Naval History

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• War Games

  
  In the Dark — Authority: 467
  It’s strange how esoteric facts – dates, numbers, names or whatever – can stay with you for years despite your best efforts to forget them. I have a notoriously bad memory for most things. I struggle to remember my own phone number, for example.  However, today’s date, it seems, will be stuck in my rather ...
  5 days ago

• John Woo’s Epic Film…Red Cliff. Civil War in Ancient China

  
  Wig-Wags — Authority: 114
  Every once in a while, a movie comes along that takes the visual depiction of battle to a new level ( Braveheart , Saving Private Ryan ).  John Woo’s epic film, Red Cliff, does just that. Based on the actual Battle of Red Cliffs (see the Red Cliff Wiki here ) that took place in the winter 208 CE, the film ...
  1 week ago

• Book Review: Struggle for the Middle Sea

  
  Information Dissemination — Authority: 135
  Vincent OHaras Struggle for the Middle Sea is the latest in his series of detailed studies of surface warfare in World War II. OHaras previous work includes The German Navy at War 1939-1945 , and the US Navy Against the Axis . Struggle for the Middle Sea, unsurprisingly, focuses on the Mediterranean, although it ...
  1 week ago

• Henry Every – A Picture

  
  Thomo's Hole — Authority: 120
  One of the recent searches here related to a picture of Henry Every. Every was, of course, a quite famous pirate. He was also famous as the pirate that developed the skull ad crossbones flag. See the post here at Thomo’s Hole on Henry Every that covers part of his life and career. Every seems to have been one of ...
  2 weeks ago

• THE ‘INVINCIBLE’ ARMADA, 1588

  
  War and Game — Authority: 135
  We found that many of the enemy’s ships held great advantage over us in combat, both in their design and in their guns, gunners and crews … so that they could do with us as they wished. But in spite of all this, the duke [Medina Sidonia] managed to bring his fleet to anchor in [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Proposition

  
  Information Dissemination — Authority: 135
  Im finishing up an article on the Battle of the River Plate for WIFR, and Id like to run a proposition by IDs readership: The essential questions of the Battle of the River Plate ought not to be "how did the British cruisers do so well against a German pocket battleship?" but rather "how did a glorified German ...
  4 weeks ago

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