Battlefield Witness

Piracy

The Golden Age of Piracy

Articles of Agreement A story of the Golden Age of Piracy, 1716–1718 I. HMS Seaflower, the Bahama Channel — March 1716 The cat came down nine times, and Thomas Rooke counted every one, because counting was the only thing left him. One. The rope bit through the wet shirt they&

WW2

Jane Horney, documentary-drama

Eskimå A documentary-drama chapter on the life and death of Jane Horney (1918–1945) Prologue — Skåne, the Present The archive box is smaller than she expected boxes like this to be — a single grey folder-file, the security police's stamp faded to the colour of weak tea,

The Casablanca of the North

Stockholm WW2 spy center story

Tjuvlyssnade, (eavesdropped) Stockholm, Autumn 1943 I. The trick was to look like you were waiting for someone who was late. Ingrid Sundqvist had learned this from Ternberg himself, in the flat above the tobacconist on Sibyllegatan, over coffee that had gone cold before either of them touched it. Nobody watches

Battle of Trafalgar

“The Weight of Signals”

Further reading, follow link: The Weight of SignalsThe Battle of Trafalgar.Battlefield WitnessAnders Lawerny

American Civil War

Thomas Francis Meagher and The Irish Brigade

Twenty-Four Hours a Free Man The Early Life of Thomas Francis Meagher "The white in the centre signifies a lasting truce between the Orange and the Green, and I trust that beneath its folds the hands of the Irish Protestant and the Irish Catholic may be clasped in

Kalmar Nyckel

A story of New Sweden, 1638–1655

The Far Shore I. The Deserter's Bargain Gothenburg, November 1637 They found Anders Persson in a fish cellar in Majorna, three weeks after he'd walked off the muster field outside Wolgast with his boots wrapped in sacking because the army had stopped issuing boots to men

Roman Empire

The Battle of the Catalaunian Fields

The Hostage's Debt A story of the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields, June 451 AD — told from within Aetius's own household I. Two Hostages Optila had been given away twice in his life, and both times it had made him, in the end, more valuable than

Dambusters Raid

A Story of Operation Chastise

After Me, the Flood, the Dambusters Raid, - Audio AStoryofOperationChastiseAudioBattlefieldWitness0:00/2371.6144671×

Engineering of Victory

A Story of Barnes Wallis

THE WEIGHT OF THINGS For every man who ever looked at an impossible thing and refused, politely, to be told otherwise. I. The Tin Cans — Christ's Hospital, London, Autumn 1899 The schoolmaster's name was Aldred, and he smelled of chalk and pipe tobacco and the particular

1815

The Battle of Waterloo

The Last Ground Waterloo, 18 June 1815 Part One: Before the Guns — Dawn to Eleven O'Clock The rain had stopped sometime before three in the morning, but nobody who was lying in the rye fields south of Mont-Saint-Jean had slept through it long enough to notice.

WW2

NO STEP BACK

A Story of Stalingrad August 1942 — February 1943 "In the rubble of this city, two armies destroyed each other. What remained was neither victory nor defeat in any ordinary sense — it was the end of something in Europe, and the beginning of something else entirely." — General Vasily Chuikov,

THE COWBOY’S FAVORITE

Frontier Provisions

NECESSARY PROVISIONS FOR THE FRONTIER– For the Brave Soldier, the Hardy Cowboy & the Industrious Settler –THE COWBOY’S FAVORITE: ARBUCKLES’ ARIOSA COFFEE The Coffee that Won the West!

Soldier & Frontier Field Recipe

Johnny Cakes and Journey Cake

The Historical Significance of Johnny Cakes / johnnycakes: For early settlers and Revolutionary War soldiers, johnnycakes were a vital survival food. The Pilgrims at Plymouth learned to use cornmeal from the Pawtuxet and Narragansett peoples after their own wheat supplies spoiled during the voyage from England. During the Revolutionary War, these

The Battle of Holowczyn

The Swedish Carolean army

"The River God Sends", a story of the Battle of Holowczyn, 4 July 1708. Voice reading: TheRiverGodSendsBattlefieldWitnessComNEW0:00/1427.4213151×

Commander of the Continental Army

The Shadow War of George Washington

A Historical Narrative Grounded in the records of the Continental Army, the Culper Ring correspondence, Benjamin Tallmadge's memoirs, and the papers of George Washington. "The necessity of procuring good intelligence is apparent and need not be further urged." — General George Washington, letter to Colonel Elias Dayton,

Civil_War

The Irish Brigade, voice reading part of this story

IrishBrigadepartofstory1byBattlefieldWitnessCom0:00/104.594251× The Irish BrigadeClear the Way A story of the Irish Brigade, Army of the Potomac, 1861–1862 I. Castle Garden, August 1861 He came off the ship at Castle Garden on a Tuesday morning in the third week of August, with four shillings and sixpence sewn

Sierra Leone

A British rescue operation

D Company, 1 PARA. Sierra Leone. 10 September 2000. I. The Chinook smelled of JP-8 aviation fuel, wet kit, and the particular quiet of men who had been told the odds and chosen not to discuss them. Danny Kavanagh sat with his SA80 between his knees and the dark

Tirpitz

"A Story of Intelligence" voice reading part four in this story

TirpitzpartfourbyBattlefieldWitnessCom0:00/173.6358751× A Story of IntelligenceThe Beast in the Fjord Part One: The Cardinal, 1941–1942 The hut smelled of damp wool and cigarette ash, of men who had been awake too long thinking too hard, and of something else beneath that — the particular tension of people who

Tirpitz

A Story of Intelligence

The Beast in the Fjord Part One: The Cardinal, 1941–1942 The hut smelled of damp wool and cigarette ash, of men who had been awake too long thinking too hard, and of something else beneath that — the particular tension of people who know that what they are reading has

Civil_War

The Irish Brigade

Clear the Way A story of the Irish Brigade, Army of the Potomac, 1861–1862 I. Castle Garden, August 1861 He came off the ship at Castle Garden on a Tuesday morning in the third week of August, with four shillings and sixpence sewn into the coat lining and a

Sengoku period

THE FOG DOES NOT LIFT

A Story of the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima Hachimanbara Plain, Shinano Province. The eighteenth day of the ninth month, Eiroku 4. What the West would call October, 1561. I. Ōishi Ryōken set out his needles in order of length. This was a discipline from his first campaign, thirty years ago

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160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment

STAR 41

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GSG-9

OPERATION FIRE MAGIC

Posca

Posca: The Ancient Roman Soldier Drink

The Battle of Panipat Featured

Battle of Panipat 1526 – Historical Witness Account

Panipat, 21 April 1526 — A Witness Account   I.   Before Dawn The slow-match smelled of burning rope and something older — sulphur, the scent of the underworld made portable, tucked into the fingers of men who stood fifty paces apart along the length of the cart-wall. Mirza Yusuf had smelled