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When Ten Thousand Hooves Shook Europe

The morning mist clung to the Hungarian plains near the Sajó River as King Béla IV's forces took position, their colorful banners snapping in the April wind of 1241. Across...

When Ten Thousand Hooves Shook Europe

The morning mist clung to the Hungarian plains near the Sajó River as King Béla IV's forces took position, their colorful banners snapping in the April wind of 1241. Across...

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Honor, Discipline, and Gunpowder: Understanding...

The thunder of hooves across Hakata Bay's sandy beaches announced an invasion unlike anything Japan had ever faced. It was October 1274, and Kublai Khan's Mongol fleet had brought 30,000...

Honor, Discipline, and Gunpowder: Understanding...

The thunder of hooves across Hakata Bay's sandy beaches announced an invasion unlike anything Japan had ever faced. It was October 1274, and Kublai Khan's Mongol fleet had brought 30,000...

Against Impossible Odds: Recreating Rorke's Drift's 12-Hour Siege

Against Impossible Odds: Recreating Rorke's Dri...

The dust cloud on the horizon told Lieutenant John Chard everything he needed to know. It was late afternoon on January 22, 1879, and the small mission station at Rorke's...

Against Impossible Odds: Recreating Rorke's Dri...

The dust cloud on the horizon told Lieutenant John Chard everything he needed to know. It was late afternoon on January 22, 1879, and the small mission station at Rorke's...

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Colonial Warfare - The Anglo-Zulu War

The acrid smoke of gunpowder drifts across the makeshift hospital courtyard as Lieutenant Chard peers through the darkness toward the distant hills. It is just past midnight on January 23,...

Colonial Warfare - The Anglo-Zulu War

The acrid smoke of gunpowder drifts across the makeshift hospital courtyard as Lieutenant Chard peers through the darkness toward the distant hills. It is just past midnight on January 23,...

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The forgotten war that forged Portugal's soul

The Atlantic breeze carried both hope and uncertainty as Dom Pedro's expedition approached the Portuguese coast near Mindelo on July 8, 1832. Through the pre-dawn darkness, 7,500 liberal exiles peered...

The forgotten war that forged Portugal's soul

The Atlantic breeze carried both hope and uncertainty as Dom Pedro's expedition approached the Portuguese coast near Mindelo on July 8, 1832. Through the pre-dawn darkness, 7,500 liberal exiles peered...

The Last Knight and the First Gunner: Renaissance Warfare at the Crossroads of Time

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...