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Contents: Beau Sabreur And Kill Cavalry (Two of the Civil War’s most colorful cavalry officers butted heads in October, 1863 at Buckland Hills, Virginia, when J.E.B. Stuart, the Beau Sabreur of the South, laid a trap for Judson “Kill Cavalry” Kilpatrick); Desperate Gamble At Sedgemoor (The fate of a Protestant rebellion to unseat Catholic King James II hung in the balance when rebels launched a night attack across the mist-shrouded English moors); Island-Hopping At Tarawa (American sailors and Marines launched a combined assault on Japan’s outermost Pacific holdings in the Gilbert Islands in November, 1943. The amphibious landing on tiny, heavily fortified Tarawa Atoll would be measured in hard-won yards); Clash Of The Tyrants (On the plains of Ankara, Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, nicknamed the Thunderbolt, confronted a mortal challenger in Mongol leader Tamerlane, who had his own nickname – The Prince of Destruction); British Raid Up The Potomac (In August 1814, British Captain James Gordon led an audacious naval expedition up the Potomac River to Washington, D.C. Captain David Porter rallied defenders on the bluffs of the Belvoir peninsula outside Alexandria) Columns – Editorial; Soldiers; Weapons; Intelligence; Militaria; Games; Books
Issue: December 2009
Condition: Very Good