Pike and Shot To Impact and Salvo – Warfare 1550-1815

All reports agree that, on this day of blistering sunshine, there was a pause in the fighting at noon. It was a pause t...

The Ottomans defeated the Poles, who were supporting the Habsburgs in the Thirty Years' War, at the Battle of Cecora in September–Octo...

The Protestant Reformation, especially the radical version preached by Frenchman John Calvin (ne Jean Cauvin), who set himself up in G...

   General Dampierre (who was saved from the guillotine by being mortally wounded in 1793) said that the French soldier ...

Korean and Chinese soldiers assault the Japanese-built fortress at Ulsan. The Siege of Pyongyang probably saw the largest use of arti...

An 18th century engraving, depicting the explosion of one of Giambelli’s “hellburners” on the Duke of Parma’s pontoon bridge at the Sieg...

  An incident in the rebellion of 1745, by David Morier British participation in the War of the Austrian Succession was interrupted by...