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Pre-Dreadnought Battleships in World War One

When the British Royal Navy launched the HMS Dreadnought in 1906, battleship design was transformed. This one ship was so powerful that everything preceding it…

Dog Tags – Lost and Found

They began with little more than an administrative importance but immediately became the dearest of keepsakes. The trifling piece of identification that would eventually morph…

Naval Battle of Elli: Greeks Defeat the Ottomans

Although few major military conflicts occurred in the decade preceding World War I, the Balkan Wars initiated the fall of the Ottoman Empire were a…

New Exclusive Tours Explore Battlefields of World Wars in France

The National WWII Museum is taking travelers to the battlefields of France – which saw combat during World War I and World War II –…

Artillery Beasts – Railway Guns in 33 pictures

The idea of creating a huge-caliber gun on a railway platform dates from the 1800s when trains revolutionized the transport industry, but these Goliaths reached…

ANZAC “History War” Debates Australia’s Role

War history is often a hotly-debated subject, and this is particularly true among historians in Australia, where “history wars” persist years and decades after the…

Battlefield Gallipoli – From Troy to the Anzacs

Few spots in the world boast a history of conflict to match the Gallipoli region of Turkey. Troy, sitting on the Asian side and looking…

Finding Historical Treasure May Get New Rules on Britain’s Battlefields

Metal detecting in England has become a popular pastime.  With history to be found under almost any footstep in parts of England, there are many…

WWI Aircraft a Hit at Paris Event – Les Invalides Behind The Scenes

In this year of the RAF’s 100th anniversary, the Museum is proud to be working closely alongside The Royal Air Force and other significant international…

The Scars of WWI: This Too Shall Pass

There is a hidden side to war that historians have only been able to see just recently due to our enhanced ability to both record…

The U.S. 1st Division at Cantigny 1918 Remembered

The average person has almost certainly never heard of the Battle of Cantigny that took place on May 28th, 1918. However, it was the first…

Amazing Story of Gun Running in the Turkish War of Independence – The Alemdar

War History Online presents this article from Jack Snowden The source for the adventurous tales of the Alemdar are two ship’s logs, the first of…