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BATTLE MAPS: Battles of Monte la Difensa and Remetania

Aug 23, 2016 Hazel Blair Articles, Battle Maps, Modern, Regiment Profiles, Slider, WWII 0

Monte la Difensa Today, when you look at the routes up Difensa’s crags, it is just possible to imagine small groups of highly trained mountaineers conquering them. But hosts of heavily...

REGIMENT – Lincoln’s Highlanders

Dec 13, 2012 Military History Monthly American Civil War, Articles, Modern, Regiment Profiles 1

Ron Field uncovers the role of Scots Americans in the war to free the slaves. In the wake of the failed Union attack on the Tower Battery at Secessionville on James Island, near Charleston, South...

The British Army at Isandlwana, Anglo-Zulu Wars

Feb 07, 2011 Military History Monthly Modern, Regiment Profiles, Zulu Wars 0

Redcoats The battle of Isandlwana represented a clash of two radically different military systems – a modern, Western, technologically-advanced professional army pitched against an indigenous...

The 93rd Highlanders and the ‘Thin Red Line’

Jan 11, 2011 Military History Monthly Regiment Profiles 0

In November 1854, The Times war correspondent William Russell, writing from the Crimea, reported that an attack by Russian cavalry had been repulsed, having come up against a piece of ‘Gaelic...

The Diehards – Regiment Profile

Nov 10, 2010 Military History Monthly Modern, Napoleonic, Regiment Profiles 1

The Diehards: The 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot (now part of The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment) Nothing could exceed the conduct and gallantry of Colonel Inglis at the head of his...

The Stonewall Brigade – Regiment Profile

Nov 10, 2010 Military History Monthly Early Modern, Regiment Profiles 0

Brigadier-General Thomas J Jackson, a professor of Virginia Military Institute, and his foot cavalry. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War in the eastern theatre. The Union men...

The Royal Scots Greys – Regiment Profile

Nov 10, 2010 Military History Monthly Modern, Napoleonic, Regiment Profiles 6

The Royal Scots Greys: The regiment that caught the French Eagle. The image of the Scots Greys charging out of the picture in Lady Elizabeth Butler’s classic painting Scotland Forever! depicts one...