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Redoutable was a central battery and barbette ship of the French Navy. She was the first warship in the world to use steel as the principal building material.Compared to iron, steel allowed for greater structural strength for a lower weight. France was the first country to manufacture steel in large quantities, using the Siemens process. At that time, steel plates…
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An A-3 rocket mounted at Kummersdorf on stand no. 3. This was the largest at Kummersdorf and could be moved…
Kitty Hawk Laid down: December 27, 1956. Launched: May 21, 1960. Commissioned: June 9, 1961 Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corporation,…
The legendary First World War and Russian Civil War partisan cavalry unit known as ‘Shkuro’s Wolves’, pictured in 1919 during…
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Frank Wootton’s painting “The Battle of Habbaniya, May 1941” shows Hawker Audaxes and Airspeed Oxfords bombing Iraqi artillery along a…
Georg, the Truchsess (governor) of Waldburg, was the field commander of the Swabian League army entrusted with the task of…
Moltke also said something else that became famous. Writing in his History of the 1870 War (Geschichte des Krieges 1870),…
The Vindicator was the Navy’s first monoplane scout-bomber. Fast and modern for its day, it was obsolete by World War…
The Battle of Świecino (named for the village of Świecino, near Żarnowiec Lake, northern Poland) also called the Battle of Żarnowiec or in German Battle of Schwetz, took place on September 17, 1462 during the Thirteen Years’ War. The Poles commanded by Piotr Dunin, consisting of some 2000 mercenares and…
The WWI victors meant now to divide up the Ottoman Empire: Italians in the south-west, British in Iraq, Palestine and the Constantinople region, the French all over Syria and the south-east. There were proxies. Armenians now dreamed of a Greater Armenia, from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, and they…
By the time General Vasily Chuikov, the previous deputy commander of the 64th Army positioned south of Stalingrad, was appointed as commander of the 62nd Army, the 62nd Army had lost half of its men. For some, the Volga appeared to be the best means of escaping certain death. Chuikov…
Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat The 1983 invasion of Grenada was hailed as an American comeback. But it was nearly a military debacle. In October 1983, U.S. forces invaded the small Caribbean island nation of Grenada for what was described as the rescue of American citizens. After three…
The English statesman George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859-1925), served as viceroy of India and as a member of several Cabinets. High offices in the British political and imperial structure at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century were generally held…
Romanized Liburna during Trajan’s Dacian Wars. Octavian had formally established the Roman imperial navy following the battle of Actium, when he sent Antony’s captured ships to Forum Iudii (present-day Frejus on the south coast of France), establishing a permanent naval base to control the northern Mediterranean. He started with two…
Japanese long-range prewar strategy was suddenly upset on the eve of the Pearl Harbor attack. An entirely new role for submarines was hammered out. The new terms of war were not ideal for the submarine force, although there had been several decades of painstaking development of submarine materiel, personnel, institutions,…
PRINCIPAL COMBATANTS: Portugal vs. Egypt and Gujarat PRINCIPAL THEATER(S): Diu, an island in the Arabian Sea MAJOR ISSUES AND OBJECTIVES: Portugal wanted to seize Diu in order to control commerce on the Arabian Sea. OUTCOME: Portugal conquered the island and other key ports. The contest for preeminence in the East…
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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