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MONMOUTH’S REBELLION AND THE BLOODY ASSIZES
James Scott, Duke of Monmouth. Battle of Sedgemoor (c) Manchester City Galleries; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation PRINCIPAL COMBATANTS: England vs. the duke of Monmouth PRINCIPAL THEATER(S): Somersetshire, England MAJOR ISSUES AND OBJECTIVES: Monmouth sought to succeed Charles II to the throne. OUTCOME: The rebellion was crushed, Monmouth beheaded, and the other rebels punished. APPROXIMATE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF MEN…
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James Edward Stuart in Scotland: Late Arrival and Early Departure
George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal, by Placido Costanzi, circa 1733 Battle of Sheriffmuir When Mar had raised the Jacobite standard at Braemar on 6 September 1715, James Edward Stuart was still exiled at Bar-le-Duc in the Duchy of Lorraine. He remained there for nearly two months, unable to influence events,…
Survival or Not of Wartime Special Forces
SAS patrol in North Africa during WW2. The survival of the British SAS, alone among wartime special forces teams, is a textbook example of political escape and evasion. Though the Socialist Attlee government had decreed that it must die, in the gloomy corridors of the War Office a cell was…
RAAF/RAF Spitfires in the Far East I
Spitfire vs Zero No. 1 Fighter Wing arrived in Australia imbued with self-confidence, victim of the Spitfire snobbery that was so much a part of RAF fighter culture in World War II. RAF fighter pilots in the ETO derided the USAAF’s P-47 Thunderbolt, belittling the huge American fighter with the…
RAAF/RAF Spitfires in the Far East II
http://www.richard-seaman.com Early in 1943, three Spitfire Mk VC squadrons, Nos 607, 615 and 136, were based around Darwin, Australia, to counter Japanese air raids. In combat, the Spitfire was faster than the Zero but was at a disadvantage in a dogfight. Further quantities of Spitfire could not be spared for…
Hunting the Haguro
The ‘Star Attack’ carried out to perfection by 26th Destroyer Flotilla. Haguro was hit by torpedoes from all points of the compass. She was doomed long before the 61-minute action began by her inexplicable failure to sight her foes until within 6 miles. Her Type 22 radar had a 212-mile…
TARGET LONDON
Staaken R. VI Gothas THE FIRST BLITZ In all, 4,822 men, women and children were killed and 1,413 wounded in the airship and bomber air raids on the United Kingdom during the First World War – a small number by the standards of what would follow a generation later, but…