Robert, Henry. 1837-1923. US writer. Robert’s Rules of Order 1876.

Roberts, Frederick. 1832-1914. British Field Marshal. Afghan War. Boer War.

Robespierre, Maximilien de. 1758-94. Jacobin extremist French revolutionary leader. Opposed Cult of Reason. Led Terror. Executed.

Rochambeau, Comte de. 1725-1807. French commander, aided in American Revolution.

Roderick. -711. Last Visigoth king of Spain. Defeated by Saracens, killed.

Roland. -778. Count of Brittany. Officer of Charlemagne, immortalized in song by Turold, c1100.

Roland de la Platière, Jean. 1734-93. Moderate French revolutionary leader. Fled Terror.

Romance Languages. European languages deriving from Latin.

Roncesvalles, Battle. 778. Charlemagne ambushed in Pyrenees. Basis for Song of Roland.

Roosevelt, Theodore. 1858-1919. US president 1901-9 after McKinley assassination. Founded Bull Moose Party 1912. Led Rough Riders. Panama Canal Zone.

Rose of Lima, St. 1586-1617. Peruvian Dominican mystic. First American native saint. Patron Saint of South America.

Rosenkreuz, Christian. 15C. Legendary founder of Rosicrucian Society.

Rough Riders. 1898. US volunteer cavalry in Spanish American War under Roosevelt. Won San Juan hill.

Round Table Conference. 1930-32. Established federal system, provincial autonomy in India; not implemented.

Roundhead. Derisory term applied to Parliamentarians during English Civil War.

Rowell-Sirois Report. 1935-40. Recommended Federalism over Canadian provincial power.

Roxana. -c311BC. Wife of Alexander the Great. Executed after his death.

Rundstedt, Gerd von. 1875-1953. Leading German WWII commander.

Rupert, Prince. 1619-82. Royalist commander in English Civil War. First President of Hudson’s Bay Co.

Rush-Bagot, Convention. 1817. Demilitarized Canada-US border.

Russell, Taze. 1852-1916. US founder of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Rutherford, Ernest. 1871-1937. NZ/English physicist. Beta rays 1899, Nuclear theory of atom1911.

Rykov, Aleksey. 1881-1938. Russian Bolshevik leader. Opposed Stalin. Rehabilitated 1988.

Saarinen, Eliel. 1873-1950. Finnish/US modern architect, teacher. Palace of League of Nations (Geneva) 1927.

Sabbah, Hasan-e. Founder of Assassins 1094.

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