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German submariner Peter Petersen survived three patrols aboard U-518. He missed the fourth—during which it was lost with all hands. The tide of war turned in the Atlantic Ocean during the summer of 1943. For three years, Germany’s ping...
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John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, was willing to call off an assault—even one that was going well—if it would help throw his French opponent out of position. At the beginning of the 18th century, the major powers in Europe—France,...
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Military History Magazine
Canada’s North-West Rebellion reached its climax in May 1885, as the government army closed on the mixed-blood Métis’ provisional capital, the tiny village of Batoche. In the arena of world conflicts, the Battle of Batoche was merely...
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There is no good way to kill, but poison gas seems more alchemy than combat. In the fall of 1916, however, it seemed to the German high command that only a sorcerer could save its fortunes on the Western Front. Its armies’ advances,...
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MILITARY HISTORY AS A TRAINING AID I want to thank the Military History staff for many years of service (indirectly) to the U.S. Army. I have been an avid reader since I first discovered MH while stationed in Korea (October 1999), and your...
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American Indian warriors adapted successfully to modern warfare. My late father, former U.S. Navy combat cameraman Paul D. Guttman, tended to be selective about the stories he told me from World War II, but one of his favorites was of...
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Military History Magazine
Early in the Civil War, Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, then still the general-in-chief of all the Northern armies, was in the habit of writing short daily bulletins for President Abraham Lincoln. “These were copied by a young...
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Military History Magazine
The Sharps carbine rifle ...
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Military History Magazine
The Awful End of Prince William the Silent by Lisa Jardin, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2005, $21.95. Published as part of a series on historic events by Amanda Foreman and Lisa Jardin, The Awful End of Prince William the...
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Gunpowder—Alchemy, Bombards, & Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World by Jack Kelly, Basic Books, New York, 2005, $14.95. Gunpowder—Alchemy, Bombards, & Pyrotechnics approaches the titular...
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Who commanded the Rough Riders in 1898? Not Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt; he was second to Colonel Leonard Wood. Leonard Wood: Rough Rider, Surgeon, Architect of American Imperialism, by Jack McCallum (NYU Press, New York, 2005,...
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Military History Magazine
At the battles of Bud Dajo and Bud Bagsak, the U.S. Army pitted its latest weaponry against the fortified hill forts and Islamic ferocity of the Filipino Moros. The Philippine-American War—or “Insurrection,” as the Americans called...
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An ill-fated attempt to restore the Stuarts to the thrones of England and Scotland in 1719 led to a blind alley at the Battle of Glenshiel. The 25-ton barque was hopelessly off course. Since its departure from the Seine River in France,...
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As early as 1842, long before the wars of 1880 and 1899-1902, British and Afrikaner settlers clashed in South Africa. In October 1899, nearly a century of rivalry in South Africa between the British empire and the white Dutch-speaking...
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Military History Magazine
Edward Shames parachuted into Normandy and the Netherlands, joining the ‘Band of Brothers’ in Bastogne. On December 16, 1944, German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt’s forces launched a surprise counter- offensive in the Ardennes...
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On a warm spring weekend in May 1778, a teenage general interrupted an extravagant party being held by British officers, leading to a contest of wits with a superior force. There was not much of a battle, but the action at Barren Hill,...
