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76 matches to Continental Army
New Model Army. 1645. English parliamentary army replaced private armies. Won Civil War.
Northern Ireland. Ireland. 17C Protestants settle. 1801 United Kingdom. 1920 Ireland divided. 1922 Civil War. 1922 Direct rule. IRA.
Olaf V. 1903-91 King of Norway 1957-. Commanded army vs Germany in 1944, then fled to England.
Pahlavi, Reza Shah. 1877-1944. Army officer. Led coup over Kajar dynasty 1925. Shah of Iran 1925-41.
Peter the Hermit. 1050-1115. French. Led ill-equipped army in First Crusade.
Picquigney, Truce. 1475. France pays England to withdraw army.
Puebla, Battles. 1862 Mexican guerillas humiliate French army. “Cinco de Mayo”. 1863 French victorious, Maximilian.
Reforma. 1854-76. Mexican civil war. Ouster of Santa Anna. Reduced power of army, church. Tejada Law. Juárez.
Rights, Bill of. 1689. Established power of British Parliament over taxes, laws, army. Protestant Succession. William and Mary.
Royal Scots Guards. 1633. Oldest regular regiment in British Army.
Russian Civil War. 1918-22. Trotsky’s Red Army defeat White counter-revolutionaries. Baltic liberated.
Salvation Army. 1865. Booth Christian charitable organization. Named 1878.
Scharnhorst, Gerhard von. 1755-1813. Prussian general, reorganized army. General staff system.
Seeckt, Hans von. 1866-1936. German general. Secretly rebuilt army after WWI.
Sinn Fein. 1905. (=Ourselves Alone). Irish Nationalist movement. 1916 uprising. Founded Irish Free State. Legalized as political party in Northern Ireland, 1974. Political wing of IRA. De Valera.
Steuben, Baron von. 1730-94. Prussian general. Trained, organized American Revolution army 1778-.
Ten Thousand Immortals. Core of Achaemenid army.
Terrorism. Zealots. Cagoulards. Baader-Meinhof. Irish Republican Army. Hamas. PLO. Osama. Taliban. al-Qaeda.
Tiananmen (Tienanmen) Square. 1989 student demonstrations for increased freedom crushed by Chinese army.
Trotsky. Lev Bronstein. 1879-1940. Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, with Lenin anti-Stalin. “Worldwide Permanent Revolution”-socialism in Russia requires revolution everywhere. Favoured International Communism over Stalin’s Russian nationalism. Organized First Soviet 1905. Twice banished to Siberia by Czar. 1918 War Commissar...Red Army. Banished by Stalin 1929. Murdered in exile in Mexico.
Uncle Sam. Personification of US government first appeared in Troy Post based on “Uncle” Sam Wilson who supplied army beef stamped US 1813.
Warsaw Uprising. 1830-1. Czartoryski attempt to oust Russians crushed. 1944. Polish underground army defeats Germans but Soviet delay allows German reinforcements to defeat Poles, destroying potential opposition to later Soviet control.
Wattignies, Battle. 1793. Inexperienced French army defeats professional Austrians. French Revolution.
White Volunteer Army. 1917-18. Unsuccessfully opposed Bolsheviks.
Wyoming Massacre. 1778. British Loyalists, Indians attack American settlement while men away in Washington’s army. 360 women, children killed.