Westmoreland
Military leader, sixties
Westmoreland is a historic county in northwestern England, now part of Cumbria, or a county in southwestern Pennsylvania.
As a surname, it's associated with General William Westmoreland, who commanded U.S. forces in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968.
Place names with this ending typically derive from Old English for "land of the people from the west."
Northeastern founding colony state
- countyLocal administrative division
- GreensburgPennsylvania county seat
- PittsburghWestern Pennsylvania industrial city
- AppalachianEastern U.S. mountain region
Allegheny · Jeannette · Irwin · Somerset · Fayette · Indiana · Unity
Cold-era Indochina military engagement
- militaryArmed forces collectively
- commanderPerson with authority over others
- armyOrganized land-based military
- controversialCausing public dispute
attrition · Tet Offensive · memoirs · strategy · escalation · troop levels · search and destroy · body count
Titled ruling class
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- NevilleEnglish personal name
- manorLanded aristocratic residence
- estateProperty and grounds
heraldry · lineage · title · barony · landed gentry · ancestral · nobility · succession
Pennsylvania
Northeastern founding colony state
- countyLocal administrative division
- GreensburgPennsylvania county seat
- PittsburghWestern Pennsylvania industrial city
Appalachian · Allegheny · Jeannette · Irwin · Somerset · Fayette · Indiana · Unity
Vietnam War
Cold-era Indochina military engagement
- militaryArmed forces collectively
- commanderPerson with authority over others
- armyOrganized land-based military
controversial · attrition · Tet Offensive · memoirs · strategy · escalation · troop levels · search and destroy · body count · Pentagon
nobility
Titled ruling class
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- NevilleEnglish personal name
- manorLanded aristocratic residence
estate · heraldry · lineage · title · barony · landed gentry · ancestral · nobility · succession · peerage
WestmorelandHenry Kissinger
diplomat · negotiator · Paris Peace Accords · peace talks · de-escalation
WestmorelandJane Fonda
Muhammad Ali · Ho Chi Minh · antiwar movement · dove · Martin Luther King Jr.
western, westward, westerly, moorland, westerner, westerners, westwards, westerlies, West