Volume 24, No. 4
Cover: Men-at-arms from the English War of the Roses such as these were professional soldiers who fought on foot as heavy infantry.
Painting © 2023, Graham Turner; www.studio88.co.u
Winter 2023
Military Heritage
By Christopher Miskimon
On January 25, 1945, every officer in Company B of the 15th Infantry Regiment of the American 3rd Infantry Division became a casualty in the fight for the “Colmar Pocket” except Lieutenant Audie Murphy. Read more
Winter 2023
Military Heritage
Denis de Morbecque, an exiled French knight in the service of the English crown, thought the fighting in the hawthorn hedgerows near Poitiers would never end. Read more
Winter 2023
Military Heritage
The barren summit of Champion’s Hill presented an ideal site for Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton’s Confederate army to deploy artillery batteries on the morning of May 16, 1863. Read more
Winter 2023
Military Heritage
Late in the day on May 23, 1706, the troops of the Colonel William Borthwick’s regiment of Argyll’s Scots Brigade formed up for an unenviable assignment. Read more
Winter 2023
Military Heritage
IN November 1990 the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq if it failed to withdraw from Kuwait by January 15, 1991. Read more
Winter 2023
Military Heritage
Great Britain’s war with her rebellious American colonies was about to conclude as diplomats crafted a peace treaty. Read more
Winter 2023
Military Heritage, Editorial
Major General Ulysses S. Grant sat on his horse in late April 1863 next to a narrow bridge over a wide marsh on the west bank of the Mississippi River in northeastern Louisiana. Read more
Winter 2023
Military Heritage, Weapons
By dawn on June 9, 1944, the men of the Company C, 1st Battalion, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, of the 82nd Airborne Division found themselves engaged in a fierce firefight with German troops at the village of Cauquigny just west of the Merderet River in Normandy’s Cotentin Peninsula. Read more
Winter 2023
Military Heritage, Uniform
The Wars of the Roses (1455-1487) encompassed three civil wars that were fought between two rival branches, York and Lancaster, of the House of Plantagenet, for control of the English throne. Read more
Winter 2023
Military Heritage, Soldiers
The crown of Spain and the wealthy banking families of Genoa had a symbiotic relationship during the Renaissance. Read more
Winter 2023
Military Heritage, Valor
T he lead elements of the First Brigade of the U.S. Third Infantry Division became heavily engaged against Iraqi forces at the Saddam International Airport on the southwest outskirts of Baghdad on April 3, 2003, but by the end of the day they had secured it. Read more
Winter 2023
Military Heritage, Books
A Handful of Heroes: Rorke’s Drift Facts, Myths and Legends (Katie Stossel, Pen and Sword Books, South Yorkshire UK, 2022, 201 pp., Read more
Winter 2023
Military Heritage, Games
Wartales is a medieval-themed open-world tactical RPG from Shiro Unlimited, and it’s been doing pretty well for itself since its initial launch. Read more
Winter 2023
Military Heritage, Games
Whether you aim to oppress, liberate, innovate or exploit, there’s a path just for you somewhere within the winding world of Anno 1800. Read more
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