Hungary in the Mongol Invasion Period
The Battle of Mohi (Muhi), 11 April 1241, was the main battle between the Mongol Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary during the Mongol invasion of Europe. It took place at Muhi, southwest of the Sajó River. After the invasion, Hungary lay in ruins. Nearly half of the inhabited places had been destroyed by the invading armies. Around 15–25 percent…
DT-30 articulated tracked vehicle
DT-30 Vityaz Articulated Tracked Vehicle All-terran vehicle DT-30P1 on Russian Expo Arms 2013. Manufactured in Russia, the DT-30 Vityaz is an articulating tracked vehicle (ATV) designed to transport heavy loads in extremely difficult off-road conditions such as swamps, sand and snow. In addition to armed forces, the vehicle is also used for civilian applications. Russia (then USSR) felt the need…
Roman Auxilia
Warrior auxiliary cohort of Batavia , the second half of the 1st century AD. Batavian auxiliary cavalry – Pablo Outeiral…
THE BATTLE OF THE MEDWAY Part I
Attack on the Medway, June 1667 by Pieter Cornelisz van Soest, painted c. 1667. The captured ship the Royal Charles…
AFTER THE BATTLE OF BOSWORTH
The Death and Usurpation of King Richard III Richard III’s body was put on public display for two days at…
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How Good Was Napoleon?
Surrender of Madrid (Gros), 1808. Napoleon enters Spain’s capital during the Peninsular War By Jonathon Riley | Published in History Today Volume: 57 Issue: 7 2007 Serving general and military historian Jonathon Riley uses his personal knowledge of command to assess Napoleon’s qualities as a strategist, operational commander and battlefield tactician.…
Steam Gun Boat
SGB4 Grey Fox Steam Gun Boat, MGB S309, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Peter Scott underway. Veritable battleships of the coastal forces, the Steam Gun Boats were fast and heavily-armed vessels, although vulnerable to damage in the machinery rooms. Nonetheless, they were warily respected by their opponents across the…
DUKW
The DUKW was used in landings in the Mediterranean, Pacific, on the D-Day beaches of Operation Husky, Normandy, but also during the Battle of the Scheldt, Operation Veritable and Operation Plunder. Its principal use was to ferry supplies from ship to shore, but it was used for other tasks, such…
GREEN SPRING (JAMESTOWN FORD, VIRGINIA)
6 July 1781. Having failed to catch and destroy Lafayette and being ordered by Clinton to detach reinforcements to New York, Cornwallis abandoned his plan of holding Williamsburg and prepared to cross the James River. Lafayette followed cautiously and on 6 July started getting indications that he might catch Cornwallis…
Hitler’s Undoing! Part I
In Hitler’s headquarters there was no intimation of these future troubles in the first seven months of 1942, for it looked as if Germany’s two most important opponents would be unable to keep on fighting much longer. In the spring the Afrika Korps, whose first thrust towards Cairo had been…
Hitler’s Undoing! Part II
Hitler had always had a tendency to over-emphasize the power of the will to master difficult situations, and this made him disinclined to admit that space and time and the strength and morale of the enemy impose limits upon one’s military capabilities. In the grim winter of 1941-2 Halder, Chief…
3rd Armored Division (United States)
The first elements of the 3rd Armored in France saw combat on 29 June, with the division as a whole beginning combat operations on 9 July 1944. During this time, it was under the command of VII Corps and XVIII Airborne Corps for some time, and assigned to the First…
Warring States (Sengoku) Period (1467–1568)
The Warring States period refers to the 100-year era that began with the Onin War, a time marked by ongoing warfare between domain lords. Many of the circumstances of the period have been chronicled above in the events leading up to and following the Onin War. Continued political instability and…
Japan: Colonial Power
Terauchi Masatake Terauchi was appointed as the third and last Japanese Resident-General of Korea on the assassination of Itō Hirobumi in Harbin by An Jung-geun. As Resident-General, he executed the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty in 1910, and thus became the first Japanese Governor-General of Korea. The annexation of Korea by Japan…
Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. (1896–1990)
20th Commandant of the Marine Corps (1952-1955) A general and a postwar commandant of the Marine Corps, Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr. was born on February 10, 1896, in Norfolk, Virginia. His father was a doctor whose family roots in Virginia’s Tidewater society dated to 1652. During the Civil War, most…