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Stilicho recalled one of the two British legions to assist with the defense of Italy against Alaric and the Visigoths. The recalled legion, known as the Sixth Victrix, was said by Claudian (in “De Bello Gallico,” 416) to be “that legion which is stretched before the remoter Britons, which curbs the Scot, and gazes on the tattoo-marks on the pale…
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One of the only photographs extant that clearly shows the shape of Lützow’s fore funnel after it was fully jacketed.…
The Siege of Malta – Flight of the Ottomans by Matteo Perez d’Aleccio, showing Don García’s relief force battling the…
Johnny Shumate Illustrations As Athens grew powerful and wealthy – and just a little cocky – the Spartans watched from…
Weapons and Warfare has been updated with a save posts feature, accessibility options and a new store. While on a post page, you can now easily save a post to read later: New accessibility options…
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The Battle of Lake Borgne, Thomas Lyle Hornbrook The Battle of Lake Borgne was a naval battle between the Royal…
Frank Wootton’s painting “The Battle of Habbaniya, May 1941” shows Hawker Audaxes and Airspeed Oxfords bombing Iraqi artillery along a…
Geoffrey Rush as Sir Francis Walsingham and Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I in Universal Pictures’ Elizabeth: The Golden Age…
Hurricane Mk I of 46 Squadron during the Norwegian Campaign, May 1940. This aircraft was abandoned in Norway Stavanger/Sola, 450…
In the Postwar analysis of battle experience at the end of World War I, when the Germans collapsed and the front opened up, the US Army Ordnance Department became concerned over the weight of ammunition carried as part of the soldier’s basic load. They began to conduct a series of…
Emperor Julian (330-363 AD): a pious and intelligent soul who saw the writing on the wall when it came to militant monotheism. Battle of Strasbourg – Argentoratum 357 AD Julian the Apostate defeats the Alamani – Igor Dzis The Battle of Argentoratum (also known as the battle of Strasbourg) ,…
When the Space-Based Infrared System spotted ballistic missiles, U.S. troops had time to take cover. By Kyle Mizokami Sep 16, 2020 A U.S. system designed to warn of enemy missile attacks successfully detected an Iranian missile attack in January. The early warning gave American troops at their Iraqi base time…
Nikolai Yudenich Estonian artillery in war against the Landeswehr The most northerly parts of the tsar’s empire that faced the Baltic Sea, Finland and Estonia, had longstanding ethnic, linguistic and cultural links. Like Latvia to the south, Estonia was home to Estonians, Russians who had settled in the area, and…
Kleist Moves North On 3 October, Kesselring ordered Kleist’s Panzer Group 1 to advance on a broad front, “… left flank on Kursk and the right on Gubkin … to drive north-eastwards to gain touch with Guderian at Yelets.” Once he was in position on Guderian’s right Kleist was next…
Miraculous Mobelwagen Junkers J.1 allan forbes art It was readily apparent that the dawning of 1918 marked the year of the Great War. Much had changed. Germany now stood alone, as Austria-Hungary was a shambles and Ottoman Turkey had become an empty shell. But the Entente was also different from…
IJN Yamato by Chris Flodberg The tower carried Type 21 and 22 radar, the main battery range-finder, and Type 98 low-angle fire control director. Uppermost bridge deck is the combat bridge, with compass bridge below. The conning-tower top with its periscopes is just above the 155mm (6.1in) turret. IJN Yamato…
Cathars being expelled from Carcassonne in 1209. In this group, women appear to be nearly as numerous as men and the Crusaders seem to give women equally harsh treatment for their beliefs. By 1212 there were examples of the failures of the knights nearer to home. In the south of…
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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