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Heinz Guderian
Heinz Guderian General Heinz Guderian (1888-1953) is responsible for developing the concept of blitzkrieg, or fast-moving mechanized warfare, which propelled the German army to early victories in World War II. Apassionate military leader and strategist, Heinz Wilhelm Guderian revolutionized... Read more |
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Battle of Catterick
Catterick, battle of, 6th cent. Aneurin's poem Gododdin relates how the North Britons from Edinburgh were defeated at Catterick by the men of Bernicia and Deira. He attributed their downfall to an immoderate consumption of mead. The battle was probably in the late 6th cent. It has been suggested... Read more |
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Oscar Robertson
Oscar Robertson 1938-, U.S. basketball player, b. Charlotte, Tenn. Passionately devoted to basketball as a youth, Robertson led his high school team to 45 consecutive victories. After an athletically brilliant college career at the Univ. of Cincinnati, Robertson, known as the "Big O," joined... Read more |
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Victory of Samothrace
Victory of Samothrace. Celebrated larger-than-life Greek marble statue (Louvre, Paris) representing winged Victory (Nike) alighting on the bows of a galley. The figure, discovered on the Greek island of Samothrace in 1863, is lithely outstretched and draped with magnificent swirls. It was erected... Read more |
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Battle of Prestonpans
Prestonpans, battle of, 1745. Charles Edward Stuart's first and critically important victory in the '45 rising was gained on 21 September at Prestonpans, on the coast east of Edinburgh. The Hanoverian army of some 2,300 men, under the command of Sir John Cope, had been ferried from Inverness to... Read more |
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Chaiyaphum
Chaiyaphum, Thailand ‘Site of Victory’ from phum ‘site’ and chai‐ya ‘victory’ to mark the victory of the town's first governor, Pho Khum Lae, over an invading army during the reign of Rama III (1788–1851), King of Siam (1824–51).... Read more |
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Douglas Haig
Douglas Haig The British general Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928), commanded British forces on the Western front in Europe during World War I. He is credited with the final British victories over the German armies in 1918. Douglas Haig was born on June 19, 1861, in Edinburgh,... Read more |
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Mary of Gueldres
Mary of Gueldres (d. 1463), queen of James II of Scotland. Daughter of Duke Arnold of Gueldres and niece of Philip the Good of Burgundy, Mary became James's queen in July 1449, and bore him at least seven children, of whom five survived—Mary, James (later James III), Alexander... Read more |
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Victory
Victory. Although it can denote simply success in a single engagement or operation, victory is one of the most basic yet elusive concepts in military thought when applied to war. American experience reaffirms Carl von Clausewitz's argument in On War (1832) that victory in the broader sense results... Read more |
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Edinburgh sting Wasps as Ospreys hang on against Stade
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