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…
