Category: Military
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2403 Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar waged campaigns of strategic boldness and tactical prudence. He fused himself into both head of state and military commander and in the chaos of the late republic, where it became nearly impossible to distinguish war as politics by other means, Caesar waged both war and politics. In his success was sown the seeds…
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2402 Mikhail Petrovic Devyataev
“Mikhail Petrovic Devyataev was the 13th child of a Moldovian blacksmith who provided one of the most extraordinary stories of World War 2. The Soviet pilot, captured by the Germans in July 1944, made an incredible escape from Usedom, an island on the Baltic coast, where Hitler’s V rockets were being made to return home,…
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2401 Fort Necessity and the Battle of Jumonville Glen
In the year 1754, twenty two year old George Washington was on a mission from the Governor of Virginia to enforce the colony’s land claim on the area of western Pennsylvania. The French forces had just built Fort Duquesne (modern day Pittsburgh) as a means to solidify their claim to the land. At this time…
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1509 Germanicus Caesar: Rome’s Most Popular General
Germanicus Caesar is a famous name in the annals of Roman military history yet his life story is known to remarkably few. It is a Boy’s Own tale of adventure, courage and derring-do, but it is also the chronicle of the man who was intended to be the third emperor of Rome, but never was.…
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1402 – The Battle of Carrhae, 53BC
In 53 B.C. a Roman army confronted a force one quarter its strength yet suffered Rome’s bloodiest defeat in more than a hundred years. The Battle of Carrhae pitted 40,000 Roman soldiers against an army of a mere 10,000 of the Parthian Empire on the sands of Mesopotamia. The humiliating loss rippled through Rome and…
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1103 Eager for Glory: The Untold Story of Drusus the Elder, Conqueror of Germania
The names of the Roman emperors Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius are well known, and so too are their stories. Hardly known at all is the story of Tiberius’ brother and Claudius’ father, the man known to historians as Drusus the Elder, who was considered in his own lifetime as an all-Roman hero, a potential successor…