ACG WebOps (29 July 2007)

Jim H. Moreno | July 29, 2007  | 0 comments  | Print  | E-mail

Second Anglo-Afghan War: Ayub Kahn Victorious at Maiwand - about.com: Military History

July 27, 1880 - Near Maiwand, Afghanistan an 8,500-man Afghan army led by Ayub Kahn routs and almost destroys a British brigade commanded by Brig. Gen. George Burrows. Departing Kandahar with 2,600 combat troops, Burrows had orders to support a friendly Afghan army in blocking Ayub Kahn’s advance.

“Erich von Lewinski, called von Manstein: His Life, Character and Operations – A Reappraisal” by Jörg Muth - Military History Blog

I am in fairly regular contact with the author, and since I consider this piece by him as something definitely worth reading, I’d like to reproduce it here from the “Axis History Factbook” (which can be found here: http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=7901):

Towards a new Civil War history - Civil War Bookshelf

We have reached a point in time where the discrete rebuttals of individual points of doctrine within Centennial history can now be pulled together into a virtual "answer" to the kid stuff that has plagued advanced Civil War readers for 50 years.

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