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Nelson, Hood andĀ Toulon

Battle Biography British Naval History 20 Min Read

In March the Agamemnon went down the Medway to Sheerness: Hood hinted that Nelson should prepare for a cruise and then join the fleet at Gibraltar. The combination of getting to sea and a letter from Hood put Nelson in fine spirits; he told Fanny that ā€˜I was never in better healthā€™. While the ship completed for sea Nelsonā€™s personal…

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Battle of ArklowĀ 1798

Background The Irish Rising took place on the 24th of May 1798. It was only partial; confined chiefly to the counties of Kildare, Wicklow and Wexford; and there were some slight attempts in Carlow, Queenā€™s Co., Meath and county Dublin. But Dublin city did not rise, for it had been…

Armies British Fortification France Siege 7 Min Read

The Siege of Badajoz: March-AprilĀ 1812

Storming of Badajoz by Chris Collingwood. The last siege of Badajoz conducted by Wellingtonā€™s army was typified by a failed main assault on the breech and a successful secondary assault on the castle. The Allies had failed to take Badajoz before, and the lack of an adequate British siege train,…

British Naval 9 Min Read

French and Belgium Coast LateĀ 1914

HMS Mersey, one of the monitors used for bombarding German positions on the Belgian coast in 1914. English Channel Though little noticed, the naval campaign in the English Channel was of vital importance in permitting the maintenance of the British Army in France. Like the North Sea campaign, it consisted…

AFV British 7 Min Read

Humber Armoured Cars

A Humber Armoured Car Mk II, one of the few armoured vehicles to use the 15-mm (0.59-in) Besa heavy machine-gun as its main armament. Originally known as a wheeled tank, these vehicles gave sterling service in many theatres through the war. The Humber armoured cars were numerically the most important…

Air Warfare Artillery British German Units 19 Min Read

Operation Tonga PartĀ I

Supermarine Spitfire PR.XI ERWIN ROMMEL (1891-1944). German Field Marshal. Rommel, commander of the German Afrika Korps, inspecting the German position at the Atlantic Wall near Fecamp, Normandy, France. Photographed 17 January 1944. The Mark XI PR Spitfire relied on speed and agility for protection. Travelling at 400 miles per hour,…

British German Units Operations 20 Min Read

Operation Tonga PartĀ II

Map of the assault on the Merville Gun Battery 6 June 1944 The lengths the Germans were going to in order to protect the battery, combined with the information provided by the Resistance, was enough to convince Morgan that the guns at the battery must be of 150mm calibre. When…

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AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT IN BRITTANY,Ā 1758

British coastal assault on St Cast in Brittany in September 1758. A German map, published…

The Hanoverian Army atĀ Waterloo

The Hanoverian contingent in Wellingtonā€™s army was integrated fully into the British divisional structure; it…

Elizabeth towards WarĀ I

European matchlock musketeers of the Elizabethan period. By the early 1570s the Puritans had grown…

Dargai, 20 October 1897 PartĀ I

The Gordon Highlanders storming Dargai Heights during the Tirah campaign in 1897. It was here…