Volume 16, No. 5
Cover: A Continental soldier from the Delaware Regiment as he might have looked during the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in 1781.
Painting © Don Troiani.
March 2015
Military Heritage
It was almost dark when Captain Chase Philbrick led a reconnaissance party of 20 volunteers from Company H of the 15th Massachusetts Infantry across to Harrison’s Island situated in the middle of the Potomac River. Read more
March 2015
Military Heritage
On March 14, 1590, King Henry IV of France achieved his greatest military victory on the field of Ivry. Read more
March 2015
Military Heritage
Sergeant Alfred Johnson peered from behind a boulder on a rock-strewn hillside at Piano Lupo about six miles inland from the southern coast of Sicily. Read more
March 2015
Military Heritage
American militiamen with their lungs heaving, hearts pounding, and eyes bulging with terror ran for their lives as soon as the British and Hessian troops in their bright red and blue uniforms came ashore at Kips Bay on Manhattan Island. Read more
March 2015
Military Heritage
During the afternoon of October 9, 1973, Colonel Amnon Reshef, the commander of the Israeli Defense Force’s (IDF) 14th Armored Brigade, conducted probes along the water’s edge of the Great Bitter Lake, a wide part of the Suez Canal. Read more
March 2015
Military Heritage, Editorial
The gray-clad Virginia infantry marched quickly through the woods. In the distance they could hear the familiar rattle of musketry signaling an encounter with the enemy. Read more
March 2015
Military Heritage, Soldiers
“[W]hen Emperor Julian had received the wound [in Persia], he filled his hand with blood, flung it into the air and cried, Thou hast won, O Galilean,” wrote Theodoret of Cyrus. Read more
March 2015
Military Heritage, Intelligence
In the predawn hours of June 6, 1944, the largest armada ever sent into war assaulted the coast of France at Normandy. Read more
March 2015
Military Heritage, Weapons
On the evening of October 13, 1939, The German submarine U-47 surfaced off the Orkney Islands in the North Sea. Read more
March 2015
Military Heritage, Militaria
While Austria’s Hapsburg Dynasty fell at the end of World War I, its legacy can still be seen throughout Vienna in its numerous palaces and museums. Read more
March 2015
Military Heritage, Books
With World War I raging across the muddy battlefields of Europe, the Allies were pressed for personnel to man their ever-increasing air forces. Read more
March 2015
Military Heritage, Games
With another year we have another Call of Duty, this time in the form of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Read more
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