Category: Famous Events
The Sinking of U-501 — Inside the Royal Canadian Navy’s First U-Boat Kill of WW2
“Within two minutes of detecting the enemy submarine, Chambly released a pattern of five depth charges that damaged U-501, forcing her to the surface a mere 400 yards off Moose Jaw’s bow.” By James Brun…
The Battle of Cherbourg — When Union and Confederate Warships Clashed Off the Coast of France
“For the crew of the Kearsarge, this was the payoff for more than two years of searching the Atlantic for Confederate warships.” By Walter Topp IT WAS NO chance encounter. When the Confederate warship CSS…
“A War We Can Lose” – Why Victory for America Was Anything But Certain in 1942
“Unless things going on in the conduct of the war are corrected very quickly, we are going to lose.” By William K. Klingaman IN THE DAYS immediately following the Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor on…
Napoleon’s Hundred Days — Bonaparte and His Army Once Commanded Europe; In the Lead-up to Waterloo, Neither Were Ready for War
“Horses, artillery, and muskets were all in desperately short supply. Hours of his frenetic, almost manic energies were poured into correcting this with pitifully little success.” In April of 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte was finished. A…
‘Hands and Arms of Iron’ – The Life of Solider During the Wars of the Roses
“The medieval soldier’s experience in the Wars of the Roses is unique and not what we are led to believe in history books.” By Andrew Boardman THE SCARCITY OF reliable contemporary military evidence for the…
Constellation vs. L’Insurgent – How Commodore Truxtun Delivered the Fledgling U.S. Navy’s First Major Victory
“The battle of Feb. 9, 1799 was a significant accomplishment for the infant nation, and a major vindication for Truxtun as one of the foremost leaders of the U.S. Navy.” By Thomas Sheppard THE UNITED…
