Military Heritage Summer 2021
Brutal Slugfest at Anzio
By Joshua Shepherd
For the Americans of 2nd Battalion, 13th Armored Regiment, their arrival at Anzio in early May 1944 was anything but heartening. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2021
Napoleon’s Costly Victory at Eylau
By Victor Kamenir
After decisively crushing Austrian and Russian armies in the 1805 campaign, French Emperor Napoleon became the undisputed master of Central Europe. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2021
Heroic Stand at Verdun
By Mark Carlson
The morning of June 23, 1916, dawned over the broad crenellated valley of the Meuse River in northeastern France. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2021
Death at the Crossroads
By Mike Phifer
An unrelenting rain soaked the gray-clad troops of Maj. Gen. George Pickett’s reinforced division of Confederate soldiers on the morning of March 30, 1865. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2021
Ambush at Oriskany
By Eric Niderost
The young Oneida warrior paused, tensing as he spotted some activity in the forest just in front of him. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2021
Roman Disaster at Carrhae
By Ludwig Heinrich Dyck
Gigantic clouds of dust rose from the sun-baked plain. The ground shook under the hoofs of thousands of cavalry. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2021
Crusader Triumph at Arsuf
By William E. Welsh
The advance of long ranks of scimitar-wielding Nubian and robed Bedouin archers on foot signaled a dramatic change in Ayyubid Muslim tactics against the Frankish army marching south along the Palestinian coast from Acre towards Jaffa. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2021
The Grande Armee Suffered During Winter War in Poland
The splendid days of conquest in which France’s Grande Armee had marched along well-constructed roads through wealthy and densely populated areas of Europe came to a close when Emperor Napoleon’s army entered Poland in late 1806. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2021
Weapons: The Soviet MiG-17 in Vietnam
By William F. Floyd, Jr.
The American pilots did not see the North Vietnamese Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 fighter jets approaching their strike aircraft as they zeroed in on Than Hoa Bridge on April 3, 1965. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2021
Fourteen black soldiers received the Medal of Honor for feats of valor at Chaffin’s Farm on the outskirts of Richmond, Va.
By William E. Welsh
Union soldiers streamed across the pontoon bridge at Deep Bottom on the tidal portion of the James River in the early morning hours of September 29, 1864. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2021
Uniform: Prussian Grenadier of the 12th Regiment, 1755-1756
By William Welsh
Miter Helmet: The tall miter design dated from the 17th century, when grenadiers threw grenades and needed a hat that would not impede their throwing arm. Read more
Military Heritage Summer 2021
Lennart Torstensson used gunpowder artillery in revolutionary ways to win victories for the Swedish army during the Thirty Years War.
By William E. Welsh
Thousands of Protestant Swedish and German soldiers struggled up the rain-slickened slopes of a high ridge in southern Germany on September 3, 1632. Read more
