1010 The Hawker Hurricane
While many have a nostalgic love affair with the Spitfire, and rightly so, and many view it as synonymous with the Battle of Brittain – and it was – it was in fact…
1009 Pancho Villa
Fancisco “pancho” Villa’s journey though his 45 years of life certainly wasn’t ordinary! Born a humble peasant, he became an outlaw, a revolutionary, the Americans invaded Mexico in pursuit of him, before eventually…
1008 Napoleon’s Marshals
The day after Napoleon proclaimed France an Empire and volunteered himself as Emperor, in 1804, he elevated 18 men to the status of Marshal’s of the Empire. All were from the military but…
1007 Midget Submarines
The idea for submarines had been around throughout the 19th century but it was only during the First World War that they were a viable weapon. These early craft were used basically as…
1006 Audie Murphy
Audie Murphy came from humble begins to find fame during the second world war. After a number of heroic actions and feats of dering-do he finished the war as Americas most highly decorated…
1005 Battle of the River Plate
The Graf Spee at the outset of the second world war was one of the most modern and feared ships of the German fleet. A Deutschland class cruiser, what the British refered to…
1004 A History of the Rocket Troop
Two new troops of Artillery were formed in 1813 and were armed with the new rockets, which General Congreve had been developing, testing, and advocating for some years previously. Rockets were cheap and…
1003 Lettow-Vorbeck and the defence of German East Africa pt.2
This is the second part of our story of Lettow-Vorbeck and his defence of Africa during the First World War. Persuaded by the British he skilfully avoids being pinned down.
1002 Lettow-Vorbeck and the defence of German East Africa pt.1
The lasting image of the First World War is that of trench warfare. However, far away from the trenches of the Western Front an extraordinary struggle was fought in a remote corner of…
1001 The Siege of Lucknow
In 1857 the Indian troops of the British East India Company mutinied at the town of Meerut, this would be the spark that triggered rebellion throughout British controlled central and northern India. Within…
