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Napoleon addresses the Old Guard as it prepares to attack the Anglo-Allied centre at Waterloo. “La Garde recule. Sauve qui peut!” Napoleon did not have much time in which to unleash the Imperial Guard onto the Anglo-Allied line, as von Zieten’s column had already reached the hamlet of Smohain, thereby allowing Wellington to bring troops […]

Rifle Platoon of 5th RCT, 24th Infantry Division on The Korean Front. A U.S. truck convoy crossing the Naktong river passes a knocked-out T-34 tank made in USSR. On the evening of June 30, 1950, unexpected and unwelcome news reached a few hundred soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 24th Infantry Division stationed in Japan. They […]

The frontal charge is a desperate thing; and running through so many Civil War battles is a melancholy acceptance of inevitable death: “Every man vieing with his fellowman, in steadiness of step and correct alignment, the officers giving low and cautionary commands, many knowing that it was their last hour on earth, but without hesitating […]

The Black Watch at the Battle of Fontenoy by William Skeoch Cumming. The Black Watch Chaplain at the Battle of Fontenoy, 1745 by William Skeoch Cumming (1897) In March 1743 the regiment was ordered south into England. They reached London on 29th and 30th April, and in May embarked for the Continent, to join the […]