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Contents: Dismal British Retreat To Corunna (Cut off from his base in Portugal by the quick-marching troops of Napoleon Bonaparte, British General Sir John Moore began an arduous three-week long retreat to Corunna, on the Spanish coast. The French harried him every step of the way); Close Call At Cedar Mountain (With Robert E. Lee counterattacking George B. McClellan outside Richmond in the summer of 1862, Union General Nathaniel Banks set out to distract Lee by capturing the key railroad junction at Gordonsville. As usual, Stonewall Jackson got there first); Delaying Action At Kapyong (Following a major Communist offensive in April, 1951, Commonwealth troops from Australia, New Zealand and Canada fought a critical delaying action on the front lines in the Kapyong River Valley, giving the Allies time to establish a new defensive line north of Seoul); Frederick Townsend Ward And The Ever-Victorious Army (To meet the continuing threat of the decade-long Taiping rebellion, American soldier of fortune Frederick Townsend Ward assembled an army of “foreign devils,” westerners who were living in China at the time, and led them against the rebel stronghold); Fehrbellin: The Battle That Made Prussia (By the summer of 1675, Swedish troops led by Marshal Karl Wrangel invaded the German principality of Brandenburg in support of their French allies’ ongoing war with Holland. Elector Frederick William rallied the Brandenburg forces) Columns – Editorial; Soldiers; Weapons; Intelligence; Militaria; Books
Issue: April 2009
Condition: Very Good