Single Combat At The Siege of Bayonne, 1131AD
Pedro de Lara was bored. His had lived a full life, a life of personal pride and skill at arms, of politics, wine and of…
John D. Bulkeley, Commander of the USS Endicott – A daring attack in WWII
On August 17, 1944, the USS Endicott, captained by Lieutenant Commander John D. Bulkeley, blew up two German ships, using only a single 5” gun.…
Hideki Tojo – Japanese WWII Prime Minister – Controversial To This Day
Hideki Tojo, a general and a politician, was the true representative of the Japanese expansionist policy in China in the first half of the 20th…
When the American Civil War Broke Out, Another Civil War Had Been Raging In China For 11 Years
Almost at the same time that the American Civil War was taking place, another kind of civil war was occurring on the other side of…
Battle of Bibracte: Sending the Swiss to Switzerland
Caesar is perhaps most famous for his rise to power in Rome through the lengthy civil wars. Roman armies fighting each other made for interesting…
Battle Of WWI Merchant Raiders: HMS Alcantara v SMS Greif
On February 27, 1916, the Norwegian cargo ship Rena steamed out of Cuxhaven on Germany’s North Sea coast. In peacetime, this would not have been…
The Dawn of the Submarine: U-21 sinks HMS Pathfinder
In 1914 submarines were still a novel idea. Many nations had not utilized them until 1900, Germany not until 1906. Soon their worth would be…
The Man in This Image: Refusing To Abandon The Wounded, Chaplain Emil Kapaun Remained Behind to Care for His Men And Died in a Korean POW Camp
He didn’t carry a weapon, he wasn’t there to fight, but that didn’t stop chaplain Emil Kapaun from earning the nation’s highest military honor for…
The American landings at Utah Beach were among the easiest – 5 very different experiences: The D-Day beaches
The experiences of Allied troops landing on D-Day were very different. The paratroopers scattered by poor weather across hundreds of miles of countryside faced different…
FUSAG: Patton’s D-Day Army That Didn’t Exist
An army can help win a war without even existing. Strange as that may seem, this is exactly what happened in the case of the First United…
Some of the Very Different Opponents Faced by Victorian British Armies
Maintaining your status as a global power is no easy thing. The British Victorian Army was one of the best equipped and most experienced in…
After the Nuremberg Trials, Spandau Prison Was Dedicated To Holding 7 Nazi War Criminals
In the borough of Spandau on Berlin’s west side, there sits a shopping complex on Wilhelmstraße that was once a shopping and leisure fixture for…