subjects such as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, | , and Abraham Lincoln. Wendy Beckett stated that Eisenhower's work, "simpl ... |
| 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 ... |
| Samuel Powhattan (S.P.) Carter | ... dation of Military Governor of Tennessee Andrew Johnson, U.S. naval officer | was promoted to the brevet rank of brigadier general and assigned by U.S. ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... ugees from the Spanish Inquisition, shipwrecked sailors, and deserters from | 's army in Jamaica |
| Winfield Scott | ... Jackson, displeased with Atkinson's handling of the war, appointed General | to take command. Scott gathered about 950 troops from eastern army posts j ... |
| Chen Sheng | ... f the immediate revolt attempts was the 209 BC Daze Village Uprising led by | and Wu Guang |
| 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 ... |
| 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, ... |
| 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 |
| Zheng Zhilong | Koxinga 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 by | after 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 Pichegru | He participated in the Flanders Campaign against | in 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| José de Urrea | ... ch remained in effect until 1837. But in December of the same year, General | proclaimed in Arizpe the re-establishment of the Constitution of 1824, ini ... |
| Sejanus | ... ich can fairly be called fulsome is the violently rhetorical tirade against | |
| Wang Sengbian | ... eir efforts to defeat Hou. In the end, Xiao Yi with the aid of his generals | and Chen Baxian defeated Hou, crowning himself Emperor Yuan of Liang. His ... |
| Francis Nicholson | In September 1710, 3,600 British and colonial forces led by | finally captured Port Royal after a siege of one week. This ended official ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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, | |
| Sherman | But such efforts faced setbacks: Union raids and in particular | 's scorched-earth campaigning destroyed much economic infrastructure |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 Colonel | after he had been shot in a training accident at Fort Campbell |
| 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 ... |
| Andrew Jackson | ... ess, but in the late 1820s, that system broke down. The party split between | and the incumbent President John Quincy Adams. What began as Jackson's ide ... |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | ... ed near Pineville. The first session began on January 2, 1860, with General | of Ohio as LSU president |
| 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 ... |
| Nur ad-Din Zangi | After the failure of the Second Crusade, | had control of Damascus and a unified Syria |
| Casimir Pulaski | ... d in three of the town's street names: Pulaski after Revolutionary War hero | as 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 President | to leave NATO's integrated command structure. During this period he receiv ... |
| Clayton Bissell | In early December 1944, American General | wrote a paper which argued strongly in favour of the V-1 compared to conve ... |
| Nelson A. Miles | ... U.S. Army after the Treaty of Paris of 1898 was signed. On July 25, General | landed at Guánica (in southwestern Puerto Rico) with 3,300 soldiers in wha ... |
| Craterus | ... ypt, the Samians Lysander of Sparta, the Athenians Demetrius, the Delphians | of Macedon |
| George Washington | ... rule that followed. British occupation lasted until November 25, 1783, when | returned 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 by | in 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 while | was pontifex maximus that the calendar was overhauled, with the result bei ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 like | for weeks afterward), a Lego Mindstorms construction, a Tamagotchi, a Segw ... |
| Aetius | ... as Oost believed in his article. Regardless, the powerful Magister militum | had 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Xenophon | In Greece, Hesiod, Aristotle and | promoted agrarian ideas. Even more influential were such Roman thinkers as ... |
| Robinson Risner | ... chutist Joseph Kittinger spent 11 months in prison there. Brigadier General | was the senior ranking POW, responsible for maintaining chain of command a ... |
| Avraham Adan | ... of the canal. The 162nd and 252nd Armored Divisions, commanded by Generals | and 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 to | both in financing Clark's exploration and American Revolutionary War effor ... |
| Lucullus | Seleucid 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 ... |
| Memnon | The Greek mercenary general | suggested 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 ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | After the war, General | decided 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 Arnold | In perhaps the most infamous act of treason in American history, General | attempted to turn the site over to the British Army in 1780 for a bribe co ... |
| 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 later | and Uzbeks contested the land |
| Pompey | ... historian Appian. The 4th century commentary on Vergil by Servius says that | settled 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 when | arrived 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 commentator | added that this collapsible umbrella of Wang Mang's carriage had bendable ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Douglas MacArthur | ... n of Remington Rand was renamed the Univac division of Sperry Rand. General | was chosen to head the company. In the 1960s, UNIVAC was one of the eight ... |
| George Washington | ... ld was best known as the site of the Springfield Armory, a site selected by | and 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... s of the ancient world. It was part of the Persian Empire until captured by | at the siege of Halicarnassus in 334 BC |
| Barry Goldwater | ... wed the explosion of a nuclear bomb. The message conveyed was that electing | president 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 under | and the Norwegian 6th Division under General Carl Gustav Fleischer after t ... |
| Benedict Arnold | ... the American Revolution. André was on a mission carrying secret papers from | when he was captured |
| 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 ... |
| 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. Odría | In 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Isaac Stevens | ... Indian attacks on white explorers and settlers dropped significantly after | negotiated 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pericles | ... ded Isocrates. (Other students are named in later traditions; the Suda adds | , Polus, and Alcidamas, Diogenes Laërtius mentions Antisthenes, and accord ... |
| 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. President | and 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 ... |
| Artemio Ricarte | ... ed force of General Emilio Aguinaldo revolutionary government, with General | as 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. Featuring | in 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 Schurz | Together 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 War | would not consider a diplomatic solution; they wanted a resounding victory ... |
| Chen Cheng | ... came to Xian again, accompanied by many senior Kuomintang leaders including | to 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 Conner | From 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 and | in 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 for | Third 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 General | revolutionary government, with General Artemio Ricarte as its first Captai ... |
| Nino Bixio | ... in several localities, and at Bronte, on August 4, 1860, Garibaldi's friend | bloodily 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 |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Zachary Taylor | ... apolis, gave the orders which led to the occupation of California, and sent | into 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Saigō Tsugumichi | Working under his patron, Navy Minister | from 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Richard Mulcahy | ... 21 November were an effort by the IRA in Dublin, under Michael Collins and | to wipe out the British intelligence organisation in the city |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | ... uring a Confederate courier who carried dispatches from Confederate General | describing the strengths and dispositions of his scattered forces, Wilson ... |
| Ariel Sharon | ... Tkuma into a single faction – the National Union. Following the election of | in February 2001, Ze'evi joined the coalition and was appointed Tourism Mi ... |
| Isaac Stevens | ... ly formed Washington Territorial Government and signed into law by Governor | |
| George Washington | In 1792 Congress under | authorized construction of the Montauk Lighthouse. It was completed in 179 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Philip Sheridan | During the 1864 Overland Campaign, Union Maj. Gen. | 's cavalry launched an offensive to defeat Stuart, who was mortally wounde ... |
| Lord Dawson of Penn | George 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 candidate | of 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 T. Croxton | On March 30, 1865, Wilson detached Gen. | 's Brigade to destroy all Confederate property at Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Aft ... |
| John C. Brown | ... t made the Nashville newspapers' front pages when former Tennessee Governor | died of a hemorrhage at one of the hotels. The papers emphasized that due ... |
| Yuan Shikai | ... nder of the cruiser , undertook a confidential mission to meet Qing General | in Seoul, Korea (1890). Afterwards, he assumed command of the |
| Duke of Somerset | ... e was not seen as a cause of inflation (and therefore enclosures) until the | was Protector of Edward VI. Until then enclosures were seen as the cause o ... |
| Augustin de Beaulieu | ... (275 crew, 106 cannon) and called the "Fleet of Montmorency" under General | was sent from Honfleur, with the objective of fighting the Dutch in the Fa ... |
| George S. Patton | ... ew expertise in tank warfare was strengthened by a close collaboration with | and other senior tank leaders; their leading-edge ideas of speed-oriented ... |
| Willard | His 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 Sir | has an article on the subject in his 1815 "History of Persia." In some scu ... |
| 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 Mannerheim | On the eve of the Winter War, when | once again threatened to resign from his post as chairman of Finland's Def ... |
| Xenophon | ... Eclogae physicae; Oppian, Halieutica and Cynegetica; the complete works of | and 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. General | ordered 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 ... |
| Casimir Pulaski | ... Historic Site. The city is named in honor of Polish Revolutionary War hero | |
| 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 Minister | on 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 as | in 557 AD |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi | ... e of the Sith, Vader's lightsaber was designed to match the lightsaber that | gives to Luke Skywalker, in |
| Andrew Jackson | ... a U.S. possession as the Florida Territory, in 1822, with future president | as the military governor, succeeded by William Pope DuVal as territorial g ... |
| 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, ... |
| Francis Marion | ... astillo de San Marcos (British, Fort St. Marks) was renamed Fort Marion for | , the "Swamp Fox" of the American Revolution |
| George Armstrong Custer | ... e Lakota Sioux claimed the land calling it Paha Sapa. In 1874 Major General | led an expedition into the Black Hills during which gold was discovered in ... |
| 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 ... |
| Liu Yu | Liu Song founder | was originally a leader of the Army of the Northern Garrison (北府军) that no ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 Sheridan | Fort Sill was established in 1869 by Major General | who was leading a campaign in Indian Territory to stop raids into Texas by ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Initially, the program lost audience from Swayze's program, and President | let it be known that he was displeased by the switch. In the summer of 195 ... |
| 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 President | feared 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 for | Free French forces. However, he was quickly prised away from de Gaulle by ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henry Jackson | ... own in Waldo County, Maine, United States. The town was named after General | of the Revolutionary War. The population was 506 at the 2000 census |
| Xenophon | Plato'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 both | and 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 ... |
| 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, Generals | and 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 | |
| Maxwell R. Thurman | The first four star officer at NCSU, General | , a former Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. Hugh Shelton, now retired ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... of stagecoaches and military roads prior to the Civil War. It is said that | and U.S. Grant camped with their troops at a grove of live oak trees on th ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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. General | during the War of 1812 |
| Wang Lin | ... ian took power as Emperor Wen of Chen. After the fall of Liang, the general | had established an independent kingdom based in modern day Hunan and Hubei ... |
| Quintus Petillius Cerialis | The arrival of | with a strong force awed the Gauls and mutinous troops into submission; Ci ... |
| Josiah Harmar | In 1790, the United States sent an expedition under the command of General | to end the border war. Because the United States had mostly disbanded its ... |
