Despite the military disaster at Bladensburg, the Marines gave the men and women of the capital precious time to flee.

Robin Highman / Military Development of the Renaissance -- John Beeler / C.G. Cruickshank -- Daniel A. Baugh / Military Development of the Renaissance -- The Navy to 1714 / The Army in the Eighteenth ...

Over the past half century, the British army has been extraordinarily busy. During the Cold War, it was deployed in West Germany, Northern Ireland, and, in response to an Argentine invasion in 1982, ...

For decades, July 1, 1916 at the Battle of the Somme has been remembered as the darkest day in British military history, when nearly 20,000 soldiers were killed in just hours. Yet Britain was not ...

Higham, Robin D. S Guide to the sources of British military history siris_sil_362831 ...