1204 Harry Smith
Lieutenant General Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith, 1st Baronet of Aliwal was one of the most incredible soldiers of the British Empire making his name during the Napoleonic Peninsular Campaign, where he would…
1203 Betrayed by a Mason? The Tragic Mission of Lieutenant Thomas Boyd
In the summer of 1779, American Major General John Sullivan marched his 5,000 Continentals into the Finger Lakes region of western New York. Known as Sullivan’s Expedition, it was the longest military campaign…
1202 Bien Bien Phu
On May 7th 1954 the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu surrendered to Ho Chi Minh’s Communist forces. For the last 54 days it had been cut off and the surrender was the…
1201 The Varangian Guard
The Late Roman Empire and its successor state, the Byzantine Empire, relied heavily on mercenary units to make up the bulk of their armies, as well as personal bodyguards to the emperors. The…
1110 Sniper
Gallinago gallinago otherwise known as the Snipe, is a wading bird with a very long narrow bill. Camouflage may enable the snipe to remain undetected by hunters in marshland. If the snipe flies,…
1109 The Formation of Iraq Part 2: Gertrude Bell
Now in control of much of the Middle East, the British occupied the land with little thought of the future. “The Secretary of State for India had asked her opinion on which way…
1108 The Formation of Iraq Part 1: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire
In 1918, after years of devastating warfare, the Ottoman Empire finally collapsed and the British, expanding into the Middle East, attempted to control the area. However, the area proved to be too vast…
1107 Robert E Lee (part 2)
The wounding of Joseph Johnston at the battle of Seven Pines in 1862 gave General Lee his first major field command with the Army of North Virginia, the coming year would catapult him…
1106 Robert E Lee (part 1)
Robert E Lee commanded the Confederate forces to their defeat during the American civil war in doing so he created a myth around himself, he was a statesmen, a gentleman, a great commander…
1105 The Anglo-Irish War
The Anglo-Irish conflict of 1919-21 is a deeply complicated and contradictory issue in Irish history. This is reflected in the fact that there is no agreed title for it: it is variously referred…
