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Abo-Abo Valley 130
Abu Musa al-Zarqawi 179
Abucay 130
Achaea 48
Admin Box, Battle of the 149
Afghan National Army 191
Afghanistan 80–89, 178, 184–93, 194, 198
aircraft 105, 130, 137, 138, 142, 165, 168, 173; bombers 119, 180; fighter planes 119; kamikaze 146; stuka 138
Aisne, River 102, 103
Alamana 49
al-Assad, Hafez 174
Alexander, Tsar 82–83
Alexandria 22, 52
Algeria 20
Algiers 20, 21
Ali Masjid fortress 83
Allebaugh, William 69
al-Qaeda 179, 186
Ambala 57
ambush tactics 94, 123, 139, 146, 159, 189
America 21; South 36–42, 196; see also United States
American Civil War 64, 71, 78; see also Antietam, Battle of; Burnside, Ambrose; Confederates; Hill, D. H.; Jackson, T. J. ‘Stonewall’; Lee, Robert E.; McClellan, George; Seven Days’ Campaign; Union
American Revolutionary War 11, 17, 20
American War of Independence 196
Amir Abdur Rahman 88
Amourgelles 50
Anderson-Morshead, R. H. 102–4, 106–7
Angostura 40
Ansar al-Islam 179, 180
Antietam, Battle of 62–71, 196
anti-tank weapons 118, 122, 183, 192; see also missiles
Aragua de Barcelona, Battle of 39
Arakan 149
Arauca River 41
Arbil 179
Arcis-sur-Aube 32
Arghandab: River 88; Valley 188
Argos 51
Armatoloi 47, 49
armoured vehicles 114, 169, 172, 173, 189; APCs 139, 182; Bradley Fighting Vehicles 183; BRDM Sagger missile carriers 173; see also tanks
Athens 46, 49, 52
Athos, Mount 48
Attica 49, 52
Aube, River 33
Austria 28, 38, 49, 52, 74
Auta River 111
auxiliaries 40, 46, 98; see also Armatoloi
Ayacucho, Battle of 42
Ayn Sifni 180
Ayub Khan 85, 86, 88
Badli-ki-Serai, Battle of 57
Baghdad 102, 179
Bahadur Shah II 56, 61
Bainbridge, William 22
Balkans 46, 47, 48, 53, 82, 83, 136
Baltic states 119
Barbary pirates 20–22, 24
Bar-sur-Aube 31
Bataan Peninsula 126–33, 196, 198
bayonets 29, 58, 69, 75, 77, 84, 105, 106, 130, 147, 152
Bazaine, Achille 74–75, 78
Ben-Hanan, Yossi 172, 174
Berlin 110, 111
Bernadotte, Jean-Baptiste 29
Black Sea 52
Bloemfontein 92
Blücher, Gebhard 29, 30–32
Bnot Ya’akov Bridge 170
Boers 90–99
Bogotá 39–40, 42
Bois des Buttes 100–7, 194, 197
Bolan Pass 86
Bolívar, Simón 36–43, 196
Bolivia 43
Bolsheviks 110, 115, 118
Bomba 23
bombs 106, 138, 180, 187; booby-trap 146, 187; Molotov cocktail 120; petrol 120
Bosphorus 52
Boston 14
Boves, José Tomás 39
Boyacá, Battle of 42
Brandwater Basin 93
Brest-Litovsk fortress 111
Britain 13, 28, 40, 61, 74, 83, 89, 92, 95, 102, 110, 115, 123, 124
Budapest 110
Budyonny, Semyon 111
Bug, River 111
Bukharin, Nikolai 110
Bulgaria 82
Burma 144–54
Burnside, Ambrose 64, 65, 67, 68, 70
Burnside’s Bridge, Battle of 62–71, 196, 198
Cajigal, Juan Manuel 39
Calcutta 82
Camerone, Battle of 72–78, 194, 197
Camp Bastion 188
Campeche 74
cannon 23, 58, 69, 83, 85, 124
Cape Town 96
Caporetto 102
Carabobo, Battle of 42
Caracas 38–39, 41
Cartagena de Indias 39–40
Casanare, Plain of 41
Caucasus 136
Cavagnari, Sir Louis 83
Chalkidiki 48
Chamberlain, Joe 92
Chamberlain, Neville 60
Champagne 102
