Spencer Tucker - 500 Great Military Leaders, 2 Volumes

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500 great military leaders / Spencer C. Tucker, editor.
pages cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-59884-757-4 (alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-59884-758-1 (ebook) 1. Military biography. 2. GeneralsBiography. I. Tucker, Spencer, 1937 editor. II. Title: Five hundred great military leaders.
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About the Editor

Spencer C. Tucker, PhD, has been senior fellow in military history at ABC-CLIO since 2003. He is the author or editor of 50 books and encyclopedias, many of which have won prestigious awards. Tuckers last academic position before his retirement from teaching was the John Biggs Chair in Military History at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. He has been a Fulbright scholar, a visiting research associate at the Smithsonian Institution, and, as a U.S. Army captain, an intelligence analyst in the Pentagon. His recent published works, all published by ABC-CLIO, include American Civil War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection; The Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Early American Republic, 17831812: A Political, Social, and Military History; and World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection.

Contents

VOLUME ONE

VOLUME TWO

List of Entries

Abbas I the Great (15711629)

Abd al-Qadir (18081883)

Abd el-Krim al-Khattabi, Muhammad ibn (18821963)

Abrams, Creighton Williams, Jr. (19141974)

Aetius, Flavius (395454)

Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius (ca. 6312 BCE)

Akbar the Great (15421605)

Alanbrooke, Sir Alan Francis Brooke, First Viscount (18831963)

Alaric I (ca. 365December 410)

Alba, Fernando lvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, Third Duke of (15071582)

Albrecht Friedrich Rudolf Dominik, Second Duke of Teschen and Archduke of Austria (18171895)

Alcibiades (450404 BCE)

Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George (18911969)

Alexander III, King of Macedonia (356323 BCE)

Alexius I Comnenus (10481118)

Allenby, Sir Edmund Henry Hynman (18611936)

Anson, George (16971762)

Ardant du Picq, Charles Jean Jacques Joseph (18211870)

Arminius (17 BCE21 CE)

Arnold, Benedict (17411801)

Arnold, Henry Harley (18861950)

Ashurbanipal (ca. 693627 BCE)

Atatrk (18811938)

Attila (ca. 406453)

Augustus, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (63 BCE14 CE)

Babur, Zahir ud-din Muhammad (14831530)

Badoglio, Pietro (18711956)

Bagration, Peter Ivanovich (17651812)

Bai Chongxi (18931966)

Bajan (?609)

Balck, Hermann (18931982)

Baldwin, Frank Dwight (18421923)

Banr, Johan (15961641)

Barbarossa (ca. 14831546)

Barclay de Tolly, Mikhail Bogdanovich, Prince (17611818)

Barry, John (17451803)

Bart, Jean (16501702)

Basil II Bulgaroctonus (9581025)

Bayerlein, Fritz (18991970)

Bazaine, Achille Franois (18111888)

Bazn, lvaro de, First Marquis de Santa Cruz (15261588)

Beatty, David, First Earl of the North Sea (18711936)

Beauharnais, Eugne de, Viceroy of Italy (17811824)

Beck, Ludwig (18801944)

Belisarius (ca. 505565)

Benedek, Ritter Ludwig August von (18041881)

Bennigsen, Levin August Theophil (17451826)

Bernadotte, Jean Baptiste Jules (17631844)

Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (16041639)

Berthier, Louis Alexandre (17531815)

Berwick, James FitzJames, First Duke of (16701734)

Bismarck, Otto Edward Leopold von (18151898)

Blake, Robert (15991657)

Blcher, Gebhard Leberecht von (17421819)

Boelcke, Oswald (18911917)

Bolvar, Simn (17831830)

Boroevi von Bojna, Svetozar (18561920)

Botha, Louis (18621919)

Boudica, Queen (?60 or 61 CE)

Boufflers, Louis Franois, Duc de (16441711)

Bradley, Omar Nelson (18931981)

Bragg, Braxton (18171876)

Brock, Sir Isaac (17691812)

Brown, Jacob Jennings (17751828)

Bruchmller, Georg (18631948)

Brusilov, Aleksei Alekseyevich (18531926)

Buchanan, Franklin (18001874)

Bugeaud de la Piconnerie, Thomas Robert, Duc dIsly (17841849)

Burgoyne, John (17221792)

Burke, Arleigh Albert (19011996)

Byng, Sir Julian Hedworth George (18621935)

Cadorna, Luigi (18501928)

Caesar, Gaius Julius (10044 BCE)

Carmagnola, Francesco Bussone, Count of (ca. 13851432)

Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite (17531823)

Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence (18281914)

Chandragupta Maurya (ca. 340286 BCE)

Charlemagne (741?814)

Charles, Archduke of Austria and Duke of Teschen (17711847)

Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (16431690)

Charles XII, King of Sweden (16821718)

Charles Martel (689741)

Chennault, Claire Lee (18931958)

Chen Yi (19011972)

Christian IV, King of Denmark (15771648)

Chuikov, Vasily Ivanovich (19001982)

Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (18741965)

Cincinnatus, Lucius Quinctius (ca. 519 BCEca. 430 BCE)

Clark, Mark Wayne (18961984)

Clausewitz, Carl Philipp Gottfried von (17801831)

Clay, Lucius DuBignon (18971978)

Cleburne, Patrick Ronayne (18281864)

Clemenceau, Georges (18411929)

Clinton, Sir Henry (17301795)

Clive, Robert (17251774)

Cochrane, Thomas, 10th Earl of Dundonald (17751860)

Colbert, Jean Baptiste de Seignelay (16191683)

Coligny, Gaspard de (15191572)

Collins, Joseph Lawton (18961987)

Collins, Michael (18901922)

Cond, Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de (16211686)

Conner, Fox (18741951)

Conrad von Htzendorf, Franz (18521925)

Constantine I (ca. 277337)

Crdoba, Gonzalo Fernndez, Conde de (14531515)

Cornwallis, Charles (17381805)

Corts, Hernn (ca. 14851547)

Cromwell, Oliver (15991658)

Cunningham, Sir Andrew Browne (18831963)

Currie, Sir Arthur William (18751933)

Custer, George Armstrong (18391876)

Cyrus the Great (ca. 601530 BCE)

Darius I the Great (ca. 549486 BCE)

Davout, Louis Nicolas (17701823)

Dayan, Moshe (19151981)

Decatur, Stephen, Jr. (17791820)

de Gaulle, Charles Andr Marie Joseph (18901970)

Devers, Jacob Loucks (18871979)

Dewey, George (18371917)

Diaz, Armando Vittorio (18611928)

Diocletian (ca. 244311)

Dionysius the Elder (ca. 430367 BCE)

Dnitz, Karl (18911980)