Cossack

POWs – A Comparison of Treatment

Cossack PoW Waffen-SS 15 Min Read

The Wehrmacht or Waffen-SS took 232,000 British, Commonwealth, and American prisoners during the war, most in the course of the last year of fighting in Italy and France. The short duration in captivity of most, along with the prospect of pending Allied victory in the west, meant they enjoyed relatively decent conditions in the Stalags in 1944–1945. That permitted most…

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Battle Cossack France Russia 22 Min Read

Battle of Friedland, the decisive battle of the campaign of 1807.

Napoleon Watching The Battle Of Friedland 1807 A major engagement between French forces under Napoleon and the Russian army under General Levin Bennigsen Friedland was the decisive battle of the campaign of 1807. Following the bloody stalemate at Eylau in February, the Russian and French armies spent the spring recuperating…

Cossack Russia 15 Min Read

Chukotka

The Chukchi warriors On July 14, 1728 – three and a half years after leaving St. Petersburg – the explorer Vitus Bering’s newly constructed ship, the St. Gabriel, stocked with enough food to sustain its crew of forty for a year, sailed from the mouth of the Kamchatka River. Following…

Cossack History Ottoman 27 Min Read

Moldavia, Tatars and Cossacks I

When Bartolomeo Bruti travelled from Istanbul to Moldavia in the spring of 1580 he was not moving outside the Ottoman Empire, but he was entering a territory very different in kind from that empire’s directly governed heartland. Many histories of the Ottomans concentrate heavily on the heartland, because it was…

Cossack Waffen-SS 6 Min Read

Cossacks WWII

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British Cossack Warship 5 Min Read

Caesar – British destroyer class

Ordered in February 1942, The Caesar Class was the 11th destroyer flotilla of the emergency war programme. They were of the same design as the earlier ‘Emergency’ flotillas and almost identical to the preceding ‘Z’ or Zephyr Class in which the traditionaI4.7-in (120-mm) gun had been replaced by a new…

Battle Cossack History Ottoman Personnel 10 Min Read

Ottoman Redoubts at Balaclava, 25 October 1854

True Heroes of Balaklava A4, 20pp., illustrated, published by the Crimean War Research Society, 1996. A review of the role of the Turkish forces at the Battle of Balaklava. Treated as cowards at the time, and blamed for many of the reverses of the battle, this work re-evaluates the contribution…

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Austro-Hungarian Cavalry WWI

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Moldavia, Tatars and Cossacks I

When Bartolomeo Bruti travelled from Istanbul to Moldavia in the spring of 1580 he was…

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The Battle of White Mountain (1620), where Spanish-Imperial forces under Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly…

Battle of Friedland, the decisive battle of the campaign of 1807.

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