Written by
Charles Stephenson on March 18, 2008
On 2 June 1879 Lord Chelmsford, Lieutenant-General commanding in South Africa, wrote to Colonel Frederick Arthur Stanley, who, despite his inferior military rank, was, as Secretary of State for War in Disraeli’s ...
Written by
Stephen L Hardin on September 01, 2001
All who are even remotely connected with the Alamo epic have basked in its glory. All, it seems, except Lieutenant Colonel James Clinton Neill. When remembered at all, historians have tended to judge him harshly. A picture emerges of a ...
Written by
Jon Latimer on May 01, 2001
In the West, deception is usually regarded as immoral, akin to lying. This contrasts sharply with the Marxist view which, believing in inevitable dialectic change, accepts that anything which promotes that change is desirable if not essential...
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on March 01, 2001
Sir Douglas Haig (1861–1928), Commander-in-Chief of the British Armies on the Western Front 1915–1918, has always been a controversial figure. One of the charges levelled against him is that he was obsessed with cavalry charges and opposed to tanks...
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on March 01, 2001
On the banks of the River Avon, overlooking the town of Warwick lies Warwick Castle, possibly the finest example of a medieval fortification in England. This has been a place of power and influence from before the Norman Conquest up until the final years of the 19th century...
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Elizabeth Von Aderkas on January 01, 2001
Captain George Pickett of Company D, Ninth Infantry, spent 3 August 1859 waiting for the British to wipe out his company on San Juan Island. In total, he commanded some 60 men with three brass field pieces...
Written by
David Nicolle on November 01, 2000
Like many Asian and African rulers, Muhammad Ali (1805—1848), ruler of Egypt, and his grandson Ismail (1863—79) believed that the only way to resist 19th-century Western imperialism was by a wholesale adoption of Western technology and military systems...
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on November 01, 2000
In 1835 the fledgling United States was faced with a major Indian rising in Florida. Consistent ill-treatment of the Seminoles and consistent encroachment of their lands created a volatile situation...
Written by
René Chartrand on November 01, 2000
Thanks to some shrewd branding, almost everyone knows 'The Brandy of Napoleon' is from the old French firm of Courvoisier. And yet there is no similar alcoholic association with his greatest and final battlefield opponent...
Written by
Mark Henry on March 01, 2000
China in 1900 was a powder keg of resentment. For 60 years the Europeans and Japanese, the 'foreign devils', had seized ports and declared sovereignty over more and more Chinese territory. They brought with them technological changes like the telegraph and railroad to 'modernise' the country...