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1201 The Varangian Guard
The Late Roman Empire and its successor state, the Byzantine Empire, relied heavily on mercenary units to make up the bulk of their armies, as well as personal bodyguards to the emperors. The...
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1202 Dien Bien Phu
On May 7th 1954 the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu surrendered to Ho Chi Minh’s Communist forces. For the last 54 days it had been cut off and the surrender was the culmination of an operation that...
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1203 Betrayed by a Mason? The Tragic Mission of Lieutenant Thomas Boyd
In the summer of 1779, American Major General John Sullivan marched his 5,000 Continentals into the Finger Lakes region of western New York. Known as Sullivan’s Expedition, it was the longest military...
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1204 Harry Smith
Lieutenant General Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith, 1st Baronet of Aliwal was one of the most incredible soldiers of the British Empire making his name during the Napoleonic Peninsular Campaign, where...
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1205 The War in Europe 1939-40
World War II began in the early hours of the 1st September 1939 when the elderly German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on the Polish garrison at Westerplatte. Over 2000 German aircraft,...
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1206 The Fires of Languedoc: The Cathar Crusade
In 1208, Pope Innocent III called forth a crusade to destroy enemies of the Catholic Church. This crusade was not to fight Muslim armies in the Middle East or Spain, but rather to fight fellow...
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1207 VTOL
VTOL stands for Vertical Take off and Landing. While helicopters clearly fit a description of vertical take off and landing, the terms VTOL V/STOL STOVL and the like are reserved for aircraft who also...
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1208 The Battle of Vimy Ridge
Vimy ridge is an escarpment in France close to the Belgium border, gently rising on one side and somewhat steeper on the reverse, it has clear views for miles around from its crest. During the first...
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1209 The Lancaster Bomber
The Lancaster Bomber was one of the finest heavy bombers in the service of any nation during the second world war. It was the plane which the dambusters flew with the bouncing bomb, the plane which...
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1210 Irish Volunteers in the Second World War
John Kelly, who had left rural County Kilkenny in 1935 to join the British army, found himself sitting in a bar in newly-liberated Tunis is 1943, having a drink with some American conscript soldiers....
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