Volume 8, No. 5
Napoleon III on Horseback, by Charles Edouard Boutibonne and John Frederick Herring, 1856. London, The Royal Collection. Photo courtesy of akg-images.
April 2007
Military Heritage
“He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny,” Thomas Jefferson said of King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Read more
April 2007
Military Heritage
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
April 2007
Military Heritage
The Black Death that ravaged England and France for a half-dozen years in the mid-14th century served merely as a brief intermission between the first and second acts of the painfully protracted struggle known as the Hundred Years’ War. Read more
April 2007
Military Heritage
For the past several years, three Hollywood studios waged war over the right to make a new movie about the Battle of Thermopylae (480 bc), in which a few hundred Spartans kept an enormous invading Persian army at bay for three days. Read more
April 2007
Military Heritage
Long columns of blue-clad French troops marched east though the sun-baked plains of northern Italy in late June 1859. Read more
April 2007
Military Heritage, Editorial
Almost from the time it was completed in 1850, Emanuel Leutze’s famous painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware, has attracted more than its share of artistic detractors. Read more
April 2007
Military Heritage, Soldiers
Polish Prince Joseph Poniatowski, a great hero of Napoleonic legend, ultimately was a man without a country. Born on May 7, 1762, the prince at first enjoyed the luxurious life of a nobleman because of his ties to the ruling family of Poland. Read more
April 2007
Military Heritage, Weapons
Six days after the Allies’ D-Day landings on the coast of Normandy in June 1944, Germany retaliated by launching its first Vergeltungswaffe, or Vengeance Weapon, at the city of London. Read more
April 2007
Military Heritage, Intelligence
British Army privates Thomas Highgate, Ernest Jackson, and Louis Harris shared a distinction in World War I that they undoubtedly would rather not have had. Read more
April 2007
Military Heritage, Militaria
The unique persona of Charles Russell Lowell, a gifted Union cavalry officer from Massachusetts, inspired a series of memorials in his honor, ranging from famous monuments to obscure frontier forts. Read more
April 2007
Military Heritage, Books
To say that Caius Julius Caesar was one of the most influential men in world history is still something of an understatement. Read more
April 2007
Military Heritage, Simulation Gaming
It seem unlikely that there is a fan of tactical ancients or medieval combat who owns a computer who hasn’t yet tried at least one of the games in Sega’s Total War franchise. Read more