| 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 ... |
| Terauchi Masatake | On 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, ... |
| 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 general | in 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 by | in 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 by | in 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 General | in 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 Somerset | William Cecil's early career was spent in the service of the | (a brother of the late queen, Jane Seymour), who was Lord Protector during ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 War | to do so |
| Anthony Wayne | General | commanded a third expedition in the Northwest; his U.S. troops were of sup ... |
| 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 of | and the rise of Darth Vader. In the final two films of the prequel trilogy ... |
| 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 Marlborough | In 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 ... |
| Joseph Wheeler | During the disembarkation, Shafter sent forward his cavalry division under | to reconnoiter the road to Santiago de Cuba. In a complete disregard of or ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Julius Caesar | When | added days to some months, he added them to the end of the month, so as no ... |
| Juan O'Donojú | ... ticles 1st Venezuelan Rifles, Bernardo O'Higgins, Daniel Florencio O'Leary, | , Morgan O'Connell, & William Lamport |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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' | After | Austrian army was defeated by Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, the Armist ... |
| Nathaniel P. Banks | The Union forces led by General | who occupied Opelousas found what the historian John D. Winters describes ... |
| William Jackson Palmer | ... d Rio Grande Railway (D&RG) was incorporated on October 27, 1870 by General | and a board of four directors. It was originally announced that the new ga ... |
| Gustav Krukenberg | On 25 April, Brigadeführer | was appointed the commander of (Berlin) Defence Sector C which included th ... |
| 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 of | was 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 as | Division, the 2nd of Bernadotte's I Corps, deployed on the flank of the ac ... |
| Barry Goldwater | ... life; he spoke at the 1964 Republican National Convention and appeared with | in 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. Butler | Although | bought 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 of | his 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 of | at Appomattox Courthouse, the city of Mobile surrendered to the Union army ... |
| Joachim Ziegler | ... nce Sector C which included the Nordland Division, whose previous commander | was relieved of his command the same day. On 27 April, after a spirited bu ... |
| Hermann Balck's | ... SS Panzer Corps (3 SS Totenkopf and 5 SS Wiking) was ordered south to join | 6th Army (Army Group Balck), which was mustering for a relief effort, code ... |
| Cromwell's | ... sieged for many months, then stormed ('with roaring drummes') and sacked by | Scots allies, based in pro-Parliament Sunderland. The grateful King bestow ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bernardo O'Higgins | c. See articles 1st Venezuelan Rifles, | , Daniel Florencio O'Leary, Juan O'Donojú, Morgan O'Connell, & William Lam ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Washington | ... tant in the Revolutionary War due to its location near Ramapo Pass. General | and other important military leaders used John Suffern's home as headquart ... |
| 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 historian | also 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 Sherman | In the American Civil War, Union forces used the policy widely. | utilized this policy during his March to the Sea. In another Civil War eve ... |
| Helmuth Weidling | On 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 General | to be its first commanding officer after the Philippines gained independen ... |
| Tariq ibn Ziyad | In 711, | , under the orders of the Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid I, led a large army from ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pervez Musharraf | ... in the cities of Peshawar, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. General | faced already fierce opposition from his mostly Muslim population for his ... |
| 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 Minister | countermanded 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, the | and 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 that | strongly 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 ... |
| Yang Hucheng | ... il War. In the Xi'an incident (12 December 1936), Zhang and another general | kidnapped Chiang Kai-shek and imprisoned the head of the Kuomintang govern ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stoneman's | ... nsive line to protect Richmond. The Danville supply train ran until General | Union 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 |
| George Washington | When the American Revolutionary War began, | was selected to head the colonial army. During the war, the capital was mo ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 of | and 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 General | to that office. However, two attempts by the communists to form government ... |
| Agesilaus | ... 15,000 Molossians, and Alcetas regained his throne. Sparta intervened under | , however, and with aid from Thessaly, Macedonia, and the Molossians thems ... |
| Stonewall Jackson | ... y. Resigning when his home state of Virginia seceded, he served first under | in the Shenandoah Valley, but then in increasingly important cavalry comma ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gustav Krukenberg | ... dammer Bridge area. What was left of the 11 SS Nordland under Brigadeführer | fought hard in that area but Soviet artillery and anti-tank guns dispatche ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alejandro O'Reilly | Don | , Spanish governor of Louisiana, issued a land ordinance to allow settlers ... |
| Anakin Skywalker | On May 12, 2000, Christensen announced that he would be starring as | in the next two prequels (2002) and (2005). Director George Lucas had turn ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gian Giacomo Trivulzio | ... , in the course of the Italian Wars. Louis XII invaded Italy in 1499: after | had ousted its duke Ludovico Sforza, Cesare accompanied the king in his en ... |
| 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 ... |
| Earl of Marlborough | ... ed to restore the collection from a dilapidated condition. He persuaded the | to ask for additional rooms in the palace for the books. This was granted, ... |
| George Washington | ... ted by straw. Many farmers and plantation owners, including U.S. Presidents | and Thomas Jefferson, cut and stored ice in the winter for use in the summ ... |
| 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 ... |
| General Langeron | ... lleurs, French skirmishers. Initial Allied assaults proved unsuccessful and | ordered the bombardment of the village. This deadly barrage forced the Fre ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 General | solicited 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 brother | of 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 ... |
| George McClellan | ... rain robberies during the 1850s, first bringing Pinkerton into contact with | and Abraham Lincoln |
| Oliver Cromwell | Sir 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 General | received word of the siege of the fort. They rushed to help, but were inte ... |
| 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 Sir | was 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 Jackson | The situation was complicated by the American spoils system. After | assumed the U.S. presidency in March 1829, many competent Indian agents we ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... ntinued mostly to promote the large-scale corruption tolerated by President | ran Horace Greeley for the presidency. The Stalwarts defended Grant and th ... |
| Sterling Price | ... ine in the Battle of Dry Wood Creek. The battle was a pro-South victory for | and his Missouri State Guard. Price did not hold the fort and instead cont ... |
| 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" leader | and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. When Smith refused to include Naz ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 and | attempting to carve himself an independent kingdom in Galatia with his Fra ... |
| Marshal Ney | ... s. Wellington's pursuit was frustrated by a series of reverses inflicted by | in a much-lauded rear guard campaign |
| 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 ... |
| 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 Soeharto | His state visit to Indonesia as invited by | to discuss Indo-Japanese trade relations was protested by a number of loca ... |
| Bagration | ... . The Russian Imperial Guard was held in reserve while Russian troops under | guarded the Allied right. Furthermore, the Russian Tsar rudely stripped th ... |
| Jan Smuts | ... interpretation alone. Another scientist who held a similar view to this was | who took a holistic approach to science and offered a compromise between m ... |
| Julius Caesar | In the 50s BC, Aquitania was conquered by lieutenants of | and became part of the Roman Empire |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... n was the first President to arrest and prosecute members of the Klan since | about 93 years earlier. He turned the themes of Christian redemption to pu ... |
| Julius Caesar | Over time the Comitium was lost to the ever-growing Curia and to | 's rearrangements before his assassination in 44 BC. That year two supreme ... |
| 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, and | have 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 Governor | came to Fort Wayne to renegotiate treaty terms. Little Turtle admitted Pot ... |
| 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 ... |
| Enver Hoxha | ... Albania, where his films were the only ones by Western actors permitted by | to be shown. Charlie Chaplin once referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clo ... |
| James Edmonds | ... while the Germans had suffered irreplaceable losses. British historian Sir | stated, "It is not too much to claim that the foundations of the final vic ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Washington | ... arding acts of individual gallantry by American soldiers was established by | on August 7, 1782, when he created the Badge of Military Merit, designed t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... depicted barefoot, and the hoplite warriors fought battles in bare feet and | conquered half of the ancient world with barefoot armies |
| Henry Jackson | ... assachusetts, where the rebellion had a polarizing effect. Richards records | 's observation that opposition to ratification in Massachusetts was motiva ... |
| Józef Piłsudski | ... nrest, political maneuvering, strikes and rebellion, with Roman Dmowski and | active as leaders of the nationalist and socialist factions respectively. ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... rmy detachment, was a decisive victory for the Parliamentarians and allowed | to 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 General | Voroshilov himself was pointing out to his Ukrainian heritage and previous ... |
| 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 Labienus | After 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 ... |
| Reinhard Heydrich | The relevant text is a handwritten cover letter, by | to Martin Luther of the Foreign Office, dated February 26, 1942, forwardin ... |
| Alexander Haig | ... Red" China), and active defense of human rights. These nominations included | , Chester Crocker, John Louis, and Lawrence Eagleburger, all of whom were ... |
| 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 ... |
| Baybars | ... l history of Ashkelon was brought to an end in 1270, when the Mamluk sultan | ordered 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, the | concentrated instead on taking the fortresses of Tournai and Ypres. Tourna ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Zachary Taylor | ... arrow victory. He was the first president elected from the Deep South since | in 1848 |
| William Erskine | ... nd four Portuguese (Arentschildt (2), Da Cunha, Rozierres) 6-gun batteries. | (5th Division), Alexander Campbell (6th Division) and 300 Portuguese caval ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gottlob Berger | In August 1940, | approached Himmler with a plan to recruit volunteers in the conquered terr ... |
| Suharto | ... se as guerrillas. In September 1974, Whitlam met with Indonesian President, | , in Indonesia and indicated that he would support Indonesia if it annexed ... |
| Aëtius | ... agistri militum who dominated the state, such as Stilicho, Constantius III, | , Boniface, and Ricimer. Zeno granted it to Odoacer to legitimize the late ... |
| 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 general | and 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 Abrams | It 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 ... |
| Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton | In 1904–1905, | was the military attaché of the British Indian Army serving with the Japan ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... in pike square formations. A similar weapon, the sarissa, was also used by | 's Macedonian phalanx infantry to great effect |
| Rafael del Riego | ... of the typical dance "The dance of majordomos" from Benasque was enjoyed by | when 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 Franco | During the dictatorships of Primo de Rivera and especially of | (1939–1975), all regional cultures were suppressed. All of the languages s ... |
| James Edmonds | ... s, and who put German losses at 530,000. The British official historian Sir | had unofficially advised Churchill but queried his figures, claiming that ... |
