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The 3rd Wisconsin awaits orders to charge the Spanish at Coamo. Puerto Rican and Spanish troops in Guayama. Puerto Rico was one of only two remaining Spanish possessions in the Western Hemisphere when it became the target of American efforts to rid the Caribbean of Spanish influence in the Spanish-American War. Though the main fighting of the war took place…
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The Livonian Brothers of the Sword were a military order established by their second bishop, Bishop Albert of Riga, in…
Between 190 and the build-up to Actium in the latter half of the 30s, warships larger than “sixes” disappeared from…
During training at Muroc Dry Lake, later named Edwards AFB, I learned to pre-flight the P-38. With two engines etc.…
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Because British factories proved unable to build a sufficient number of tanks for their own forces, the British government received…
Early medieval Europeans received from their predecessors two broad ranges of wooden shipbuilding traditions, one in the Mediterranean and the…
Art by Rafał Zalewski A specialised radio countermeasures squadron, No 462 RAAF, was part of 100 Group and flew Halifax…
112 Squadron Kittyhawk Despite the bombing and total destruction of Cassino town by the Strategic Air Forces, on the evening…
Year of Four Emperors. Praetorians charge the streets of Cremona in aftermath of the main battle. Emperor Nero’s demise was accompanied by a collapse into civil war. How the candidates dealt with the Praetorian Guard played an extremely important role in a turbulent and destructive year. Galba failed entirely to…
General der Panzertruppe Hasso von Manteuffel was angry. Several matters irritated the baron on 20 December, but no more so than his subordinate’s failure to take Bastogne on the evening of the 18th. He came over to Panzer Lehr’s HQ in person and berated Fritz Bayerlein for his stupidity in…
The Alans were the most easterly of the Sarmatian nations and the most durable, occupying the northern part of the lands between the Black Sea and the Caspian at least until the end of our period, subjugated in turn by the Huns, Khazars and Mongols, but always re-emerging. They differed…
Johann Peter Krafft: Die Sieger von Aspern, painted 1820.Battle of Aspern-Essling, 23 October 2014. Starting in 1789 a revolution in France that became increasingly radical in tenor began to cause concern among the other rulers of Europe, especially Leopold II, Queen Marie Antoinette’s brother. The revolutionary regime declared war on…
Gustav II Adolf was born in Stockholm on 9 December 1594. He was the oldest son of King Karl IX and Kristina of Holstein-Gottorp, though Karl was not yet king when Gustav was born. The king was Sigismund (crowned in 1593), King Karl’s nephew. Being the son of a royal…
Storming of The Bastile and arrest of the Governor M. de Launay, July 14, 1789, by Jean-Pierre Houël. On the morning of 14 July 1789 some 900 Parisians gathered in front of the Bastille prison; some were soldiers who had deserted from Louis XVI’s army and a few were men…
The ultimate Fw 190 was given a completely new designation, the Ta 152, after its designer Kurt Tank. Although it only saw service in small numbers, its performance was superior to every other piston-engined fighter of the time. With MW-50 and GM-1 nitrous oxide boost it was capable of 472…
The bitter and costly winter campaign to breach the line by which the Germans defended the approaches to Rome. Advance along the central mountain spine being impossible, the Eighth and Fifth Armies’ offensive efforts were confined to short stretches on either coast, on fronts at most twenty miles long. This…
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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