On July 7, 1770, a Russian squadron burned almost the entire Turkish fleet in Chesma Bay, losing 11 men that night against ten thousand of the enemy – and it was not done with a flawless plan, in which...

Shortly before the surrender of the Dien Bien Phu "fortress," on April 24, 1954, a conference began in Geneva to resolve the outcome of the Korean and Indochina Wars. The result was the division...

To earn the title of physician, a graduate of a hospital school would amputate a leg and remove a bladder stone in front of a commission—that's how 18th-century Russia trained its own doctors, and it didn't begin in...

On January 2, 1961, the Portuguese passenger liner Santa Maria, en route from the island of Curaçao to Miami (USA) with 586 passengers and 350 crew members on board, was hijacked...

The regulations required the column to be deployed into a line before the decisive battle, but in reality, it often reached the enemy without deploying—and this was not due to stupidity, but to the commander's sober calculation under fire...

Bonaparte would only accept Lazare Hoche as his equal and his only rival. Upon learning of his death, the future emperor said, "There were two of us, but one was needed."

Today we'll talk about a Swiss inventor and gunsmith from the early 19th century....

In 1246, Prince Mikhail of Chernigov was martyred in Sarai. In two articles, we will examine the causes of the tragedy, beginning with an overview of the political situation Batu found himself in after the khan's death.

The Tsar's Pharmacy of 1581, the secular Apothecary's Office with its library and forensic examination, the medical school of 1654, and the hospital with the law "to treat the sick, to teach doctors"—all of this operated in...

The German plan to invade the British Isles, unlike the attacks on Poland, France, and then Soviet Russia, was of a very strange, "uncertain" nature....

The 1791 regulations considered the column as a tool for approach and concentration, while firefighting was favored by the line. We examine the logic of the formation through the eyes of those who led battalions under grapeshot...

The only casualty of British submarines in the South Atlantic was the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, but this event led the Argentine Navy command to abandon active naval operations....

On the actions of the Russian fleet from Chesma until the end of the war of 1768–1774....

A skull with a hole healed during life proves that real surgery existed in pre-Mongol Rus', and that it was not healers who performed the knife treatment, but professional slaughterers...

The shelling of the Dien Bien Phu "fortress," which began on March 13, 1954, was extremely accurate. It was not for nothing that the Vietnamese scouts crawled on their bellies all over the area: they used their antennas to locate French command posts...

The familiar image of a blunt French column ramming a thin British line and breaking under fire was born not on the fields of Spain, but in the office of the historian Charles Oman with his one-sided sources...

England dragged Denmark into the disastrous 1864 war against Prussia and Austria, raising hopes of military support. After provoking Copenhagen into a harsh confrontation, London then declared neutrality...

I have already written about the actions of Argentine submarines in the Military Review (see "Argentine Submarines in the Falklands Conflict"), now let's turn to the actions of British submarines....

An 11th-century law prescribed a fee for doctors, monasteries ran free hospitals, and cities paved streets and heated bathhouses—we examine why Ancient Rus' has been wrongly labeled a kingdom of savagery and quackery...

Reasons for the poor armor penetration of the 45mm anti-tank and tank guns...

The Battle of Borodino: Kurgan Hill and the "Raevsky Battery." Maloyaroslavets, Krasnoye, the Foreign Campaign. The final years of General Raevsky's life.

During the Crimean War, the Russian fleet laid more than two and a half thousand naval mines without sinking a single ship—and yet forced Europe's most powerful squadrons to turn away from Kronstadt...

For decades, Hollywood has pitted MI6 and the CIA in a secret duel, but declassified archives show the opposite—the two services almost always sat at the same table, and their most high-profile failures were not born of...

The 1996 Gangneung incident involving a North Korean San-O-class submarine nearly led to a new war on the Korean Peninsula. The forced landing of 26 North Korean submariners and reconnaissance personnel behind enemy lines...