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Capturing these instruments during the Peninsula War se
On 21 October 1805, smoke filled the skies over the seas west of Cape Trafalgar, a headland in the Province of Cádiz in the southwest of Spain, as a fierce battle raged. After nearly five hours of int
LONG MARSTON, YORKSHIRE 2 JULY 1644
FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA, USA 11-15 DECEMBER 1862
Thomas Jones Barker completed this enormous painting to commemorate the Crimean War’s last major action
Three months after German forces captured Fort Douaumont in February 1916 (see issue 1 of Iron Cross) a calamity befell the occupiers, predominantly comprising troops from the Prussian Brandenburg reg
In the oppressive heat of his cell in the Mont-Valérien military prison west of Paris on 31 August 1898, Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert-Joseph Henry wrote a despairing letter to his wife, drank half a bott