Military Heritage March 2018

Hussite Jan Zizka

By John E. Spindler

Jan Zizka belongs to the elite group of leaders who never lost a battle. He was born on or around 1360 in the village of Trocnov in the Kingdom of Bohemia. Read more

Military Heritage March 2018

Stalemate at Seven Pines

By David Norris

On the last day of May 1862, heavy gunfire rumbled and thundered in the distance beyond the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. Read more

Military Heritage March 2018

Conquest of Constantinople

By Ludwig Heinrich Dyck

In the late evening of March 29, 1432, Murad II, sultan of the Ottoman Turks, awaited the imminent birth of his child to one of his harem wives. Read more

Military Heritage March 2018

Intelligence: Confederate Spies Used Newspapers to Communicate

By David A. Norris

The Herald, like other major New York newspapers, was packed with classified ads on November 1, 1863. Read more

Military Heritage March 2018

Heroic Stand in Afghanistan

By Christopher Miskimon

The 68 men of the Corps of Guides at the British Residency in Kabul all perished on September 3, 1879, but they died a magnificent death. Read more

Military Heritage March 2018

Hitler’s Medium Bombers

By William F. Floyd, Jr.

 An armada of German Heinkel He-111 bombers droned through the Ukrainian night sky on September 21, 1944, en route to Poltava Airfield in the Ukraine for a mission against American bombers parked at the base. Read more

Military Heritage March 2018

Roman Disaster at Adrianople

By Alex Zakrzewski

After five hours of continuous slaughter, an eerie calm descended on the blood-soaked plain near the Roman city of Adrianople. Read more

Military Heritage March 2018

Bunker Hill: “Lick Them Once More Boys!”

By Arnold Blumberg

A stark dichotomy was evident among the Americans defending Breed’s Hill on June 17, 1775. One type of provincial soldier stood ready to give his life in defense of liberty that day. Read more