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June 10, 2020

US Racism Against Germans, South African Neutrality and the Occupation of the Maginot – OOTF 013

Filed under: Africa, France, History, Italy, Military, USA, WW2 — Tags: Fascism, Fortification, Racism, SouthAfrica, TimeGhost — Nicholas @ 04:00

World War Two
Published 9 Jun 2020

Did the neutral US discriminate against German- and Italian-Americans? And exactly how pro-Axis was South Africa? And what happened to the Maginot Line after the Fall of France? Find out as Indy answers three more of your interesting questions in this episode of Out of the Foxholes!

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June 8, 2020

D-Day – The Last German Holdouts

Filed under: Britain, Cancon, Germany, History, Military, WW2 — Tags: AFVs, D-Day, FirstCanadianArmy, Fortification, Normandy — Nicholas @ 04:00

Mark Felton Productions
Published 6 Jun 2020

Some German coast defences managed to survive on D-Day and fought on behind Allied lines. One was the massive Douvres Radar Station bunker complex between Juno and Sword Beaches. It held out for 12 days after D-Day, and required a special operation to knock it out.

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May 15, 2020

“Fields of Verdun” II – The Guns of Verdun – Sabaton History 067 [Official]

Filed under: France, History, Media, Military, WW1 — Tags: Artillery, Fortification, Music, Sabaton, Verdun — Nicholas @ 04:00

Sabaton History
Published 14 May 2020

The Meat-Grinder. Dead Man’s Hill. The Bone-Mill. Verdun has many names, as it went down into history as a place of death and destruction. Never before did so many light and heavy artillery guns fire on such a small battlefield. It was the end of the classical field battle and instead turned into a 10 month siege that was fought not by flesh and blood, but by steel and chemistry.

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Sources:
– Imperial War Museum: Q 23892, Q 87441, Q 23760, Q 88017, Q 78041, Art.IWM BUTE 290, Q 27526, Q 108345, Q 56987, Q 58386, Q 87945, Q 56546, Q 69971
– Bibliothèque nationale de France

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March 23, 2020

Budapest 44: The Storming of Pest (December – January 1945)

Filed under: Europe, Germany, History, Military, Russia, WW2 — Tags: Budapest, Fortification, Hungary, Romania, SovietUnion — Nicholas @ 02:00

Historigraph
Published 21 Dec 2019

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March 6, 2020

“Poltava” – The Great Northern War – Sabaton History 057 [Official]

Filed under: Europe, History, Media, Military, Russia — Tags: Fortification, Leadership, Music, Sabaton, Sweden, Ukraine — Nicholas @ 04:00

Sabaton History
Published 5 Mar 2020

Bullets break the silent air, a wasted battleplan! It was a long and harsh march through the lands in the east, where the Swedish army of Charles XII sought to bring the Russian Empire to its knees. The Swedish king had the vision of a great victory, in which he captured Moscow and destroyed Tsar Peter I’s ambitions once and for all. However, as in late June 1709, the exhausted and hungry Swedish troops finally met the Tsar in open battle near the fortress of Poltava, it all seemed impossible. A relentless and fateful battle would commence. A battle after which only one empire would continue to rise while the other would fall.

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From the comments:

Sabaton History
2 hours ago
Just a quick correction: St. Petersburg was not named after Peter I himself, but after his patron saint St. Peter. Although the Russian Tsar made sure that he himself would be immortalized by founding St. Petersburg, Russia’s window to Europe.

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February 22, 2020

How Switzerland Managed to Remain Neutral with WWI and WWII Raging Around Them

Filed under: Europe, History, Military, WW1, WW2 — Tags: Army, ColdWar, Conscription, Fortification, Infrastructure, Switzerland — Nicholas @ 06:00

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February 17, 2020

Sieges and Siege-craft

Filed under: Britain, France, History, Middle East, Military — Tags: Engineering, Fortification, Lindybeige, Logistics, MiddleAges, PeloponnesianWar — Nicholas @ 06:00

Lindybeige
Published 2 Jun 2016

Sieges in the ancient and medieval worlds were on quite different scales. 10,000 men can do things differently from 500.

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January 13, 2020

MANNERHEIM | History and his Line

Filed under: Europe, History, Military, Russia, WW1, WW2 — Tags: Finland, Fortification, Leadership, SovietUnion, WinterWar — Nicholas @ 04:00

TIK
Published 22 Jun 2017

Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim towers over all other characters of the Winter War, and of Finnish history in general. This video is a brief introduction to one of the great leaders of the 20th Century (and according to a TV poll in 2004, the greatest Finn of all time). Full script is available as captions/subtitles, and the source I used for this video is –

Trotter, W. The Winter War: The Russo-Finnish War of 1939-40. Aurum Press Ltd, 2003.

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January 7, 2020

What Made The American Civil War So Deadly? | Animated History

Filed under: Health, History, Military, USA, Weapons — Tags: Artillery, CivilWar, Fortification, Guns, Infantry — Nicholas @ 06:00

The Armchair Historian
Published 20 Jul 2018

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January 3, 2020

The Battle of Alesia (52 B.C.E.)

