The HMS Intrepid, Falkland War Veteran
The Proud HMS Intrepid and her forty year saga that took her through the Cold War, to the Falklands, to eBay.
In the past 250-years...
The Greatest Deception of All Time: Britain, Ultra, and D-Day
D-Day was, probably, the most decisive battle of the Second World War. It was the largest amphibious invasion of all time - over 155,000...
The Battle of the Pyramids: Napoleon’s Defeat of Mamluk Forces of Murad and Ibrahim...
Fought on July 21, 1798, the Battle of the Pyramids was fought between the invading French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte and...
Famous Recycled Ship Names of the US Navy
Many ship names such as the Hornet, Wasp and Enterprise have been reused over the past 200 years to keep heritage alive in...
The White Russian Armies 1917-1923
The White Russian Armies were a loose coalition of anti-Bolshevik forces that fought against the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, which lasted...
Indian Wars Battles: The Hayfield Fight
The Hayfield Fight of 1867 was a battle pitting Sioux and Cheyenne warriors against the US Army in a feat of courage, good...
Hadrian’s Wall: Rome’s Northernmost Frontier
The massive, 73-mile (118 Km) long project, in Scotland, served to protect the territory conquered by the legions from the problematic Picts up north.
Nobody...
The Napoleonic Wars and Guerrilla Tactics: The Iberian Peninsula and Unconventional Warfare
During the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon's occupation of the Iberian Peninsula prompted one of the greatest outbreaks of unconventional warfare in military history.
In July 1807,...
The Red Army 1917-1923
Formed from mutinous soldiers, armed factory workers and peasant conscripts, the Red Army prevailed through force of arms in the six-year-long Russian Civil War.
When...
Czech Volunteers in Russia WWI
The Czech Legion started from humble beginnings in 1914 and ended up as one of the last reliable units on the World War One...