A Training School For Elephants by Sophy Roberts: The four elephants that broke their backs to build an empire
When Leopold II, King of Belgium, set about creating his own colony in the Congo, he used elephants - and barbaric cruelty - to clear the impenetrable jungle ...
Gun Mart15h
The backbone
John Norris looks at a mainstay of the British Army in WWI; the 18-Pounder field gun ...
The Birth of the American Military
Jefferson’s sentiments reflected the prevailing mood of a sizable majority of the country at the dawn of the 19th century: A ...
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Britain is trapped in the Long Seventies
The Irish nationalist was caught in the fault lines between empire and nation, colonised and coloniser, public face and ...