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Siegfried Grabert Two sketches of the bridge over the Louga River in Porechye and one of the nearby Ivanovskoye Dam , objectives assigned to 8. Kompanie de Grabert on July 14, 1941. On July 13, 1941, the 8. Kompanie of the Lehr-Regiment “Brandenburg” z. b. V. 800, commanded by the Oberleutnant der Reserve Siegfried Grabert, one of the most charismatic…
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The military academy aimed to educate officers in western military science and tactics, but Japan lacked schools that taught foreign…
The orders did not reveal either the strength of Lee’s army—McClellan’s cavalry commander had put the number at an unrealistic…
The Invasion of Prussia The strategies of the two commanders contrasted greatly. The grand master divided his forces in the…
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The fundamental changes, including manufacturing and financial practices, that came about during the Industrial Revolution greatly speeded machine-gun development. The…
By January 1945, the Allies were deeply concerned about a renewed U-boat offensive that might seriously imperil the ground offensive…
On 26 October 1917, the weather in France was bad, with wind and rain, but a flight of three Sopwith…
Informal group portrait of headquarters staff of the Desert Mounted Corps on the steps of the house of Lazar Slutzkin,…
Concentration of force and effort were not dominant characteristics of Hitler’s Reich. The Führer had initially reacted to Italy’s debacle in North Africa and its frustrated invasion of Greece with the amused malice the Germans call Schadenfreude. His interests in the Mediterranean involved encouraging support for Germany’s Atlantic ambitions on…
The move to Poland As the Germans sought to recover what they could from Peenemünde, the top-secret development work on the V-2 was immediately transferred to the SS training base near Blizna, deep inside Poland, where it would be undetected by the British and less easily reached by air. Meanwhile,…
JOHN BANKHEAD MAGRUDER, II CORPS Magruder was born in 1810 at Winchester, Virginia, and graduated from West Point in 1830, where his imperious flamboyance earned him the sobriquet “Prince John.” He entered the army as a second lieutenant of infantry but soon transferred to the artillery. He saw service in…
Development of the jet engine in Germany began and progressed in parallel with work on gas turbines taking place in Britain during the mid-1930s. By the end of the decade, however, the Germans had moved much more decisively to realise the new powerplant’s potential. The German government encouraged all of…
When he heard that Major General Jacob Brown had crossed the Niagara River from Buffalo to Fort Erie, UC, with a large force on 3 July, Major General Phineas Riall expected that the garrison at Fort Erie would put up a brave fight and delay Brown’s advance. Unaware that Brown…
Battle of Mortimer’s Cross If the Yorkists adopted ‘traditional’ English tactics, relying heavily on their archers, then the onus was on the Lancastrians to attack. According to the Elizabethan poet Michael Drayton, whose work may preserve earlier oral traditions, Wiltshire and his Irishmen formed the Lancastrians’ van. Wiltshire and his…
As more centralized governments developed during the Later Middle Ages (1000-1500), significant changes took place in the way armies were raised. This included the more extensive use of mercenaries and led to the development of Europe’s professional armies. While members of the nobility continued to fight primarily as the result…
Roman external relations were defined by territorial ambitions and interests on the part of the Roman state at different stages of its development. These relations shifted during Roman history as it evolved from a republican city-state based in Italy and eventually became a vast empire encompassing three continents. Early in…
British coastal assault on St Cast in Brittany in September 1758. A German map, published…
Schnellboot S-80 torpedo boat Camo Operations with the Kriegsmarine S-boats were often used to patrol…
American Lend-Lease supplies to the USSR 1941–45. Soviet historiography is mocked in the West, where…
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