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.

Valley Forge. 1777-8. Training camp of Washington’s Continental Army.

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.

Yamagata Aritomo. 1838-1922. Japanese statesman. Modernized army.