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The Battle of Bunker Hill, by Howard Pyle, 1897. Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill. In 1774 Liutenant General Thomas Gage was the most powerful man in America, and gunpowder was the focus of his urgent attention. Faced with radicals fomenting rebellion, the supreme military commander in North America and Royal Governor of Massachusetts followed the instincts of a…
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On March 6, 1953, Eastern Europeans, like the rest of the world, awoke to hear stunning news: Stalin was dead.…
During the four years of war in Russia, a great deal of Russian Army equipment fell into German hands. During…
The Leningrad front from May 1942 to January 1943. With the defeat of the Soviet Lyuban Offensive, the Germans began…
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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Tu-12 The Tu-12 was the last derivative of the Tu-2, but this was not just another variant of a well-tried…
Spartacus and the Slave Revolt, 71 BC – art by Brian Palmer Through constant warfare over the last five hundred…
La-5FN (tactical number 01), 5th Guards Fighter Regiment, personal aircraft of Vitaly Popkov that he flew on the 1st Ukrainian…
Date: 26 July 1941 Place: Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta Attack by: Italian MTM boats and Maiali torpedoes Target: Allied warships…
During Indonesia’s Confrontation with Malaysia, Indonesian troops fought British Commonwealth forces along the border with Sarawak. After 1965 the Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI) briefly organized guerrilla resistance in West Kalimantan. Many local Chinese communities, suspected of involvement with the rebels, were expelled by the government. KOMANDO OPERASI TERTINGGI (Koti, Supreme…
The Commander in Chief Home Forces, General Sir Bernard Paget, October 1942 Half length portrait of General Sir Bernard Paget, Commander in Chief, Home Forces. General Sir Bernard Paget talks to a parachute jumping instructor at Ringway. Air Marhal Sir Arthur Barratt is in the centre and Group Captain Maurice…
New designs and improved versions of the existing vehicles developed in response to the appearance of the T-34 and KV not only made German tanks more than a match for the Soviet tanks in terms of gun-power but also put them well ahead of British and US tanks. So far…
Exile of Earl Godwine, 1051 Edward summoned the other great earls of the land to support him against Godwine’s family; ultimately the King commanded Godwine and Harold to appear and answer charges. Godwine only agreed to do so if the King issued a safe-conduct. Edward refused. Godwine knew there was…
The last few months of 1204 and the early months of 1205 saw an exhausting round of conflicts in Asia Minor, the Peloponnese (where Villehardouin’s young nephew fought with distinction) and the lands near Thessalonica. The Greeks realised that the Latins were severely stretched and they proposed an alliance with…
Evacuation of CIA station personnel by Air America on the rooftop of 22 Gia Long Street in Saigon on April 29, 1975. For many Americans, the 1975 photograph of a helicopter rescuing people from an apartment rooftop in Saigon symbolizes the failure of the Vietnam War. What most do not…
We can gain a great deal from comparing the Romans of widely diverse periods. Strange to say, the Romans who constructed an empire and the Romans who lost one have very seldom met each other in the pages of a scholarly history. The contrast between these two populations is extremely…
The Fortress of Magdala, prior to its destruction in April 1868. The land itself now began to fight for the Emperor. The route ahead was slashed by deep gorges and high ridges. Nevertheless Napier was confident he would reach Magdala by the end of the month. His intelligence reports told…
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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