Written by
Stephen Turnbull on March 01, 2001
To the popular mind the notion of 'the samurai' never seems to change throughout Japanese history. My book Warrior 29: Ashigaru 1467–1649 (Osprey, 2001) shows how wrong this idea is...
Written by
René Chartrand on January 01, 2001
Five days after his very creditable performance at the siege of Toulon (see the Osprey Military Journal Issue 2.5), culminating in the town's surrender on 17 December 1793, Napoleon was promoted Brigadier-General. He was also named 'Inspector of the Coast', residing at Nice in the south of France...
Written by
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
Stephen Turnbull on January 01, 2001
Greater differences between knights and samurai arise when we turn from the technology of the military revolution to its more personal expression...
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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
Stephen Turnbull on November 01, 2000
In my book Men-at-Arms 105, The Mongols I made the comment that, because of the vast extent of the Mongol conquests, the Teutonic Knights of Germany and the samurai of Japan had in fact fought a common enemy, even though it was to be three more centuries before the two martial societies became aware of each other's existence...
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on July 01, 2000
On 9 September 1513, 34-year-old King James IV of Scotland, the last British monarch to die in battle, met his end at Flodden in one of the bloodiest encounters in the long centuries of conflict between England and her northern neighbour...
Written by
Carl Smith on July 01, 2000
For the Union, 1 July 1863 had been a bad day. General Robert E. Lee's Confederates had shoved the Army of the Potomac east and south from McPherson's Ridge and Oak Ridge out of Gettysburg and back to their 'fishhook' position on the high ground formed by the Round Tops, Cemetery Ridge and Hill, and Culp's Hill...
Written by
Stephen Turnbull on May 01, 2000
The siege and battle of Nagashino in 1575 together make up one of the pivotal events in samurai history. The army of the Takeda clan, who had been besieging the tiny but stubbornly defended fortress for nearly ten days, abandoned their siege lines to assault the army sent by Oda Nobunaga to relieve Nagashino...
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on September 01, 1999
The Oxford English Dictionary defines escalade as "the action of scaling the walls of a fortified place by the use of ladders". It rivals the cavalry charge as perhaps the most stirring, and often the most tragic, type of military action...