We consider that Créçy was a great French skirmish that turned into a great victorious English battle during the Edwardian phase of the Hundred Years War. Along with the later battles of Poitiers a...

Aljubarrota was one of the great pitched battles of the Middle Ages between two royal armies and one of the most decisive events in the history of Portugal. In the diplomatic field, it allowed the ...

Both the French and the Germans followed offensive plans. The French offensive in the Ardennes was to be the largest Plan XVII, consisting initially of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth armies. But on 1...

It has been noted that the Russian Navy has shyly sought to comply with the maritime military strategic principles for a naval victory by attempting to bring together two of its largest squadrons (...

Jutland was the largest naval battle in World War I and the third historic action between battleships (steel-armored battleships) following the battles of the Yellow Sea (1904) and Tsushima in 1905...

When Caesar marched into Greece, Pompey had the strategic option of avoiding battle and transporting himself by sea to Italy, securing the peninsula in the absence of Caesar and his forces. Another...

Crusade is called any of the Christian-inspired military movements from Western Europe to the Holy Land (the name Christians called Palestine) and the city of Jerusalem to conquer, occupy, and keep...

Also known as the Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack (rebuilt and renamed CSS Virginia) or the Battle of the Ironclads, it was the most important naval battle during the American Civil War, fo...

Napoleon's naval plan for 1805 was for the French fleet of the Mediterranean and part of the Spanish fleet to break the British blockade and meet in the Caribbean. They would then return, assist th...

During the French and Napoleonic Revolutionary Wars the British Royal Navy established its reputation as one of the most effective fighting institutions in history. The Navy not only played a key r...

The Battle of Issus took place in southern Anatolia, 10 km south of the city of Issus, present-day Iskenderum (which in Turkish means Alexandria), and on both banks of the river Pinarus (present-da...

The Battle of the Hydaspes River was fought by Alexander, in 326 BC, against King Porus (Pururava in Sanskrit), on the banks of the river of the same name as the battle (present-day Jhelum River), ...

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 three wars fought between Rome and Carthage (from the Phoenician Kart hadasht, new city) from the 3rd century BC are called the Punic Wars (from the Latin poeni, Phoenicians). Domination of the...

The Battle of Britain, also known as the Air Battle for England (German: die Luftschlacht um England) was the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces. Historians have cited Germ...

The Battle of Kadesh is one of the best known in history because it was the first that could be faithfully reconstructed in detail, based on records on both sides of the confrontation. Involving th...

The War of the Austrian Succession was a European conflict that took place between 1740 and 1748 and was fought primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic, and the M...

World War II was a global military conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations — including all major powers — organized into two opposing military alliances: the A...

The Falklands War lasted 74 days and ended with the Argentine surrender on June 14, 1982. On the Argentine and South American side, in short, the lack of a correct and comprehensive assessment of t...

The Falklands War lasted 74 days and ended with the Argentine surrender on June 14, 1982. On the Argentine and South American side, in short, the lack of a correct and comprehensive assessment of t...