| Wilhelm Koppe | ... lice in the General Government. Krüger himself was ultimately replaced with | |
| Saladin | ... ulayhi between 1047-1063. Turan-Shah annexed Yemen to the Ayyubid Empire of | in 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aegidius | From 457 to 486, under | and his son Syagrius, Noviodunum was the capital of the "Kingdom of Soisso ... |
| Lando Calrissian | ... ies, although he is attributed as the A-wing pilot that acts as a decoy for | during 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 Commander | stated: "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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Syagrius | From 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 General | and his men spent the winter of 1862-1863, prior to launching the assault ... |
| Baden-Powell | ... form is a specific characteristic of the Scouting movement, in the words of | at the 1937 World Jamboree, "it covers the differences of country and race ... |
| Jefferson Davis | ... , North Carolina Governor David Lowry Swain persuaded Confederate President | to exempt some students from the draft, so the university was one of the f ... |
| Charles George Gordon | After time spent in Palestine in 1882–83, General | found a location outside the old city walls that he suggested to have been ... |
| Sir Thomas Graham | ... d a column against the French centre, while other columns were commanded by | and 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 | |
| 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 ... |
| Anakin | ... proof" domed buildings. It is home to a podracing track and was the home of | and 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 that | even told the Crusaders to shield themselves in the Citadel until he had r ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rowland Hill | ... French centre, while other columns were commanded by Sir Thomas Graham and | and 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 ... |
| 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 on | in the second of his two works entitled Cyrus, on Gorgias in his Archelaus ... |
| Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | The final say-so came down to | , the Pakistani dictator, through whom the CIA had to pass all of its fund ... |
| Robert M. Kimmitt | Deputy Secretary of the Treasury | served 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 ... |
| Vahriz | ... ntrol in Yemen ended in 570 with the invasion of the elder Sassanid general | who, according to later legends, famously killed Masruq with his well-aime ... |
| Pericles | ... in Glory and the Lightning (1974), Aspasia, mistress of the Athenian leader | |
| 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 by | in 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 as | in 1852 learned when his unit of about 600 soldiers and some of their depe ... |
| Joachim von Ribbentrop | Although | had been named Foreign Minister in February 1938, Göring continued to invo ... |
| Pompey | ... Lucullus against Mithradates VI of Pontus (75-66 BC), and the victories of | in the East (66-62 BC) |
| Alexander the Great | ... " appears in the Eastern versions of the Alexander romance, which describes | and 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 |
| Alexander | It had taken | only 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 of | and 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 general | took 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 ... |
| Savary | The luring plan did not stop at that. On November 25, general | was sent to the Allied headquarters at Olmutz in order to secretly examine ... |
| Mark Antony | ... ian Empire. This short independence was rapidly crushed by the Romans under | and Octavian. The installation of Herod the Great (an Idumean) as king in ... |
| Thucydides | ... ns, despite following in his footsteps, criticised Herodotus, starting with | . Nevertheless, Thucydides chose to begin his history where Herodotus left ... |
| 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 ... |
| General Sumner | ... Confusion prevailed over landing priorities and the chain of command. When | refused to allow the Army's Gatling Gun Detachment - which had priority - ... |
| Abd er Rahman | The city was plundered by the troops of | in 732, after he had defeated Duke Eudes in the Battle of the River Garonn ... |
| 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 of | against Mithradates VI of Pontus (75-66 BC), and the victories of Pompey i ... |
| Otto Kerner | ... Commission to study the problem of urban riots, headed by Illinois Governor | |
| 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 ... |
| George Washington | Robert Morris was the first person appointed Secretary of the Treasury by | , but Morris declined this office; thus the first Secretary of the Treasur ... |
| Nearchus | ... was referred to by the Greeks as "Tylos", the centre of pearl trading, when | discovered 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 ... |
| General Charles Cornwallis | ... the American Revolution. Hillsborough served as a military base for British | in late February 1781. The United States Constitution drafted in 1787 was ... |
| Ernest O. Thompson | Texas Railroad Commissioner | , who also served as a mayor of Amarillo and became an expert on petroleum ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 officer | was beaten and tortured to death at the end of the war. In addition at lea ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... d later Persians in the mid 6th century BC. In 331 BC, Van was conquered by | and after his death became part of the Seleucid Empire. By the early 2nd c ... |
| Vahriz | The 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. President | is known to have slept in Tarboro during a visit on his 1791 Southern tour ... |
| Alcibiades | ... rstand that he attracted the attention of the most admired men, Critias and | who were young, and Thucydides and Pericles who were already old. Agathon ... |
| Thucydides | ... tention of the most admired men, Critias and Alcibiades who were young, and | and Pericles who were already old. Agathon too, the tragic poet, whom Come ... |
| Thucydides | ... phanes are also a treasure trove of comic presentation, while Herodotus and | are 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 General | took over through a bloodless coup d'état and assumed vast executive power ... |
| Xenophon | The Greek general | records in his Anabasis that the Armenians burned their crops and food sup ... |
| Antoine Brenier's | Two 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 ... |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi | Mos 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 General | during the Civil War. The fort protected Weldon until the day after the Ge ... |
| John C. Frémont | ... d Spanish by José Antonio Carrillo, approved by American Lieutenant-Colonel | and Mexican Governor Andrés Pico on January 13, 1847 at Campo de Cahuenga ... |
| 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 Beck | General | of Wiesbaden was one of the planners of the July 20, 1944 assassination at ... |
| 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 ... |
| Patton | ... he published Men of War, the first single volume dual military biography of | and Rommel |
| Ricimer | ... te a further embassy by Marcian, with the destruction of Capua. Avitus sent | to defend Sicily, and the Romans defeated the Vandals twice, once in a lan ... |
| 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 ... |
| Miguel López de Legazpi | ... gellan expedition, King Philip II of Spain sent Ruy López de Villalobos and | in 1543 and 1565 and claimed the islands for Spain. The Visayas region and ... |
| 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 ... |
| General William Rufus Shafter | ... dock along the Santa Fe Railroad right-of-way. The community was named for | who 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 between | and 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 |
| Alexios Strategopoulos | On 25 July 1261, Michael VIII's general | captured Constantinople from its last Latin Emperor, Baldwin II. Michael V ... |
| Zachary Taylor | ... after John Taylor of Caroline, while a minority believe it was named after | |
| 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 Spain | In the 18th century King | commissioned 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 ... |
| George Armstrong Custer | ... wea. The name honors White Shield, an Arikara chief and a scout for General | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Henry Harrison | ... buy as much Native American land as possible. In 1804, territorial governor | negotiated a treaty in St. Louis in which a group of Sauk and Meskwaki lea ... |
| Gastañaga | ... troops were replaced with men from fortress garrisons. Spanish troops under | joined 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 named | its 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jefferson Davis | The new Confederate President | , a former "Cooperationist" who had insisted on delaying secession until 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 Baron | at the Battle of Wavre. Moreover, Soult's letter ordering Grouchy to move ... |
| 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 brothers | and 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Duke of Marlborough | ... same year he published Rufinus, a historical essay; and a political poem on | and 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 ... |
| Aetius | He then started a military career: he served under the magister militum | in his campaign against the Juthungi and the Norics (430–431) and also aga ... |
| L. Iunius Brutus | ... ween the Romans and the Carthaginians, which he dated to the consulships of | and 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 general | once 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 ... |
| Aylmer Hunter-Weston | ... ore dangerous. A report from a senior British officer in the field, General | of the VIII Corps, added to the myth that the wire could be cut by bombard ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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/Kimon | In the first ten years of the league's existence, | forced Karystos in Euboea to join the league, conquered the island of Skyr ... |
| Jerry Mateparae | | | |
| 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 ... |
| Ariel Sharon | ... 's water as a vital regional resource was the cause of the war confirmed by | who 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 by | and Arthur Seyss-Inquart and was technically under the command of the SS i ... |
| 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 General | and Egyptian Major General Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy. Ultimately, Kissinger to ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... oquent orator. The Republican Party countered with popular war hero General | and won in a landslide, ending 20 consecutive years of Democratic control ... |
| Arthur Seyss-Inquart | ... lly occur in 1938. The early Austrian SS was led by Ernst Kaltenbrunner and | and was technically under the command of the SS in Germany, but often acte ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hernán Cortés | ... vanilla orchid, called tlilxochitl by the Aztecs, and Spanish conquistador | is credited with introducing both vanilla and chocolate to Europe in the 1 ... |
| Saladin | Ayyubid Sultan | had conquered most of the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem, including the anc ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ernest Swinton | British Major | saw the potential of a track-laying tractor. He proposed that the Army sho ... |
| Saladin | The Kurdish Muslim | retook Hebron in 1187 – again with Jewish assistance according to one late ... |
| Sir Robert Baden-Powell | ... ich are used by most national Scout organizations. The symbol was chosen by | as 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hannibal | ... ist of 289, after comparing his actions to Scipio Africanus' victories over | during the Second Punic War, suggested that Maximian has never heard of th ... |
| 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 ... |
| James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose | ... ort time only to become a covenanter again and was present at the defeat of | in 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 Ling | In 99 BC, Sima Qian became embroiled in the Li Ling affair, where | and Li Guangli (李廣利), two military officers who led a campaign against the ... |
| Feng Yi | ... wu made Luoyang his capital in 25 CE, and by 27 CE his officers Deng Yu and | had 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 and | and 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Meng Tian | ... s the construction of his own tomb. In 215 BC Qin Shi Huang ordered General | with 300,000 men to begin construction. Other sources suggested he ordered ... |
| 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 Sir | was 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 | |
| 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 ... |
| General Pershing | ... ddition, the Medal of Honor was presented to the British Unknown Warrior by | on 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 | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Deng Yu | ... tored. Guangwu made Luoyang his capital in 25 CE, and by 27 CE his officers | and 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) |
| Gaius Marius | ... decisively. Frustrated at the apparent lack of action, Metellus' lieutenant | returned to Rome to seek election as Consul. Marius was elected, and then ... |
| Jefferson Davis | ... s. Delegates from those seven formed the C.S.A. in February 1861, selecting | as 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 ... |
| John C. Breckinridge | ... cast its electoral votes for the Southern Democratic choice, Vice President | of Kentucky. Regular Democratic nominee Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois ran ... |
| 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 Himmler | In April 1945, | asked Bernadotte to convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister Winston Chur ... |
