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Knights Templar - Military History Podcast

The Knights Templar was a Christian military order founded during the Crusades in order to protect Christian pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land. These "Monks of War" were highly disciplined and they participated at many major battles during all nine Crusades, including the pivotal Battle of Hattin. They also founded the first modern checking/credit system, which made the organization wealthy enough to buy the island of Cyprus.

The relief of Kimberley and the Great Flank March - Military History Blog on the Web

Back to the Boer War with a look at the Great Flank March of February-March 1900. This was Field Marshal Lord Roberts’s first campaign in South Africa. Within five days it led to the relief of Kimberley (11-15 February 1900) and then to the capture of the main Boer army in the Orange Free State at Paardeberg (18-27 February 1900). From there Roberts was able to advance towards Bloemfontein. Two further attempts were made to stop him, at Poplar Grove (7 March 1900) where no meaningful resistance was offered, and at Driefontein (10 March 1900) where a small force of Boers managed to hold up Roberts for an entire day, but on 13 March the British captured the capital of the Orange Free State. The battlefield stage of the Boer War was coming to an end.

Black History; First Black Female Navy Flag Officer - Is America Burning?

In 1998, when then-Secretary of Defense William Cohen delivered the speech at an occasion honoring, among others, Rear Adm. Lillian Fishburne, he quoted retired Air Force Maj. Albert Murray, an acclaimed novelist: "Heroism… is measured in terms of the stress and strain it can endure, and the magnitude and complexity of the obstacles that it overcomes… which bring out the best in [potential heroes]."

The Galloping Ghost - Skunkfeathers

The USS Houston (CL 30, later CA 30) was launched on September 7, 1929, at Newport News, Virginia, and was commissioned on June 17, 1930. Classified a "heavy" cruiser, she sported a main battery of nine 8" guns in three independent turrets, along with eight 5" dual purpose (surface target or anti-aircraft) guns, as well as four quadruple mounts of 1.1" anti-aircraft guns and eight .50 caliber machine guns. She weighed in fully laden at about 14,000 tons, and possessed a top speed of at or just under 35 knots. For the time, she was an up-to-date, first-class fighting ship.

Fading Memories of World War I - Covenant Zone

From 1914 to 1918 Canada fought alongside Great Britain and France in the Great War, the "War to End All Wars", World War I.

Military Science in Western Europe in the Sixteenth Century - History of Leith, Edinburgh

What was an “army” in western Europe in the 16th century? Standing peacetime armies of any substantial strength were virtually unknown. They were too expensive, logistically unfeasible, and regarded as dangerous by populace and parliament alike. Much of the nominal military might of a country during peace was often in the form of sections of the nobility, whose traditional role it was to command and fight during war (e.g. France’s compagnies d’ordonnance, heavy cavalry companies). While feudalism as a military system was much diminished, feudal obligations in war could remain in some form. English nobility, for example, were required to provide strictly defined military materiel proscribed by title, while the kings of France could call the ban and arriére-ban, requiring military service (or a proxy) of all those holding land directly or indirectly.

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