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Cromwell, Oliver --- Great Britain --- History --- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 --- Heads of state --- Biography --- Generals --- Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658. --- Great Britain - History - Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660. --- Heads of state - Great Britain - Biography. --- Generals - Great Britain - Biography.
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Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- History --- Histoire --- Politicians --- Generals --- Biography --- Ludlow, Edmund, --- Great Britain. --- Politicians - Great Britain - Biography --- Generals - Great Britain - Biography --- Ludlow, Edmund, - 1617?-1692 --- Great Britain - History - Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660
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Generals --- Biography --- Wilson, Robert Thomas, --- Great Britain --- -Armed Forces --- Officers --- Wilson, Robert Thomas Sir --- Great Britain. Army --- -Biography --- Wilson, R. T. --- Great Britain. --- Angliǐskai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡ --- Tsava ha-Briṭi --- British Army --- בריטניה. --- צבא הבריטי --- Biography. --- England and Wales. --- Generals - Great Britain - Biography --- Wilson, Robert Thomas, - Sir, - 1777-1849
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Governors general --- Generals --- Biography. --- -Governors general --- -Colonial administrators --- Governors --- Armed Forces --- Biography --- Officers --- Wingate, F. R. Sir --- Great Britain. Army --- -Officers --- -Biography --- Egypt --- Sudan --- History --- -History --- -Generals --- Colonial administrators --- Wingate, F. R. --- Wingate, Francis Reginald, --- Wingate, Reginald, --- Great Britain. --- Angliǐskai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡ --- Tsava ha-Briṭi --- British Army --- בריטניה. --- צבא הבריטי --- England and Wales. --- Governors general - Sudan - Biography. --- Generals - Great Britain - Biography
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Heads of state --- Generals --- Biography. --- Chefs d'Etat --- Généraux --- Biographie --- Cromwell, Oliver, --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- History --- Histoire --- Cromwell, Oliver --- Biography --- Cromwel, Oliver --- Heads of state - Great Britain - Biography. --- Generals - Great Britain - Biography --- Généraux --- Chefs d'État --- Biographies. --- Chefs d'État
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Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, lives on in popular memory as the "Invincible General," loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate-and controversial-new analysis of Wellington's remarkable military career. Unlike his nemesis Napoleon, Wellington was by no means a man of innate military talent, Huw J. Davies argues. Instead, the key to Wellington's military success was an exceptionally keen understanding of the relationship between politics and war. Drawing on extensive primary research, Davies discusses Wellington's military apprenticeship in India, where he learned through mistakes as well as successes how to plan campaigns, organize and use intelligence, and negotiate with allies. In India Wellington encountered the constant political machinations of indigenous powers, and it was there that he apprenticed in the crucial skill of balancing conflicting political priorities. In later campaigns and battles, including the Peninsular War and Waterloo, Wellington's genius for strategy, operations, and tactics emerged. For his success in the art of war, he came to rely on his art as a politician and tactician. This strikingly original book shows how Wellington made even unlikely victories possible-with a well-honed political brilliance that underpinned all of his military achievements.
Wellington, of, Arthur Wellesley --- Generals --- Prime ministers --- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, --- Duke of Wellington, --- Wellesley, Arthur, --- Wesley, Arthur, --- Wellington, Arthur Welleslei v., --- Welleslei v. Wellington, Arthur, --- Welleslei von Wellington, Arthur, --- Military leadership. --- Great Britain --- History, Military --- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, -- Duke of, -- 1769-1852 -- Military leadership.. --- Generals -- Great Britain -- Biography.. --- Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography.. --- Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1789-1820.
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John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough, was one of the two greatest military commanders in British history and the first subject to achieve and exercise a dominating influence in European affairs. With Wellington and Nelson he is the nearest that Britain has had to a national hero, yet today his reputation has faded. Few, apart from specialists in military history, have any appreciation of the extent of his achievements. This new study sets Marlborough's career in its contexts: the royal Court of the last Stuart monarchs, the desperate struggle against French attempts to establish hegemony in western Europe and the bitter political strife in Britain between the Whig and the Tory parties. It examines the opportunistic ways in which John Churchill rose from obscurity and poverty to wealth and greatness, his decisive role in the Revolution of 1688 and the circumstances and reasons for his dramatic fall.
Statesmen --- Generals --- Biography --- Marlborough, John Churchill, --- Great Britain --- History --- Court and courtiers --- Arts and Humanities --- Statesmen - Great Britain - Biography --- Generals - Great Britain - Biography --- Marlborough, John Churchill, - Duke of, - 1650-1722 --- Great Britain - History - Stuarts, 1603-1714 - Biography --- Great Britain - Court and courtiers - Biography --- Churchill, John, --- Churchill, --- Malborough, --- Marlborough,
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For years, Douglas Haig has been considered perhaps the most controversial military leader in British history. Today his career is at the center of a swirling historiographical debate concerning the nature of the First World War. The traditional school contends that Haig, like the majority of generals from both sides, were overmatched, hidebound relics of a bygone military age who could not come to grips with modern war. They allegedly sent their soldiers "over the top" in waves, with a criminal disregard for the mounting cost in lives. A new revisionist school contends that many Great War lea
Generals -- Great Britain -- Biography. --- Haig, Douglas, Sir, 1861-1928. --- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns. --- Generals --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Great Britain --- Campaigns --- European War, 1914-1918 --- First World War, 1914-1918 --- Great War, 1914-1918 --- World War 1, 1914-1918 --- World War I, 1914-1918 --- World War One, 1914-1918 --- WW I (World War, 1914-1918) --- WWI (World War, 1914-1918) --- Campaigns. --- Battles, sieges, etc. --- Military operations --- Haig, Douglas Haig,
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