| John Allen Campbell | On December 10, 1869, territorial Gov. | extended the right to vote to women, making Wyoming the first U.S. state t ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 that | intended Alexandria to be the capital of his empire. Actually, he built it ... |
| Lucius Cornelius Sulla | ... d then returned to Numidia to take control of the war. He sent his Quaestor | to 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 rival | took 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 General | arrived with his troops on December 17, aiming to destroy this bridge in o ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 of | and Sulla to the Roman political scene and the beginning of their rivalry. ... |
| Julius Caesar | | initially 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Primo de Rivera | During the dictatorships of | and 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 ... |
| 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, ... |
| Alexander the Great | After | conquered the Near East in 334 BCE, the existing settlement was named Heli ... |
| Thucydides | ... he Athenians led to some universally read and admired history, the works of | and Xenophon. Slightly less known because they are more technical and lega ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cornelius Sisenna | ... storiae), a history of Rome from 78 to 67 BC, intended as a continuation of | 's work |
| 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 admiral | and other supporters that convinced the Emperor not to abandon Taiwan. Kox ... |
| Antigonus | ... st themselves over the succession. Lycia fell into the hands of the general | by 304 BC. In 301 BC Antigonus was killed by an alliance of the other succ ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | ... ank later claimed that the extermination of Jews was entirely controlled by | and the SS and that he, Frank, was unaware of the extermination camps in t ... |
| Heinrich Himmler | Even with the difficulties of the quota system | formed two new SS regiments, the SS Germania and SS Deutschland, which tog ... |
| Hannibal | The war is marked by | 's surprising overland journey and his costly crossing of the Alps, follow ... |
| Victor Emmanuel II | ... h 17, 1861, when most of the states of the peninsula were united under king | of 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Zachary Taylor | ... ing back to the 1830s. Fort Jesup was founded in 1822 by Lieutenant Colonel | who later became the 12th President of the United States. Taylor's troops ... |
| 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 by | forced more than eight thousand Navajo men, women and children from their ... |
| Yongle Emperor | ... 4). A magistrate of Jining, Shandong sent a memorandum to the throne of the | protesting 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 was | in 1964. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama won 81% of the county's vote |
| 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 of | to 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 ... |
| 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 Himmler | In 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 under | in the latter part of the 4th century |
| Reinhard Heydrich | ... rned that Ernst Röhm, the chief of the SA, was planning a coup. Himmler and | plotted 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 a | and 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, appointing | commander-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 by | of Macedon during 334–333 BC |
| Belisarius | ... was a prominent Byzantine scholar from Palestine. Accompanying the general | in the wars of the Emperor Justinian I, he became the principal historian ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... extended but in the 1950s, the Esperanto movement was tolerated again with | accepting the honorary patronage of the |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gainas | ... two parts, also known as The Egyptian Tale, about the war against the Goth | and the conflict between the two brothers Aurelianus and Caesariu |
| Chevalier de Levis | ... plan even precisely locating an Abraham Street. Later, the journals of the | and the Marquis de Montcalm referred to the Heights of Abraham, as did the ... |
| Robert E. Lee | McClellan was removed after failing to pursue General | 's retreat from Antietam, and Burnside was assigned to command the Army of ... |
| Marquis de Montcalm | ... ng an Abraham Street. Later, the journals of the Chevalier de Levis and the | referred to the Heights of Abraham, as did the diaries of British soldiers ... |
| Prince Henry | Prussia (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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Augusto Pinochet | ... also traveled to Chile where he met with its military junta ruler, General | |
| Aragorn | In 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 Loison | Masséna'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. Senator | resigned, and U.S. Senator James Henry Hammond followed |
| Paul Hausser | In 1936, Himmler selected former Lieutenant General | to 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 general | reached 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 of | in 44 BC |
| Nathan Twining | Seaton and Stevens worked with Gen. | , chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had served in Alaska; and Jac ... |
| Pervez Musharraf | Pakistani President | - then as Army Chief of Staff - was responsible for sending thousands of P ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| António Correia | In 1521, a Portuguese force led by commander | invaded Bahrain to take control of the wealth created by its pearl industr ... |
| Shi Lang | In 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 ... |
| Alva R. Fitch | The first Eagle Scout in Nebraska was | of Norfolk |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... to Varney, he was cursed with vampirism after he had betrayed a royalist to | and accidentally killed his own son afterwards in a fit of anger, although ... |
| Rudolf Diels | ... y, but Göring on 30 November 1933 established a Prussian police force, with | at its head. The force was called the Geheime Staatspoliei, or Gestapo. Gö ... |
| 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 ... |
| Barry Goldwater | ... n. McCain succeeded longtime American conservative icon and Arizona fixture | upon the latter's retirement as United States Senator from Arizona |
| 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 ... |
| Baibars | ... Byzantines. He also signed a treaty in 1263 with the Egyptian Mamluk sultan | , and the Mongol Khan of Kipchak |
| Piet Joubert | ... blic. Kruger was re-elected president in 1888 and 1893, each time defeating | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 Gabinius | In 57–55 BCE, | , proconsul of Syria, split the former Hasmonean Kingdom into Galilee, Sam ... |
| 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 |
| Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive | ... igin of the city's name is unknown, it is believed to have been named after | |
| 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 ... |
| Elessar | On May 1, 3019 King | 's coronation took place on the plain outside Minas Tirith, he then entere ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bacchides | ... A little later the Jordan was the scene of the battle between Jonathan and | , in which the latter was defeated |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... Commission. He was appointed chairman of a similar commission by President | in 1953. Both found numerous inefficiencies and ways to reduce waste. The ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Leopold Wilhelm | ... assistance; a powerful Spanish army assembled in Artois under the archduke | , governor-general of the Spanish Netherlands. But peasants of the country ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 supporter | crushingly 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 ... |
| Theodor Eicke | ... d and the particularly fierce fighting of the Totenkopf", Obergruppenführer | was 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 as | to 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-general | was forced to commit suicide by a violent mob after he spoke in support of ... |
| Robert Sedgwick | Colonel | led one hundred New England volunteers and two hundred of Oliver Cromwell' ... |
| Manuel Belgrano | On August of 1812, Argentine General | leaded the Jujuy Exodus, a massive forced displacement of people from the ... |
| 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 | ... he Carthaginian formation to disintegrate and collapse. After their defeat, | convinced the Carthaginians to accept peace. Notably, he broke the rules o ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jefferson Davis | ... the appointment of John H. Reagan to the position of Postmaster General, by | in 1861, making him the first Postmaster General of the Confederate Post O ... |
| Andrew Jackson | Jackson Township, named after | , is a township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 ... |
| John Burgoyne | ... of Bemis Heights in Saratoga. The reinforcements for which British General | was waiting were held up, and Burgoyne was forced to surrender at Saratoga ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ernst Kaltenbrunner | ... enberg. Heydrich was assassinated in 1942. His positions were taken over by | in January 1943, following a few short months of Heinrich Himmler personal ... |
| 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 defeat | at the Battle of Montgisard; Saladin narrowly escaped. In 1181 the temptat ... |
| Patrick Sinclair | The origin of the name has also been confused with that | , a British officer who purchased land on the St. Clair River at the outle ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ptolemy I Soter | ... vity. His fourth wife was Lanassa and fifth wife was Ptolemais, daughter of | and Eurydice of Egypt, by whom he had a son called Demetrius the Fair. He ... |
| 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 ... |
| Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset | ... ok, that it was published as "propaganda" for reformist interests backed by | or other high-placed aristocrats, and that Crowley added interpretive glos ... |
| Melchett | ... t characters, though several reappear in one series or another, for example | and Lord Flashheart |
| Colin Powell | ... to a straining of relations between the two nations. However, Schröder met | and a rapprochement was established after the Iraqi regime was overturned. ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| d'Erlon | ... es up symmetrically about the Brussels road. On the right was I Corps under | with 16,000 infantry and 1,500 cavalry, plus a cavalry reserve of 4,700. O ... |
| Lucius Cornelius Sulla | ... ilius Lepidus on the site of the Curia Hostilia, which had been restored by | but 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 | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stonewall Jackson | ... th flower petals thrown in his path at Richmond. He had become as famous as | in the eyes of the Confederacy |
| 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 ... |
| Erich Ludendorff | ... : the 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic and the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch involving | and 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 ... |
| Otto Ohlendorf | ... ), and the two branches of SD were commanded by various SS officers such as | and Walter Schellenberg. Heydrich was assassinated in 1942. His positions ... |
| Benjamin Bonneville | ... of the Oregon Trail and wrote extensively about their explorations. Captain | on 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 Caesar | Pliny 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Barry Goldwater | ... nvention, ill health prevented him from attending. The Presidential nominee | acknowledged 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 the | earlier that year; referring to John Pym, she asked who the roundheaded ma ... |
| Joseph E. Johnston | In March 1865, Confederate General | wintered just outside of Hillsborough at the Dickson home, which now serve ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... een chosen as the headquarters for the Supreme Allied Commander, US General | , during D-Day |
| 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. ... |
| Eli Zeira | ... ella to protect any crossing operation from air attack. However, Aman Chief | was 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 ... |
| Michael Collins | ... including the complete crews of Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and | ) and Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders) |
| Julius Caesar | Another temple in Rome was planned by | and was erected after his death by Marcus Aemilius Lepidus on the site of ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alp Arslan | ... manus IV, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (reigned 1068–1071), faced Sultan | of 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 Aguinaldo | In the hunt for the Guerrilla General | American troops also poisoned water wells to try to force out the Filipino ... |
| Edwin V. Sumner | ... e regimental quartermaster and commissary officer under the command of Col. | . He was promoted to first lieutenant in 1855 |
| Avigdor Kahalani | ... turning their attention back to the oncoming forces. Israeli tank commander | lined 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 General | of 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, President | informed Congress of the bequest. Richard Rush was appointed as agent of t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... dence was put to an end. Three years later, heartened by a false rumor that | had been assassinated, the Thebans revolted; Alexander squashed the revolt ... |
| Irvin McDowell | ... officer of the Presidio when the 1906 Earthquake hit San Francisco; General | who commanded the Union Army in the early days of the American Civil War a ... |
