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.

Salimbene di Adam. 1221-90. Parmese chronicler of 13C life.

SALT. US-USSR Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. 1969-79. Agreement 1972. 1979 agreement not ratified by US Senate.

Salvation Army. 1865. Booth Christian charitable organization. Named 1878.

Sarmations. 4C BC-4C. Association of Iranian tribes in SW Russia, Balkans.

Sarmiento, Domingo. 1811-88. First civilian Argentine president. 1868-74.

Scarlatti, Alessandro. 1660-1725. Italian composer of oratorios and operas. Neapolitan School. Influenced classical harmony.

Scharnhorst, Gerhard von. 1755-1813. Prussian general, reorganized army. General staff system.

Seeckt, Hans von. 1866-1936. German general. Secretly rebuilt army after WWI.

Shapur II. 309-379. Persian king. Halted Roman invasion. Acquired Armenia.

Shays, Daniel. c1747-1825. Led Massachussets farmers in rebellion 1786-7 for lower taxes. Defeated.

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.

Siva. 4 armed 3 eyed Hindu god of destruction and restoration.

Spanish Armada. 1588. English support Dutch Revolt. Philip II sends 129 ships against England. Howard, Drake, Hawkins, with 197 ships, chase the armada from English Channel, thanks to a NW gale. Spain declines as naval power. Wars of Religion.

Steuben, Baron von. 1730-94. Prussian general. Trained, organized American Revolution army 1778-.

Stresa Conference. 1935. Britain-France-Italy “front” vs German rearmament.

Suttner, Baroness von. 1843-1914. Austrian pacifist writer. Lay Down your Arms 1889.

Symbolists. 19C French literary movement expressing truth subjectively by symbols. Spread to art, music. Verlaine. Mallarmé. Munch.

Tannenberg, Battle. 1410. Victory of Poles and Lithuanians ends Teutonic Knights’ expansion. 1914. Germans rout 2 Russian armies, crippling them for rest of WWI.

Ten Thousand Immortals. Core of Achaemenid army.

Teresa, St. 1515-82. Spanish Carmelite religious reformer.

Terrorism. Zealots. Cagoulards. Baader-Meinhof. Irish Republican Army. Hamas. PLO. Osama. Taliban. al-Qaeda.

Teutoburg Forest, Battle. 9. Arminius halts Roman conquest of Germany.

Tiananmen (Tienanmen) Square. 1989 student demonstrations for increased freedom crushed by Chinese army.

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