Military Heritage

May 2017

Volume 18, No. 6

COVER: “Vive l’Empereur!” by Édouard Detaille shows the French 4th Hussar’s charge on the Russians at the the Battle of Friedland. Photo: Google Art Project.

May 2017

Military Heritage

Masterstroke at Friedland

By Coley Cowan

Friedland was burning. The darkening sky of late afternoon on June 14, 1807, was deepened further by the ashes swirling in the narrow streets. Read more

May 2017

Military Heritage

Vanguard of Elephants on the Hydaspes River

By Gabrielle Esposito

The Macedonian soldiers stood transfixed on the flood plain as the Pauravan army advanced toward them. The ground shook with each step the great lumbering war elephants took as they advanced toward the wide-eyed Greeks. Read more

A line of American troops crosses a bridge and marches through one of the many small villages that dot the Hürtgen region. The difficult hilly and forested terrain is very obvious in this photo, taken November 16, 1944.

May 2017

Military Heritage, Editorial

Forest of Horrors

The woods were close-planted fir trees, and the shell-bursts tore and smashed them, and the splinters from the tree bursts were like javelins in the half-light of the forest,” wrote war correspondent Ernest Hemingway of the experience of Lt. Read more

May 2017

Military Heritage, Intelligence

Raid on St. Nazaire

By William F. Floyd, Jr.

The British flotilla moved with determination into the Loire estuary after midnight on May 28, 1942. Read more