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Battles
The Men Who Made and Unmade the Roman Republic: Titus Herminius Aquilinus and the Last Stand That Saved Rome
When Surrounded US Marines Requested Ammunition and Got Tootsie Rolls Instead
The Sinking of the Scharnhorst: Ending Germany’s Surface Fleet Threat in WWII
The Little-Known 1977 Four Day War Between Egypt and Libya: A Turning Point in Middle Eastern Geopolitics
Bloody April, 1917: British Airmen’s Grimmest Stretch of WWI
Convoy HG 76: First Allied Victory Against Hitler’s U-boats, and Turning Point in the Battle of the Atlantic
The Fokker Scourge: The WWI Stretch of German Aerial Dominance that Birthed Fighter Combat Principles
E-Boat vs Motor Torpedo Boat: WWII’s Terrifying Small Craft War Within a War
The Revenge of Phanes of Halicarnassus, the Ancient World’s Most Influential Mercenary
The Battle of Towton: The Biggest and Bloodiest Battle Fought on English Soil
When Britain Turned on its Recent WWII Ally and Destroyed an Anchored French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir
Ephialtes of Trachis: The Traitor Who Doomed the Spartans at Thermopylae
Semaine Sanglante, or Bloody Week: The Brutal Suppression of the Paris Commune
Patton’s Transformation of II Corps: Restoring the Confidence of Defeated and Demoralized GIs
WWII Battle of Los Angeles Panic: The Night LA Was Engulfed by Hysteria and Wild Antiaircraft Firing
The 1916 Columbus Raid: When Pancho Villa Attacked an American Town
The Polish No. 303 Squadron: The Battle of Britain’s Deadliest Pilots
The Raid on the Medway: When the Dutch Humiliated the English Navy in its Home
Battle of the Severn: The English Civil War’s Last Battle Was Fought in America
Khalid ibn al-Walid, the Formidable General Who Beat Both the Byzantines and Persians
Fighting Women: Khawla bint Al Azwar, the Muslim Mulan
Operation Bertram: Deceiving the Desert Fox With Dummy Tanks and Illusions
The Son Tay Raid: A Daring Special Forces Assault to Rescue American POWs in North Vietnam
The Destruction of Convoy PQ 17: One of WWII’s Worst Allied Naval Disasters
Tariq ibn Ziyad: The Military Prodigy Who Conquered Spain, and Ended Up a Destitute Beggar
History’s Shortest War: The 38-Minute Anglo-Zanzibar War
The Bombardment of Ellwood: The WWII Japanese Shelling of California that Plunged the West Coast Into Panic
Basil Plumley, the Legendary US Army Command Sergeant Major Who Fought in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam
10 of History’s Worst Examples of Bad Generalship
The Bay of Pigs: Mistakes That Transformed an Invasion Into a Fiasco
The Battle of Surigao Strait: History’s Last Battleship Clash
The Battle of Moscow, 1941: History’s Biggest Ever Battle, and WWII’s Most Important Contest
George Washington’s Sense of Humor: Cracking Jokes While Crossing the Delaware
‘Don’t Worry About It’: Kermit Tyler, the Officer Who Ignored Radar Warning of Japanese Planes Approaching Pearl Harbor
Piet Hein: The Dutchman Who Captured the Spanish Treasure Fleet
The Thin Red Line: A Heroic Stand and Enduring Image of British Military History
Frederic John Walker, the Captain Who Created the Tactics That Defeated Hitler’s U-Boats
Flower-class Corvettes: The Unglamorous Ships that Averted Allied Defeat in WWII
The Gauls’ Sack of Rome, 387 BC: A Humiliation the Romans Never Forgot
Harry Hotspur: The Medieval Knight English Premier League’s Tottenham Hotspur FC is Named After
Who Shot Down the Red Baron? An Enduring Aviation Controversy
The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot: The Destruction of Japan’s WWII Naval Aviation
Operation Creek: A Daring WWII Raid by Over the Hill and Aged Volunteers
The Sacred Band of Thebes: The Elite Gay Warriors Who Crushed the Spartans
The Battle of Agincourt – The Most Stunning English Victory of the Hundred Years War
Joan of Arc at the Siege of Orleans: A Victory That Transformed France
Operation Downfall: The Planned Allied Invasion of Japan
Things That Weren’t Thought Through: The Upgrade That Sank the Mary Rose, King Henry VIII’s Flagship
The 1942 Independence Day Raid: America Starts Bombing the Nazis
‘The Saipan Stare’ Weary Marine Photo, and its Unfortunate Controversy
The Paratrooper Who Led His Men Into Battle Carrying an Umbrella
Fighting Women: Joan of Arc, the Teenager Who Saved France, and Was Abandoned by Her Countrymen
Young Warriors: Orion P. Howe Earned a Medal of Honor at Age Fourteen
Napoleon’s Double Agent Karl Schulmeister Led an Army to Destruction With Fake Newspapers
‘The River of Blood’: A Mysterious US Civil War Battle Historians Can’t Corroborate
Benjamin Grierson, an Outstanding US Civil War Cavalry Commander, Feared and Hated Horses
Battles That Shaped the World: The 1529 Siege of Vienna Was the Closest That Muslim Armies Ever Came to Conquering Europe
Operation Tidal Wave: The ‘Black Sunday’ of WWII American Bombers
WWII’s Operation Cottage – When the Allies Suffered Hundreds of Casualties Invading an Undefended Island
Hannibal’s Victory at the Battle of Cannae Has Been Studied for Centuries as an Example of the “Perfect Battle”
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