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List of wars in the Low Countries until 1560; List of wars in the southern Low Countries (1560–1829) ... An extensive list of important battles and influential ...
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (29 September [O.S. 18 September] 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a Royal Navy officer whose inspirational leadership, grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics brought about a number of decisive British naval victories during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
The Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife was an amphibious assault by the Royal Navy on the Spanish port city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands.Launched by Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson on 22 July 1797, the assault was defeated, and on 25 July the remains of the landing party withdrew under a truce, having lost several hundred men.
The plan was revealed to one of Nelson’s favourite captains, Richard Goodwin Keats, in an animated conversation while the two were walking in Nelson’s garden at Merton just weeks earlier. [4] [5] It did have a drawback. Only the front of the attacking column could engage. Nelson's 27 ships-of-the-line would attack in two columns.
List of battles of the War of the Second Coalition (1798/9 – 1801/2); see Battle of Feldkirch; List of battles of the War of the Third Coalition (1803/1805–1805/1806); see "Front: Austria" List of battles of the War of the Fifth Coalition (10 April – 14 October 1809); see "Front: Austria" List of battles of the War of the Sixth Coalition ...
The Low Countries in 1560. Habsburg Netherlands Prince-Bishopric of Liège Principality of Stavelot-Malmedy Prince-Bishopric of Cambrésis This is a list of wars that occurred in the Low Countries until 1560. For subsequent wars in the north, see List of wars involving the Dutch Republic (1560–1795) and List of wars involving the Netherlands (1795–present). For subsequent wars in the south ...
List of conflicts in North America. List of conflicts in the United States; List of conflicts in Central America; List of conflicts in South America; List of conflicts in Europe; List of conflicts in Asia. List of wars involving Iran; List of Chinese wars and battles; Conflicts in the Middle East. List of conflicts in the Near East (until 1918)
An invasion is a military offensive in which sizable number of combatants of one geopolitical entity aggressively enter territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objectives of establishing or re-establishing control, retaliation for real or perceived actions, liberation of previously lost territory, forcing the partition of a country, gaining concessions or access to ...