| Joseph Tarchaneiotes | Romanos ordered his general | to 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 president | in 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 ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Germanicus | ... d not only Ptolemy but also the poet Aratus, the orator Cicero, and general | as 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, General | in 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 Washington | During the American Revolutionary War, both Comte de Rochambeau & | 's troops camped on what is now the site of the Pequannock Valley Middle S ... |
| Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig | ... cey, Roger Blake, Denis Lill, Warren Clarke and Geoffrey Palmer, who played | in "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 by | took 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 by | in 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 Thacker | Canadian military attaché | served in the field with Japanese forces in the Russo–Japanese War (1904–0 ... |
| Hernán Cortés | In 1519 Alvarado accompanied | in his expedition to Mexico, commanding one of the eleven vessels in the f ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... y other general in Greek history (unless the Macedonian kings Philip II and | are included), although modern historians have questioned his larger strat ... |
| 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 by | on the site of the Curia Hostilia, which had been restored by Lucius Corne ... |
| "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 politician | would spend the rest of his life occupied in the affairs of the alliance, ... |
| Liu Yu | The 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 ... |
| Ernst Udet | ... as a design weakness. Heinrich Koppenbrug, the director of Argus, met with | on 6 January 1941 to try to convince him that the development should be co ... |
| George Washington | ... built the first water-works in America to pump water for public use. While | and his troops stayed in Valley Forge, Washington stored his personal effe ... |
| 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 of | in Taiwan. Incoming refugees, however, did not translate into a major labo ... |
| Lothar Rendulic | ... forces utilized scorched earth tactics, and though initially German General | ordered 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 General | forcibly entered the Harmandir Sahib (the Golden Temple) to overpower the ... |
| 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 General | complaining 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 ... |
| Ranald S. Mackenzie | A military expedition led by U.S. Army Colonel | was sent to the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma Territory Panhandle area in 1 ... |
| 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 and | of the General Staff, the Emperor considered abdication only as Emperor, n ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stephen G. Burbridge | In October 1864, Union raiders under Brigadier General | passed through Grundy on their way to destroy the saltworks near Saltville ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... ea forces of the republican government. A monument was constructed to honor | called the Llano Amarillo, which was inaugurated on the 13th of July 1940 ... |
| Richard Glücks | ... rtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (WVHA). Oswald Pohl commanded the WVHA, while | served as the Inspector of Concentration Camps |
| George Crook | ... such as Ulysses S. Grant, Philip Henry Sheridan, Arthur MacArthur, Jr., and | were stationed at the fort at various times. Finally, on June 14, 1860, th ... |
| Lt Colonel Picquart | In 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 General | raided the station. Stuart seized supplies from the area, destroyed a near ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 from | and his American Research and Development Corporation (AR&D). Worried that ... |
| Alexander the Great | Ashkelon 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 Davis | When General Grant's forces broke through Richmond's defenses, | ordered the destruction of Richmond's militarily significant supplies; the ... |
| Antipater | ... metrius was married five times; his first wife was Phila daughter of Regent | by whom he had two children: Stratonice of Syria and Antigonus II Gonatas. ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 | |
| Lysimachus | ... admit him into their city. But he soon afterwards ravaged the territory of | and effected a reconciliation with Seleucus, to whom he gave his daughter ... |
| Muhammad bin Qasim | The Arab general | conquered Sindh and Multan in southern Punjab in 711CE. The Pakistan gover ... |
| Stonewall Jackson | ... to legend waved the Stars and Stripes in defiance of Confederate commander | and his troops as they marched through downtown Frederick in 1862, stands ... |
| 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 Obregón | President | was awarded Japan's Order of the Chrysanthemum at a special ceremony in Me ... |
| Franz Halder | At the Nuremberg Trials, General | testified that Göring admitted responsibility for starting the fire. He sa ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Decimus Junius Brutus | ... s of memory loss as the legendary Lethe River. In 138 BC, the Roman general | sought to dispose of the myth, as it impeded his military campaigns in the ... |
| 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 Franco | On July 1936, General | took 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 ... |
| 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 Presidents | and Bill Clinton |
| Hernán Cortés | ... settlement of certain Caribbean islands such as Cuba, Spanish conquistadors | and 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 | |
| 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. McClellan | Following Maj. Gen. | 's failure in the Peninsula Campaign, Burnside was offered command of the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Saladin | In 1187 | invaded 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. Pompeius | The last two treatises are supplemented by letters to | and Ammaeus (two) |
| 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, Emperor | marched 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 ... |
| Don Juan of Austria | Dunkirk was besieged promptly and in great force, and when | and Condé appeared with the relieving army from Fumes, Turenne advanced bo ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Orlando Butler | ... tates. Formed in 1848 from part of Barry Township, it is named for war hero | |
| Polyperchon | When 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 ... |
| Sir Henry Clinton | ... y 2,100 Loyalists, Hessians, and British regulars led by Lieutenant General | attacked 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 1400 | pillaged it |
| 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 ... |
| 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 | ) |
| 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 ... |
| Vo Nguyen Giap | ... criticized the battlefield prowess of his opponent North Vietnamese General | . "Of course, he [Giap] was a formidable adversary," Westmoreland told cor ... |
| Oliver | After Richard Cromwell, who had succeeded his father | as Lord Protector in 1658, was effectively deposed by an officers' coup in ... |
| 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 ... |
| George S. Patton | ... las MacArthur and helped by lower ranking officers Dwight D. Eisenhower and | to stop a march. MacArthur, believing he was fighting a communist revoluti ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | ... ero-worship", lavishing largely uncritical praise on strong leaders such as | , Frederick the Great and Napoleon. Romantic nationalism had a largely neg ... |
| Julius Caesar's | ... ssed that of the Aediles under the Republic, as could have been seen during | Aedileship |
| General William Howe | ... at the Emlen House, built by Quaker George Emlen in 1745. British commander | observed the American lines from the belltower of St. Thomas' Episcopal Ch ... |
| 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 ... |
| Yoda | ... command during the "unexplained" absence of Skywalker while he trained with | at Dagobah. After the events of The Empire Strikes Back, Skywalker and Ant ... |
| 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 general | and overthrew Li's short-lived Shun Dynasty, and subsequently seized contr ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lysimachus | Following his and | ' victory over Antigonus Monophthalmus at the decisive Battle of Ipsus in ... |
| 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sun Li-jen | ... . Chiang orchestrated the controversial court-martial and arrest of General | in August 1955, allegedly for plotting a coup d'état with the American CIA ... |
| 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 until | was 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 General | to 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 ... |
| 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 King | when 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 ... |
| Wedge Antilles | ... place for urgent missions that would arise. Their core was Luke Skywalker, | , Zev Senesca, and Wes Janson |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Chuck Yeager | The 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 |
| 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 General | to power. Even though public use of the Catalan language was banned some p ... |
| Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond | The 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, President | wrote a now venerated letter to the Sultan Sidi Mohamed strengthening the ... |
| Saladin | ... Zengi; but after 1145 it remained attached to Damascus and was captured by | in 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 between | and 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Craufurd | ... manded the 1st Division, Thomas Picton the 3rd, William Houston the 7th and | the Light Division. Stapleton Cotton commanded John Slade's and Frederick ... |
| 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa | ... nst terrorism (especially against the Red Brigades), by Carabinieri general | (who was later killed by the Mafia) |
| 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 ... |
| Sterling Price | ... supporters of the Union during the U.S. Civil War. The Confederate General | led his troops in ransacking the area during the war |
| 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 Washington | According 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 ... |
| 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 President | provided (via executive order) various measures designed to ensure that th ... |
| Eumenes | ... lon. He incurred the enmity of Perdiccas, the regent, by refusing to assist | to obtain possession of the provinces allotted to him, Paphlagonia and Cap ... |
| 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 of | one 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 ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | In reaction to Hallstein's proposals and actions, then-French President, | , who was sceptical of the rising supranational power of the Commission, a ... |
| Joseph Hooker | Army of the Potomac commander Maj. Gen. | interpreted Stuart's presence around Culpeper to be indicative of preparat ... |
| 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 ... |
| Antipater | ... the war against Eumenes, who had joined Perdiccas against the coalition of | , Antigonus, Ptolemy, Craterus, and the other generals. Eumenes was defeat ... |
| 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 of | in 1658, General George Monck allowed the members barred in 1648 to retake ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Eumenes | ... s and Antigonus found himself entrusted with the command of the war against | , who had joined Perdiccas against the coalition of Antipater, Antigonus, ... |
| 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 General | as his deputy, but in effect the operational commander. The immediate effe ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | The 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 century | removed interdiction of commerce with Spanish colonies in America and the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Emperor Wu of Liu Song | When | subdued Guanzhong he obtained the south-pointing carriage of Yao Xing, but ... |
| 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 ... |
| Moshe Dayan | ... not a casus belli justifying an attack on Jordan. Israeli Defense Minister | declined to offer any such assurance, but said that Israel had no intentio ... |
| Creighton Abrams | Westmoreland was replaced by General | in June 1968, the decision being announced shortly after the Tet Offensive ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... on, the sister of John Simpson of Ohio. John Simpson was the grandfather of | who became President of the United States. This family bond meant that man ... |
| Ephialtes | ... imon was ostracized and was succeeded in his influence by democrats such as | and Pericles. This signaled a complete change in Athenian foreign policy, ... |
| 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 by | 3rd Hanoverian Brigade, and successfully repulsed further infantry and cav ... |
| Craterus | ... here he obtained the favour of Antipater, regent of Macedonia (321 BC), and | |
| 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 ... |
| Thucydides | ... he works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and | , and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides |
| Hasdrubal Gisco | ... ly decline it. By this stratagem he convinced the Punic commanders Mago and | that 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 |
| Cimon | An aftermath of the war was that | was 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 | |
| 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 and | at the laboratories. Bell Labs' Claude Shannon later proved that it is unb ... |
