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The Last Knight and the First Gunner: Renaissan...
The morning mist hung heavy over the fields near Pavia on February 24, 1525, as King Francis I of France watched in growing horror as his grand army, the flower...
The Last Knight and the First Gunner: Renaissan...
The morning mist hung heavy over the fields near Pavia on February 24, 1525, as King Francis I of France watched in growing horror as his grand army, the flower...

Command the High Seas: Strategic naval gaming i...
Picture the scene as dawn breaks on October 21, 1805, over the rolling Atlantic swells off the southwestern coast of Spain. The morning mist begins to lift, revealing one of...
Command the High Seas: Strategic naval gaming i...
Picture the scene as dawn breaks on October 21, 1805, over the rolling Atlantic swells off the southwestern coast of Spain. The morning mist begins to lift, revealing one of...

192 years of Battle of Ponte Ferreira 23 july 1832
The Battle of Ponte Ferreira, taking place over the 22nd and 23rd of July 1832, marked the first large-scale confrontation of the Portuguese Civil War, setting the forces of Dom...
192 years of Battle of Ponte Ferreira 23 july 1832
The Battle of Ponte Ferreira, taking place over the 22nd and 23rd of July 1832, marked the first large-scale confrontation of the Portuguese Civil War, setting the forces of Dom...

The German gamble, from Holy Rome to French Empire
In the summer of 1806, Napoleon Bonaparte stood at the pinnacle of his power, dissolving the thousand-year-old Holy Roman Empire with the stroke of a pen and forging something entirely...
The German gamble, from Holy Rome to French Empire
In the summer of 1806, Napoleon Bonaparte stood at the pinnacle of his power, dissolving the thousand-year-old Holy Roman Empire with the stroke of a pen and forging something entirely...

130 Ships, 3,000 Cannon, one Storm: The Spanish...
The morning of July 19th, 1588, dawned gray and restless over the Cornish coast near the Lizard peninsula. Captain Thomas Fleming, commanding the bark Golden Hind, had been playing bowls...
130 Ships, 3,000 Cannon, one Storm: The Spanish...
The morning of July 19th, 1588, dawned gray and restless over the Cornish coast near the Lizard peninsula. Captain Thomas Fleming, commanding the bark Golden Hind, had been playing bowls...

Byzantium, the empire that stood guard over med...
The morning sun cast long shadows across the dusty plain as two great armies faced each other near the fortress city of Dara in 530 CE. On one side stood...
Byzantium, the empire that stood guard over med...
The morning sun cast long shadows across the dusty plain as two great armies faced each other near the fortress city of Dara in 530 CE. On one side stood...