Category: Wars You Never Knew About
The Attack on Monterey – Meet the Argentine Privateer Who Captured Spain’s California Capital
“Rather than being immortalized as a champion of freedom and liberty, Bouchard is remembered in California as a pirate.” By George Yagi Jr. AS THE AGE of revolution swept across 19th Century Latin America, and…
Debacle at Tapae – A Crushing Defeat for Rome at the Peak of Imperial Power
“It was an utter disaster for Rome and one that seems to have been almost ignored by the historians of the day.” By David Adkins AMONG THE ROMAN Emperor Trajan’s greatest (and possibly most infamous)…
The Samoan Crisis – How Germany and America Nearly Came to Blows Decades Before WW1
“For several months, the two opposing fleets would face off in a tense game of brinksmanship. The standoff became known as the Samoan Crisis.” GERMANY WAS A LATE BLOOMER among Europe’s imperial powers. After attaining nation-state…
The Nataruk Massacre – Pre-Historic Battleground Holds Clues to Earliest Human Conflicts
“The find suggests that pre-historic peoples used violence to secure resources and land – not unlike their modern-day descendants.” THE BODIES OF 27 stone-age humans, recently unearthed in northern Kenya, are offering science new insights into…
The 1823 Invasion of Spain — Just Eight Years After Waterloo, France’s Armies Were Marching Again
“Turmoil in Spain posed a threat to all of Europe, and especially to France.” By Shannon Selin MY NOVEL NAPOLEON IN AMERICA takes place, in part, against the backdrop of a French invasion of Spain….
Over in 38 Minutes — Britain’s Brief Battle With Zanzibar is History’s Shortest War
“At 9 a.m. local time Aug. 27, 1896, Great Britain declared war on the East African island nation of Zanzibar. Thirty-eight minutes later it was all over.” THE SHORTEST WAR in history didn’t take long to…
