Military Heritage - January 2017 Issue

Features

Death in a Tangled Creek 
Entrenched Federals at Gaines’ Mill on the outskirts of Richmond on June 27, 1862, repulsed repeated Confederate assaults until the final attack of the day. By John Walker 

Armored Strike at Arras
British tankers made a courageous, but ultimately futile, attempt to foil the German blitzkrieg in France on May 21, 1940. By Christopher Miskimon

Frankish Disaster in Saxony
Saxon leader Widukind outsmarted a Frankish force at the Battle of Suntel in 782. Charlemagne made the Saxons pay for their treachery. By William E. Welsh 

Cannon Thunder at Valmy
France’s revolutionary army won a stunning victory over an Austro-Prussian army on September 20, 1792, in northeastern France. The outcome rattled Europe’s old order. By David A. Norris                         

Bloody Clash on the Tiber
The armies of rival emperors Constantine and Maxentius met in ad 312 on the outskirts of Rome at the Milvian Bridge. At stake was control of the Western Roman Empire. By Tim Miller

Departments

Soldiers
Janos Hunyadi showed tactical genius in safeguarding Hungary against the Ottoman tide in the 15th century. 

Weapons
The armies of Asia relied on a menacing curved sword for close-quarter combat that went by many different names. 

Intelligence 
American-born Nazi radio propagandist William Joyce amused, and also terrorized, British listeners.