Laocoön. Trojan priest, distrusted Trojan Horse. Killed with sons by serpents.

Latin Wars. 340-338BC. Rome conquers Latium.

Laudon, Gideon. 1717-90. Estonian/Austrian Hapsburg field marshal in Seven Years War.

Laurier, Wilfrid. 1841-1919. First French-Canadian Prime Minister 1896-1911. Liberal. Boer War.

Lausanne, Treaty. 1912. Turkey cedes Tripoli to Italy after Italo-Turkish War. 1932. Ended German WWI reparations despite US rejection.

Lawrence, James. 1781-1813. US naval commander in War of 1812. -“Don’t give up the ship!”

Lear, Edward. 1812-88. 1846 Book of Nonsense popularized limericks.

Lebanese War. 1978-82. Israeli invasions vs PLO, Syria.

Lettres de Cachet. 16C-1789. French royal warrants for arrest. Often political. Bastille.

Leutze, Emanuel. 1816-68. US painter. Washington Crossing the Delaware 1851.

Lewes, Battle. 1264. English barons capture Henry III and Prince Edward, force concessions.

Lexington and Concord, Battle. 1775. First American Revolution battle. British march on Concord supply depot. Established guerilla warfare as colonist strategy. 273 British, 95 Americans killed. Paul Revere.

L’Hôpital, Michel de. 1505-73. French statesman, urged tolerance during the Wars of Religion.

Livonian War. 1558-83. Russia fails to conquer Livonia for access to Baltic.

Lloyd George, David. 1863-1945. British Liberal Prime Minister,1916-22. Unemployment insurance. Irish Free State. War cabinet, 1916.

Lloyd’s. English insurance society created in Edward Lloyd’s Coffee House 1688.

Llwelyn. Welsh prince, 1246-82. With Montfort in Barons War.

London Declaration. 1909. Proposed rules for naval warfare. Not ratified.

Louis XII. Father of the People. 1462-1515. French King 1498-. Italian Wars.

Louvois, Marquis de. 1639-91. Louis XIV War Minister. Reformed army. Enforced Nantes revocation. Supervised construction of Invalides, Vendôme.

Ludlow, Battle. 1459. War of Roses. York, Warwick routed by Lancastrians.

Lundy’s Lane, Battle. 1814. Canada defeats US invasion. War of 1812.

Lunéville, Treaty. 1801. Austria quit French Revolutionary War. Pope Pius VII restored.

Lycurgus. c390-324BC.Led short revival of Athens after Peloponnesian War.

Lysander. -395BC. Spartan admiral. Captured Athens 404BC. Ended Peloponnesian War.

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