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A 1760 Fight for This Small Riverine Garrison Proved the Key to Canada for...
For New France—Louis XV’s colonial dominion in North America—1759 had been a disaster, a year marred by crushing losses to British-led forces amid the French and Indian War, a sideshow of the broader...
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Clothes May Not Make the Man, But These Commanders’ Personal Effects Are...
.image-13793398 { max-height: 100%; --left: 46.53%; --top: 30.04%; } Like it or not, war can sometimes be a fashion statement. Among the multivarious uniforms that distinguish one unit from another,...
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Did the Medieval Flail Actually Exist?
.image-13794288 { max-height: 100%; --left: 84.02%; --top: 48.53%; } As an instrument of war, the flail was a handheld, two-piece, jointed weapon, consisting of a wooden handle of varying length (up...
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Top 10 Commanders Who Became Unlikely Stars of Military History
.image-13794266 { max-height: 100%; --left: 60.20%; --top: 19.67%; } Judas Maccabeus (190-160 bce) The third of five sons born to Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, priest (cohen) of Modein—the...
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Thomas Jefferson, Grave Digger
While a number of enslaved African Americans looked on, 40-year-old Thomas Jefferson, shovel in hand, began poking into the side of the large Indian mound. Spherical in shape and 40 feet in diameter,...
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Did Scottish Warriors Invent The Man Bag?
.image-13794364 { max-height: 100%; --left: 48.78%; --top: 25.45%; } Recommended for you Kilts allowed Scottish warriors increased mobility in battle as they dashed around the Highlands, but these...
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Green and Mysterious, Absinthe Caused Controversy Wherever it Was Poured
Artemisia absinthium is a green, leafy plant native to Europe, but one that has since migrated to North America. Commonly called the wormwood plant, its flowers and leaves are the main ingredient of...
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George Washington Needed to Keep His Spies Hidden. So He Financed a Secret...
.image-13794229 { max-height: 100%; --left: 45.06%; --top: 33.02%; } Fishkill, New York was arguably the fulcrum of espionage efforts by Patriots in the American Revolution. Fishkill is where Founding...
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This Primitive Rifle Won the Southwest for Spain
.image-13793834 { max-height: 100%; --left: 32.13%; --top: 43.37%; } Debate about which guns actually “won the West” will probably go on indefinitely. The Colt, Winchester, Sharps, Springfield and...
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Bombs Burst in Air Over This Famed War of 1812 Fort
.image-13794918 { max-height: 100%; --left: 55.63%; --top: 61.16%; } I shall sup tonight in Baltimore—or in Hell!” Thus spoke British Maj. Gen. Robert Ross, who commanded His Majesty George III’s land...
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‘Boston Harbor a Teapot Tonight’: The Revolutionary Act, 250 Years On
John Hicks made it home well after midnight on that chilly December night in 1773. Not wanting to wake his wife—and thus incur her wrath—he quietly entered his house in Cambridge, Mass., gingerly...
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Lake Erie’s Distinctive New England Feel
.image-13795601 { max-height: 100%; --left: 21.53%; --top: 26.20%; } If you travel through Northeast Ohio, take the time to get off the turnpikes and interstates to travel through towns like Burton,...
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The World’s Most Visitor-Friendly Battlefields
.image-13795021 { max-height: 100%; --left: 49.92%; --top: 40.72%; } Battlefields are where history happened—for better or for worse. As Winston Churchill once observed, “Battles are the punctuation...
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Why The War Hammer Was A Mighty Weapon
.image-13795518 { max-height: 100%; --left: 79.18%; --top: 53.56%; } The war hammer, as crude as it seems, was a practical solution to a late-medieval arms race between offense and defense. From the...
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This German Baroness Dodged Cannonballs During the American Revolution
.image-13794387 { max-height: 100%; --left: 40.69%; --top: 30.79%; } Frederika Charlotte Louise, Baroness Riedesel zu Eisenbach—better known as Baroness von Riedesel—was the wife of Baron Friedrich...
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This Ornery Knight Inspired Shakespeare’s Falstaff
.image-13795670 { max-height: 100%; --left: 63.01%; --top: 55.60%; } Even though it officially lasted 116 years, the Hundred Years War was really just part of a long-running rivalry over land, power...
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America, It Seems More and More, Could Use a Politician Like Henry Clay Again
.image-13795310 { max-height: 100%; --left: 56.65%; --top: 46.32%; } Henry Clay, nicknamed the Star of the West and the Great Compromiser, served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and a...
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The Old World Soldier Who Conquered the New
.image-13795079 { max-height: 100%; --left: 67.67%; --top: 50.23%; } For the sick, half-starved inhabitants of Tenochtitlán, island capital of the beleaguered Aztec empire, the new year of 1521...
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Why A Rabbit Appears On This Japanese Samurai Helmet
.image-13795559 { max-height: 100%; --left: 35.92%; --top: 34.03%; } This Japanese kawari-kabuto, or individualized helmet, dating from the 17th century sports the shape of a crouching rabbit forged...
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War Has Never Spared Civilians. But When Does Lawful Force Become A War Crime?
.image-13795547 { max-height: 100%; --left: 32.49%; --top: 42.71%; } One of the most iconic paintings to depict the horrors of war is Francisco Goya’s The Third of May 1808, which depicts an incident...
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