William Mitchell is considered the father of the US Air Force – he called for increased investment in the Air Force, which he believed would play a key role in future wars. He also developed...

220 years ago, French troops under Napoleon defeated and captured the Austrian army of General Mack. The Austrian Empire never recovered from this defeat, and Napoleon occupied Vienna.

1920. Wrangel in Crimea: ruler and commander-in-chief. Desperate attempts at reform, calls to "find the master." The final offensive of the "Black Baron"...

The 1916 uprising in Turkestan became a kind of prologue to the Basmachi movement in Central Asia and was viewed as progressive during the Soviet era, but the facts indicate otherwise.

The submarine Thresher (a thresher, a subspecies of shark) was one of the first American submarines the author learned about. A painting of it hung in his office...

370 years ago, the Russian army liberated Minsk and Vilnius. Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich made a triumphant entry into conquered Vilnius and assumed the title of "Grand Duke of Lithuania, White Russia,..."

This is the story of the fall of one of the first Slavic state formations, Great Moravia, and the emergence of Hungary....

The beauty of colonial wars for European states was that they could be waged with minimal expense, yet the gains in case of victory could be substantial. But to achieve this, they needed the most...

The Dunno movement believed that there was a "Romanist" conspiracy to undermine civil and religious liberty in the United States, and that it was organized by Catholics, that is,...

At reader request, the author continues publishing translations of little-known Soviet agents. This is a translation of an obituary published in The Independent, with commentary from the translator.

The origins and early military career of P. Wrangel. The Civil War, how and why he became the "Black Baron" in 1918. Denikin's successor...

The Tecumseh was launched on September 12, 1863, a year after the contract for its construction was signed. The launch day was a major event, covered in local newspapers.

Alexander I gave in to his emotions, determined to defeat the "Corsican monster" and "liberate Europe" from French oppression. As a result, Britain gained control of Russian "cannon fodder."

This is a story about the history of one of the first Slavic state formations, Great Moravia....

The Taiping Rebellion, the Second Opium War, and the ceding of the Amur and Primorsky regions to Russia showed the Chinese authorities that it was time to begin military reforms. Moreover, there was a model, and more than one...

This article will begin the author's classification of German leaflets from the Great Patriotic War. The main themes used for informational and psychological influence on the Red...

In his "Days," V.V. Shulgin saw the main reason for the collapse of the monarchy in the dispatch of guards units to the front, where they suffered irreparable losses. Therefore, defending the throne in the spring of 1917 turned out to be...

The history of World War II saw several naval disasters resulting from U-boat attacks, claiming thousands of lives. However, such well-known tragedies as the sinking of the Wilhelm...

The heroic three-month defense of Mogilev virtually destroyed the Polish-Lithuanian army's winter counteroffensive plans. Russian soldiers and Cossacks fought to the death, repelling all attacks...

The Nazis who came to power had a hand in the idea of ​​renaming the country, pushing the Iranian leadership to refer to the country in international correspondence as "Iran" (the homeland of the Aryans), rather than...

220 years ago, the War of the Third Coalition began. Napoleon, in the swift Ulm Campaign, crushed the Austrian Empire.

Professor Giuseppe Belluzzo was undoubtedly an extraordinary man: thirteen of Italy's largest warships during World War II were equipped with turbines designed by him, as were others...

In 1934, a 305mm coastal battery was built on Russky Island near Vladivostok, based on two three-gun turrets taken from the battleship Poltava.

The reason George Stephenson decided to build his first steam locomotive in 1814 was the same: the need to increase the profitability of coal mining. After all, Stephenson, like his father, lived by...