Redcoats The battle of Isandlwana represented a clash of two radically different military systems – a modern, Western, technologically-advanced professional army pitched…
We look at a rich mix of militia tactics and anti-fascist politics in a British bestseller from the dark days of 1940.…
Wellington’s Peninsular campaign was waged amid a war that remains totally dominated by naval strategy within the British historical memory. Where glory…
The Battle of Waterloo raged all day, but in most sectors, there were lulls in the fighting. Only at Hougoumont was the…
The organization of the Zulu army was profoundly different to its professional British counterpart, a part-time citizen militia, the means by which…
In the ‘blame game’ which followed the Zulu battle of Isandlwana, Anthony Durnford quickly emerged as the principal scapegoat. A complex figure…
What is Zulu so well respected? Measured against the production standards of modern war-films, Zulu certainly shows its age.…
The lines of the Torres Vedras were lines of forts secretly built by the British from around September 1809-1812 to protect Lisbon…
The Battle of Marathon saw wo entirely antithetical military and political traditions: cavalry, archery, and light-armed troops versus heavy infantry; coerced subjects…
Map of the Battle of Maiwand, 27 July 1880: the decisive action of the Second Afghan War. General Burrows’ little army of…