Early Modern | War History

Revolutionary War Tech: The Ferguson Rifle

Within the context of the use of small arms in linear warfare, the American Revolutionary War was a conflict dominated by the musket. Smoothbore muzzleloaders…

Finding Historical Treasure May Get New Rules on Britain’s Battlefields

Metal detecting in England has become a popular pastime.  With history to be found under almost any footstep in parts of England, there are many…

Tennessee Town Honors USCT Civil War Vets Long Forgotten

History has many hidden corners and blind spots, places where the official record is so swayed by ideological bias that historians of the future will…

The Knights Hospitaller and the Great Siege of Malta

In 1530, the Knights Hospitaller were given control of the island of Malta. 35 years later, in 1565, the Ottoman Empire invaded the island. The…

Port Miami, Ohio – Lost in the War of 1812, Found, and Lost Again

The War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain saw heavy fighting in the area of Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan along the…

Russia’s 1st Naval Victory – Defeating Sweden at the Battle of Gangut

The Great Northern War (1700 – 1721) pitted two great warrior leaders against one another for over 20 years – Peter I of Russia and…

True Cost Of War: Public Shock After Battle of Shiloh

In 1862, the American Civil War was in its second year, and many still believed it would come to a quick end. The Battle of…

Slavic Siegecraft in the South: Col. Tadeusz Kościuszko at Saratoga and Ninety-Six

Siegecraft, or the art and science of surrounding and isolating enemy forces within a town or fortress, was an important element of eighteenth-century conflict and…

Once the Greatest Army in Europe – The Black Army of Hungary

Matthew Gaskill

In the latter half of the 15th century, there was a superpower in Europe. It wasn’t France, and it wasn’t England. Spain would not rise…

Magnificent, but Not War: George B. McClellan in Crimea

The Crimean War holds a strange place in history. Remembered for a failed cavalry charge and a woman of mercy, the war paved the way…

Sowing the Seeds of Secession: The Southern Theater of the Revolutionary War

Mainstream history and conventional accounts of the Revolutionary War recall America’s battle for independence as a conflict predicated upon a popular uprising in North America.…

Sappers And Siege Engines – Ivan The Terrible Conquers The city Of Kazan

Jack Beckett

The army had been in place under the city walls for weeks. Ivan the Fourth, Tsar of all the Russians, accompanied his force in the…