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Order of Teutonic Knights
Map of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights 1466 The Battle of Grunwald, First Battle of Tannenberg or Battle of Ĺ˝algiris, was fought on 15 July 1410 during the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War. The alliance of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led respectively by King WĹ‚adysĹ‚aw II JagieĹ‚Ĺ‚o (Jogaila) and Grand Duke Vytautas (Witold; VitaĹt), decisively…
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Czech Soldiers in World War I
At the outbreak of World War I, the Czechs and Slovaks showed little enthusiasm for fighting for their respective enemies, the Germans and the Hungarians, against fellow Slavs, the Russians and the Serbs. Large numbers of Czechs and Slovaks defected on the Russian front and formed the Czechoslovak Legion. Masaryk…
Supremacy at sea: finance, aggression and national commitment.
Trafalgar -The Penultimate Naval Victory. In the last analysis Britannia came to rule the waves because the British navy was better financed than any of its rivals. Once disagreements with the Crown were overcome and a productive taxation and borrowing system established, Parliament never stinted on the navy because the…
Russian soldiers fighting prowess – Napoleonic Wars
Russian soldiers were notorious for their fighting capacity and staying power: prior to the campaign of 1812 Napoleon’s worst experience on the battlefield had come at the hands of General Bennigsen at the battle of Eylau, whilst in the Seven Years’ War Frederick the Great had repeatedly been very roughly…
Order of Teutonic Knights
Map of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights 1466 The Battle of Grunwald, First Battle of Tannenberg or Battle of Ĺ˝algiris, was fought on 15 July 1410 during the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War. The alliance of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led respectively by King WĹ‚adysĹ‚aw…
Barbarossa – Panzer Divisions
The first weeks of Barbarossa saw the Panzers make rapid advances and Soviet forces taking heavy losses, outshining the German achievements of 1940. However, problems soon surfaced. The lack of a suitable road network slowed down the German follow-up infantry and supplies, with the result that the Panzers failed to…
MALAYA SOE
When the Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army re-formed itself after WW2 to become the Malayan Races Liberation Army (MRLA), the guerrillas were unusually well-uniformed and equipped with gear supplied by the British during the war and souvenired from the retreating Japanese. The Japanese invasion of the British colony of Malaya began…