Warfare

Showing 289–300 of 1122 results

Closing the Falaise Pocket 16 August 1944
£2.99 ADD GO TO MAP

Closing the Falaise Pocket 16 August 1944

£2.99

By 16 August the Canadian Operation Tractable had succeeded in wearing down German resistance and had taken Falaise, further closing the gap with the Americans in the south. The second part of the operation then began with Polish and Canadian forces moving east towards Trun, through which one of the... More
Closing the Falaise Pocket,19 August 1944
£2.99 ADD GO TO MAP

Closing the Falaise Pocket,19 August 1944

£2.99

The pocket began to shrink drastically as pressure was exerted around Falaise and further east between Trun and Chambois. The final thrust of Operation Tractable saw the Polish and Canadians converge on Trun. The American army was moving towards Chambois to the south, in readiness to seal the gap. Trun... More
Cold Harbor 3 June 1864
£2.99 ADD GO TO MAP

Cold Harbor 3 June 1864

£2.99

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the last battle of the Overland Campaign of Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant’s, a sequence of simultaneous offences against Confederate positions. Cold Harbor was at a crossroads, 10 miles (16 km) north of Virginia’s capital, Richmond. After Union cavalrymen captured Old Cold Harbor... More
Collapse of the Kerensky Offensive 1 July–4 August 1917
£2.99 ADD GO TO MAP

Collapse of the Kerensky Offensive 1 July–4 August 1917

£2.99

With the return of Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik party, to Russia in April 1917, the new provisional government was under increasing pressure to withdraw from the war. Meanwhile, the Allies were urging Kerensky, the Minister for War, to attack the Central Powers and divert vital manpower away from... More
Communist Supply Routes 1959–75
£2.99 ADD GO TO MAP

Communist Supply Routes 1959–75

£2.99

To sustain the war effort of the Viet Cong and People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) in South Vietnam, supply lines were set up through the mountainous dense jungle along the borders with Laos and Cambodia. The Ho Chi Minh trail followed existing paths hidden beneath the jungle canopies and was... More
Comparative resources: Union and Confederate States 1861
£2.99 ADD GO TO MAP

Comparative resources: Union and Confederate States 1861

£2.99

Based on comparative resources, the American Civil War was a mismatch, its conclusion forgone. The actual armed forces were roughly equal in strength at the outbreak of war, but the North could call upon a fighting age male population over four times that of the South. Even more stark were... More
Concentration of Allied Invasion Forces in the United Kingdom April 1944
£2.99 ADD GO TO MAP

Concentration of Allied Invasion Forces in the United Kingdom April 1944

£2.99

In April 1944, the south coast of England began its preparations for the D-Day landings, the details of which were kept top secret until only a couple of days before the operation. Numerous marshalling camps, colloquially known as ‘sausage camps’ because of their appearance on maps, were erected to house... More
Confederate Retreat 5 ̶ 12 July 1863
£2.99 ADD GO TO MAP

Confederate Retreat 5 ̶ 12 July 1863

£2.99

After their Gettysburg defeat on 4 July 1863, the Confederate forces, led by General Robert E. Lee, began a retreat through Maryland and across the Potomac River to their frontline in Virginia. The Confederates formed a 15–20-mile (24–32-km) -long wagon train, which carried supplies and the wounded. Between 5 ̶... More
Conquest of England 1066–69
£2.99 ADD GO TO MAP

Conquest of England 1066–69

£2.99

The Norman Conquest was no fait accompli after victory at the Battle of Hastings. The Saxons elected a new king, Edgar the Aetheling, and regional rebellions sprung up around the country, abetted or exploited at various stages by the Danes, Scots and Welsh. William the Conqueror returned to Normandy in... More
Conquest of England 1069–86
£2.99 ADD GO TO MAP

Conquest of England 1069–86

£2.99

Edgar Aetheling was a great survivor. Chosen by the Saxons to succeed King Harold he rebelled repeatedly against William the Conqueror and both of his sons, fought in Byzantium and Jerusalem, and died in his seventies in Scottish exile. He was already on his third rebellion when Danish King Sweyn... More
Conquest of Jerusalem 7 November–9 December 1917
£2.99 ADD GO TO MAP

Conquest of Jerusalem 7 November–9 December 1917

£2.99

Pouring forward after the occupation of Beersheba and Gaza, the Allied forces rapidly reached the El Maghar Ridge where, on 13 November, an Ottoman counterattack was decisively repulsed. The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) then captured Junction Station, severing rail links to Jerusalem. Meanwhile, Anzac mounted troops captured the port of... More
Contraband Slave Camps 1861–63
£2.99 ADD GO TO MAP

Contraband Slave Camps 1861–63

£2.99

In 1861, three escaped slaves fled to the Union’s Fort Monroe in Virginia. Under the Fugitive Slave Act (1850), they should have been returned to their Confederate owners. But the fort commander, Benjamin Butler, a qualified attorney, deemed that the Confederacy had seceded and therefore become a foreign – and... More