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Cyrus the Younger – Bid for the Persian Throne
Route of Cyrus the Younger, Xenophon and the Ten Thousand. Persian Immortals Battle of Cunaxa – First phase of battle Battle of Cunaxa – Second phase of battle It all began with sibling rivalry....
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January 1945: U-boat British Inshore Campaign
The German army had launched its large-scale counter-attack through the Ardennes against the Anglo-American forces on 16 December, and the U-boats were ordered to redouble their efforts to coincide...
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Junkers Flugzeug-Werke AG
Junkers J.I (2nd series) Unit: Flieger-Abteilung (A) 290 Serial: J.838/17 Courbes, France, August 1918. Junkers CL.I Unit: Kampfgeschwader Sachsenberg Winter 1918-1919. Sachsenberg was a Navy ace...
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Gazelle Helicopters in service with the French Army
A total of 340 Gazelles were procured for the Aviation Légère de l’Armée de Terre (ALAT), 171 SA.341Fs with the Turboméca Astazou IIIC turboshaft, which entered service in 1969, and 161 of the later...
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THE “GUÉPARD” (“CHEETAH”)
The French Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, has announced that the launch of the Joint Light Helicopter (Hélicoptere Interarmées Léger; HIL) programme has been brought forward to 2021....
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Dutch Navy
De Zeven Provinciën was a Dutch ship of the line, originally armed with 80 guns. The name of the ship was also written as De 7 Provinciën. The literal translation is “The Seven Provinces”, the name...
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The Mainstay
The Beriev A-50 is perhaps the most important system in the Russian military’s airborne inventory, reflected in the type’s intense workload and the importance attached to its upgrading. In early 2011,...
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Maarten van Tromp, (1598-1653)
Dutch admiral. While at sea with his father on a Vereenigde Oostindische Compaagnie (VOC) ship to India, he was taken prisoner by an English pirate and made to serve as a cabin boy for two years. He...
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Austria’s Opening Disasters – WWI
Austria’s decision for war against Serbia was not a product of fatalism, fecklessness, or incompetence. Whether to preempt any possibility of a solution to the south Slavic question within Habsburg...
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Minorca
25th Regiment of Foot. A lengthy period of service in Minorca (1768-80) was followed in 1782 by an expedition to Gibraltar, which was under attack by Spain. In the same year the Regiment was retitled...
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Reich and Reichsarmee
At the beginning of February 1763, the Reichstag formally ended the Reichskrieg and declared the Reich to be neutral, which the Prussian representative Erich Christoph von Plotho declared Prussia...
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CARPIQUET AIRFIELD II
A soldier of the Hitlerjugend carrying an MG42 machine gun near Caen. Two Fort Garry Horse squadrons were riding right on the heels of the North Shores and Chauds. One Sherman rolled up and spun in a...
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CARPIQUET AIRFIELD I
A Sherman tank of the Fort Garry Horse Operation Windsor Both Carpiquet airfield and village were held by the 12th SS (Hitlerjugend) Panzer Division, which had proven a tenacious and ruthless foe...
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Fedor Mateyevitch Apraxin, (1661-1728)
Russian admiral. Along with Peter I, Apraxin was the founder of the modern Russian Navy. In 1700 Peter appointed Apraxin governor of Azov, where he was ordered to build and sustain a Black Sea fleet...
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Matilda at Arras
By the outbreak of war with Germany in September 1939 there were only two Matildas in service, though 16 had been issued to 7th Royal Tank Regiment in France by early 1940 where they were used with...
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After Okinawa 1945
Haruna at her moorings near Kure, Japan, under attack by U.S. Navy carrier aircraft, 28 July 1945 Wreck of Tone at Kure The Heavy Cruiser Tone, sister of Chikuma survived many battles and was sunk at...
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Battle of Friedland, the decisive battle of the campaign of 1807.
Napoleon Watching The Battle Of Friedland 1807 A major engagement between French forces under Napoleon and the Russian army under General Levin Bennigsen Friedland was the decisive battle of the...
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Operation El Dorado Canyon 1986 Part II
Hitting Qaddafi On the evening of 14 April the attention of the Qaddafi regime was still focused on the carriers of Task Force 60, not the F-111Fs approaching from the west, but that was about to...
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Operation El Dorado Canyon 1986 Part I
Departing for Tripoli Colonel Westbrook launched and recovered planes at RAF Lakenheath for Exercise Salty Nation until 1500 U.K. time on Monday, 14 April. After that time all planes taking off from...
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Dacian Military Organization and Tactics
Ancient Warfare VI.2 Ancient Warfare VI.2 with ‘The Dacian Wars of Domitian and Trajan’. From a cultural point of view, the Dacians were quite different from the Thracians: across the centuries, they...
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