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,   More »

Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet faced a daunting task trying to dislodge Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside’s Federals from Knoxville, Tennessee.   More »

The United States 3rd, 4th, and 5th Marine divisions faced their sternest trials by fire in the month long battle to take the island of Iwo Jima.   More »

Czar Nicholas I’s warships destroyed a squadron of unsuspecting Ottoman ships at Sinop in the Black Seat at the outset of the Crimean War.   More »

Janos Hunyadi showed tactical genius in safeguarding Hungary against the Ottoman tide in the 15th century.   More »

The armies of Asia relied on a menacing curved sword for close-quarter combat that went by many different names.   More »

A combined Egyptian and Turkish fleet was no match for the skilled gunnery of a British, French, and Russian force in the Greek War of Independence.   More »

Ulysses S. Grant would later admit that Cold Harbor was the one battle he “would not fight again.” Many federal soldiers who survived would agree.   More »

Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion of Egypt in the summer of 1798 served as a dress rehearsal for his subsequent conquest of Europe.   More »

Capturing an important airfield was why two Marine divisions, along with a U.S. Army division, were landed on the island of Saipan.   More »