August 2003
Military Heritage
Warrior Queen’s Revenge
By Eric NiderostIn the spring of ad 60 Gaius Suetonius Paulinus could look back on the last three or four years with a mixture of pride and satisfaction. Read more
Military Heritage
August 2003
Volume 5, No. 1
Cover: “Fighting for the Colors.” Courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Caitlin Sumner Collection Fund.
August 2003
Military Heritage
Battle of Manila Bay
By A.B. FeuerThe United States Navy investigation into the February 15, 1898, sinking of the battleship Maine was a difficult undertaking. Read more
August 2003
Military Heritage
Deus le Veult! The Siege of Antioch
By John Murphy, Jr.Shortly before dawn on June 3, 1098, Bohemund of Taranto, one of the leaders of the First Crusade and the survivor of many campaigns, stood in the shadow of the Tower of the Two Sisters, one of the strongest points in the defenses of the ancient city of Antioch. Read more
August 2003
Military Heritage
Operation Catapult: Churchill’s Desperate Measure
By Brooke C. StoddardSteaming through the summer Mediterranean night, the world having gone sour in two awful months, British Vice Admiral Sir James Somerville read the message just sent to him from London: “You are charged with one of the most disagreeable and difficult tasks that a British Admiral has ever been faced with, but we have complete confidence in you and rely on you to carry it out relentlessly.” Read more
August 2003
Military Heritage
West Virginia: Seceding from the Confederacy
By Don RobertsDuring the Civil War western Virginia was crucial to the Union. The region that lay west of the Shenandoah Valley and north of the Kanawha River held nearly a quarter of Virginia’s nonslave population when the war began in 1861. Read more
August 2003
Military Heritage
Lord Dunmore’s War: The Battle of Point Pleasant
By James K. SwisherIn the lengthening shadows of a late October afternoon, a column of tired marchers attired in dusty, fringed hunting dress emerged from the trees along the north bank of the Kanawha River, raising an exhilarating shout upon sighting its confluence with the Ohio. Read more
August 2003
Military Heritage, Editorial
The fallen … and the living.
At a time long ago, and in a place far away, a man stood up before his countrymen to console them if he could for the loss of their sons in battle for a righteous cause. Read more
August 2003
Military Heritage, Communique
A Wholesale Rout Began
CorrectionIn our June 2002 story about Napoleon’s campaign in Italy, we misidentified the credit for the illustration on page 33. Read more
August 2003
Military Heritage, Soldiers
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland
By Arnold BlumbergThe election of the Protestant Frederick V, Elector of the Palatine, to the throne of Bohemia instead of the Catholic Hapsburg, Ferdinand of Austria, sparked what was to become the Thirty Years War. Read more
August 2003
Military Heritage, Weapons
The Medieval Crossbow: Redefining War in the Middle Ages
By Arnold BlumbergAnna Comnena, daughter of the Byzantium Emperor Alexius Comnenus, writing at about the time of the First Crusade (1096-1099), said of the medieval crossbow, a military tool new to her part of the world, “The crossbow is a weapon of the barbarians [western Europeans], absolutely unknown to the Greeks [Byzantines].” Read more
August 2003
Military Heritage, Intelligence
Mata Hari: The Dancing Spy
By Robert HeegeJust before six o’clock on the morning of October 15, 1917, a caravan of five rickety automobiles departed the prison at Saint-Lazare and proceeded to make its way post-haste through the gaslit streets of Paris. Read more
August 2003
Military Heritage, Militaria
Metropolitan Museum of Art
By Peter SuciuAdmirers of arms and armor should at least make ONE pilgrimage to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Read more
August 2003
Military Heritage, Books
The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)Among the stalwart 4th Infantry Division soldiers who assaulted Utah Beach at Normandy on D-day were 13 specially recruited and trained Comanche Indians of the 4th Signal Company. Read more
