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Map of the Siege of Breda by Johannes Blaeu. Twelve years after failing to prevent Spanish capture of Breda, Frederick Henry of Orange besieged the fortress-city, held by Gomar Fourdin, flooding the surrounding country and driving off a relief attempt by Spanish Governor Cardinal Infante Ferdinand. The Dutch captured starving Breda after more than a year and gave the defeated…
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Birth Date: July 16, 1860 Death Date: September 23, 1933 U.S. naval officer. Edwin Alexander Anderson Jr. was born in…
Flanders, England and the Great Schism On the 20 September 1378 the College of Cardinals came to the conclusion that…
Sasanian Heavy Cavalry and Standard Bearer Sasanian Heavy Cavalry The Sasanians, or Sasanids (224-641 CE) were responsible for creating an…
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 castle at Bêdzin is the best-preserved of all the Gothic castles built by Kazimierz the Great. A series of…
The supreme achievement of the Soviet government in the civil-wars years: the creation of the Red Army. Much of the…
King Sebastian of Portugal. Ahmad al-Mansur survived the battle to succeed his brother and become the new Sultan of Morocco.…
At one-thirty in the afternoon, the armored personnel carriers reached the site of the disastrous helicopter landing, their metallic skin…
The dictator’s paramilitary machine … the Strum Abtellung (brown shirts) return from manoeuvres on a Sunday in Nuremberg. Malcolm Brown November 27, 2010 JOHN RISCHBIETH, then a pupil at St Peters College, Adelaide, was awestruck when, as a 17-year-old in Germany in 1935, he became surrounded by beaming members of…
Never believe loss/kill ratios: Overclaiming in combat seems to be part of human nature. For well-trained allied pilots the number of kills probably was on average only 50% of that claimed; the Japanese overclaimed by larger factors. It is very difficult to counter ‘hit and run’ tactics, more usually called…
The siege of Therouanne. Henry VIII’s field and jousting armour, 1540. The size of the suit shows the king’s bulk, while the codpiece might help explain his marital problems. When the imperial ambassador hinted in the late 1520s that Henry might not be physically capable of satisfying Anne Boleyn, a…
Cornelius Cruys (14 June 1655 – 14 June 1727) was a Norwegian–Dutch admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy, and the first commander of the Russian Baltic Fleet. When in the Netherlands, Peter the Great dined often with Giles Schey the leading Dutch admiral of the day, a pupil of de…
German Human Torpedo Neger Human Torpedoes and the Trout Line Towards the end of June 1944 the western end of the Normandy beachhead was largely secured against enemy intervention by sea from the west, save for the remnants of their surface fleet at Brest. To the east the threat still…
F-22 Raptor – the first operational 5th generation fighter. Su-35 – the most capable Russian multirole combat airplane, based on Su-27. Solutions that were tested on Su-37 – technological demonstrator, were later transferred on Su-35 as well. Eurofighter Typhoon – the most potent European multirole combat airplane today. Realized through…
That universal work-horse of all the minor, and major, wars since 1945 played little or no part in World War II. Helicopters did exist before the war – Hanna Reitsch flew one of the first practical helicopters in February 1938. This was the Focke-Achgelis Fa61; it was not by any…
KAIZOKU OF THE MURAKAMI NAVY WITH FULL EQUIPMENT FOR SEA FIGHTING, 1576 This plate shows the kaizoku pirates of the Murakami navy at the height of their powers when they were in action against Oda Nobunaga at the first battle of Kizugawaguchi in 1576. They are more substantially dressed and…
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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