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Black Sea Fleet Sinking 1918 On April 23, 1918 in the face of a threat of the Crimea seizure by the German troops the RSFSR Council of Peopleās Commissars (CPC) issued an order on relocation of the Black Sea fleet from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk. The Central Committee of the Black Sea Navy that was vested full power from early January…
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Both adversariesā reinforcements stormed toward the small inlet that separated Hog Island from Noddleās, with the Americans on the former…
San Felice (Monte Circeo).- Besichtigung des Abschnitt SĆ¼d durch KG 10.5cm LG 40 (Olpe) This was a Krupp design originally…
German troops with French prisoners crossing the Meuse on 15 May 1940 near Sedan. Sedan, already notorious as the site…
When the Civil War began, leaders in both the North and the South thought that it would be a short war, but the two sides had very different military strategies regarding how to bring about…
Following the attack on Fort Sumter and the secession by the Confederacy the Union devised a strategy to limit the length of the war. Lincoln had no desire for further bloodshed and thus wanted a…
The entire goal of the American Revolution including the penning of the Declaration of Independence was to gain the colonists and the newly formed American nation legitimacy internationally. The Declaration of Independence was written to…
Rainier I of Grimaldi, victor of the naval battle at Zierikzee The French victory over the Flemings at the Battle…
Admiral Sir John Jellicoeās flagship, HMS Iron Duke at the Battle of Jutland, 1916. Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, commanded the…
The French battleship Richelieu shows her fire controls at Portsmouth in August 1946. She was designed to be armed with…
One of the six Black Prince pilot models. Ā A side view of the 1st prototype A43 Black Prince First…
Roman infantry during the crisis of the third century. They wear late pattern Niederbieber helmets. The prestige of Roman arms was at an all-time low and the situation was made even worse by the fact that the power-hungry Roman generals everywhere rose in revolt against Gallienus (253ā268), the son and…
Dorand biplane ā 1914 French military biplane designed and constructed at the military aircraft factory at Chalais-Meudon. ā This machine is characterised by a very long and narrow fuselage, which carries at its rear end a biplane type elevator. The engine is a 200 h.p. horizontal Salmson (Canton-Unne system) driving…
A 1926 map reconstructing the tactical movements in the battle. No contemporary maps of the battlefield have been found. General Sir Henry Clinton launched the new strategy in November 1778 by sending a force of about three thousand Redcoats, Hessians, and Tories from New York to Savannah. The ToriesāNew York…
Weather and visibility at bases for returning bombers was good till around 4 am in the Yorkshire area, but in the Lincolnshire area it deteriorated after 2 am. Meanwhile, aircraft strung out over Germany were having increasing difficulties with the wind speeds. Navigator Fred Hall of 76 Squadron soon became…
āHMS WarspiteĀ of the Eastern Fleet and Flagship of Admiral Sir James Sommerville, underway in the Indian Ocean.ā The prime ministerās confidence that the Eastern Fleet with its planned reinforcements, together with the Royal Air Force additions in Ceylon and India, could meet further Japanese attacks went beyond that of the…
Known to Americans during the war as the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), the Peopleās Army of Vietnam was the army of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Its organization included some air and naval units, but it was primarily composed of infantry units and their related support units, including artillery, armor,…
The other major consideration is over the employment of tanks on 15 September. Haigās eagerness to use the new weapon is unquestionable and even after their patchy performance in initial battle testing, his faith in them is confirmed by his striking request, two days later, for 1,000. The charge against…
RS-28 (Satan 2) Russiaās nuclear arsenal has been progressively modernized. According to the IISS: The Strategic Rocket Force (RVSN) continues to progressively rearm, with a number of regiments continuing to receive new Yars missiles and launchers in 2016. Meanwhile, tests of the heavy Sarmat liquid fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)…
British coastal assault on St Cast in Brittany in September 1758. A German map, published…
Schnellboot S-80 torpedo boat Camo Operations with the Kriegsmarine S-boats were often used to patrol…
American Lend-Lease supplies to the USSR 1941ā45. Soviet historiography is mocked in the West, where…
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