| Gawhar al-Siqilli | The city of Cairo was founded in 969 CE by | as 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 Sir | in Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lieutenant-Colonel Charles de Salaberry, a F ... |
| Pompey | ... n king Tigranes the Great and their ultimate overthrow by the Roman general | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 as | would 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 ... |
| 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 of | in ; the part ultimately went to |
| 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. ... |
| Perdiccas | ... t heir. The empire was put under the authority of a regent in the person of | in 323 BC, and the territories were divided between Alexander's generals, ... |
| 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 including | and 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 Captain | in 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 Minister | told Bush that Israel "would not push one way or the other" for or against ... |
| Suharto | ... b speech while visiting Washington, and a statement to Indonesian President | that Australia was a "West European nation", also damaged the government |
| Hannibal | The Barcids, the family to which | belonged, claimed descent from a younger brother of Dido according to Sili ... |
| Charles Oudinot | Time 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 ... |
| Zebulon Pike | Reports from expeditions in 1806 by Lieutenant | and in 1819 by Major Stephen Long described the Great Plains as "unfit for ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| General Tomoyuki Yamashita | ... red Baguio City and fought against the Japanese Imperial Army forces led by | which 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. ... |
| 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 |
| 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 Yamashita | Baguio is the site of the formal surrender of | and 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 General | and the riderless horse was Black Jack, who also served in that role durin ... |
| 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 ... |
| Hannibal | | was 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 Senator | and comedian Drew Carey continued to wear non-prescription glasses after b ... |
| Zhang Qian | Even 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 of | and 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 ... |
| Julius Caesar | In 44 BC | added two plebeian aediles, called Cereales, whose special duty was the ca ... |
| 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Pericles | In 454 BC, the Athenian general | moved 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 General | and helped by lower ranking officers Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Pa ... |
| Ariel Sharon | ... ncreased and Israeli counter strikes intensified. Following the election of | in 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 and | almost certainly does not refer to Melqart but either to Ba`al Hammon, chi ... |
| 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 Herzog | According to | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas J. Jackson | ... w commanding the armed forces of Virginia, ordered him to report to Colonel | at Harper's Ferry. Jackson chose to ignore Stuart's infantry designation a ... |
| Chester A. Arthur | ... ng newspapers, and their numbers included five future U.S. presidents, from | to Theodore Roosevelt. Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all ... |
| 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 ... |
| M. Jeff Thompson | On September 1, 1861, Confederate General | robbed the Union Bank of Charleston. Thompson, who handed the cashier a no ... |
| 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 Great | Europeans first came in contact with elephants in 327 BC, when | descended into India from the Hindu Kush, but Alexander was quick to adopt ... |
| Marcus Aemilius Scaurus | While this civil war was going on the Roman general | went to Syria to take possession, in the name of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, o ... |
| Jefferson Davis | ... April 26 to mid-June. By 1916, the June 3 birthday of Confederate President | was observed as a state holiday in 10 southern states. Across the South, a ... |
| Duke of Marlborough | Named "New Marlborough" for the | until 1800, the town was a New Hampshire grant chartered on April 29, 1751 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| David Wooster | ... tal Army supply depots in Danbury on April 22, 1777. American Major General | (1710–1777), who was born in Stratford |
| 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 ... |
| Alp Arslan | ... dan Savaşı) was fought between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuq Turks led by | on 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 the | was victorious in the Battle of Aïn-el-Turk and took again Oran and Mers E ... |
| Ney | ... o Berlin and was victorious in battle against Oudinot in August and against | in September at the Battles of Grossbeeren and Dennewitz; but after the Ba ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas L. Kane | Kanesville 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, ... |
| Han Solo | ... st the Empire, in an attempt to capture the bounty hunters who had abducted | |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... orces led by General Douglas MacArthur and helped by lower ranking officers | and George S. Patton to stop a march. MacArthur, believing he was fighting ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 General | to Mexico to pursue Villa. This was known as the Punitive Mexican Expediti ... |
| Douglas MacArthur | Jayu (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 President | decided 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 himself | and invaded the south to reunify China |
| 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 ... |
| Hasdrubal Gisco | ... anding in Africa, Scipio twice routed the regular Carthaginian forces under | and his Numidian allies. The main native supporter of the Carthaginians, k ... |
| Marcus Furius Camillus | ... , allegedly built by Servius Tullius, destroyed in 506 B.C., and rebuilt by | in 396 B.C., and she was also associated with the sea harbors and ports, w ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 day | landed 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Peter Lacy | On 30 June 1734, a Russian army of 20,000 under | , after proclaiming August III the Saxon at Warsaw, proceeded to besiege S ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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." Colonel | wrote, "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 and | in the north |
| Eumenes II of Pergamon | ... mies, and again by the Macedonians. In 170 BC the Roman armies and those of | besieged and sacked it |
| Shmuel Gonen | On October 7, David Elazar visited | , commander of the Israeli Southern front—who had only taken the position ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... the satrapys of Margiana, Chorasmia and Parthia. Later conquerors included | , the Parni, Ephthalites, Huns, Göktürks, Sarmatians, and Sassanid Iranian ... |
| Saladin | No one controls the main entrance. In 1192, | assigned responsibility for it to the Muslim Nuseibeh family. The Joudeh A ... |
| Joseph Smith, Jr. | ... of Mormonism. In 1833, early in the Latter Day Saint movement, its founder | taught that just as Jesus was coeternal with God the Father, "Man was also ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aegidius | In 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 by | of the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Manzikert in August 1071, Michael VII ... |
| 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 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 ... |
| General Lake | ... uccessful attack at the fortress at Gawilghur, combined with the victory of | at 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 of | and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, as a major threat to his power. That occ ... |
| Andrew Jackson | The 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 President | to 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 French | and 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 of | at Quebec on Poussin's example. As a result, the image is one in which eac ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley | Six 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nikephoros Melissenos | ... ros Basilakes in the Balkans (1079) and was charged with containing that of | in Anatolia (1080). The Byzantine Empire also faced foreign invasion, as t ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Armstrong Custer | ... United States Supreme Court on several occasions. However, in 1874, Colonel | led 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, which | transformed into a temple for his triumph after the third Samnite war. Som ... |
| 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 ... |
| Parmenion | ... He sent an advance force into Asia Minor under the command of his generals | and Attalus to "liberate" the Greeks living under Persian control. After t ... |
| 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 by | and 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 ... |
| 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 Warren | Warren 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 eunuch | finally destroyed the Ostrogothic kingdom. This eighth book covers campaig ... |
| Kit Carson | ... were discouraged by the cost, effort and danger of the trip. Western scout | reputedly 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 |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bacchides | ... I Soter, the nephew whose throne he had usurped. Demetrius sent the general | to Israel with a large army, in order to install Alcimus with the office o ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Benjamin Grierson | ... eenactment celebration is named for Jacksonville resident U.S. Army General | |
| Nicanor | A Seleucid army under General | was 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Reinhard Heydrich | ... of Czechoslovakia, especially after the reprisals for the assassination of | , most of the Czech resistance groups demanded that the "German problem" b ... |
| Saladin | In 1187 | took Ashkelon as part of his conquest of the Crusader States following the ... |
| 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 by | in 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 under | invaded 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| William C. Lee | ... ommands the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. General | is 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 |
| 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 with | serving as the Grand Review Officer. The 1964 National Day parade was stru ... |
| Timur | In 1526, Zahiruddin Babur, a Timurid descendant of | and Genghis Khan from the Fergana Valley (in modern day Uzbekistan), invad ... |
| Buenaventura Durruti | ... ombardment, with bayonet and grenade fights, room by room. Anarchist leader | was shot there on 19 November 1936, and died the next day. The battle in t ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... rnher von Braun was MSFC's initial Director. On September 8, U.S. President | formally dedicated the MSFC |
| Henry H. Arnold | At the end of May 1942, Eisenhower accompanied Lt. Gen. | , commanding general of the Army Air Forces, to London to assess the effec ... |
| Porfirio Díaz | During the regime of | from 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 by | secured 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lefebvre-Desnoëttes' | Initially Milhaud's reserve cavalry corps of cuirassiers and | light cavalry division of the Imperial Guard, some 4,800 sabres, were comm ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... help pass measures favored by the Democrats. Johnson, Rayburn and President | worked 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 for | during the American Revolution. Born in Salisbury, Connecticut, Bradley ca ... |
| Belisarius | ... ining books cover the Gothic War (Latin De Bello Gothico), the campaigns by | and 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 ... |
| Julius Caesar | at: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 of | to 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 ... |
| Dimitrios Ioannidis | ... ent shockwaves through the regime, and a counter-coup established Brigadier | as dictator. On 20 July 1974, as Turkey invaded the island of Cyprus, the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lavr Kornilov | Another problem for the government centered around General | , who had been Commander-in-Chief since 18 July. In response to a Bolshevi ... |
| 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 General | to appoint the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Julius Caesar | In 42 BC, | was formally deified as "the divine Julius" (divus Iulius). His adopted so ... |
| 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 Caesar | at:48 text:Pompey murdered (48 BCE); Hyrcanus and~Antipater aid | at Alexandri |
| Arrian | ... ut Darius was still outflanked, defeated, and forced to flee. It is told by | that 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 under | and 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 of | after his landing in Sicily. At a later period we find it mentioned as esp ... |
| Antipater | at: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. Frémont | Even the Governor of the Arizona Territory, | , reported after the gunfight, "Many of the very best law-abiding and peac ... |
| Xiao Daocheng | ... peror Houfei of Liu Song. The political situation was volatile. The general | slowly 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 ... |
| Belisarius | ... ld and certainly would not pass up the opportunity. In 535, he commissioned | to attack the Ostrogoths. Belisarius quickly captured Sicily and then cros ... |
