To deal with allies of his late rival Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus in North Africa, Gaius Julius Caesar came, he adapted and he conquered.
By Jonas Goldstein
To deal with allies of his late rival Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus in North Africa, Gaius Julius Caesar came, he adapted and he conquered.
By Jonas Goldstein
Keeping the famed Afrika Korps supplied during its desert blitzkrieg was a logistical nightmare for the German high command. Allied forces were determined to deny Field Marshal Albert Kesselring’s fleet of huge transport planes access to North Africa.
By Vincent Cortright
The sea at the mouth of the strait was filled with ships both large […]
Called thugs, cutthroats, ‘Braves,’ the ‘Black Devils’ and the ‘Devil’s Brigade,’ the soldiers of the U.S.-Canadian 1st Special Service Force may also have been some of the finest fighting men of all time.
President George Washington watched aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard make the first aerial voyage in the New World.
From the Argonne to Saigon, battlefield medics were a wounded soldier’s lifeline.
The Persians hoped to win the Battle of the Granicus by killing King Alexander III. But in his first major action in Asia, the Macedonian commander employed tactics that would win him an empire.
The chance to unify the faithful — and gain a strong ally — led to the conquest of Christendoms’s leading city.
The prosecution of one of the greatest sieges in ancient history offers a chance to assess the nature of Rome’s military discipline and its importance to the success of the imperial army.
Eager to match the military achievements of his two illustrious rivals, Marcus Licinius Crassus led an army into Parthia. Instead of glory, all he found was death.