Champaubert 30
Charles IV of Spain 38
Château-Thierry 30
Chemin des Dames 102
Chile 42
China, People’s Republic of 158
Chindits 148–49
Chindwin, River 148
Chosin Reservoir, retreat from 156–65, 195, 198
Chuikov, Vasily 138
Clichy 33
Clinton, Sir Henry 13–14, 16
close-quarter fighting 159, 163, 193
Cochrane, Thomas 43
Colesburg 96
commandos 92–95, 97–99, 169, 190
Confederates 64–71
Connecticut 14, 68
Constantinople 46–48, 82
Continental Army 15–17
Cordillera Oriental mountain range 41
Corinth, Gulf of 51
Cornwallis, Charles 15–16
Corregidor 129, 132
corsairs see Barbary pirates
counter-insurgency strategy 191
Cox, Jacob D. 67
Craonne 31
Crete 50–51
Crimea 75, 136, 137
Crompton, Samuel 86–87
Dalianis, Hatzimichalis 51
Damascus 168, 174
Dan River 15
Danjou, Jean 75–79
Danube Valley 47
Danubian principalities 47–48
Daramar Gorge 179
Dardanelles 82
Dayan, Moshe 168
Debecka, Battle of 176–83
Decatur, Stephen 22–23, 25, 194, 198
Delaware River 13
Delhi Ridge 54–61, 198
Derna 23–25
Dervenakia 50
Dewetsdorp 96
Dimapur 148–49
Don, River 136–37
Dragashani, Battle of 48
Eaton, William 22–24
Egypt 20, 168
Eleftherohori 49
Emin, Mehmed 49
Enterprise 21
Fabvier, Etienne 32
Faith Jr, Don Carlos 163
Feraios, Rigas 47
Ferdinand VII of Spain 29
Fère-Champenoise, Battle of 33
Finland 116–25, 197
Force Zwicka 170–71, 194
Foreign Legion 74–79
Forey, Élie Frédéric 75
Fort Washington 15
France 13, 20, 28, 34, 38, 52, 74, 100–7, 115, 123, 124, 136, 195
Frangokastello 51
Frederikstadt 95
Freehold 14
Funchilin Pass 158, 165
Galicia 111
Gandamak 83
Germanstown, Battle of 15
Germany 102, 114, 115, 119, 137
Ghazni 87
Gloucester Point 16
Gogo-Cotar, River 130
Golan Heights 166–75, 194, 197–98
Gramvousa 51
Gran Colombia 42–43
Gravia, Battle of 49
Great Game 89
Great Powers 38
Greece: War for Independence 44–53, 197
Greene, Nathanael 14–15
grenades 103–7, 151–53, 163, 192; launcher 179; rocket-propelled (RPGs) 189, 190, 192
Grenoble 34
Gringold, Zwicka 170–71
Grouchy, Emmanuel de 31
guerrilla warfare 13, 34, 53, 92–94, 122, 124, 197
Guildford, Connecticut 14
Guildford Courthouse, Battle of 15
Gulf War 178
guns 15, 16, 22, 29, 31, 50, 58–59, 60, 61, 88, 124, 137, 142, 152, 169, 169, 173, 182, 183; anti-aircraft 162, 180; Bren 151; field 84, 88, 152; howitzers 59, 132, 153; machine guns 95, 103, 105, 123, 131, 140, 141, 153, 164, 169, 170, 180, 182, 189, 193; siege 58; see also muskets; rifles
Gurkhas 56, 57, 61, 88
Hagaru-ri 159, 160, 163–64
Haiti 40, 43
Haller, Józef 113–14
Hamilton, W. R. P. 83
Hanko 124
Harper’s Ferry 65, 70
High explosives (HE) 103, 107, 152, 171
Heilbron 92
Helmand province 187–90
Helsinki 119
Hermon, Mount 168, 169, 174
Herzog, Chaim 173
Hill, A. P. 70
Hill, D. H. 65, 66
Hindu Kush 83
hit-and-run tactics 139
Hitler, Adolf 119, 136, 137
Holy Alliance 52
Homalin 148
Homma, Masaharu 129, 131, 132
Hudson River 15
Hungnam 159, 161, 165
Hushniya 173
Hussein, Saddam 178
Ibrahim Pasha 51
Imphal 148, 149, 150, 154
