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Louis XIV presents his grandson, the King of Spain to the Court and to the Spanish Ambassador. The dichotomy of Castile-Aragon could not be summarily removed by the stroke of a pen – not even the pen of a Bourbon. The fall of Oropesa in 1691 left Spain without an effective Government. Indeed, it was followed soon after by the…
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The Last Holdouts: General Vicente Lukban falls, Feb. 18, 1902. The Philippine-American War had two distinct phases. During the first,…
Oberleutnant Hermann GÖRING ‘The Iron Man’ (22 victories) The son of Dr Heinrich Göring, Governor of German South West Africa,…
So much, then, for Austria. What, though, of Prussia? Once again, not much could be expected. Still wedded to the…
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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“General Lee was the handsomest man I ever saw. John C. Breckinridge was a model of manly beauty, John B.…
The coming battle was the first major action of the war and proved to be the most decisive. Anhalt’s position…
When the Confederate military and political officials abandoned Richmond after the fall of Petersburg, they set fire to warehouses on…
Varangian Guard 10th Century From the seventh to the 12th centuries, the Byzantine army was among the most powerful and…
In the early 1930s the Germans resorted to clandestine measures to obtain modern military aircraft. Accordingly, the Heinkel He 111 had been ostensibly designed by Walter and Siegfried Gunter as a fast commercial transport for the German airline Lufthansa. Like the famous He 70, it was a radically streamlined, all-metal…
HMS Exeter (68) was a York-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy that served in World War II. She was laid down on 1 August 1928 at the Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth, Devon. She was launched on 18 July 1929 and completed on 27 July 1931. She fought against the German…
The army of Stephen the Great torched the city and put the invaders to flight. Scene from the Chronicle of the Hungarians (1488), by János Thuróczi. Map of the battle, showing the Moldavian attack. In January 1465, Stephen the Great initiated a new attack against Kilia, this time a successful…
The Second Sudan War, 1896-8 Despite their tactical reverses, the dervishes followed up the British withdrawal from the Sudan. On the Nile sector their northwards advance was checked at Ginnis on 30 December 1885, the battle being otherwise remarkable in that it was the last occasion on which British infantry…
North Vietnamese Army tanks The NVA formed its first armoured unit in October 1959 with T-34-85 medium tanks delivered by the Soviet Union. The T-34-85 first appeared in service in 1944 and was the Red Army’s answer to the German Panther medium tank and the Tiger E heavy tank. Weighing…
Maya was one of four Takao-class heavy cruisers, active in World War II with the Imperial Japanese Navy. These were the largest and more modern cruisers in the Japanese fleet, and were intended to form the backbone of a multipurpose long-range strike force. These ships were fast, powerful and heavily…
THE CLIMAX OF THE CIVIL WAR Through the fall of 1918, Red forces pushed east toward the Ural Mountains to regain territory lost to the Czech Legion, but their offensive stalled in October, and the front stabilized west of the Urals. By spring 1919, Kolchak had prepared an offensive, one…
Following the terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, the United States launched itself into a war on terror. Any nation which participated in terrorism or gave aid to terrorists would face retribution. As the United States began confronting this terrorist threat, it became…
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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