910 The Battle of Quebec, 1759
The battle of Quebec was one of the culminating actions of the Seven Year’s War, and can be regarded as the climax in North America, from there on in the British would steal…
909 Genghis Khan and the Mongols
At its height stretching from Korea to Hungary, the mongol empire would be the largest continuous land empire in the history of the world! A tribesman would unify the tribes and like a…
908 Carthage
The Carthaginian power was built round trade, the city was founded in 814 BC on the coast of what is now Tunisia. At its height her merchants dominated the trade routes along the…
907 Clausewitz
Clausewitz is best remembered for his tome “On war”, and this came from a life immersed in the military from an early age. His writings have influenced leaders and military strategists from across…
906 Howitzer
Introduced first by the Swedes, the Howitzer, with a shorter barrel than a cannon, is ideal for indirect fire, but a barrel length longer than a mortar they can also be employed in…
905 The Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Midway
On the morning of 7th of December 1941 the Japanese launched Operation Z, the surprise attack on the American Naval base of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This was the start of the War in…
904 Medieval Warfare
Medieval Europe saw an array of wars and battles fought for a plethora of reasons; defensive wars fought against invading vikings or Ottoman Turks; wars of expansion such as the invasion of Britain…
903 The Aircraft Carrier
1903 saw the birth of fixed-wing aircraft. In January of 1912 Lieutenant Charles Samson flew a Shorts S27 biplane off a platform constructed on the stationary battleship H.M.S Africa. Just four months later,…
902 Baden-Powell & Mafeking
Colonel Robert Baden-Powell issued a proclamation to the small town of Mafeking on the 12th of October 1899 announcing the outbreak of the Boer War, the next day the town would be under…
901 The Battle of Ligny
Ligny would be the last victory Napoleon would have. Fought in 1815, with Qautre Bras it would be the prelude to Waterloo two days later, but the failure to seize an absolute victory…
