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The Viking Naval Battle of Hafrsfjord 872 AD Map 2.5. The Battle of Nisa, 1062. (a) Phase I: From his 70-oar drekkar, King Harald III Hardrada leads a 300-ship Norwegian fleet to an appointed location to battle King Sveinn Estridson’s Danish fleet. (b) Phase II: The Danes fail to arrive at the rendezvous at the appointed time, leading Hardrada to…
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Lancastria sinking off St Nazaire RAF personnel being evacuated from Brest Ports utilised during the evacuation of British and Allied…
Azov in Valletta, Malta. Azov is a large ship on the left of the Battle of Navarino painting by Ivan…
The Russian Army: Greanadier, summer dress (1808), Carabinier NCO, Jägers (1812), Grenadier (1812), Musketeer, winter dress 1809 (down) Uniforms of…
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 final German plan for the invasion (Operation `Barbarossa’) was contained in Führer Directive 21, issued on 18 December 1940.…
The dissolution of the German army’s 1st Cavalry Division in the autumn of 1941 seemed to mark the end of…
A Norman knight. The raised pommel forward and rear increased stability in the saddle and the kite shaped shield gave…
During late 1938, the U.S. Army Air Corps saw a need for additional heavy bombardment aircraft and approached Consolidated Aircraft…
Back from Stalingrad Uranus opened first, under the direction of Colonel General Aleksandr M. Vasilevsky. On 19 November, the Soviets struck Romanian formations both north and south of Stalingrad. The front disintegrated, and the Russians encircled the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad, threatening the entire Axis front north of the…
The history of Epirus was very similar in many aspects to that of Macedonia: located at the northern borders of the Greek world, this region of the Balkans (more or less corresponding to modern Albania) was strongly influenced by both the Illyrians and Greeks. As with Macedonia, the original semi-barbarous…
We can see from this that Boabdil’s life as sultan in the Alhambra was luxurious and pleasurable from a material point of view, but his political landscape was less attractive. Although he ruled exclusively in his capacity as emir, the policy, actions and affairs of state were conducted and influenced…
In December 1943, the weather continued to restrict the operations of the Fifteenth Air Force, and the POINTBLANK program suffered especially. Airdromes were the principal target, with several attacks being made against GAF bases near Athens. The Fiat Ball Bearing Works at Turin, which had been twice raided in November,…
There are many types of sea-going Chinese Junks. They usually have a high stern and overhanging bow, square on deck but fine at the waterline. They have no keels but a deep rudder lowered in a trunk, and from two to five masts and lug sails stiffened with battens which…
At the moment of the landings, there were no garrison troops in Tunis, and the German and Italian High Commands were taken completely by surprise. But Axis reaction was swift, and effectively assisted by the conduct of Admiral Esteva, the French Resident-General. The first German troops arrived by air at…
There are several historical instances of the problems caused when equipment is rushed in production and fielded too soon. A great example of this was the German rush to field the new Panther tank at the Battle of Kursk. Here one finds mechanical difficulties, degraded training, and new tactics were…
In 1979 V Sarov started work on a much larger development of the Su-24M which had an internal weapons bay that could hold most of the weapons intended to be used by the new aircraft. Known within the OKB as the T-6BM (Bolshaya Modifikatsiya or large modification), and to the…
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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