The Thirty Years' War from 1618 to 1648 is considered one of the most destructive wars in European history. It is estimated that between 4.5 and 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a direct re...

The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict between Great Britain and France for global preeminence. Britain, France and Spain fought both in Europe and overseas with armies and fleets, ...

From 535 BC the family of the Magonids limited Greek expansion in the western Mediterranean, ensuring the prerogatives of the Carthaginian trade in Hispania, the Balearics, Sardinia and Sicily; and...

The entry of a navy the size of the Persian at the same time into the Salamis strait caused great disarray in their battle line. In addition, the apparent Greek disintegration turned into combat re...

I was inspired to build this work by reading Arnold Toynbee's book, A Study of History, and Trevor N. Dupuy's Future Wars. Between 2005 and 2007 I acquired a collection of board wargames in New Yor...

The New Empire is a time in the history of ancient Egypt that begins around 1560 BC and ends in 1070 BC. It includes the 18th, 19th, and 20th Dynasties, which ruled from the capital Thebes. It is a...

The Medes Wars (494-479 BC) were the first in history to feature large-scale naval operations: not only naval battles between squadrons with hundreds of trirems on either side, but also joint land-...

The European Religious Wars were a series of wars fought in Europe in the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. Those that were fought after the beginning of the Protestant Reformation in 1517, inte...

As the main characteristics of this period in the Naval War, we highlight that since ancient times, war at sea had been fought as on land, with shock weapons, bows and arrows on floating wooden pla...

Board wargames are one of the most common forms of conflict simulation in mathematical models throughout history. They are based on a map, topographic or from a satellite photo, where a hexagonal g...

The battle of the Indus River was fought on November 24, 1221, between Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu, Shah of the Khwarezmid (Quran) Empire, and a Mongol army of about 5 tumen (50,000 men). In confronting...

The battle of the Kalka River (Russian Битва на реке Калке) took place on May 31, 1223, in the ravines of the Kalka River (present-day Kalchik, which flows into the Azov Sea), in an area near the c...

The Battle of Legnica was fought on April 9th, 1241, about 4 km southeast of the present-day city, where a Catholic Church - still existing - was erected at the site (Legnickie Pole) where the body...

The battle of Ayn Jalut (Arabic عين جالوت, "Goliath Oasis") was a clash between Egyptian Mamluk and Mongols exploring Galilee on September 3, 1260 in the Jizreel Valley, in northern Israel. Baibars...

The Battle of Tuyutí was the biggest and bloodiest battle of the entire Paraguay War and the South American continent, as it involved more than 55,000 men. It was fought on May 24, 1866, in a swamp...

In June 1865, the Brazilian fleet was operating on the Paraná River in support of the incipient Allied operations to repel the Paraguayan invasion, and materialize a riverine blockade of Paraguay. ...

In August 1914, the importance of Paris as a strategic objective was such that its capture was regarded in many circles as capable of provoking the military collapse of France. Thus, at that time, ...

In March 1916, general Alexey Alexeyevich Brusilov was appointed to the command of the Southwest Front, replacing general Ivanov. As an illustration of originality in military thinking and large-sc...

In the early hours of November 20, 1917, more than 400 tanks (tanks) advanced against a 10-kilometer enemy line near the city of Cambrai, leading the assault of five infantry divisions against this...

The Battle of Algiers was an urban guerrilla campaign fought by the FLN (Front for the National Liberation of Algeria) against French colonial authorities in Algeria from late 1956 to late 1957, in...