Cavalry at Waterloo – How Mounted Troops Made History in the Napoleonic Wars’ Final Battle
“Cavalrymen and their mounts tended to get caught up in the excitement of a charge and often overran the enemy lines significantly reducing their effectiveness on the field of battle.” By Tom Williams BY THE…
Going Berserk – Eight Wild Facts About the Viking Age’s Most Fearsome Warriors
“Despite their reputation as terrifying and unkempt wild men, they were actually among the elites of their society and the finest warriors the Viking world had to offer” By Noah Tetzner SHIELD BITING, SWORD-wielding, frenzied,…
Bringing Out the Dead – Who Cleared the Corpses from Napoleonic Battlefields?
“After they had been stripped, the bodies were either burned, buried, or left in the open to decompose, a process aided by vultures, wolves and other scavengers.” By Shannon Selin SOMEWHERE IN THE range of 3.5…
“Big Wisky” – 12 Amazing Facts About the Battleship USS Wisconsin
“Entering service just as the supremacy of battleships was giving way to aircraft carriers, the heavy guns of the four Iowa-class vessels were still unmatched.” By Amy Waters Yarsinske BERTHED TODAY AT Nauticus, the national maritime…
Landsknechts – Meet the Most Infamous Mercenaries of the Renaissance
“One chronicler remarked that the devil refused to let landsknechts into hell because he was so afraid of them.” By Richard Anderton DURING THE 16th Century the most feared soldiers on Europe’s battlefields were the…
Wars of Words – Ten Must-Read Memoirs from the First World War
“A person could spend a lifetime poring over nothing but memoirs from the period and never hope to read all of them. Yet, there are a number of works from the Great War that stand…
