Volume 2, No. 1
COVER: A detail from François Gerard’s magisterial 1829 painting of Napoleon at Austerlitz.
August 2000
Military Heritage, 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
August 2000
Military Heritage, 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
August 2000
Military Heritage, 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
August 2000
Military Heritage, 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
August 2000
Military Heritage, 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
August 2000
Military Heritage, 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
August 2000
Military Heritage, 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
August 2000
Military Heritage, 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
August 2000
Military Heritage
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
August 2000
Military Heritage
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
August 2000
Military Heritage
As the first streaks of dawn painted the horizon, all was quiet in the American squadron anchored at Put-in-Bay. Read more
August 2000
Military Heritage
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
August 2000
Military Heritage
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)
August 2000
Military Heritage
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
August 2000
Military Heritage
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
