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Palo Alto, historic site, Texas

(Encyclopedia)Palo Alto, locality not far from Brownsville, Tex., where the first battle of the Mexican War was fought on May 8, 1846. American troops under Gen. Zachary Taylor defeated a Mexican force led by Gen. ...

Chadds Ford

(Encyclopedia)Chadds Ford: see Brandywine, battle of. ...

Salem Church

(Encyclopedia)Salem Church: see Chancellorsville, battle of. ...

Breed's Hill

(Encyclopedia)Breed's Hill: see Bunker Hill, battle of. ...

Collingwood, Cuthbert Collingwood, Baron

(Encyclopedia)Collingwood, Cuthbert Collingwood, Baron: see Trafalgar, battle of. ...

Erechtheus

(Encyclopedia)Erechtheus ĕrĕkˈthēəs [key], in Greek mythology, king of Athens. On the advice of an oracle he sacrificed one of his daughters during the battle between the Athenians and the Eleusinians. This en...

Stucley, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Stucley or Stukely, Thomas both: styo͞oˈklē [key], 1525?–1578, English adventurer. He was rumored to be an illegitimate son of Henry VIII. He was in the service of Edward Seymour, duke of Somerse...

Mohács

(Encyclopedia)Mohács môˈhäch [key], town (1991 est. pop. 20,325), S Hungary, on the Danube. It is an important river port and railroad terminus and has metallurgical and timber industries. Mohács is best known...

Olaf I

(Encyclopedia)Olaf I (Olaf Tryggvason) ōˈläf trügˈväsōn [key], c.963–1000, king of Norway (995–1000), great-grandson of Harold I. His early life of exile and slavery is surrounded with romantic legend, a...

Keegan, Sir John Desmond Patrick

(Encyclopedia)Keegan, Sir John Desmond Patrick, 1934–2012, British military historian, b. London. The foremost British military historian of his era, he attended Oxford and after graduation went to the United Sta...