Tattooing in Western culture owes its popularity to the sailors of the 1700s, who were inspired by the tattooed indigenous people they…
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Military History Monthly’s roving museum explorer Keith Robinson visits a storehouse of naval ‘big bangs’. A lesser known museum on the Gosport side of…
How did the Royal Navy deal with pirates in their 17th century heyday?…
According to military historian Saul David: ‘Given that the recent tempo of military operations for British and US forces is higher than it…
Using Ed Dovey’s beautiful illustrations as a visual guide, Robin Smith reports on an early British special-forces unit that operated in the…
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This map explains the movements of the French, British, and Prussian forces from the 15 to the 18 June, 1815. Napoleon seized…
In our monthly study of the conflicts that lie behind treasured campaign medals, this month, we turn to the India Medal awarded for campaigns…