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An outline of British military history, 1660–1936 (1936). online; Dupuy, R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present (1993). Fortescue, John William. History of the British Army from the Norman Conquest to the First World War (1899–1930), in 13 volumes with six separate map volumes.
The Conquerors is history documentary television series that looks at famous leaders, such as Cortés, Andrew Jackson and others, and shows how they rose to prominence and vanquished enemies on the field.
At the beginning of the war, fifty thousand Englishmen inhabited some twenty colonies in the Americas.Most of the colonies were founded in the decade prior to the start of the English Civil War (1642–1651) with the oldest existing being the Colony of Virginia (1607) and its offshoot, Bermuda (1609).
A Spanish fleet, commanded by Admiral Antonio de Oquendo, was decisively defeated by a Dutch force under Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp. Victory ended Spanish efforts to re-assert naval control over the English Channel and confirmed Dutch dominance of the sea lanes, while it is also alleged to be the first major action to feature line of ...
Conquest of America is a 4-part television documentary miniseries produced by History Channel and premiered on March 28, 2005. The show documents the adventures of various European explorers who were key figures in the colonization of the Americas.
The Anglo–Dutch Wars (Dutch: Engels–Nederlandse Oorlogen) were mainly fought between the Dutch Republic (of continental Western Europe) and the Kingdom of England (later Kingdom of Great Britain on the off-shore island of Great Britain) in the mid-17th and late 18th century.
This war broke out in 1585 and was fought not only in the European theatre but in Spain's American colonies. After emerging from six years of disgrace following the resounding defeat of the English Armada at Lisbon in 1589, Francis Drake embarked on a long and disastrous campaign against the Spanish Main, suffering several consecutive defeats ...
One interpretation, especially in Canada, is that of a British or Canadian win and an American defeat. [9] Another leading interpretation, held mainly in the United States, is that of an American win. [10] In a 2012 interview at The Christian Science Monitor, Donald R. Hickey said: "By my count, we lost the War of 1812 and we lost Vietnam. That ...