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(1759-1816) Dmitry Sergeyevich Dokhturov, a prominent Russian military commander, was born on 12 September 1759 to a Russian noble family from the Tula gubernia (province). He began service at the imperial court, becoming a page in 1771 and a kamer page in 1775. Dokhturov enlisted as a lieutenant in the Life Guard Preobrazhensky Regiment on 17 April 1781, becoming lieutenant…
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Phase I of the operation had allowed the Allies to capture May, Fontenay-le-Marmion, Rocquancourt, Garcelles, Secqueville, and even Saint-Aignan, which…
The Stalingrad Front’s line now stretched for 700 kilometres (almost 440 miles), so to make it more manageable it was…
Generals Simpson and Anderson look stern during a meeting with Field Marshal Montgomery; General Bradley and General Alanbrooke, Chief 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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Revolution of 1848: the barricades on Michaeler Square in the night of May 26, 1848. Painting by A. Ziegler, 1848…
Of the three Scandinavian peoples in the Viking Age, it is the Swedes who most successfully remain hidden behind the…
The mixture of science and mysticism in Swedenborg is an apt symbolisation of the Janus face of the eighteenth century…
Schwimmwagen Type 162 on Eastern (Ost) Front, Russia, driven by SS-Hauptsturmführer Gustav Knittel Gustav and his twin brother, Bernhard, were…
By late in the afternoon of August 2, 216 B.C., no room remained to fight and little more in which to die. Given the crashing press of their exhausted fellow soldiers, the Roman legionaries could not retreat, advance, or even find much area to wield their swords. Frenzied Iberians in white…
William Marshal at a joust unhorses Baldwin Guisnes. From the Historia Major of Matthew Paris, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College Library, vol 2, p. 85. William Marshall was a younger son of a minor English nobleman. He grew up in a period of struggle for the English throne. During a siege,…
Armour The arrangement of armouring in the `G3’s and Nelson and Rodney embodied the `all or nothing’ principle, introduced for the first time in the Dreadnought era in the US ships Nevada and Oklahoma (laid down 1912). Protection was concentrated over gun positions, magazines, machinery and boiler spaces, with the…
After the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, the Army extended its frontier boundaries west of the Mississippi. Throughout the 19th century, the United States established a wide variety of different installations. Post is a general term for any installation where troops are “posted.” Eventually, cantonment came to mean a temporary encampment, as…
Map of the third and final day during the Battle of Gettysburg. There are, however, other trails to follow. Several Confederate officers who fought at Gettysburg, who knew Pickett well, and who were likely to be familiar with his report later talked about its contents. These included E. P. Alexander,…
Pope Innocent III The setbacks suffered by the Third Crusade did not dampen enthusiasm for crusading. The election of a youthful pope, Innocent III, in 1198 marked the beginning of a new effort to organize the crusade along more effective lines. Innocent, who was an able administrator, proclaimed his commitment…
The sun shone brightly in the Panama sky as the fighter planes from the aircraft carrier Saratoga (CV-3) roared aloft as part of fleet exercises off the coast of the Central American nation. A few days earlier these same planes had launched a surprise “attack” against the Panama Canal that…
Imagine if POTUS could fly from coast to coast in under an hour. By Kyle Mizokami Aug 7, 2020 Hermeus The U.S. Air Force is funding an aviation startup working on a combined cycle engine. Hermeus’s combined cycle engine can work like a regular turbofan or ramjet engine, reaching a…
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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