Improvised explosive device (IEDs) 179, 181, 187
Inchon, Battle of 158
India 13, 20, 54–61, 82, 83, 86, 88, 89, 148, 149, 154
infiltration 130, 147, 151
Intermediate Line 124
Intrepid 22–23
Iran 137, 179
Iraq 136–37, 176–83, 195
irregulars 13, 178, 183
Israel 166–75
Italy 28, 29, 192
Jackson, T. J. ‘Stonewall’ 64–66
Jacmel 40
Jefferson, Thomas 20–21
Jerusalem 46
Johannesburg 92
Jordan, River 168, 170
Joy, Mount 10
Juárez, Benito 74, 78
Junín, Battle of 42
Kabul 80–89, 187, 188, 196
Kalach 142
Kalamata 48
Kandahar 80–89, 188, 196
Karamanli, Hamet 23–24
Karamanli, Yusuf 23–24
Karelian Isthmus 119–21, 123
Karpenisi 50
Kassandra 49
Kelat-i-Ghilzai 87
Khyber Pass 83
Kimberly 92
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies 22
King, Edward 132
Kingsbury, Henry 67–68
Kirkuk 179–80
Kirov 122
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert 94–99
Kleist, Friedrich von 30
klephts 47
Kohima, Battle of 146–54, 195, 198
Kollaa 121
Korea 156–65
Koto-ri 159, 164, 165
Kroonstad 93
Kuki Piquet 152–53
Kunar province 191
Kurdistan 179
La Puerta, Battle of 39
Ladoga, Lake 119–21
Ladysmith 92
Lamon Bay 128
Lashkar Gah 188
League of Nations 123, 124; see also United Nations
Lee, Charles 11, 14
Lee, Robert E. 64–67, 70–71
Lenin, Vladimir 110
Leningrad 118, 136
Liebknecht, Karl 110
Ligny, battle of 34
Lima 42
Lincoln, Abraham 64
Lingayen Gulf 128
llaneros 39, 41
Llanos, River 41
London 13, 110
Long Island 15
Longstreet, James 65
Lorraine 29
Low Countries 136
Lucknow 56
Luftwaffe 141–42
Luxemburg, Rosa 110
Lvov 111
Lytton, Lord 82
MacArthur, Douglas 128–29, 133, 158
McClellan, George 64–65, 67, 68, 70–71
Macedonia 46–49
Mafeking 92
Magaliesberg Range 93–95
Mainila 119
Maiwand 86, 88, 198
Malay Archipelago 128
Malta 20, 82
Mamayev Hill 139
Manchuria 158
Mani 51
Maniaki 51
Manila 129
Mannerheim Line 120–23, 198
Marines 131, 158, 161, 198; British 190, 195; United States 20–24, 165, 190, 191, 195
Marmont, Auguste de 32–33
Marne, River 30–31
Maryland 64–65
Mauban Ridge 130
Maudet, Clément 75, 77
Maunder, Lieutenant 105
Maximilian I 78
Mazatlán 74
Mazyr Group 112, 114
Mediterranean 20, 21
Meerut 56–57
Meir, Golda 168
mercenaries 23–24
Messenia 48, 51
Messolonghi 51
Methoni 51
Mexico 72–78
Mexico City 78
Milan, Francisco de Paula 77–78
Milner, Sir Alfred 92
mines 118, 146, 174, 181, 190; Claymore 191
Minié balls 69
Misery, Mount 10
missiles 180; anti-tank 173, 174, 192; Javelin 182, 183, 189; Katysha 112; surface-to-air 173; Tomahawk 179
Modlin fortress 113
Molotov cocktail see bombs
Montereau 31
Montmirail 30
Morioka, Susumu 130
Morocco 20
mortars 59, 103, 138, 151, 152, 180, 182, 190, 192
Mortier, Édouard 30
Moscow 110, 111, 115, 124, 136
Mosul 180
Mujahideen 60
Munaso Marshes 123
Munich 110
Mupyong-ni 159
Murat, Joachim 29
muskets 16, 28, 58, 61, 75, 84
Mutaguchi, Renya 148
Nafekh 170–71
Naga Village 150, 154
Nagaland 150
Najafgarh, Battle of 58
Nangis 31
Naousa 49
Naples, Kingdom of 29
Napoleon I 20, 38, 194, 195; Six Days’ campaign 28–36
