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William Childs Westmoreland (26 March 1914 – 18 July 2005) was a United States Army general, most notably the commander of United States forces during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968. He served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1968 to 1972.
The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception was a controversial television documentary aired as part of the CBS Reports series on January 23, 1982. [1] The 90-minute program, produced by George Crile III and narrated by Mike Wallace, asserted that in 1967 intelligence officers under General William Westmoreland, the commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MAC-V), had manipulated ...
William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), [c] also known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from 1672, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702.
In 1397 Neville supported King Richard's proceedings against Thomas of Woodstock and the Lords Appellant, and by way of reward was created Earl of Westmorland on 29 September of that year. [1] However his loyalty to the King was tested shortly thereafter.
The indictment had six counts; the contriving of the "Western Remonstrance" and the rejection of the king's ecclesiastical authority were, from a legal point of view, the most formidable charges. The trial was not concluded until 11 April. On 28 May parliament, having found him guilty of treason, ordered him to be hanged. [121] Captain William ...
Robert was the younger son of William de Vieuxpont, who was Lord of Hardingstone, near Northampton, in 1199, and also held Alston and other places in Cumberland by grant of William, King of Scotland. His mother was Matilda or Maud, who is said by Dugdale to have been the daughter of Hugh de Morville of Oswaldkirk; [ 1 ] she was perhaps ...
Prince William, the son of King Charles III and the late Princess Diana, will be present at his father’s coronation at Westminster Abbey on 6 May.. Born William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor on ...
Hugh de Morville and three other of King Henry II's knights, Reginald Fitzurse, William de Tracy and Richard le Breton (or de Brito), plotted Thomas Becket's murder after interpreting the king's angry words (supposedly "What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and brought up in my household, who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric?") as a command.