Scottish British Army Major Patrick Ferguson was present at the Battle of Brandywine, leading the elite skirmishers of the German Brigadier Knupfhausens force at the Battle of Brandywine in 1777. This company was elite not only because its men were well trained, but because they were armed with t
The battle of Torviol was fought between the forces of Georgios Kastriotis and the Ottomans. George was the son of Ioannis Kastriotis. The debate about his origin still continues with Albanians considering him their national hero. Kastriotis had been given as a hostage to the Turks and was rename
The Kebur Zambania (Honor Guard) was the body guard of the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. This body was derived from the modern gendarmerie, the Xabanga, formed by Haile Selassie with the help of Swiss soldiers. This gendarmerie formed the core of the guard that began to be formed in the early
Until recently scholars of military history have argued that the key to British infantrys success against their French counterparts was their firepower, a consequence of their formation in a two-pronged line versus the French three-pronged lines or phalanxes attack depth of six, nine or even 12 yoke
The Battle of Horamshar was one of the biggest, most important, toughest and fiercest of the Iran-Iraq war. It is not by chance that Khoramsar received the nickname city of blood. By 1979 the Iranian city of Khoramsar had 220,000 prosperous residents. The city was the main port of the country. Af
The battle of Kalugereni was one of the most important in the history of the Balkans for many reasons. In principle, it was one of the most humiliating defeats of the Turks, although they were outnumbered 7:1. It was also the beginning of the national awakening of the Romanians, but also a glimmer o
The Battle of Asal Uttar was one of the biggest tank engagements of the Second Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. In September 1965, the Pakistanis had invaded India in large numbers, reaching a depth of 5 km beyond the border and occupying the small town of Khem Karan in Punjab. The Pakistanis invaded
Ke Sanhs base was located in northwestern Vietnam, 10 km from the border with Laos. The base, since its establishment in 1962, has been a thorn in the side of the Ho Chi Minh corridor. American special forces advisers and a South Vietnamese garrison were stationed there. The base was not attacked un
During the last weeks of World War II, in Europe, the largely destroyed German Army faced enormous needs in terms of personnel and material. It was the period when a multitude of divisions and brigades were formed, from the entities, which were thrown into battle, with huge shortages in personnel an
The Russian Army in 1914 was facing equally important problems. Its main advantage was its inexhaustible reserves of human resources. But beyond that, the humiliating defeat in 1904-05 by the Japanese had left a deep mark on the morale and doctrine of the army. In general, the Russian Army could
The 3rd Reconnaissance Division was formed in 1934. It was an organic unit of the 3rd Panzer Division (MPa). In 1941, however, he was assigned to the 5th Light Division, later the 21st Infantry Division, in whose ranks he acted, exemplary, in North Africa. His action in the early stages of the Germa
In February 1942 the 1st Cavalry Division (MI) of the German army was disbanded. However, its dissolution did not mean the end of cavalry in the German Army. Cavalry islands and reconnaissance regiments continued to exist and provide excellent service for their respective formations, often clashing
In January 1945, Soviet forces had split the German front in Poland on the Vistula River. The German armies were pushed back as far as the Oder River in the west. The German 2nd Army, on the other hand, retreated northwards and occupied defensive positions in Pomerania and West Prussia, on the shore
In 1526 the Ottoman armies of Sultan Suleiman, the so-called magnificent, invaded Hungary and defeated, in Mohács, the army of King Laszlo II. The Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand was proclaimed King of Hungary in place of the deceased Laszlo. The noble Ioannis Zapolia also claimed the Hungarian throne,
Prince Frederick Josiah of Saxe-Coburg Saalfeld was one of the best generals of his time, a follower of the offensive doctrine who managed to glorify the Austrian weapons in difficult times, facing the Turks, but also the French. Josias was born in 1737. He was the youngest son of the Duke of Sax
Saxony is one of the oldest German states. Having come under the influence of Prussia after the Seven Years War, it continued to fight on its side until the disastrous battle of Jena (1806), after which it was forced to side with Napoleon. The Saxon Army had one of the best cavalry corps in Euro
The year 1915 had developed very badly for the war effort of the ANTATE forces. All their attacks on the Western Front had been repulsed with heavy losses and the Dardanelles campaign had also failed miserably. Even worse, in February 1916, the Germans had launched a large-scale offensive at Verdun
When American pilot Owen Badgett was flying his B-24 Liberator bomber towards a bridge in Burma he could not have known what was about to happen. Badgett enlisted in the Air Force and in 1942 graduated with the rank of second lieutenant. He was then transferred to the 7th Bombardment Squadron ba
Johann Huber was, in 1944, a young probationary officer. But the needs of the war brought him as a simple crew member of a Pz IV tank of the 7th Panzer Division (MPa), Rommels old Ghost Division, which was now fighting the Soviets. Huber was a tank loader for Sergeant Izeke, who was also an emerg
At the beginning of Operation Barbarossa Lieutenant Georg Michael was the commander of the 22nd Cavalry Regiment of the German 1st Cavalry Division (MI). In May 1942, however, the position on the Eastern Front was served by the 24th Panzer Division (MPa), which had been formed with elements of the 1
For us, these costly foreign trips are a means to the painstaking process of assimilating the history and culture of that country and then putting it on the pages as it is. Our family trip to Rome in the summer of 2019 was part of one such process. In this journey of eleven days from May 17 to May
Che Guevara is a revolutionary and guerrilla of Argentine origin, known for having participated in the Cuban Revolution alongside Fidel Castro. Having become the object of a real cult, the incarnation of a Marxist and idealist revolutionary who fought until his last breath, a condottiere of the 20th
In his apartment in Kyiv, businessman Vladimir Konochera recalls the difficult days of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, with references to the current pandemic. He experienced the terrifying accident as a KGB employee and describes how the leadership of the then Soviet Union tried to smother the even
• STOCKPHOTO “There are two liquors very agreeable to the human body, the wine within, the oil without. These liquids, products of two trees, are excellent; but oil is a necessary object. This assertion by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History was right:olive oil was an essential product in the