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...
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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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.
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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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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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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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Gordon Williamson on November 01, 2001
The U-Boat badge can trace its origins back to the days of the Kaiser's Navy. It was first introduced on 1 February 1918 to reward those U-Boat crews who had participated in at least three war cruises against the enemy. The badge consisted of ...
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Martin Marix Evans on September 03, 2001
Tales of buried treasure on what the villagers believed was the site of the Battle of Toothole led to so much unauthorised digging on Cuttle Mill Bank in the 1930s that, according to ...
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on July 01, 2001
Augustus had gradually pushed Rome’s eastern European frontier to the Danube. But a frontier consisting of the Rhine and the Danube made a very long and devious line, including a right angle along their upper courses. An Elbe-Danube line would ...