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Bombing of King David Hotel

The hotel after the bombing Zionist leaders arrested in Operation Agatha. Left to right: David Remez, Moshe Sharett, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Dov Yosef, Shenkarsky, David Hacohen, Halperin. Located in central Jerusalem, the King David Hotel has long been one of Israel’s premier establishments. As the prestate period was winding down, the British made the hotel an […]

British, History

English in the Colonies

Henry Morgan and his buccaneers used nuns and monks as human shields in their attack on Porto Bello, Panama during July of 1668. The English Civil War brought the Parliamentarians to power under the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. The Anglo-Spanish War (1654 to 1660) broke out when the Spanish captured Fort de Rocher in 1654 […]

France, History

Louis XIV on Offense, 1672-1673

The crossing of the Rhine at Tolhuis (now a suburb of Nijmegen) on 12 June 1672 – painting by Adam Frans van der Meulen. Fighting began in early May 1672, as 118,000 French infantry and 12,000 cavalry crossed into the Netherlands in three armed columns. The main French force of 50,000 was led by Marshal […]

Ancient Warfare, History

Carthaginian Supremacy

Ancient Carthage By the 5th century bce active military participation in the west by Tyre had doubtlessly ceased; from the latter half of the 6th century Tyre had been under Persian rule. Carthage thus became the leader of the western Phoenicians and in the 5th century formed an empire of its own, centred on North […]

History, Medieval

Feudalism and Military History

Military historians have usually taken a more restricted view of feudalism. For them, it is the system of raising troops in which a lord grants a fief-typically a piece of land-to a vassal (Latin vassus). In return, the vassal gave the lord a defined and limited term of military service, usually forty days a year […]

History, Roman

Marjorian’s Barbarian Campaigns (457-461)

PRINCIPAL COMBATANTS: Marjorian’s Roman forces vs. the Vandals and Duke Ricimer PRINCIPAL THEATER(S): Italy, Gaul, and Spain MAJOR ISSUES AND OBJECTIVES: Marjorian sought to reconstitute the Western Empire of Rome and then to defeat the Vandals in their African homeland. OUTCOME: Although Marjorian achieved his reunification objective, treachery destroyed his African invasion plans, and a […]

British, History

MONMOUTH’S REBELLION AND THE BLOODY ASSIZES

James Scott, Duke of Monmouth. Battle of Sedgemoor (c) Manchester City Galleries; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation PRINCIPAL COMBATANTS: England vs. the duke of Monmouth PRINCIPAL THEATER(S): Somersetshire, England MAJOR ISSUES AND OBJECTIVES: Monmouth sought to succeed Charles II to the throne. OUTCOME: The rebellion was crushed, Monmouth beheaded, and the other rebels punished. […]

History, Operations

Marines in China 1945-49 – Operation Beleaguer

A Marine Corps Grumman F7F-3N Tigercat at Peking’s Nan Yuan Airfield in December 1945. When World War II came to its abrupt atomic end in the summer of 1945, few paid much attention to Mao Tse-tung and his Chinese Communists. They seemed, as John Lewis Gaddis has written, “little more than an obscure group of […]

History

Allied Strategies…1944

By late August 1944 the Allies had more than made up the time lost slugging it out in Normandy and were well ahead of schedule. Unfortunately, their rapid advance also placed them ahead of the supply buildup planned to support a drive to the German border. As a result, the Allies conducted their operations in […]

Germany, History, Soviet

Col. David Glantz – Red Army before Warsaw 1944

SS-Obersturmführer Karl Nicolussi-Leck (Panther’s cupola), commander of 8./SS-Panzerregiment 5 of the Wiking Division, and a Sd.Kfz. 251/3 Ausf. D, during the battles east of Warsaw, August 1944. Between August 18-22, IV.SS-Panzer-Korps, comprising the Totenkopf and the Wiking Division, destroyed 98 Soviet tanks destroyed in the battles around Warsaw. Soviet (1st Belorussian Front’s) Actions East of […]