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More like a fortress than a camp, the Castra Praetoria (or Praetorian Camp) was constructed in 23 AD by Lucius Aelius Sejanus. Erected just outside the perimeters of Rome, the fort boasted solid masonry walls made of concrete with red-brick facing. It encompassed an area of over 17 hectares (1,440 ft × 1,250 ft). And while based on just the…
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King Harold’s subsequent elevation to the throne, his brother Tostig’s banishment and alliance with Harald Sigurdsson of Norway are the…
Throughout the year of 1946 Air Ministry interest in the Spiteful continued to wane until December when the order was…
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Read more about the World War II match up between Spitfire XIVs versus Bf 109Ks here:
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Due to the largely accepted idea that `the Arab conquests were made possible by the opponents’ weaknesses rather than by…
Ottoman ironclad Mesudiye In April 1877, after two years of rising tensions in the Balkans, Russia declared war on the…
HMAS Shropshire carrying out a shore bombardment, circa 1944. Left: Captain JM Armstrong, RAN in conversation with Mr SM Bruce,…
In late 1942, while Rommel’s forces retreated out of Egypt and Anglo-American forces converged on them from east and west,…
The Italian Army was large, consisting of some 850,000 soldiers, and based on a conscription system, but there were severe problems with both equipment and training. The officers were still recruited from a fairly narrow regional base and there was an inherent lack of professionalism in their general approach. Italy…
Many would agree that no single factor contributed more to the Allied victory in the Second World War—or was more important—than the long, hard-fought, extraordinarily punishing campaign to keep the oceans open to the vital shipping traffic, without which Britain could not have survived and the Russian allies could not…
10 cm mark 2 model 2 – Japanese Radar for Warships Japanese surface units were being equipped during these years with 1.5 m mark 2 model 1 air warning, a dipole array following the design of the land-based set, mark 1 model 1, and as such was similar to the…
Konya City Walls With the entry of the Seljuk State into Anatolia, the area of its domination began to expand gradually. During this period, there began to struggle with the Byzantines in order to seize Konya and its surroundings. As a result of these struggles, the Seljuks took the city…
In 1942 it was decided to armour the ALn-556 railcars of the Ansaldo firm, for service in Yugoslavia. The Railway Engineers chose models produced from 1936 to 1938. They had to be shortened by 5.60m (18ft 4½in). The prototype was tested in the Ansaldo-Fossati workshops in Genoa, and was adopted…
An excellent article on a little known subject. wwiiafterwwii It is often forgotten today that, like defeated Germany, Austria was split up into four occupation zones after WWII. Just like Berlin in Germany, the capital Vienna was split up four ways as well. When the country reunified in 1955, it’s…
A part of “Folding Screen of the Battle of Sekigahara” Tokugowo Ieyasu, commander of the Eastern Army, advanced westwards through the valley at Sekigahara. At around noon on the day of battle, Hideaki, Wakizaka and Kikkawa led the turncoats who betrayed Mitsunari to ensure defeat for the Western Army…
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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