| Agesilaus II | ... the city, but turned back without engaging the Thebans. Another army under | was then dispatched to attack the Thebans. However, the Thebans refused to ... |
| Fitzhugh Lee | ... nk, while at the same time promoting Stuart's subordinates Wade Hampton and | to 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 ... |
| Mark Antony | ... engagement fought between the forces of Octavian and the combined forces of | and 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 ... |
| Lewis Cass | Cass County is named in honor of | , a Michigan senator and an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the pres ... |
| Seleucus | He 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 onwards | may have implied he was a demigod by using the title "Son of Ammon–Zeus". ... |
| Henry Knox | In 1776 | passed through Hillsdale while transporting cannons from Albany, New York ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 and | sent 350 Arab Legionnaires and an armoured car unit to Hebron to reinforce ... |
| Gaius Suetonius Paulinus | ... victory at the Battle of Watling Street in 61 AD between the Roman governor | and the Briton leader Boudica |
| Moshe Dayan | ... been buried. In July 1950, the shrine was destroyed at the instructions of | |
| Nathanael Greene | ... Hobkirk Hill was fought between around 1,400 American troops led by General | and 950 British soldiers led by Lord Francis Rawdon on April 25, 1781. The ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gaius Claudius Nero | The Battle of Grumentum was an inconclusive fight in 207 BC between | and Hannibal. In the aftermath of the battle Nero was able to trick Hannib ... |
| Pedro de Alvarado | ... of power. Governors hung and removed. In this situation, the settlers asked | to 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 ... |
| Memnon of Rhodes | ... re. Following Alexander's victory at Issus, the Persian mercenary commander | ordered 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 General | at the Battle of Kashgar and Battle of Yarkand. All the Afghan volunteers ... |
| Mark Antony | ... colleague, Mark Antony. Octavius (Caesar's adopted son), along with general | and 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bruno Loerzer | ... a result of the damp of trench warfare. While he was recovering, his friend | convinced him to transfer to the Luftstreitkräfte ("air combat force") of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Archytas | ... s observances and scientific pursuits, while individuals, as in the case of | , acquired now and then great political influence. Concerning the fate of ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... achines and (what we today call) submarines, attributing their first use to | |
| Kuropatkin | ... m other Russian units the attack stalled, Gripenberg was ordered to halt by | and the battle was inconclusive. The Japanese knew that they needed to des ... |
| Cortés | In 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. President | called 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 of | for a third term led to still more demands for an end to genrō politics. D ... |
| Alexander the Great | In 334 BC, | began his invasion of the Persian Empire and subsequently defeated the Per ... |
| Lavr Kornilov | ... Petrograd immediately after the failed military coup of monarchist General | , an attempt to topple the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky by ... |
| Rehavam Ze'evi | Israeli tourist minister | was assassinated on October 17, 2001, by Hamdi Quran and three other membe ... |
| Koxinga | In 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Colin Powell | ... Secretary of State and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General | was the speaker for Damascus High School's Class of 2000 commencement cere ... |
| George Meade | The 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 ... |
| 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 president | in 1865–66. In 1867 Greeley was one of 21 men who signed a $100,000 bond f ... |
| Feng Yuxiang | In 1930, when warlords | and 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 explorer | during 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 ... |
| 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 installed | as 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 General | against an 8,100-strong Union force led by Brigadier General Samuel D. Stu ... |
| John Coffee | ... , Mississippi. The population was 930 at the 2000 census. It is named after | (1772 – 1833), a planter and military leader |
| Hernán Cortés | ... Spanish conquest of Yucatán. The former is conquest of the campaign, led by | from 1519–21 and his Tlaxcala and other 'indigenous peoples' allied agains ... |
| Phoebidas | In 382 BC, however, the Spartan commander | committed an act that would ultimately turn Thebes against Sparta for good ... |
| Earl of Strafford | ... h legal campaigns, as it later did against Buckingham, Archbishop Laud, the | and Charles I. However, Parliament and James came to blows when the issue ... |
| 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 ... |
| Yamagata Aritomo | ... the army minister resigned, bringing down the Rikken Seiyūkai cabinet. Both | and 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, General | pronounced 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 ... |
| Andrew Johnson | ... ch events as the process of Reconstruction and the impeachment of President | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | The 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 ... |
| Alexander | He 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 by | and the Puritans, although some of the painted panels were disfigured |
| 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 Sherman | Union Gen. | had long known that his fragile supply and communication lines through Ten ... |
| Pedro de Alvarado | During the period leading up to the conquest of Honduras by | , many indigenous people along the north coast of Honduras were captured a ... |
| Lepidus | ... lating. Antony complained that Octavian had exceeded his powers in deposing | , in taking over the countries held by Sextus Pompeius, in enlisting soldi ... |
| 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 |
| Roman Ungern von Sternberg | ... rederick Rolfe, Joseph Conrad, Sukhbaatar, John Reed, White Russian general | and 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 general | armed and trained to Army standards, and held ready at the personal dispos ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | The Overland Campaign, Lt. Gen. | 's offensive against Lee in the spring of 1864, began at the Battle of the ... |
| Titus Manlius Torquatus | ... e aware of their intentions and had reinforced the unpopular garrison under | to 20,000 infantry and 1,200 cavalry. These engaged and defeated the Carth ... |
| 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 General | at 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 of | broke the deadlock. The official end of the Battle of Bastogne only occurr ... |
| Álvaro Obregón | ... orfirian elite. After Díaz was deposed, Carranza competed for power against | and others. The Yaquis joined with Álvaro Obregón’s forces after 1913 |
| Andrew Moray | On 11 September 1297, an army jointly led by Wallace and | won the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Although vastly outnumbered, the Scotti ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ariel Sharon | ... es of Israel – Gad, Reuven, and Menashe. Zeevi urged Israeli Prime Minister | to "lay waste to the Palestinian Authority" and assassinate PLO leader |
| Franco | Spain sent many political activists into exile during | 's military regime from 1936 to his death in 1975 |
| Ma Fuxiang | ... northern provinces of Ningxia and Suiyuan in China, Chinese Muslim General | both prohibited and engaged in the opium trade. It was hoped that Ma Fuxia ... |
| Marc Caron | ... personnel and also in military justice. Retired Canadian Lieutenant General | also served for a time as Security Sector Reform advisor to the head of MO ... |
| Georgios Kondylis | ... a referendum in 1924 and the Second Hellenic Republic was declared. Premier | took 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 of | in 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 President | recovered from a heart attack at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center. In 1943 t ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | A World War II French Resistance leader and a close ally of | , Pineau was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and survived Buchenwald conce ... |
| Andronikos Doukas | Accompanying Romanos was | , the co-regent and a direct rival. The army consisted of about profession ... |
| Aragorn | ... nadvertently contacted Sauron, after which Gandalf turned the stone over to | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Attalus | ... vance force into Asia Minor under the command of his generals Parmenion and | to "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. ... |
| Pericles | The greatest and longest lasting democratic leader was | ; after his death, Athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oli ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gaius Sosius | ... ding out Octavian's ships which up until now were tightly arranged. He sent | down to the south to spread the remaining ships out to the south. This lef ... |
| 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 ... |
| Chares of Mytilene | ... s), while others took it to be only fiction (so Aristobulus of Cassandreia, | , Ptolemy I of Egypt, Duris of Samos) |
| 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 ... |
| Stand Watie | ... also known as the Hay Camp Action). Confederate troops led by Brig. General | and Brig. General Richard Gano captured 85 Union troops and killed even mo ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Marcus Claudius Marcellus | ... three times, by assault or siege, to take this city, which was defended by | in the battle of Nola (216 BC), Battle of Nola (215 BC) and battle of Nola ... |
| 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 and | are 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 whom | had given as wives to his generals in 324 BC. In 294 BC, prior to the deat ... |
| 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 ... |
| He Jin | General-in-Chief | (d. 189 CE), half-brother to Empress He (d. 189 CE), plotted with Yuan Sha ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... n of Sharpsburg, where they engaged Confederate troops commanded by General | at the Battle of Antietam |
| William Shirley | ... rge-scale action was a major expedition organized by Massachusetts Governor | that successfully besieged the French fortress of Louisbourg in 1745. The ... |
| Muhammad bin Qasim | ... sian Achaemenid Empire. The Arabs ruled Sindh for more than 150 years after | conquered it in 712 AD, remaining there for three years to set up Arab rul ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Andrew Moray | Along with | , Wallace defeated an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 129 ... |
| Lü Buwei | ... irst emperor was not the actual son of King Zhuangxiang of Qin. By the time | introduced the dancing girl Zhao Ji (趙姬, or the Concubine from Zhao) to th ... |
| Jefferson Davis | ... s and sent them by steamboat to Jefferson Barracks, escorted by Lieutenants | and 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 | |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | ... s for Wallace to move his division up to support the division of Brig. Gen. | located at Shiloh Church |
| 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, ... |
| Saladin | He was planning to star in an $80 million movie about | and the Crusades that would be filmed in Jordan before the producer Mousta ... |
| Quintus Dellius | Before the battle, one of Mark Antony's generals, | , had defected to Octavian, bringing with him Mark Antony's battle plans. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lysimachus | ... e also roused the jealousy of Alexander's Diadochi; Seleucus, Cassander and | united 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 General | during the Battle of Cowpens |
| Lysimachus | ... nesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King | of 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 ... |
| Michael Collins | On 14 September 1921 the Dáil ratified the appointment of Arthur Griffith, | , Robert Barton, Eamonn Duggan and George Gavan Duffy as envoys plenipoten ... |
| Guillermo Rodríguez Lara | ... cial government. It was made a province by presidential decree by President | on 18 February 1973. The province is divided into cantons, each covering c ... |
| 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 founder | was considered one of the greatest generals during the Southern and Northe ... |
| Ephialtes | Solon (594 BC), Cleisthenes (508/7 BC), and | (462 BC) all contributed to the development of Athenian democracy. Histori ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Joseph Warren | ... stern corner of Nobles County, and was originally named Warren, in honor of | who fell at the Battle of Bunker Hill. The town was surveyed and platted i ... |
| Jomini | General Baron | , one of the leading military writers on the Napoleonic art of war had a n ... |
| 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 Anna | They then marched northward after joining a larger force commanded by | sent from Mexico City, the "liberating army of the North". At the Battle o ... |
| Cassander | ... ed with a fleet of 250 ships to Athens. He freed the city from the power of | and 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 elect | president 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 ... |
| Lü Buwei | ... throne by his 13-year-old son. At the time, Zhao Zheng was still young, so | acted as the regent prime minister of the State of Qin, which was still wa ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Hiero | ... raecia cities led by Syracuse. A few years later, in 474, Syracuse's tyrant | defeated the Etruscans at the Battle of Cumae. Etruria's influence over th ... |
