commander, 4 engagements

Battles of William Westmoreland

United States Army general (1914-2005)

William Westmoreland is recorded as a commander at 4 placed engagements in the atlas between 1965 and 1968: 4 battles, all in present-day Vietnam. Taken in date order, the sites lie 921 km apart end to end, 307 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Vietnam War (4).

4 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

4 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

Vietnam War 4

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
1965	Battle of Dong Xoai	Đồng Xoài, Vietnam		Viet Cong victory
1968	Battle of Saigon	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	89 km S	South Vietnamese-American victory; Communist attack...
21 January 1968	Battle of Khe Sanh	Khe Sanh, Vietnam	655 km N	Both sides claim victory: Siege partially relieved in...
10 May 1968	Battle of Kham Duc	Vietnam	177 km SE	North Vietnamese victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.