Military Heritage January 2017

Sabers, Scimitars, and Swords

By Victor Kamenir

On the coat of arms of Finland, a crowned lion tramples upon a curved sword with his hind paws while brandishing a straight sword in his right forepaw. Read more

Military Heritage January 2017

Bloody Clash on the Tiber

By Tim Miller

On October 28, ad 312, a Roman emperor was drowning. The sight must have amazed his soldiers. All summer Rome had been filled with rumors of the western emperor, Constantine, and the ease with which he and his army had crossed the Alps and, once on Italian soil, strung together a handful of victories in the north. Read more

Military Heritage January 2017

Costly Confederate Victory at Gaines’ Mill

By John Walker

With just an hour of daylight remaining on the smoke-shrouded battlefield near Gaines’ Mill six miles northeast of Richmond, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Read more

Military Heritage January 2017

Cannon Thunder at the Battle of Valmy

By David A. Norris

Wind lifted away the fog sheltering the French lines. Atop a low ridge where the French army was deployed, a lone windmill provided a vivid range marker for 58 Prussian cannons on the neighboring hills. Read more

Military Heritage January 2017

Hungary’s National Hero

By Ludwig Heinrich Dyck

Janos Hunyadi, Hungary’s national hero, was one of the great captains in the war between Europe and the Ottoman Turks. Read more

Military Heritage January 2017

Frankish Disaster in Saxony

By William E. Welsh

The Saxon warriors worked tirelessly from dawn to dusk atop the mountain felling trees, cutting them into logs, and adding them to the field fort they were building on a flat spur of the Suntel Mountains in the heart of their homeland. Read more

Military Heritage January 2017

Nazi Propagandist William Joyce

By Blaine Taylor

The most famous of the English-Language radio broadcasters from Nazi Germany was Brooklyn, New York-born William Joyce, known by the disparaging moniker Lord Haw Haw. Read more

Military Heritage January 2017

Armored Strike at Arras: Counterattack Against the Blitz

By Christopher Miskimon

The midday sun sat almost directly overhead as Subaltern T. Hepple led his tank out of the French village of Petit Vimy. Read more

Military Heritage January 2017

Battle of Arras: Rommel’s View

By William E. Welsh

South of the crossroads of Arras in the Pas de Calais region of France, British and German troops are buried alongside each other. Read more

Military Heritage January 2017

Game Review: Battlefield 1

By Joseph Luster

One of the most interesting aspects of Battlefield 1’s initial announcement was how oddly novel the entire concept seemed. Read more