10 Fascinating Facts About Custer and His Last Stand – Little Big Horn
In most cases, movies based on real incidents tend to make those events more exciting. Not so in the case of Custer’s Last Stand. Of…
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…
Lt. Presley O’Bannon, the Marine Corps Mameluke Sword, and the Shores of Tripoli Before It Was a Hymn
One can say many things about the United States Marine Corps, but one can’t say that these mighty warriors of the modern era do not…
The longest kill shot ever recorded in the history of warfare – Afghanistan, 2009
A corporal of the Horse and a member of the elite British Household Cavalry unit holds the record for achieving the longest kill shot ever…
The Origins and History of The Last Post
Chances are, you have heard the notes of the Last Post. The lone notes, played by a military bugler, trumpeting the notes of the song…
Development of the Awe-inspiring Triple Walls of Constantinople
The great city of Constantinople was one of the most impressive and impregnable cities in the world for over 1,000 years. It retained the glory…
How Climate Change Helped the Swedes March Across A Frozen Sea And Defeat The Danes
It all started in 1655 during the Second Northern War. Sweden was fighting against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Russia, Brandenburg-Prussia, the Habsburg Monarchy, Denmark-Norway, and sometimes,…
Medal of Honor Recipient Kyle Carpenter and the Men Who Jumped On Live Grenades Before Him
Despite what the movies might tell you, an exploding grenade doesn’t create a large fireball from which the receiving soldiers must jump into a body…
Royal Marine Threw Himself on a Grenade, Walked Away with a Bloody Nose and the George Cross
He shouldn’t have lived. And in fact, if you were to ask him, he would tell you that at the time he thought for sure…
Thwarting the British Empire’s Sunset: The Battle of Kalunga, 1814
By Frank Jastrzembski 1814 was an important year in the British Empire. The Allied Sixth Coalition forces defeated the armies of Napoleon and forced him…
WWII and Monopoly, how it helped captured Airmen escape!
The board game called Monopoly had really come a long way since it was first mass-produced in America in 1934. The game is basically…
Johnny Horton: American War Balladeer Taught History Through Music
Johnny Horton, known also as “The Singing Fisherman”, led a life as adventurous and interesting as his storied songs. He grew up in Texas and…