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17th Century/Afghanistan/Ancient/Ancient warfare/Early Modern/Feature/Medieval

Afghanistan: graveyard of armies

April 13, 2018
8 mins read
2

A huge, mountainous, landlocked Central Asian state, Afghanistan has defied invaders for 2,500 years. Jules Stewart takes a look at the country’s

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19th Century/Cover Feature/Early Modern/Zulu Wars

Chakdara: the other Rorke’s Drift?

March 8, 2018
2 mins read
1

The epic defence of Chakdara is intriguing. It lasted a week (26 July-2 August 1897), involved 240 men defending an isolated post

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16th Century/Early Modern/Feature

Niccolò Machiavelli: the father of Renaissance warfare

June 21, 2017
4 mins read

Iain King examines the relationship between war and thought in the writings of Niccolò Machiavelli. “Men rise from one ambition to another;

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17th Century/Early Modern/Feature

The Royal Navy’s Darkest Day: Medway 1667

June 14, 2017
8 mins read
1

Patrick Boniface recalls one of the most humiliating defeats in the history of Britain’s Royal Navy. To the people of Chatham the

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18th Century/Early Modern/Feature

What really happened at the Battle of Culloden?

September 6, 2016
1 min read

  Culloden has been frequently presented as a battle fought by an incompetent, ill-equipped, and badly led Jacobite army wielding swords against superior, professional Redcoats armed with muskets.

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18th Century/Briefing Room/Early Modern/Feature

BRIEFING ROOM: Nader Shah

June 9, 2016
2 mins read
1

Look at that bling – who was he? Hailed by historians as ‘a second Alexander’ and ‘the Napoleon of the East’, Nader Shah was

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18th Century/Early Modern/Feature

After Culloden: from rebels to Redcoats

April 22, 2016
3 mins read
15

Robbie MacNiven explores the fate of the Scots who survived Culloden. On a bitterly cold April afternoon in 1746, on moorland just

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16th Century/Early Modern/Feature

Renaissance galleys

March 18, 2016
1 min read

The galleys were the most effective vessel in Mediterranean naval warfare during the 16th century. This was the Indian summer of an

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Battle Maps/Early Modern/Feature

The Dutch War of Independence

December 15, 2014
2 mins read
2

When the war began in 1566, Imperial Spain was the world’s greatest superpower. By the time it ended, in 1609, ‘the Spanish century’ was

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16th Century/Early Modern/Feature

CROSS SECTION – Inside a 16th-century galleon

June 18, 2013
1 min read

In 1588, the bulk of the English fleet comprised 500-tonne race-built galleons designed primarily as floating gun-platforms. This detailed diagram of the

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