Wahabi. 18-19C. Militant Moslem Arab Puritan sect. Fought Porte 1813-15. Invaded Kuwait 1919,27,28; repulsed with British help. 2001 World Trade Center. Taliban.

Wailing Wall, Battle. 1929. Jews battle Moslems.

Wairau Affray. 1843. Maori kill 22 English Settlers in New Zealand. Maori Wars.

Wakefield, Battle. 1460. War of Roses. 1643 English Civil War.

Wakley. Founded Lancet (British medical journal), 1823.

Walachia. 1290 Vlachs settle. 1417 Ottoman suzerainty. 1774 Russia. 1859 +Moldavia =Romania.

Wales. Celts. 55BC Rome. 7C +England. 8C Divided. 9C Re-united. 11C Norman. 1284 English suzerainty. 1536 Union with England.

Wales, Prince of. 1301-. Title of heir apparent to the British throne.

Wales, Statute. 1284. England annexes Wales.

Walesa, Lech. 1943-. Polish Solidarity leader instrumental in forcing decline of Communist rule. President 1990-96.

Wallace, Alfred. 1823-1913. British naturalist. Theory of natural selection, 1838, independent of Darwin.

Wallace, Lewis. 1827-1905. US soldier, author. Ben Hur 1880.

Wallenberg, Raoul. 1912-47?. Swedish diplomat. Saved thousands of Jews in WWII Budapest. Jailed by Soviets. Holocaust.

Wallenstein, Albrecht von. 1583-1634. Bohemian HRE general in Thirty Years War.

Walloon. French dialect of south Belgium. Flemings.

Walpole, Horace. 1717-97. English writer, connoisseur. First Gothic Romance. Castle of Otranto 1765.

Walpole, Robert. 1676-1745. English Whig. First Prime Minister 1721-42. Free trade and peace.

Walter, John. 1739-1812. English entrepreuner. Founded Times 1785. Jailed for libel.

Walter the Penniless. -1097. French knight. Led Peasants’ Crusade with Peter the Hermit.

Walton, Izaak. 1593-1683. English author. Compleat Angler 1653.

Wandiwash, Battle. 1760. British defeat French at Madras. French leave India.

Warbeck, Perkin. 1474-99. Flemish. Posed as Richard, Duke of York, pretender to the English throne. Executed.

Warren, Earl. 1891-1974. US Chief Justice 1953-69. Decisions on segregation, accused rights. Led inquiry into John F. Kennedy assassination. Concluded Oswald acted alone.

Warsaw. 1596 Polish capital. 1655 Sweden destroys. 1795 Prussia. 1807 Napoleon creates Duchy. 1813 Russia. 1815 Kingdom of Poland. 1939-45 Germany occupies.

Warsaw Uprising. 1830-1. Czartoryski attempt to oust Russians crushed. 1944. Polish underground army defeats Germans but Soviet delay allows German reinforcements to defeat Poles, destroying potential opposition to later Soviet control.

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