Profiles of the American Revolution
WHN Free Reports, Editorial
All day on July 4, 1863, the Union and Confederate armies stared at each other across the battlefield of Gettysburg. Three days of massive attacks had bled the Confederates until they lacked the manpower to attack again. Read more
Profiles of the American Revolution
WHN Free Reports, Soldiers
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
Profiles of the American Revolution
WHN Free Reports, Weapons
Landsman Robert Fleming was on watch aboard the U.S.S. Housatonic, a Union steam sloop patrolling the waters just off Charleston, South Carolina, in the winter of 1864. Read more
Profiles of the American Revolution
WHN Free Reports, Uniform
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
Profiles of the American Revolution
WHN Free Reports, Valor
The geopolitical implications of the so-called “Boxer Rebellion” were unlikely to have crossed the mind of U.S. Marine Corps Private Daniel Joseph Daly as he and Capt. Read more
Profiles of the American Revolution
WHN Free Reports, Books
John Frémont’s 100 Days: Clashes and Convictions in Civil War Missouri (Gregory Wolk, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 208 pp., Read more
Profiles of the American Revolution
WHN Free Reports, Simulation Gaming
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
Profiles of the American Revolution
WHN Free Reports, Simulation Gaming
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
Profiles of the American Revolution
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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
Profiles of the American Revolution
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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
Profiles of the American Revolution
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As the first streaks of dawn painted the horizon, all was quiet in the American squadron anchored at Put-in-Bay. Read more
Profiles of the American Revolution
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Edward T. Higgins had witnessed few spectacles to match the one that unfolded all about him in the waters surrounding Okinawa, an island 400 miles southwest of the Japanese Home Island of Kyushu. Read more
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Four Russian soldiers, a lieutenant colonel and another officer, with an NCO and bugler, strode briskly down Jaroslaw Road just north of the defensive perimeter of Fortress Przemyśl. Read more
![U.S. military personnel in Puerto Rico “drink to the girl [they] left behind” during the Spanish-American War in 1898.](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/M-Fal25-Whiskey-4-e1758296632288-760x428.jpg)
Profiles of the American Revolution
WHN Free Reports
By Ian McCall
Whiskey has long been a faithful companion for many soldiers out on campaign. Be it issued by armies or snuck onto battlefields inside canteens; whiskey remains one of the most important beverages for American soldiers. Read more
Profiles of the American Revolution
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With a large army and little to oppose him, King Joseph Bonaparte sat in Madrid on the throne of Spain, in January of 1810. Read more
