MOTTE AND BAILEY CASTLES
A view showing how the motte and bailey castle in Tonbridge, Kent, may have looked after it was erected by Richard Fitz Gilbert in the aftermath of the victory at Hastings. Mottes were not just a huge...
View ArticleFührer Order No. 11
“Feste Plätze” Posen 1945 Map showing the location of the originally 29 “Feste Plätze” (fortified places), which were introduced by Adolf Hitler in March 1944 to stabilize the Eastern Front. The...
View ArticleHen Domen
This artist’s impression of Hen Domen, based on the archaeologists’ findings, shows how the castle might have appeared in the twelfth century. How were these buildings actually constructed? The trees,...
View ArticleThe Use of Mining in Sieges early-13th Century England
ROCHESTER, 1215 Rochester saw one of the few military successes of King John. Rochester 1215, illustration by John Cann. King John uses mining to win this famous siege Known to history as `Bad’ King...
View ArticleFrench Divisions Pinned Down in the Maginot Line
1st Lieutenant Germer’s Engineer Assault Team Attack against Fort No. 505 at La Ferté, 18 May 1940 The vanquished contributes to a victory just as much as the victor. Field Marshal Graf von Schlieffen...
View ArticleThe Gothic Line: the Defence
August–September 1944 The German Plan In the middle of August, the Allies landed on the southern coast of France, outside Nice, in the amphibious invasion Operation Dragoon. They faced little...
View ArticleSiege to Fort Saybrook
Fort Saybrook-The English planned the building of a fort in the region during 1635 to offset the Dutch, who had also coveted the area. The region in Connecticut had been inhabited by the Algonquin and...
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Konya [Iconium] City-Fortress
Konya [Iconium] City Walls With the entry of the Seljuk State into Anatolia, the area of its domination began to expand gradually. During this period, there began to struggle with the Byzantines in...
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Executing Noball
The routes flown on 14 January 1944 by the two sections of the 392nd BG. British intelligence eventually identified four kinds of Noball targets in France: heavy sites, ski sites, modified sites, and...
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Project Iceworm
According to the documents published by the Kingdom of Denmark in 1997, the U.S. Army’s “Iceworm” missile network was outlined in a 1960 Army report titled “Strategic Value of the Greenland Icecap”....
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Panama Canal Zone Defences II
14-inch railroad gun which could move from coast to coast if needed. There were emplacements for these 14-inch railroad guns at : Fort Randolph (2 each), Fort Amador (then Fort Grant) on Culebra...
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Panama Canal Zone Defences I
16-inch Navy Mk.II M1 gun on M1919 barbette mount in Panama. Fortifying the Canal The Hay-Pauceforte and Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaties implied but did not specifically give the United States the right to...
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Defense of Panama Canal – Batteries and Accommodation
The 14-inch M1920 railway gun was the last model railway gun to be deployed by the United States Army. It was an upgrade of the US Navy 14″/50 caliber railway gun. Only four were deployed; two in the...
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Malbork Castle
Castle plan: A-upper castle, B-middle castle, C-low castle, 1-bridge, 2-gate and Bridge Towers, 3-outer defensive walls, 4-moat, 5-St Nicholas Gate, 6-Shoemaker Gate, 7-Sparrow Tower, 8-Wicket Gate,...
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Sumeg Castle (Sumegi varrom)
Hungary’s best-preserved fortress presumably was built before the mid-13th century since King Béla IV lived here for a while during the Mongolian invasion (1241-1242). It was extended several times...
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Siege of Massilia, (49 BCE)
Battles of the Great Roman Civil War, 49-45 BC The prosperous and influential ancient city of Massilia stood against Julius Caesar during his Civil War with Pompey the Great. By way of a prolonged...
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Tarragona (1811)
By late December 1810 Marshal Jacques Macdonald had stabilised the situation in the north of Spain and was again able to support Louis-Gabriel Suchet’s attempts to capture Tortosa. Suchet therefore...
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Battle of Paulus Hook 1779
Powder soaked but ferocity unabated. Lee’s picked force of dismounted dragoons takes advantage of the garrison’s confusion to force the drawbridge at Paulus Hook with clubbed muskets and the bayonet....
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M19 5cm Maschinengranatwerfer
Diagram of German M19 5cm automatic mortar as sited in the Channel Islands and at points on the Atlantic Wall. Rheinmettall-Borsig produced ten studies into developing a complete system for an...
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Frederick Invades Austria a Second Time; Siege of Olmütz II
Laudon, on May 2, 1758 rose from his post and hustled forward upon Reichenau. Behind him, Daun prepped the main army for a similar move. The marshal’s men marched to Wodierold, on May 3. With that...
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