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The Thorn in the Eye: History of the Mantua Siege

Excerpt from “The 1799 Campaign in Italy, Vol. 4The battle of Novi and the End of the Italian CampaignBy Enrico Acerbi View of the large entrench...

Haslach: Dupont’s Baggage

Tim Carne, Vince Hughes, and Kevin Zucker It is rarely intended that any troops should have to enter the fight without supply. If so, it is usually...

A Spanish perspective on Espinosa de los Monteros November 10th-11th, 1808

Written by: Gabriel Gonzalez Pavón A beautiful land of mountains and high rocky cliffs, cold rivers, forbidding forests and snowy winters. No...

Japanese Plans and Operations 

Written by Kevin Zucker (1971) Tactical and Strategic Doctrine and TrainingThe Japanese plan for the war in the Pacific called for the assumption ...

Why the Line of Communication was so Important in Napoleonic Warfare

"Communications" means more than sending a message; it includes by extension the routes over which messages, supplies, and reinforcements can trave...

1806 The Autumn of No Return

Four marches out of Warsaw, Napoleon and the Guard spent Christmas night at Lopaczin, a wretched collection of wooden hovels. The Emperor had fai...

Women in the Prussian Army

Andreas Gebhardt writes: A German weekly newspaper came up with an article concerning the story of Friederike Krüger, one of several women who disg...