The Handy Military History Answer Book. Samuel Willard Crompton

Abroad

       The French Alliance

       Benedict Arnold’s Treason

       Greene versus Cornwallis

       The Revolution of 1789

       THE NAPOLEONIC ERA: 1800 TO 1815

       Barbary Pirates

       France versus Everyone

       Napoleon’s Zenith

       The Momentous Year

       The American War

       Exile to Elba

       Rockets’ Red Glare

       Napoleon’s Last Gamble

       NATIONALITIES AND GRIM PRACTICALITIES: 1815 TO 1860

       Conservatives and Reactionaries

       New Technologies

       Revolutions, Again

       Far Eastern Wars

       Taiping Rebellion

       Texas Revolution

       U.S.–Mexican War

       Revolutions of 1848

       Crimean War

       Garibaldi’s Revolution

       CIVIL WARS AND IMPERIAL GRABS: 1861 TO 1913

       Union versus Confederacy

       Vicksburg and Gettysburg

       The Last Battles of the U.S. Civil War

       The Rise of Prussia

       Franco–Prussian War

       Overseas Empires

       The American Empire

       The Zulu Wars

       Endof-the-Century Conflicts

       Russo– Japanese War

       Balkan Wars

       THE GREAT WAR: 1914 TO 1918

       The Assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand

       First Battles of World War I

       The Eastern Front

       War at Sea

       Gallipoli

       The Western Front in 1915

       Meat Grinder

       Battle of Jutland

       T.E. Lawrence

       Russia and America

       Americans in Other Armies

       The November Revolution

       Sledgehammer Blows

       Totaling the Losses

       FROM COAL TO OIL: 1919 TO 1939

       The Advent of Oil

       Aircraft Carriers

       The World in Depression

       Natural Resources

       Rise of the Dictators

       Japan and China (361)

       WORLD WAR II: 1939 TO 1945

       Battle of France

       So Many, So Much, So Few

       FDR’s Americans

       Hunt for the Bismarck

       Operation Barbarossa

       Tora, Tora, Tora!

       Germany First

       Battle for North Africa

       Offensive in Russia