Two years of amateur warfare had changed nothing.The English Civil War remained in the balance. Then, in February 1645, Parliament created the New Model Army. Cromwell had raised a regiment of cavalry in Cambridgeshire. He deliberately recruited ‘men of a spirit’ and allowed complete ‘liberty of conscience’. His men – the original ‘Ironsides’– became the the deepest […]
Battle Maps
Operation Barbarossa Map, 1941
Map of Operation Barbarossa showing the direction of German attacks and the major pockets of Russian troops surrounded by blitzkrieg breakthroughs between June and December 1941. To read our article about Barbarossa – Hitler’s biggest gamble – read the June issue of Military Times
Map of the Battle of Isandlwana, 22 January 1879 : Zulu Wars
Isandlwana was perhaps the greatest defeat inflicted on the British redcoats by native warriors in imperial history. To read the full article, see Issue 6 of Military times
Battle of Waterloo: The Battle for Hougoumont – Map of Hougoumont farm complex
The Battle of Waterloo raged all day, but in most sectors, there were lulls in the fighting. Only at Hougoumont was the struggle more or less continuous from 11.30 in the morning until 7.30 at night. To read the full article, see Issue 6 of Military times
Map of the Wellington's Lines of Torres Vedras – from September 1809
The lines of the Torres Vedras were lines of forts secretly built by the British from around September 1809-1812 to protect Lisbon during the Peninsular War. The landscape was remodelled wholesale to make it more defensible. Every approach was covered by at least one fort, and all forts were mutually supporting. Trench-lines covered some of […]
The Battle of Marathon- 490 BC
The Battle of Marathon saw wo entirely antithetical military and political traditions: cavalry, archery, and light-armed troops versus heavy infantry; coerced subjects against free militia; wealthy imperial invaders turned away by pedestrian defenders of farm and family. The verdict of Marathon proved that far from being rudimentary, the introduction of a true heavy-infantry militia and […]
Map of the Battle of Maiwand – 27 July 1880
Map of the Battle of Maiwand, 27 July 1880: the decisive action of the Second Afghan War. General Burrows’ little army of 2,700 men was caught in the open by a force around seven times the size. The Afghan warlord Ayub Khan played his advantages to the full, threatening the ranks of the British line, […]
Map of the Battle Of Wakefield, 30th December 1460 – War of the Roses
The Battle of Wakefield was a maor battle in the War of the Roses. It took place at Sandal Magna near Wakefield, in West Yorkshire on 30th December 1460 The opposing forces were a Lancastrian army, loyal to the captive King Henry VI on one side, and the army of Richard, Duke of York, the […]
Map of Battle of Taranto -11th November 1940
A map of Taranto Harbour on 11 November 1940, showing the position of the Italian ships, the habour defences, and the direction of the British torpedo bomber attack waves.
The Battle of Bannockburn, 1314
As every Scotsman knows, in 1314, at midsummer, the might of the English army came to grief in the boggy ground below Stirling Castle. Heroic charges were not enough; the packed infantry formations of the Scots triumphed. The King of Scots, Robert Bruce, had not wanted to risk battle, but in May his brother Edward […]