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"HAIL, EMPEROR, THOSE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE SALUTE YOU."   Gladiators were armed combatants who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gl …

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Team Miniatures shared the following images, showing upcoming releases in their Crusades series. Looking forward to seeing them painted! …

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The Battle of Gingindhlovu was fought on 2nd April 1879 between a British relief column sent to break the siege at Eshowe, and a Zulu impi of king Cetshwayo. The British soldier would refer to it as t …

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The First Battle of Manassas, 1861, Louisiana Infantry (Wheat's Tigers)   The battalion called the Louisiana Tigers was the creation of Roberdeau Chatham Wheat, and was to become one of the most …

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The Battle of Gingindhlovu was fought on 2nd April 1879 between a British relief column sent to break the siege at Eshowe, and a Zulu impi of king Cetshwayo. The British soldier would refer to it as t …

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The Roman army of the mid-Republic (also known as the manipular Roman army or the "Polybian army"), refers to the armed forces deployed by the mid-Roman Republic, from the end …

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Roger’s Rangers was a company of soldiers form the Province of New Hampshireraised by Major Robert Rogers and attached to the British Amry during the Seven Year’s War (French and Ind …

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In ancient Greece the Prodromoi were skirmisher light cavalry. The translation can best be represented by “runners-before”, or “runners ahead”. This implies that these cav …

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The Jacobite rising of 1745 was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father. It took place during the War of The Austrian Succession, when the bulk of the British A …

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Between the 15th and 13th centuries BC, the Hittites were one of the dominant powers of the near east, and clashed with the other main three powers, Egypt, the middle Assyrians and the empire of Mitan …

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The Jacobite rising of 1745 was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father. It took place during the War of The Austrian Succession, when the bulk of the British A …

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The Jacobite rising of 1745 was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father.It took place during the War of The Austrian Succession, when the bulk of the British Ar …

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