You’re Free To Go — Military Paroles in the 18th and 19th Centuries

“Feeding and guarding so many captives was often beyond the logistical means of even the largest armies in the New World, so commanders routinely freed these captured amateurs, often within hours of the end of a battle.”…

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Ghosts Stories — MHN Explores Some of History’s Most Haunted Battlefields

“Gettysburg isn’t the only battlefield that’s believed to be haunted by the ghosts of the fallen. In honour of Halloween, MHN has compiled this list of others.” ONE OF THE COUNTLESS HUMAN TRAGEDIES to unfold…

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The Mayaguez Incident — America’s Deadly Last Battle in South East Asia Happened Two Week’s After Saigon’s Fall

“The crisis and botched rescue served as a farcical footnote to America’s decade-long misadventure in Indo China.” CHARLES McMAHON AND DARWIN LEE JUDGE lay claim to a most unfortunate place in the history books: The two…

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Guns in the Sky – 12 Warplanes That Were Armed With Artillery

“Consider these ‘flying cannons’ (listed in order of ascending firepower)” AERIAL WARFARE was still in its infancy when aviation innovators devised history’s first ‘gunship’. In 1915, mechanics with the French air corps began outfitting the Voisin III with 37…

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The Art of War — MHN Readers Tweet Their Favourite Paintings from Military History

MHN Followers tweet their favourite paintings from military history.

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Ferocious Beast — Six Little-Known Facts About the Tiger Tank

“Everything about it was over-engineered (to an almost absurd degree)… but in the hands of an expert commander a lone Tiger could knock out dozens of enemy machines in a single engagement.” By Ben Hollingum, GermanWarMachine.com THE PANZERKAMPFWAGEN VI…

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