June 2003
Military Heritage
Napoleon’s Italian Campaign: A Year Against the Odds
By Jeremy GreenThe newly appointed 26-year-old commander-in-chief of the French Army of Italy arrived at Nice headquarters on March 27, 1796. Read more
Military Heritage
June 2003
Volume 4, No. 6
Cover: Bonaparte at the Arcola Bridge by Antoine Jean Gros. © Collection Viollet.
June 2003
Military Heritage
Philippolis: Roman Disaster on the Western Border
By Ludwig Heinrich DyckIt was early spring, ad 235, on the Rhine frontier. In the imperial tent of a Roman encampment, 26-year-old Emperor Severus Alexander wept at his mother’s side. Read more
June 2003
Military Heritage
Elizabethans vs. “The Naturals”
By Eric NiderostOn April 26, 1607, three small English ships arrived at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay after a grueling and contentious four-month voyage. Read more
June 2003
Military Heritage
General Douglas MacArthur’s Crisis at Biak
By Marc D. BernsteinIn April 1944, General Douglas MacArthur’s Southwest Pacific forces took a giant 600-mile leap along the north coast of New Guinea with their landing at Hollandia. Read more
June 2003
Military Heritage
The Duke of Marlborough Unleashed at the Battle of Ramillies
By Vince HawkinsThe War of Spanish Succession, fought between 1701 and 1711, witnessed the emergence of some of Europe’s greatest military commanders. Read more
June 2003
Military Heritage
On They Came Like an Angry Flood: The Battle of Chickamauga
By Arnold BlumbergIt had been a little over six months since Major General William S. Rosecrans and his Army of the Cumberland had checked the Confederates at the Battle of Stones River (December 31,1862–January 2,1863). Read more
June 2003
Military Heritage, Editorial
Who is Julius Caesar? Facts vs Myth
by Brooke C. StoddardFew men’s names resonate after two thousand years, for it is a very long stretch of time. Read more
June 2003
Military Heritage, Soldiers
Military Myths and Legends: Belisarius
By James Allan EvansIt was a sorry tale. A brilliant general, military hero, and faithful servant of the state, blind and reduced to penury in his old age, sitting on the main street of Constantinople begging for his living. Read more
June 2003
Military Heritage, Weapons
The Arquebus
By William J. McPeakIn 1503, near the northern Italian town of Cerignola, the famous Spanish commander Gonsalvo de Cordova, Viceroy of Naples (to be known to military history as “The Great Captain”), resolved to turn and stand before the pursuing French army. Read more
June 2003
Military Heritage, Intelligence
Civil War Weapons: The Telegraph?
By Jim HavilandEarly in the American Civil War, during the first months of 1862, Union General Henry Halleck, commanding from his headquarters in St. Read more
June 2003
Military Heritage, Militaria
The Pour le Mérite
By Robert WhiterIt was early in the year 1917, and a member of the Luftstreiknafte (German Army Air Service), Freiherr (Baron) Manfred von Richthofen, was feeling a trifle disgruntled. Read more
June 2003
Military Heritage, Books
Marine Rifleman
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life and beyond the call of duty,” began the citation for the Medal of Honor awarded to then-U.S. Read more
