Military Heritage - March 2015 Issue

Features

Death on a High Bluff
A minor clash near Leesburg, Virginia, on October 21, 1861, resulted in the death of senator-turned-soldier Colonel Edward Baker. The Union defeat stunned the North. 
By Mike Phifer

“Rally Round My White Plumes”
A Catholic League army met French King Henry IV’s Royalist army on a wide plain in Normandy in 1590. The Royalists’ superior tactics led to a resounding victory.
By Louis Ciotola

Drive to Messina
The Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 was fraught with costly mistakes. But unwavering determination resulted in victory.
By Phil Zimmer

Showdown at Guilford Courthouse
Nathanael Greene offered battle to Charles Cornwallis on March 15, 1781, in North Carolina. The British were bled white in what amounted to a pyrrhic victory.
By William E. Welsh

Tank Clash in the Sinai
An Israeli offensive to create a path to the Suez Canal during the 1973 Yom Kippur War was nearly repulsed by an Egyptian counterattack at the Chinese Farm.
By Arnold Blumberg

Columns

Soldiers
Emperor Julian sought to emulate Alexander the Great’s conquest of Persia, but Shapur II’s formidable Savaran cavalry proved his undoing.

Intelligence
World War II double agent Juan Pujol Garcia helped the Allies mislead the Germans as to the actual D-Day landing site.

Weapons
German U-boats threatened the Allies in World War II, but tactical changes and intelligence breakthroughs eventually negated the undersea peril.

Militaria
The Heeresgeschichtliches in Vienna, Austria, chronicles more than four centuries of Austrian history.

Books
Hundreds of Americans eager to join World War I did so flying for the RAF. Only a few would earn the coveted distinction of ace.