Biography
Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville
(July 20, 1661–July 9, 1706) French Naval Officer; Explorer D’Iberville was an outstandingly successful military leader of New France with an impressive record against numerous English forts and settlements. He gained even greater renown for exploring the Mississippi River and for founding the colony of Louisiana. Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville was born in Ville-Marie (Montreal) on July 20, 1661, one…
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James Ewell Brown Stuart
Jeb Stuart was an exuberant warrior and a great cavalryman, whose magnificent exploits did much to promote the development of the cavalry’s preeminence among the service branches of the Confederate army. He elevated the cavalry raid to the status of an art, and, at his best, he carried out the…
“ENCHANTED WITH HER HEROISM”
In mid-eighteenth-century India, a four-and-a-half-foot-tall former dancing girl (or perhaps courtesan) inherited a mercenary army from her husband (or perhaps lover) and became one of the region’s most successful mercenary commanders. (Not a small statement. The field was crowded.) Farzana, later known as Begum Samru, was born around 1750 in…
Hua Mulan
The Chinese heroine Hua Mulan is one of the oldest and most enduring examples of a woman who becomes a warrior because of her role as a daughter. Scholars have argued for centuries over whether or not Mulan was a historical figure. At some level, it doesn’t matter as far…
EASTERN PERIL
Doihara in a press photo in Tokyo during 1936, by then a Lt. General With the Japanese samurai all means are permissible as long as they lead to the end in view. To them it is smart to lie, to cheat, to deceive, to intrigue, to be double-faced, hypocritical, provided…
Lakshmi Bai (1828–1858)
The belief that giving birth brings with it a biological imperative to protect also fuels the widely held idea that mothers of all species—sparrows, bears, and tigers, as well as humans—will fight to protect their children against external threats. Taken to its logical extreme, the idea that a mother will…
Mehmed II
The capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Army, under the command Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II on 29th May 1453. With this conquest Ottomans became an Empire and one of the most powerful empires. After the Constantinople conquest, 21 years old Ottoman Sultan II. Mehmed…