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Marshal Ney of France leading a charge. To be killed at Waterloo would have been a good death. NAPOLEON AT ST HELENA The historian Jac Weller is said to have complained that the Ifs of Waterloo made him wince. I fear we must make him wince again. No doubt these Ifs are countless, but for our purposes here, we will…
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To speak of military developments in the Hellenistic period is to assume that significant changes in warfare or technology justify…
Two years before the 1848 eruption, tremors could be felt in Italy, and in Galicia where a revolt of the…
56th Panzer Corps:20th Panzer Grenadier Division18th Panzer Grenadier Division9th Fallschirmjager DivisionMuncheberg Panzer Division11th SS Panzer Grenadier Division ’Nordland’15th SS Grenadier…
The entire goal of the American Revolution including the penning of the Declaration of Independence was to gain the colonists and the newly formed American nation legitimacy internationally. The Declaration of Independence was written to…
In the realm of modern warfare, where technology evolves at breakneck speed, traditional defense mechanisms are often rendered obsolete against emerging threats. Among these threats, unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have become increasingly prevalent, posing significant…
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…
Two Vulcan B.1s of 83 Squadron on an Operation Profiteer detachment to RAAF Butterworth, Penang, Malaya, during the Malayan Emergency,…
Tradition has it that Sulla remarked to those who pled for Caesar’s life, “Keep him since you so wish, but…
An SS-VT 37mm (1.47in) anti-tank gun pulled by what appears to be a Kettenrad half-track motorcycle during Case Yellow. However,…
Lord Raglan is utterly incompetent to lead an army through any arduous task. He is a brave good soldier, I…
Whether it was his annoyance at not being able to close the doors to the temple of Janus or more likely in retribution for the Dacian crossing of the Danube in 10 BC, Augustus mounted a military campaign against the Dacians, apparently sending at least two generals into action. The…
In 1789 the French Navy was at the peak of its strength for the eighteenth century, but with only 60 ships it was not even close to the 120 it had had during the reign of Louis XIV. During the American War of Independence (1775-1783) it enjoyed a number of…
Detail from a miniature, showing an Akıncı-leader, defeating a Hungarian chevalier. Four years earlier the Hungarians were badly defeated by the Ottomans at Varna. Their leader, János Hunyadi, gathered a new army 25,000 strong, including knights from Transylvania, hussar cavalry, and Landsknechte infantry. Hunyadi inflicted major casualties on a much…
The picture depicts a Phoenician merchant ship dated 1500 year B. C. We can put together a reasonably clear picture of the patterns of maritime trade in the Mediterranean from the end of the second millennium bc, thanks to the increasing availability of written sources, in the form of official…
Ĺ koda 149 mm K4 howitzer, also known as 15 cm hruba houfnice vzor 37 in Czechoslovakia and as the 15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze 37(t) in German service. Greece, Czechoslovak-made 15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze 37(t) / sFH 37(t) (also known as Ĺ koda 149 mm K-series) Limber for 15 cm heavy field…
Many people in the modern world are made uncomfortable by the notion of “holy war”: of wars fought in the name of religions whose central message (in the case of the major salvation religions) appears to be anti-violence. This discomfort leads some students and scholars to discount the genuineness of…
While the Me 262 pilots were putting up a gallant but futile fight against overwhelming numerical odds, another jet fighter was entering service on the Allied side—the Gloster Meteor. Since the early 1930s, while Ernst Heinkel worked on his jet engine, Frank Whittle had been engaged in a double struggle—with…
Praetorian guardsmen, on campaign; early 1st Century AD. (31 BC–AD 14) Octavian turned the praetorians into a regularized, privileged and organized part of his power base as Augustus, Rome’s first emperor. The Praetorian Guard enjoyed advantageous pay and conditions, but by dispersing them around Rome and Italy Augustus avoided creating…
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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