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In the dark waters off Tripoli on February 16th, 1804, a young United States Navy officer, Stephen Decatur, led a small boarding party into one of the most celebrated raids in early naval history. The frigate USS Philadelphia had run aground and been captured months earlier, and Tripolitan forces now held her as a valuable prize in the First Barbary War.
A story of a nearly lost beach, scattered initiative, and how small groups clawed back the chance to win a war.
A two-ship American dreadnought class that concentrated twelve 14-inch guns in four triple turrets and carried the Standard-type battleship concept into a heavier, more mature form.
Edouard Victor Michel Izac — Lieutenant U.S. Navy World War I aboard German submarine U-90 as a prisoner of war
A story of a nearly lost beach, scattered initiative, and how small groups clawed back the chance to win a war.
A story of a midnight manhunt, close-quarters decisions, and how one raid reshaped a long, unfinished war.
The Mark IV tank was not fast, refined, or comfortable, but it was the machine that helped make Cambrai one of the defining armored battles of the First World War. As I release my new book, Cambrai: The First Great Tank Offensive, alongside Season 1 of Famous Tank Battles: Cambrai, this article looks at the tank itself: the steel, smoke, machinery, and human endurance behind the famous attack. Cambrai is remembered b
A story of a wooden frigate under fire, a nickname earned in cannon smoke, and a young navy learning it could stand toe-to-toe with the world’s best.