In my studies of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) and the Marine Brigade in WWI, I came across a few mentions of the battle at Blanc Mont. I was intrigued by one quote of Marshal Pétain's that this battle was...
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Stephen Turnbull on March 18, 2008
Through the art and science of heraldry, the armies of different ages and different regions around the world have been able to distinguish friend from foe in the confusion of battle. The practices employed have ranged from ...
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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 ...
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on March 17, 2008
"NUTS!" . . . With one now very famous reply to a German demand for surrender, the American garrisonholed up in Bastogne, Belgium, on 22 December 1944 ...
What would Claudius's legions have eaten and drunk on campaign and in their barracks? According to Simon Macdowall in Warrior 9: Late Roman Infantryman 236–565 AD, the daily ration of a legionary in Egypt was ...
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Stephen A Hart on March 01, 2002
'Ostheer: January-July 1943 Defensive recovery and offensive disaster' described how the German Army threw away the precious strategic reserve husbanded by Heinz Guderian during spring 1943 in their ill-conceived July 1943 ‘Citadel’ offensive ...
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Nicholas Sekunda on January 01, 2002
The diet of the ancient greek soldier was rather different than his modern counterpart.
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Gordon L Rottman on January 01, 2002
The Kamikaze concept was proposed by Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi, commanding the 1st Air Fleet on Luzon, on 19 October 1944 as a means of attacking and ensuring the destruction of American carriers. Kamikaze means ...
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Stephen A Hart on January 01, 2002
1943 was the pivotal year in Germany’s ideological struggle against the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front, the principal theatre in which the fate of Hitler’s supposed 1,000-year Reich was decided. This is the first of two ...
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Ian MacPherson McCulloch on January 01, 2002
Though the Roman army was the first to practice organised military medicine on a large scale, the need to care for the wounded had existed since tribes and city-states had first taken up arms and made war upon one another.