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Between Two Eras The American Civil War and the...
When Confederate artillery opened fire on Fort Sumter in April 1861, most people on both sides expected a short war. Volunteer regiments were raised with the understanding that the whole...
Between Two Eras The American Civil War and the...
When Confederate artillery opened fire on Fort Sumter in April 1861, most people on both sides expected a short war. Volunteer regiments were raised with the understanding that the whole...
The age of nationalism - Wars of unification & ...
Between the failure of the Highland charge at Culloden in 1746 and the humiliation of France at Sedan in 1870, the Western world remade war from the ground up. The...
The age of nationalism - Wars of unification & ...
Between the failure of the Highland charge at Culloden in 1746 and the humiliation of France at Sedan in 1870, the Western world remade war from the ground up. The...
From Kalka to Mohi: The Mongol Conquest of the ...
There is a particular kind of terror that settled armies reserve for enemies they cannot pin down. The Persians felt it crossing the Scythian grasslands, chasing a foe that simply...
From Kalka to Mohi: The Mongol Conquest of the ...
There is a particular kind of terror that settled armies reserve for enemies they cannot pin down. The Persians felt it crossing the Scythian grasslands, chasing a foe that simply...
The Man Who Nearly Stopped Caesar: Vercingetori...
Caesar called it a war. His enemies called it a conquest. Eight campaigns across eight years, from the banks of the Rhône to the chalk cliffs of southern Britain, the...
The Man Who Nearly Stopped Caesar: Vercingetori...
Caesar called it a war. His enemies called it a conquest. Eight campaigns across eight years, from the banks of the Rhône to the chalk cliffs of southern Britain, the...
Thunder of Hooves Cavalry Warfare Across the Ages
There is a moment, well-documented in the accounts of soldiers who survived it, that precedes the cavalry charge by several seconds. Before the enemy is visible, before the command is...
Thunder of Hooves Cavalry Warfare Across the Ages
There is a moment, well-documented in the accounts of soldiers who survived it, that precedes the cavalry charge by several seconds. Before the enemy is visible, before the command is...
The Wall of Spears That No Army Could Break - U...
The ancient world invented formation warfare, and for six centuries it was the central problem of military thought. How do you take a group of individual men, each one frightened,...
The Wall of Spears That No Army Could Break - U...
The ancient world invented formation warfare, and for six centuries it was the central problem of military thought. How do you take a group of individual men, each one frightened,...