Military History

Having lost its largest city, New Orleans, months earlier, the Confederacy attempted to retake Louisiana’s capital city of Baton Rouge. Could the Union retain its foothold in the Deep South?

The four Crusader states in the Holy Land were founded during the First Crusade, serving as a Christian foothold in the Levant for two centuries.

Napoleon Bonaparte was rarely defeated in battle, but these five generals proved that he was not invincible.

Philopoemen was an innovative and successful soldier of the Achaean League, regarded as the last great general of ancient Greece by his contemporaries.

In 196 CE, two rivals for imperial power, Septimius Severus and Clodius Albinus, clashed at the Battle of Lugdunum, the largest battle in Roman history.

While battles got the most attention, sieges were an important warfare tactic in ancient Greece and Rome. It took time and ingenuity to breach city walls.

While Chinese civilization flourished under the Song Dynasty, large parts of northern China were ruled by rival dynasties until the Mongol conquest reunified the country.

On June 21, 217 BCE near lake Trasimene, an entire Roman army marched into an ambush set by the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca.