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Meuse-Argonne Offensive 26 September–11 November 1918
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Meuse-Argonne Offensive 26 September–11 November 1918
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After the clearing of the three German salients was completed through the Battle of St Mihiel, Marshal Foch ordered a massive three-pronged offensive directed at the exposed fortified defences of the Hindenburg Line. The southernmost arm was the Meuse-Argonne offensive, launched by a combination of French and American troops. The... More
Middle Kingdom and Nubia c. 1993–1828 BCE
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Middle Kingdom and Nubia c. 1993–1828 BCE
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Having eliminated the rival dynasty at Hierakonpolis, the Theban pharaoh, Montjuhotep II, installed a garrison fortress at Abu, where he could monitor desert trading routes and create a springboard to assault an increasingly disaffected Lower Nubia, successfully annexing the region around Buhen. By c. 1872 BCE, Egypt had lost control... More
Midget Submarine Deployment 1941
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Midget Submarine Deployment 1941
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Prior to Japan’s devastating aerial onslaught on 7 December 1941, an attack group of five Imperial Japanese Navy I Type submarines was positioned around the coast near Pearl Harbor, each carrying Type A midget submarines. It was planned that under the cover of darkness, the midget submarines would enter the... More
Military and Naval Movements March–June 1862
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Military and Naval Movements March–June 1862
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Between March–June 1862 while Union general, Ulysses Grant, advanced up the Tennessee River, his commander-in-chief, General Halleck, instructed Brigadier General John Pope to clear Confederate strongholds on the Mississippi. Fortified by Flag Officer Andrew Foote’s gunboat flotilla (this included ironclads – steam-propelled warships) Union soldiers successfully lay siege to New... More
Military Orders in the Latin East 1197–1291
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Military Orders in the Latin East 1197–1291
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The three Military Orders, the Teutonic Knights, Knights Templars and Hospitaliers, each came into being in the Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 12th century. The Templars and Hospitaliers were already well established by the end of the Third Crusade, while the Teutonic Knights were established as a chivalric order during... More
Milliken’s Bend to Port Gibson 30 January–1 May 1863
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Milliken’s Bend to Port Gibson 30 January–1 May 1863
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General Ulysses S. Grant arrived at Milliken’s Bend on 15 January 1863 and embarked upon a restless series of ‘Bayou Operations’, all proving futile, to weave a path through Vicksburg’s formidable natural defences. Eventually, having exhausted every other option, he elected to forge a route through New Carthage to Hard... More
Mine Run 27 November 1863
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Mine Run 27 November 1863
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The Battle of Mine Run on 27 November was an inconclusive Union offensive. Union soldiers were to cross the Rapidan River and strike the Confederate’s right flank. This strategy began to fail when a Union corps became bogged down in the river, delaying further Union forces from crossing. General Robert... More
Missile Submarine Patrol Areas 1980
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Missile Submarine Patrol Areas 1980
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In 1980 the US and USSR both had submersible ships which carried nuclear-powered ballistic missiles. The Cold War showed no signs of thawing and both the US and USSR were engaged in a proxy war in Afghanistan. Although there was no eruption into a ‘hot war’ (direct conflict) both the... More
Mississippi Operations 3 February–2 May 1863
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Mississippi Operations 3 February–2 May 1863
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Vicksburg was the ‘nail that holds the South’s two halves together’, according to the Confederate President Jefferson Davis. In early 1863, Ulysses S. Grant attempted lateral thinking to pry the nail loose. He commissioned a series of attempts to build canals over the De Soto peninsula, north of Vicksburg: each... More
Mobile Bay August 1864
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Mobile Bay August 1864
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On 3 August 1864, Union forces laid siege to Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island to help Union Admiral David Farragut and his 18-strong fleet seal the last major southern port from Confederate blockade runners. The runners were moving cotton, weapons and supplies for the Confederate forces through the Gulf of... More
Mobile Bay Campaign 5–23 August 1864
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Mobile Bay Campaign 5–23 August 1864
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Admiral David Farragut had urged an assault on Mobile Bay since the fall of Port Hudson in July 1863, but it was not until the following summer that troops were provided for an amphibious operation. The soldiers under General Gordon Granger were landed at Dauphin Island, training a gun on... More
Mobilization in England 1147–1272
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Mobilization in England 1147–1272
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Pope Eugene III called the Second Crusade in 1144, when England was in the throes of a 20-year civil war. Nevertheless, a powerful force was raised, some 13,000 sailing from Dartmouth in territory held by the Angevin opposition to King Stephen. This force achieved the only substantive success of a... More