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Near Marseilles, at Aubagne, stands the modern home of the French Foreign Legion. Its spotless grounds include a massive stone pile, the Monument aux Morts, which commemorates the Legion dead of the past 175 years. Read more
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President Abraham Lincoln appointed John C. Frémont as a major general on May 15, 1861, and gave him command of the U.S. Read more
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Launched on the night of July 9-10, 1943, the amphibious assault of Operation Husky was the largest the world had ever seen—more than 3,200 vessels and half a million Allied soldiers, sailors, and airmen attacked the island of Sicily, Adolf Hitler’s “Fortress Europe.” Read more
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In August 1914, Germany implemented its Schlieffen Plan with 1.7 million soldiers sweeping through Belgium and northern France to envelop and crush the French and British armies. Read more
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Operation Shingle, better known as the Battle of Anzio (January 22-May 25, 1944), was aimed at bypassing the German’s daunting Gustav Line in an effort to capture Rome. Read more
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A letter from a screenwriter researching WWII in 1994 turned journalist Christine Kuehn’s world upside down. The writer wanted to know what her father, 70-year-old Eberhard Kuehn, remembered about his own father’s life as a spy. Read more
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The explosion of the USS Maine on February 15, 1898, Cuba’s Havana harbor, did not directly result in war with Spain—but with the help of the “yellow press” and public opinion it did escalate tensions between the two countries. Read more
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Growing up in Britain, naturalized American citizen and University of Maryland history professor Richard Bell learned almost nothing in school about the American Revolution. Read more
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Recognizing that the Confederacy could not win a war of attrition, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered five simultaneous offensives in the spring of 1864 in a strategy to exhaust Southern resources and manpower. Read more
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In the pre-Revolutionary War era of the New England colonies, provincial soldiers fought a series of wars against New France and its Native American allies, with mixed results. Read more
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Deep within the guided-missile cruiser U.S.S. Wainwright, Captain James Chandler scanned various screens in the dimly lit climate-controlled combat information center (CIC) absorbing details on the status of the ship’s weapons systems and the activity outside on the sweltering Persian Gulf. Read more
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Brigadier General Gouverneur K. Warren peered down at the rugged terrain of southern Pennsylvania from his vantage point on Little Round Top, a small promontory about two miles south of Gettysburg. Read more
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EA and the team at developer Battlefield Studios (Dice) are betting big on Battlefield 6, which aims to take the series back to its roots while offering the most expansive multiplayer options to date and the return of the single-player campaign for which many have been clamoring. Read more
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Turn-based 4X strategy game Yield! Fall of Rome has enjoyed a successful Early Access campaign, but as of August it’s officially in 1.0. Read more
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The 2nd Dragoon Regiment traces its lineage to the 16th century as a cavalry regiment, fighting in various wars and engagements across western Europe. Read more
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Second Lieutenant Erving L. Peterson led a seven-man reconnaissance patrol along the coastal road out ahead of the 158th Infantry’s main column. Read more
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Sometime during the middle of July 1944, a well-meaning war correspondent asked an officer with the Third Marine Division if his men were ready for the landings on Guam. Read more
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After German Chancellor Adolf Hitler had rejected all offers of peace, Prime Minister
Winston Churchill declared in June 1940 that “The Battle of Britain is about to begin.” Read more
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For the black-skinned, blue-clad soldiers deployed on the extreme left flank of the Union Army outside Nashville, Tennessee, the order to advance announced at dawn on December 15, 1864, was a long time coming. Read more
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On a warm morning in July 1861, the Union Army marched forth with bands playing and regimental flags flying. Read more
