Noun1.English Civil War- civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I; 1644-1648 Drogheda- in 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants battle of Marston Moor,Marston Moor- a battle in 1644 in which the Parli...
As Alan Taylor reminds us in his thought-provoking new book, the war that secured the independence of the republic was also, like the Revolutionary War before it, a "civil war," one that pitted neighbors and family members against each other throughout British North America and the United ...
French and Indian War - British Advantages, Victory: William Pitt was the organizer of British victory in North America. In the 1763 treaty, France ceded Canada to Great Britain, gave up claims to land east of the Mississippi River, outside the environs
was engaged in its own war against Britain (seeAnglo-Dutch Wars). From the beginning,sea powerwasvitalin determining the course of the war, lending to British strategy a flexibility that helped compensate for the comparatively small numbers of troops sent to America and ultimately enabling the Fr...
In the summer of 1812, President James Madison chose to go to war against Britain. War in the Chesapeake illustrates the causes for the War of 1812, the political impacts of the war on America, and the war effort in the Chesapeake Bay. The book examines the early war efforts, when both...
It, therefore, required no great feat of mental legerdemain to substitute Germany for Britain in the years before America entered the Second World War. ... Steven,T.,Ross - 《Journal of Military History》 被引量: 0发表: 2003年 Re-Thinking the History of Blame: Britain and Minorities during...
The British communist party's national Jewish committee and the fight against anti‐Semitism during the Second World War. 来自Semantic Scholar 作者Srebrnik,Henry摘要 The Second World War saw an upsurge of anti‐Semitic activity in Great Britain. This provided further opportunity for ... ...
The German Empire seized most of the strategic naval stations of the British Empire, allegedly to prevent a world crisis, but it soon became clear as most of the Empire plunged into rebellion and civil war that the British could not ensure order and the German presence became a permanent occu...
Russia responded to America's decision with fury, formally reducing the threshold at which it could use nuclear weapons - though it has made similar threats at various stages throughout the war when Ukrainian allies have upped their support. ...
“sideshows”) was to continue for most of thewar.David French has argued that the notion of “Easterners” against “Westerners”is in fact “a caricature of reality created by the memoirs and biographies of theparticipants which were published in [the] 1920s and 1930s”; and that “the...