FEATURES
"The Siege That Made Suleiman Magnificent" — A few thousand Christian knights were all that were keeping the Ottoman sultan from fulfilling his father's prediction.
"Navigating to Disaster off Gallipoli" — Had Allied submarines heeded existing navigational warnings about the Dardanelles, lives would have been saved—and the costly Gallipoli campaign might have been averted.
"Charles Lee's Disgrace" — His failure to coordinate subordinates led to a crucial breakdown at the Battle of Monmouth, and a rare public rebuke from George Washington.
"Mutiny of the 4th Massachusetts" — Given a dangerous order after their nine-month enlistments had expired, the men of one regiment refused to act.
"Triumph of Prussian Technology and Tactics" — Königgrätz does not trip off the tongue of military history buffs as readily as Waterloo, Gettysburg, or Stalingrad. Yet this battle in Bohemia was arguably as important as any in modern history.
"Fall of the Gibraltar of the East" — In only seventy days, Japanese troops on bicycles sidestepped static defenses to capture the Malay Peninsula, and in an audacious ruse convinced the British to surrender Singapore.
"Revolt of the Admirals" — Faced with downsizing after World War II, U.S. navy officers risked their careers to tell Congress the nation needed naval aviation.
"Prominent in the Revolt" — sidebar
"Ironclad Huascar's Mastery in the Guano War" — Four more than four months in 1879, a wily skipper in an aging ship terrorized Chile and stymied its more modern, better-armed fleet.
DEPARTMENTS
"Fighting Words: Terms from Military History" — Our lexicographer considers some nautical words and phrases with military and civilian connotations.
"Arms and Men: Terrorized by Trebuchets" — During the Crusades, Europe's military leaders learned the principles of building war engines capable of effectively slinging rocks weighing a ton or more against castle walls.
"Artists on War: 'Fair Greece, Sad Relic'" — Delacroix mirrors the philhellenic response to the Greek war of independence.
"In Review" — Reviews of Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War, by Robert Doughty; and The Seventy Great Battles in History, edited by Jeremy Black.