| Joseph Hooker | ... n arrived to inform General George Meade that he would be replacing General | after the latter's disaster at Chancellorsville in May. The Army of the Po ... |
| Creighton Abrams | ... ld." He was a member of a distinguished West Point class that also included | and Benjamin O. Davis Jr.. Westmoreland graduated as first captain - the h ... |
| 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" ... |
| 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 Sulla | Florence was established by | in 80 BC as a settlement for his veteran soldiers and was named originally ... |
| Lü Bu | Dong was killed by his adopted son | (d. 198 CE) in a plot hatched by Wang Yun (d. 192 CE). Emperor Xian fled f ... |
| 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 of | from The Lord of the Rings; the fate of the Númenóreans, and so the fate o ... |
| 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' ... |
| Benjamin Bonneville | Bonneville County was established in 1911, named after | (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the U.S. Army, fur trapper, and expl ... |
| Zhang Liao | ... Ford, was fought at what is currently Xiaoyao Ford (逍遥津) in Hefei. General | of the Kingdom of Wei commanding 800 picked cavalry defeated the 200,000-m ... |
| Pyrrhus of Epirus | After | failed in his attempt to stop the spread of Roman hegemony in 282 BC, the ... |
| Marquis de Lafayette | ... War hero Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, better known as the | |
| 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 ... |
| David Elazar | Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, and General | met at 8:05 am the morning of Yom Kippur, six hours before the war began. ... |
| Dong Zhuo | General | (d. 192 CE) found the young emperor and his brother wandering in the count ... |
| 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Andrew Jackson | ... nly the faces of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and | were 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 prince | attacked, but lacking support they were easily pushed back. Then the Roman ... |
| Kurt Daluege | ... any headquartered around Munich. The "Northern-SS" was under the command of | who 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Karl August Ferdinand von Borcke | ... ers during the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon. It was first awarded to | on 21 April 1813 |
| Manuel Antonio Flores | ... be the colonial power and despite the capitulation were signed, the Viceroy | did 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 ... |
| Nader Shah of Persia | ... Kandahar in 1747 by Ahmad Shah Durrani, an Afghan military commander under | and 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 to | during the American Revolutionary War and was an early benefactor to the u ... |
| Konstantin Rokossovsky | ... blic was led by discredited Moscow's operatives such as Bolesław Bierut and | |
| 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 officer | sought to discourage this activity by having guards surround the area and ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Meade | ... 1863, a messenger from President Abraham Lincoln arrived to inform General | that he would be replacing General Joseph Hooker after the latter's disast ... |
| Stonewall Jackson | ... is also notable for being the birthplace of Julia Neale Jackson, mother of | , and Susan Catherine Koerner, mother of the Wright Brothers |
| 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 ... |
| Seleucus's | It is generally thought that Chandragupta married | daughter, or a Macedonian princess, a gift from Seleucus to formalize an a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henry Martyn Robert | ... amentary authority for use by a deliberative assembly written by Brig. Gen. | |
| 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 ... |
| Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major | ... urce of manpower for the Carthaginian army, a second Roman expedition under | took 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 ... |
| John VI Kantakouzenos | On 2 February the Byzantine Empire's civil war between | and 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Zachary Taylor | In frustration U.S. Commander | , referring to the Saint Patrick's Battalion, ordered a squadron of the 1s ... |
| Moshe Dayan | Golda Meir, | , and General David Elazar met at 8:05 am the morning of Yom Kippur, six h ... |
| Andrew Johnson | ... g his loyalty to the Union should a civil war break out, Tennessee Governor | used 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 Taylor | Taylor County was created in 1856. It was named for | , twelfth President of the United States of America, who served from 1849 ... |
| Rudolf Hess | ... azi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, | , Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitler himself |
| Antigonus Monophthalmus | Following his and Lysimachus' victory over | at 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 guide | led 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 Johnson | On 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 ... |
| James B. Ricketts | ... stly hundred-days' men amalgamated from the VIII Corps) and the division of | from VI Corps was defeated by Confederate General Jubal A. Early, who had ... |
| George Custer | ... valry Field was repulsed by Union cavalry under Brig. Gens. David Gregg and | |
| Seleucus I Nicator | ... Myus. In the spring of 310, he was soundly defeated when he tried to expel | from 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 President | with his euro-scepticism. But Giscard refused to resign and founded the In ... |
| 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 ... |
| Judson Kilpatrick | ... War, the Battle of Hanover was fought on June 30, 1863. Union cavalry under | encountered Confederate cavalry under J.E.B. Stuart and a sharp fight ensu ... |
| Armistead Long | At 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 of | in |
| 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 |
| David Gregg | ... ttack on East Cavalry Field was repulsed by Union cavalry under Brig. Gens. | and George Custer |
| Mark Antony | ... dertook to produce a master itinerary of all Roman roads. Julius Caesar and | commissioned the first known such effort in 44 BC. Zenodoxus, Theodotus an ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... t by hounds of Cocytus, Echidna, the Tartesian eel, and Tithrasian Gorgons. | traced his ancestry (through his mother) to Aeacus |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander the Great | When | entered Caria in 334 BC, Ada, who was in possession of the fortress of Ali ... |
| James Oglethorpe | ... s founded on December 19, 1795, and is named for Georgia's founder, General | |
| Reinhard Heydrich | Heinrich Himmler, together with his right-hand man, | , consolidated the power of the organization. In 1931, Himmler gave Heydri ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thucydides | ... stic; they wrote in Attic Greek, their models were Herodotus and especially | , and their subject matter was secular history. They avoided vocabulary un ... |
| Wade Hampton | ... sus. It is named for American Civil War general and South Carolina governor | |
| George Washington | President of Congress John Hancock sent a broadside to General | , instructing him to have it proclaimed "at the Head of the Army in the wa ... |
| Alexander | | conquered the Persian Empire under its last Achaemenid dynast, Darius III, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Frank Armstrong | ... Missouri Regiment, Crossland's Kentucky Brigade, Roddey's Alabama Brigade, | 's Mississippi Brigade, General Daniel W. Adams' state reserves, and the c ... |
| Benjamin Harrison | ... n). The plan worked, and Michigan split its vote: nine votes for Republican | and five votes for Democrat Grover Cleveland. Once the Republican party re ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... "53 nations" to fight against the Spanish Nationalist forces led by General | and assisted by German and Italian forces |
| Toussaint Louverture | ... ame more politically conscious of his roles. In 1936, he played the role of | in the play, of the same name, by C.L.R. James at the Westminster Theatre ... |
| Heraclius | ... rectly replaced. He pressed Emperor Constans II to withdraw the Ecthesis of | . While his efforts made little impression on Constantinople, it increased ... |
| 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 ... |
| Arthur Seyss-Inquart | ... ntered Austria, who met celebrating crowds, in order to install Nazi puppet | as Chancellor. With a Nazi administration already in place and the country ... |
| 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- ... |
| Gaius Sosius | ... ntony's demands. Gnaeus Ahenobarbus seems to have wished to keep quiet; but | on 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 Marine | have written that these lessons should not have needed a debacle such as D ... |
| Stonewall Jackson | Like 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 |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Douglas MacArthur | Johnson reported to General | in 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 subordinates | and Fitzhugh Lee to major generals, could be considered an implied rebuke. ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Rogers Clark | The city fell on July 4, 1778 to | and his force of 200 men including Captain Leonard Helm during one of the ... |
| Reinhard Heydrich | ... for the "complete solution of the Jewish Question", as he issued a memo to | to organize the practical details. Göring, who issued this memo in place o ... |
| Antigonus I Monophthalmus | ... – 283 BC), called Poliorcetes (Greek: Πολιορκητής - "The Besieger"), son of | and Stratonice, was a king of Macedon (294–288 BC). He belonged to the Ant ... |
| Ormsby M. Mitchel | On the morning of April 11, 1862, Union troops led by General | seized Huntsville to sever the Confederacy's rail communications. The Unio ... |
| 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 ... |
| Valuk | ... in southern Carinthia in the early 7th century. Historical sources mention | as the duke of Slavs (Wallux dux Winedorum) |
| William Shirley | ... raiding on the northernmost communities of Massachusetts prompted Governor | to order the construction of a chain of frontier outposts stretching all t ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Hancock | The most famous signature on the engrossed copy is that of | , who, as President of Congress, presumably signed first. Hancock's large, ... |
| Benjamin Harrison | ... chool District. Harrison City is named after former United States President | |
| 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 Sharon | On the day before the war, General | was shown aerial photographs and other intelligence by Yehoshua Saguy, his ... |
| Yuan Xi | ... with his brothers over the family inheritance. His brothers Yuan Shang and | were killed in 207 CE by Gongsun Kang (d. 221 CE), who sent their heads to ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Adam's | ... ces say four) just south of La Haye Sainte, for a last stand. A charge from | Brigade and the Hanoverian Landwehr Osnabrück Battalion, plus Vivian's and ... |
| Stonewall Jackson | ... g which both Union and Confederate troops marched through the city. General | led his light infantry division through Frederick on his way to the battle ... |
| George Washington | During the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War, | and the Continental Army were encamped here after their October 4, 1777 de ... |
| Prince Wilhelm of Baden | Born 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 General | might have removed it in 533 and brought it to Constantinople. According t ... |
| 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 General | who was a French Union airforce veteran |
| General DeWitt | A report by | and 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 Standartenführer | as 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. Grant | Crusading 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pyrrhus of Epirus | ... mony in Italy came when Tarentum, a major Greek colony, enlisted the aid of | in 281 BC, but this effort failed as well. In the 3rd century BC Rome had ... |
| Colonel Andrew Rollo | ... 758). In the Ile Saint-Jean Campaign (1758) General Jeffery Amherst ordered | to 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henry H. Bingham | Bingham County was created January 13, 1885, and named after | , a congressman from Pennsylvania and friend of William Bunn, Idaho's Terr ... |
| 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 ... |
| von Thielmann | ... chy engaged and defeated the Prussian rearguard under the command of Lt-Gen | in the Battle of Wavre (18–19 June) it was 12 hours too late. In the end, ... |
| Oliver Cromwell | In the wake of the mid 17th century Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, | deported many Irish prisoners of war into slavery or indentured labour in ... |
| Colin Powell | ... nd financial body listed Martin along with United States Secretary of State | and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan as top world leaders |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lü Buwei | A rich merchant in the State of Han, named | , met Master Yiren (公子異人). Lü Buwei's manipulation helped Yiren become Kin ... |
| 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 Giap | In 1972, General | launched 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 later | overran the British, claiming the land for the new and independent country ... |
| Alcibiades | ... various instances been risked, such as in the attempts to kill the Athenian | during the Peloponnesian War. A number of additional examples from World W ... |
| 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 ... |
| Andrew Jackson | ... imply was no popular vote for President in those states. Even in 1824, when | lost in spite of having pluralities of both the popular and electoral vote ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aragorn | ... ver Isengard with Merry and Pippin as Théoden, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, and | arrive 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |