Category: Wars You Never Knew About
Bloody First Contact – When Vikings Clashed with Native North Americans
“Almost as soon as the Norsemen hauled their long boats onto the beaches, fighting broke out with the local inhabitants.” MANY POINT TO the Jamestown Massacre of 1622 as the first clash between European settlers and…
The Nauru War — Inside the Smallest Armed Conflict in History
“The feud might have fizzled out in short order had the island not been awash in traded rifles, booze and quarrelsome Europeans — instead it raged for years.” WITH ONLY eight square miles of territory, the…
The Tlingit War – Inside Imperial Russia’s Forgotten Conflict With Alaska’s Indigenous Peoples
“Troops from the Russian America Company and the Imperial Russian Navy, along with their Aleutian tribal allies, fought an intermittent campaign against several hundred warriors from the Tlingit Nation.” FEW MIGHT imagine Russia as a…
A “Neutral” Power? – American Involvement in WW2 Before Pearl Harbor
“Despite Washington’s official position of neutrality, in the weeks and months leading up to Dec. 7, 1941, American forces clashed with the Germans and Japanese.” THE JAPANESE SURPRISE attack on Pearl Harbor may have officially propelled…
A Traumatic Birth – How the Newly Independent Poland Fought Five Wars in Two Years
“The first three years of Poland’s existence were marked by a constant state of war, conflicts fought almost simultaneously against and array of enemies.” THE MODERN STATE of Poland was born out of the geopolitical turmoil that…
Tommy vs. Charlie – Britain’s Little-Known Six-Month War in Vietnam
“British and Indian troops would become the first Allied soldiers to do battle with the Viet Minh, an insurgent army that would later go onto to vanquish the French and humble the United States.” IN…
