Military History is the nation’s oldest and most popular war magazine devoted to the history of warfare. Topics include naval history, army, infantry and foot soldiers from all branches of the military.
MILITARY HISTORY • JANUARY 2020 VOL. 36, NO. 5
On the Bottle
News
LESSONS FROM THE NAPOLEONIC WARS
News
Interview Four Hours of Fury
Valor The Fabled ‘Shipka’
What We Learned From… The Battle of Mollwitz, 1741
Hardware Vought F4U-7 Corsair
POCKETFUL OF DEATH • In 1993 a United Nations force of Canadian and French peacekeepers was tasked with creating a buffer zone between warring Serbs and Croats. It came too late
The Great Divorce
DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR • As World War II turned against Japan, its military resorted to weapons beyond desperation
UNCLE SAM’S INTERVENTION • Landing in Nicaragua in 1927 amid bitter civil strife, U.S. Marines honed their counterinsurgency techniques
THE CRUCIBLE OF ANTIOCH • Fortunes turned for the opposing Christian and Muslim armies in this pivotal clash of the 1095–99 First Crusade
SHADOWS OF INDOCHINA • During the 1946–54 First Indochina War, French-led guerrillas fought an ultimately losing battle deep within communist territory
THE FIGHT FOR THE 14TH COLONY • At the onset of the American Revolution the British and Americans each sought to sway New England settlers and First Nations tribes in Nova Scotia
The Army’s Pacific
Hallowed Ground 1690 Battle of the Boyne, Ireland
War Games
Bombsnuffers • In July 1940 British factory workers demonstrate the use of a long-handled device intended to smother incendiary bombs dropped by German aircraft—though it looks as though a user would have to get rather close to a burning bomb for the device to be effective.