Articles related to "Major General"

Guide to the characters, plot, and history of The Pirates of Penzance, an operetta by the English comic opera writers Gilbert & Sullivan.

Major General Isaac Brock, who led the British to early victories during the War of 1812, is one of the best known military officers in Canadian history.

In late World War II, the young & inexperienced 75th Infantry Division rushed to help defend against the Ardennes Offensive; the Diaper Division became the Bulgebusters.

British General John Burgoyne's military career is most noted in the US for his surrender to the American army at Saratoga, bringing France into the American Revolution.

Outside of Rostrevor in County Down in Northern Ireland, there is a 100-foot granite obelisk erected in memory of the last General to defeat American forces on US soil.

The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 started with the last stand of a force of Belgian UN Peacekeepers in Kigali who fought to the end in an impossible situation.

The year 1861 was not a good one for Union forces trying to put the two pieces of the United States back together.

Charles Lee is one of the more fascinating, eccentric, and forgotten characters to have taken part in the American Revolutionary War.

IRGC top brass in the Middle East continue their contingency tests to counter a foreign attack against Iran's nuclear facilities and key infrastructure.

The Emancipation Proclamation was signed into law on January 1, 1863. Texas African Americans were still in slavery. There were no Union Troops there to enforce the law.

Loved by his men, admired by his peers, hard-fighting Cleburne was passed over for Army command for his unpalatable views on arming slaves to fight for the South.

Early in the war of 1812, an American invasion of Canada is halted in a small village on the Niagara frontier, by British soldiers, Canadian militia, and Indian warriors.

In 1944, Paris was occupied and slated for destruction, but the German Governer in charge refused to carry out Hitler's insane orders, General Dietrich von Choltitz

MILITEC-1, a "dry" metal lubricant that is standard issue for the DEA, FBI, and Secret Service is being denied to military personnel.

On the morning of June 6, 1944, 20,000 Canadian soldiers, sailors and airmen would launch their D-Day assault on the Normandy coast.

By the simple act of moving a briefcase Heinz Brandt saved the life of one of the most despised men in history.

Japanese troops, assisted by the British, French and Americans, occupied the Russian far east for several years during the Russian Civil War.

South Korea's most famous dissident & first liberal president since Gen. Park Chung-hee took power in a 1962 Coup d' etat, quietly passed away from pneumonia in Seoul.

The Battle of Queenston Heights was one of the first major engagements of the War of 1812 and took place on October 13, 1812, near Queenston, Ontario.

Jackson challenged at least three men to duels before he was forty years old, with the purpose of building and protecting his reputation on the cutthroat frontier.

An introduction to the Ghaznavid Dynasty and its greatest rulers, Sebuktigin and Mahmud.

The last of the log-cabin presidents, James Garfield attacked political corruption and returned a measure of prestige to the White House

President Hayes won one of the most fiercely contested elections in American history. Hayes brought dignity, honesty and moderate reform to the White House.

Baron von Steuben trained soldiers at Valley Forge during the American Revolution and enacted important regulations for the training and maintaining of the American Army.

General Burnside was an American Civil War officer and popular Rhode Island politician who invented a new type of rifle and had a men's whiskers style named after him.

The 26th Division's 102nd and 104th Infantry faced a sudden assault by a large force of elite German Stormtroopers.

A major victory for the British and Canadians in the War of 1812, the Battle of Crysler's Farm prevented the Americans from capturing Montreal and eastern Upper Canada.

It was December 1776. New York City had fallen to the British and the Continentals were in retreat. As winter closed in, the end of the glorious cause seemed imminent.

The First Boer War consisted of just three major battles: Laing's Nek, Schuinshoogte, and Majuba. All three proved to be humiliating defeats for the overconfident British

Thousands of Missourians of Southern heritage joined the Missouri State Guard in 1861 to fight against Union forces.

One might be surprised to find who is not on this list which includes George C. Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry "Hap" Arnold and Omar N. Bradley.

Sixty-five years ago, June 6, 1944, the British, Americans and Canadians began Operation Overlord, a critical offensive attack to turn the advantage to the Allies in WW2.

Late in the administration of President Johnson, General Ulysses S Grant argued with the President and in doing so; found himself aligned with the Radical Republicans.

The Marquis de Lafayette volunteered in the American Revolution, befriended George Washington, protected the French royal family and was Napoleon's adversary.

Here are a select few foreigners who helped establish the Unites States of America during the Revolutionary War. Some names are recognizable. Several more should be!

Archibald Gracie, Jr. was from a prominent New York City family that owned cotton interests in Mobile, AL. He attended West Point when Robert E. Lee was commandant.

Mansfield Lovell was a West Point educated engineer whose career as a Confederate general was tarnished by losing the port city of New Orleans to Admiral David Farragut.

Henry Morgan was perhaps the most successful buccaneer. Here we explore some of his adventures and the man behind the myth.

Henry Wolcott, a comfortable English squire, left England for America in 1630 with a group of Puritans seeking religious freedom.

Somali pirates operating in the Gulf of Aden have proved there is no target too big or too small as the latest attack on a luxury cruise liner come to surface.

Soon after its discovery in 1837, the Sarcophagus of Menkaura was lost when the ship carrying it, the Beatrice, disappeared in or near the Mediterranean.

Robert E. Lee served the Confederate States of America with honor and devotion, but his career began with the United States Army.

The Thugs strangled hundreds, thousands and perhaps even millions of Indians during their reign of terror. Many myths surround them - here are the main ones.

The US Marine Corps used horses often over the course of their service. The golden age of these Horse Marines was 1909-1938.

President Lincoln's most famous speech of 10 poetic sentences was at first received along partisan lines, but it is now regarded as one of the best in American history.

Runners in the nation's capital will find this scenic route full of monuments and history.

Alexander Hamilton's Federalists and Thomas Jefferson's Republicans fought bitterly over the morality and legality of a national banking system. Now it's being reexamined

General Mark Clark served in the United States Army over 36 years. He commanded forces in Northern Africa and Italy during WWII. In April of 1952, he succeeded General Ma

Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, best known for setting the bomb that nearly killed Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944, is considered one of Germany's 20th-century heroes.

Unable to resist the Union war machine, Jefferson Davis devised a covert operation to fracture the alliance of Northern states and preserve Southern independence.