Napoleon III 74, 77
Nasielsk 114
Natib, Mount 130
Naval blockade 21, 74, 133
Navarino 51–52
Nazis 119, 136, 137–39
Nelson, Horatio 25
Nepal 150
Netherlands 28, 29
New Granada, United Provinces of 39, 42
New Jersey 14
New York 13, 66; World Trade Center 186
Ney, Michel 30, 33
Nicholson, John 58, 60, 61
Niemen, River 115
Night attacks 16, 22, 84, 98, 99, 122, 151, 161, 165, 173
O’Bannon, Presley 23–25, 198
Objective Stone 180–81, 192
Ocumare de la Costa 40
Odessa 47
Öhquist, Harald 123
Olsufiev, Zakhar 30
Operation Barbarossa 136
Operation Enduring Freedom 186
Operation Provide Comfort 179
Operation Uranus 142
Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) teams 178–83
Orange Free State 92–93, 98
Orange River 96–97
Orizba 74
Orlov, Alexei 46
Orlovka 141
Oulu 122
Pacific 74, 133
Pacific War 128–29, 132–33, 146, 154
Pakistan 186, 190–92
Pangasinan province 128
Pappas, Emmanouel 48–49
Páramo de Pisba 41
Paris 29–33, 110
Patras 48, 50
patrol bases see platoon houses
Paulus, Friedrich von 137
Pavlov, Yakov 140, 142
Pearl Harbor 128, 129, 133
Peiwar Kotal 83
Peled, Moshe ‘Musa’ 172–73
Peloponnese 47, 48, 51, 52
Pennsylvania 10, 186
Pentagon 186
People’s Volunteer Army (PVA) 158–65
Persia 47; Persian Gulf 137
Peru 43
Peshmerga 178–83
Petra, Battle of 53
Petsamo 119, 122
Philadelphia 10, 11, 13
Philadelphia 22, 25, 194, 198
Philikí Etaireía 47–48
Philippines 126–33
Pichincha, Battle of 42
picquets 58, 94, 150
Piłsudski, Józef 112–15, 197
Platoon Houses 184–93
Plevna 82
Points, Battle of the 132
Poland 108–15, 119, 136
Polish–Soviet War 110
Polygyros 48
Pope, John 64
Pork Mutiny 118
Porter, Fitz John 67
Portugal 38
Potomac River 65
Preble, Edward 21
Press Hill 181, 183
Pretoria 92, 93
Primrose, James 85
Prussia 28, 52
Puebla, Battle of 74, 75, 78
Punjab 58
Pusan Perimeter 158
Qalat see Kelat-i-Ghilzai
Quito 42
Raate Road 122
Radzymin 113–14
Royal Air Force 153, 154
Rafid Gap 168–69
Ramat Magshimim 172
Rangoon 154
Red Army 110, 111, 113
Rentina 49
Rey, Koos de la 93, 99
Rheims 32
Rhenoster River 92
Rhine, River 28–29
Rhode Island 14
Richards, Hugh 151
Richmond, Virginia 64
Riego, Rafael del 42
rifles 56, 84, 96, 105, 122, 151, 152; Kalashnikov 189; Lee-Metford 95; Mauser 95; SA 80 189; sniper 141, 189, 190
Rio Grande 77
Roberts, Frederick 80–89, 92–94, 196, 198
rockets see missiles
Rumeli 47
Russia 28, 38, 52, 82, 83, 89, 102, 110, 111, 134–43; Revolution 118; see also Soviet Union
Russian Civil War 137
Sacken, Dmitri 30
St Priest, Emmanuel 32
Salian, River 130
Salla 123
San Felipe Fort 38
San Lorenzo, Battle of 78
San Martín, José de 42–43
Sangshak 148
Santa Marta 39
Sargat 179
Satō, Kōtoku 148, 154
Schuylkill River 10
Schwarzenberg, Prince see Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg
Sebastopol 75, 137
Second Barbary War 24
Second Manassas, Battle of 64
Seine, River 31
Seven Days’ Campaign 64
Sharpsburg 65, 70
shells 16, 22, 59, 103, 104, 106, 137, 150, 152, 162, 169, 183
Shenandoah Valley 64
