Jack Beckett

Jack Beckett has been editor since 2012. Huge fan of war history and rural history and a motorbike rider.

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Articles by Jack Beckett:

When Cavalry Captured A Fleet Trapped In Ice – A Unique Event In Military History

Fifty miles north of Amsterdam in the depths of the freezing winter of 1795, a fleet lay at anchor. It sat upon the Zuiderzee, a…

The Unstoppable Highland Charge – First Blood in the Jacobite Rising of 1745

Charles Edward Stuart landed on a tiny island off the north-west coast of Scotland with seven others in July of the year 1745. He was…

The last battle of the Vikings On The West Coast Of Scotland

It was the age of the Great Mongol Khans. It was the age of Byzantium, of the Holy Roman Empire. The wars of the Reconquista…

Longbow and Broadsword in WW2 – The Early Service Of Fighting or “Mad Jack” Churchill

To those he fought beside, Jack Churchill seemed like a man without fear, but to those he faced in combat, he was a terrifying figure,…

One of the last SS units to hold out defending Hitler’s bunker in Berlin was comprised entirely of Frenchmen

The French volunteers of the Second World War constituted an entirely separate division in the Wehrmacht and after that the Waffen-SS which consisted of units…

Greatest Mysteries of WWII – They Were Ahead of the Curve, Top Secret Weapons Of Nazi Germany

Towards the end of World War II, Nazi scientists and engineers were working on a number of destructive and innovative devices. The Germans were losing…

Nelsons Heroic Death at Trafalgar 1805

Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson was the pride of the fleet, the pride of his captains and his men, and of the public at home. The third…

The Thrown is Mine Give it to Me: William the Conqueror’s superior strategy at Hastings, 1066

Across a short, steep, grassy slope in the cold light of the bright October sun, two heavily armed bodies of men faced each other. They…

The Battle of Karnal: Cannon Mounted Camels v War Elephants

Nader’s dark eyes flashed fiercely and his black beard bristled as he watched the decimated Mughal infantry crash into his centre. He was stationed with…

Frederick the Great, Defeating A Superior Enemy: Leuthen, 1757

The snow muffled all sound save the moan of the wind. The winter skeletons of trees showed black against the blank canvas. Grey sky heavy…

Top Secret: US Naval Base At Ulithi Was For A Time The World’s Largest Naval Facility

On March 1945, the largest convoy of US Navy ships and personnel sailed from a base in the Pacific Ocean. Where was this base? This monumental…

Teddy Roosevelt & The Charge of the Rough Riders at the Battle of San Juan Heights

Roosevelt’s Rough Riders had been taking fire all morning. They were pinned down, lying flat in the negligible cover of the reeds, rushes and tall…