Filed under: Europe, France, History, Military — Tags: Fortification, JuliusCaesar, Leadership, RomanRepublic, Rome — Nicholas @ 06:00

Historia Civilis
Published 24 Apr 2015

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December 13, 2019

Martyr of Verdun: Émile Driant’s Command Post

Filed under: France, History, Military, WW1 — Tags: ForgottenWeapons, Fortification, Verdun — Nicholas @ 02:00

Forgotten Weapons
Published 22 Oct 2019

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Émile Driant was a French army officer who served originally as an aide to General Boulanger (and married his daughter). This connection would tarnish his career when politics forced Boulanger to resign (and shortly afterward commit suicide). It became clear that he would never rise much in rank, and in 1905 he resigned his commission. In 1910 he was elected to the French National Assembly, where he was still serving when war erupted in 1914. Driant was focused on French military readiness his entire life, and wrote extensively about potential future wars.

In 1914, he was recalled to military service, although he retained his Assembly position. He was given command of a reserve unit of Chausseurs (infantry) in the quiet backwater Verdun sector, where he couldn’t cause too much trouble to the military establishment. Through 1915 he watched Joffre remove men and guns from the forts around Verdun to reinforce more active areas of the front. He was intensely concerned that this was leaving Verdun a weak point ripe for German attack. As an officer, there was not much he could do about this except complain to his own commander — but as an active member of the National Assembly, he was able to bypass the military chain of command and take his concerns directly to the civilian government. This did nothing to endear him to Joffre, but the attention he brought did result in more defensive preparations being made in and around Verdun.

On February 21st, 1916 Driant’s warnings were proven true when the Germans launched the Battle of Verdun, which would become one of the most significant operations of the war for France. Driant and his 1200 Chausseurs were stationed in the Bois de Caures forest, right in the middle of the German offensive. His men fought valiantly to hold back the attack in their sector, but were reduced to less than 200 men combat-effective by the 22nd. Driant ordered a withdrawal that morning, and was killed by a gunshot while aiding a wounded trooper.

He was buried with military honors by the Germans, but later re-interred by the French where he had fallen. Today his command post remains just a few hundred yards from his gravesite, and a memorial marks the spot. Driant quickly became recognized as one of the heroes of Verdun, for his efforts before the battle and his front-line leadership during the initial attack.

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December 4, 2019

What Life Was Like for the Home Guard During WW2

Filed under: Britain, History, Military, WW2 — Tags: England, Fortification, Infantry — Nicholas @ 02:00

Forces TV
Published 8 May 2014

Scrapbooks revealing what the Home Guard was really like during World War Two have been published online.

The collection of maps, photographs and secret documents were compiled by Lieutenant Colonel Sir Morgan Crofton.

Now they are available for all to see thanks to work by the New Forest Park Authority.

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November 2, 2019

Sir Charles Ross was a Jerk: The Martello Tower

Filed under: Cancon, History, Military, Weapons, WW1 — Tags: ForgottenWeapons, Fortification, Manufacturing, Quebec, RossRifle — Nicholas @ 02:00

Forgotten Weapons
Published 29 Oct 2019

Note: These towers were built by the British, not the French. Sorry!

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October 18, 2019

“Angels Calling” – Trench Warfare – Sabaton History 037 [Official]

Filed under: History, Media, Military, WW1 — Tags: Fortification, Infantry, Music, Sabaton — Nicholas @ 06:00

Sabaton History
Published 17 Oct 2019

Trench Warfare was the reality for countless soldiers fighting on the the fronts of World War One. It was a hell on earth. Soldiers had to endure mud, cold, stench of decaying bodies, endless artillery and gas barrages and enemy raiding parties. The Sabaton Song “Angels Calling” is about daily life on the frontlines of The Great War.

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Sources:
National Army Museum
National Library of Scotland
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Wellcome Images
Sleeping soldiers courtesy of FORTEPAN/Komlós Péter
Crosshair by DTDesign from the Noun Project
Colorized photos by Alexander Vedel Christensen
IWM: Q 69986, Q 45584, Q 6420, Q 6419, Q 33350, Q 745, Q 6421, Q 24579, Q 10685, Q 445, Q 32420, Q 517, Q 65065, Q 69983, Q 79501, Q 9333, E(AUS) 572, E(AUS) 1497, Q 6969

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What? The Sabaton History special editions of EVERY album? Nooo.. Really? Sounds awesome! And.. How can I get those? … As a reward for supporting Sabaton History on Patreon? Get out of here! .. Oh.. I should head over to https://www.patreon.com/sabatonhistory to check it out? Gotcha! Cheers!

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July 22, 2019

Joan of Arc – The Maid of Orleans – Extra History – #3

Filed under: Britain, France, History, Military, Religion — Tags: 100YearsWar, Christianity, Fortification, Monarchy — Nicholas @ 06:00

Extra Credits
Published on 20 Jul 2019

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When Joan met the army of Orleans, they weren’t exactly keen on her idea to just GET ‘EM and go completely offensive — thinking she would have more use as a mascot. But both they, and she, would be in for many surprises…

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