Not a Battle But a Slaughter Secured The Ottoman Expansion On the Balkan Peninsula
It was in the beginning of a cold Autumn. The year was 1371. Near the village of Chernomen, two despots led their army against the…
50 Amazing Photos of the Operation Bagration, 22 June 1944
On the 22nd of June 1944, Operation Bagration began. Three years after Operation Barbarossa, Russia was taking the fight to the Germans. The operation was…
Leonardo’s War Machines – Did The Italian Genius Deliberately Sabotage His Own Design?
Born in the Tuscan town of Vinci on the 15th of April, 1452, Leonardo Da Vinci is perhaps best known as the painter of the…
Top 10 Things To See When Visiting The D-Day Beaches In Normandy
Normandy’s WW2 and D-Day museums are filled with a wealth of artefacts and information about the events of 1944. Some museums such as the American…
1904-5 The Russo-Japanese War: Japan Shatters Russia’s Navy and Global Perceptions
While Japan is today known as a leading nation in terms of technology, this was not the case in the late 19th and early 20th…
The Tragedy Of The Russian Submarine “Kursk” – A Naval Disaster For Russia In The Year 2000
The Kursk submarine disaster was the largest naval tragedy ever to happen in the Russian Federation during peacetime. The country had been experiencing a lot of…
5 Epic retreats in Military History
Can a retreat ever be considered a success? Most are a sign of failure, as armies pull back from the objectives they seek to take…
The Disastrous Roman Campaign of Carrhae
In the middle of summer, 53 BCE the Roman Triumvir Crassus was severely defeated in his campaign into the lands of the Parthian Empire. His…
50 Breathtaking Photos of the Operation Barbarossa, 22 June 1941
In June 1941, Operation Barbarossa began, setting off a bloodbath that was supposed to bring the Soviet Union to its knees. Yet when Adolf Hitler…
1898: Spanish at Guam Thought the Attacking USS Charleston Fired Salute Shots & Asked For Gunpowder To Return the Gesture
Manning a remote island fort, seemingly without any imminent danger on the horizon, must have made for a fairly comfortable post. That was the situation on…
From The Roman Republic to the Third Reich: 4 Other Battles Fought at Thermopylae
The Battle of Thermopylae was quite the epic stand. We have talked about the bravery of the Spartans a thousand times over and made multiple…
10 Biggest Nuclear Explosions
Most of us have seen footage or photographs of the explosions at Nagasaki and Hiroshima: the mushroom cloud, the radius, the devastation. Those, however, were…