Volume 15, No. 3
COVER: Napoleon portrait, titled “1814,” by Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier. © Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD / The Bridgeman Art Library
November 2013
Military Heritage
Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart was in all his glory. It was June 8, 1863, and the Confederate cavalry commander was putting on a grand review of his horse soldiers on a plain west of the Rappahannock River near Brandy Station, Virginia, for none other than General Robert E. Read more
November 2013
Military Heritage
Just after dawn on the morning of November 20, 1700, two figures stood atop Hermansburg, a small rise that overlooked the fortress town of Narva in the Baltic province of Estonia. Read more
November 2013
Military Heritage
An old cliché admonishes, “Bad things always come in threes.” Whether it was thought of as a law of nature or merely coincidence, a rapid succession of events in North Africa during the summer of 1942 seemed to confirm this widely held notion among the officers and men of the British Eighth Army. Read more
November 2013
Military Heritage
On the foggy morning of November 30, 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, watched impatiently as his Grande Armée lumbered up the rocky slopes of the Sierra de Guadarrama Mountains of central Spain. Read more
November 2013
Military Heritage
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, was troubled by reports he was receiving in March 1471 that an invasion by King Edward IV was imminent. Read more
November 2013
Military Heritage, Editorial
Brigadier General Alfred Pleasonton’s outward appearance was that of a well-groomed man. He kept his beard and moustache neatly trimmed, parted his wavy hair on the side, and wore a wide-brimmed hat like a dandy. Read more
November 2013
Military Heritage, Weapons
The British frigates HMS Orpheus and Roebuck, on April 20, 1781, escorted their prize—the Continental Navy frigate USS Confederacy—with the Union Jack flying above the Stars and Stripes, to New York harbor, thus ending Confederacy’s two-year service to the American rebels. Read more
November 2013
Military Heritage, Soldiers
In the darkness and driving rain on August 29, 1918, German artillery shells smashed down on American artillerymen fighting on a fir-clad slope in the Vosges Mountains in Alsace. Read more
November 2013
Military Heritage, Intelligence
The United States from 1959 to 1961 turned its focus to two of the most charismatic, ruthless, and despotic rulers in the Caribbean region, Fidel Castro of Cuba and Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. Read more
November 2013
Military Heritage, Militaria
About 30 years ago, my wife and I were walking around a big antique toy market on a county fair site. Read more
November 2013
Military Heritage, Books
Many consider the War of 1812 to have been a war the United States should never have waged. Read more
November 2013
Military Heritage, Games
Back when we previewed Splinter Cell: Blacklist—the sixth installment in Ubisoft’s long-running stealth-action franchise—it was only partially clear how it would differentiate itself from its predecessor, Splinter Cell: Conviction. Read more
