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Our Imogen Is Just Too Cavalier! Mark Barnes spent a few freezing cold hours in Chatham with our friends from Wargaming

I get to do some daft stuff for War History Online but I am not sure standing about on a warship while it is blowing…

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

Jack Beckett

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…

Hitlers Homes In The UK – By Geoff Moore

Had World War II finished with a victory for Hitler landmark buildings around London and Great Britain were certainly on his shopping list for use…

The Battle of Karnal: Cannon Mounted Camels v War Elephants

Jack Beckett

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…

Isandlwana 1879: Spear-wielding Zulu Warriors Surround and Destroy British Riflemen

During the 19th century, the sun did not set on the globe-spanning British Empire. It was not an inherently evil institution, and many good was…

Honda Point Disaster: Where 7 Destroyers and 23 Sailors Were Lost In The Largest Peacetime Loss Of U.S. Navy Ships

Shahan Russell

Point Pedernales in Santa Barbara, California is also called Honda Point, but the Spanish who discovered it in the 16th century named it the Devil’s…

The Glorious First of June Broke One Of The Rules By Which We Understand Battles

Andrew Knighton

The Glorious First of June broke one of the rules by which we understand battles – that there can be only one winner. After the…

The Storm That Saved Washington From The British In 1814

Shahan Russell

In 1814, several European armies invaded France to put an end to Napoleon – the very year that the British attacked the American capital, Washington,…

Under Attack By 300 Taliban, Wounded SSgt Carter Repeatedly Crossed 100yrds Of Open Ground To Resupply Perimeter & Coordinate Defense

The Battle of Kamdesh would be one of the costliest battles for the Americans of the entire Afghanistan conflict and see an American outpost partially…

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

Jack Beckett

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…

“Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the six hundred” – By Mistake

The Charge of the Light Brigade was a relatively minor engagement, in a single battle of a rather pointless war, that was put under a…

Starving Their Own Men: Britain’s Epic Supply Failure in the Crimea

Andrew Knighton

The very least a soldier expects when sent on a campaign is to be fed, clothed and given the necessary equipment to carry out their…