Sher Ali 82, 83
Sherpur 84
shock and awe tactics 178
shoot and scoot tactics 189
Simpson, John 182–83
Sinai Desert 168, 174
Singapore, fall of 148
Sinhung-ni 158
Six Day War 168
Six Days’ Campaign 26–35, 195
skirmishes 52, 68, 192
Slabbert’s Pass 93
Slim, Bill 149, 154
Smikhotvorov, General 141
Smuts, Jan 93, 98
Soissons 32
Somers, Richard 22–23, 25
South Africa 90–99
South African War 196
Soviet Union 118, 134–43, 168; see also Russia
Spain 28, 38, 42, 74
Spartacists 110
Spetses 50
Sphacteria 51
Stalin, Josef 111, 118–20, 125
Stalingrad 134–43, 196, 198
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm von 12–13
Stoletov, Nikolai 82–83
Sucre, Antonio José de 42
Suez Canal 168, 174
Summa 123
Suomussalmi 122
surprise tactics 10, 60, 75, 99, 142, 168, 174
Sweden 28, 29, 124
Schwarzenberg, Prince of 29–32
Syria 168, 174
Taebaek Mountains 158
Taipale 121, 124
Taliban 186–94
Tamaulipas 75
Tampico 75
tanks 114, 119, 120, 122, 123, 129, 137, 139, 153, 168, 169, 170–74; Centurion 169; M1A1 183; M60 169; panzer 141–42; Sherman 161; T-34 138; T-55 182; T-62 169; ZSU-57-2 182; see also armoured vehicles
Task Force Viking 178, 180
Tayabas 128
Tel Faris 173
Tel Kudne 173
Tel Shams 174
Theron, Danie 94
Thessalonika 48
Thessaly 57
Thrace 48
Tindal, Lieutenant 104–6
Tōjō, Hideki 147
Toktong Pass 160, 161, 198
Tokyo 147
Tolvajärvi 120
Tora Bora 186
Transvaal 92– 93
Treadway Bridge 165
trenches 15–16, 99, 102, 103, 104, 106, 111, 120, 123, 146, 152, 169, 197
Trenton, Battle of 15
Tripoli 20–24
Tripolitsa 48
Trotsky, Leon 110
Tukhachevsky, General 111, 112, 114–15
Tunis 20
Tuol, River 130
Turkey 50, 52
U Go Offensive 148
Ukraine 111, 136
Union 64–71, 196, 198
United Kingdom 38, 186
United Nations 158, 159, 161, 164–65, 174, 187, 195; see also League of Nations
United States 20, 77, 102, 158, 168, 186, 192; see also America
Vaal River 93
Valley Forge 10–13, 15, 16, 17, 196
Vargas Swamp, Battle of 42
Vauchamps 30
vehicles: Advanced Operating Bases 178; all-terrain (ATVs) 178, 179; civilian 178; GMVs 178; see also armoured vehicles
Venezuela 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 196
Veracruz 74–75
Vereeniging 92
Vienna 46
Viipuri 119, 123, 124
Vilain, Jean 76–77
Virginia Peninsula 64
Vistula, River 112, 115
Volga, River 137, 138, 141, 142
Vrioni, Omer 49
Wanat 191
War Plan Orange-3 129
Warsaw, Battle of 108–15, 197
Washington, DC 64, 186
Washington, George 8–16
Waterloo 34
Waygul Valley 191
Wellington, Duke of 28, 34
Wet, Christiaan de 90–99, 197
White Marsh, Battle of 10
Whitman, George 69
Wieprz, River 112
Wilson, Archdale 60
Winter War 116–25
Wintzingerode, Ferdinand von 31
Wittgenstein, Peter 31
Włodawa 114
Wonsan 158
Württemberg, Prince of 31
Xalapa 75
Yakub Khan 83–84
Yalu, River 158
Yeryomenko, Andrei 138
Yom Kippur War 168–75
Yorck, Ludwig 30, 32
York River 16
Yorktown 8–17, 196
Ypres 103
Ypsilantis, Alexander 47–48
Yudam-ni 158–62
Yusuf Bey 48
Zaragoza, Ignacio 74
Zurqah Ziraw Dagh Ridge 180