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Ask MHQ: Who Was Known as the General of Europe?

Published: May 03, 2011 at 5:00 am
Was Prince Francis Eugene of Savoy and Carignan—a favorite of Napoleon's and Frederick the Great—"the General of Europe"?

Book Review: The Crimean War

Published: May 03, 2011 at 5:00 am
Scholar Jeremy Black takes on Orlando Figes's new history of the Crimean War.

Book Reviews: MHQ Notable Books, Summer 2011

Published: May 03, 2011 at 5:00 am
New releases look at Hannibal, Britain in the Middle East, and the rise and fall of airpower.

Meuse-Argonne Image Gallery

MHQ | Published: May 03, 2011 at 4:55 am
Gallery of images from the Meuse-Argonne offensive in World War I.

Your Nations Shall Be Exterminated

Don Cutler | Published: March 29, 2011 at 1:58 pm
MHQ recently won honors for this story about how the U.S. Army pacified the Northwest Indians.

Civil War Soldiers: Decimated by Disease

Glenn W. LaFantasie | Published: March 08, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Not long after the Civil War opened in 1861, measles cut down the ranks of an Alabama infantry unit like a biblical plague or the medieval Black Death.

Calm Before the Storm: 8th Georgia Infantry Regiment in the Northern Shenandoah Valley, 1861

Warren Wilkinson and Steven E. Woodworth | Published: March 08, 2011 at 1:34 pm
After Virginia's secession in 1861 and the start of the Civil War, General Joseph E. Johnston and his men experienced an idyllic summer in the northern Shenandoah Valley.

Building the Army of the Potomac

Stephen W. Sears | Published: March 08, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Stephen Sears writes of how the Army of the Potomac's politically appointed generals and short-term volunteer troops nearly unhinged Lincoln’s plans in 1861 to win the Civil War.

Blackbeard's Last Battle

Colin Woodard | Published: March 03, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Long before the Somali pirates, there was Blackbeard. In 1718, he met his match in a former British privateer.

The Truth About Devil Boats

MHQ | Published: February 08, 2011 at 7:23 pm
During World War II, adroit navy public relations and obliging media coverage wrapped PT boats in glamour. Initially designed for dangerous nighttime attacks on much larger Japanese warships, the boats came to be seen as intrepid little heroes, America’s Davids taking on Japan’s Goliaths of the sea.

The Kennedy Curse in World War II

Published: February 08, 2011 at 7:18 pm
Though John F. Kennedy emerged from World War II as a national hero, he thought of the war years as a dark period for his family. “It turned [us] upside down and sucked all the oxygen out of our smug and comfortable assumptions,” he said.

Book Review: George Washington's First War

Thomas Fleming | Published: February 08, 2011 at 7:16 pm
David A. Clary's new book is an unflattering portrait of Washington's leadership in the French and Indian War.

Fighting Words: Commanding Attention

Christine Ammer | Published: February 08, 2011 at 7:15 pm
MHQ lexicographer, Christine Ammer, considers vivid phrases of military leaders.

Robert E. Lee Takes Charge

Jeffrey D. Wert | Published: February 08, 2011 at 7:12 pm
General George McClellan thought he was timid. Newspapers called him ‘Granny Lee.’ But once in command, the General Robert E. Lee attacked quickly and boldly.

Ask MHQ—North or South: Whose Was the Army of the Rebellion?

Peter E. Cozzens | Published: February 08, 2011 at 7:10 pm
Nowadays "Army of the Rebellion" is most commonly used to refer to the Confederates, but during the American Civil War the term was often applied to the Union forces as well.

Constitution vs. Guerrière: America's Coming Out Party

Stephen Budiansky | Published: February 08, 2011 at 7:06 pm
In August 1812, Captain Isaac Hull in the American frigate Constitution dismasted the Royal Navy's Guerrière in a resounding victory that helped the U.S. Navy hold its own for nearly three years against the mightiest sea power on earth.
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