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 »

Principal Secretary Sir Francis Walsingham resorted to all manner of espionage in the service of Queen Elizabeth I.   More »