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The Battle of Waterloo

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.

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,

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Battle of Austerlitz Story – Witness Account ver 2

Napoleonic Wars, France, 1805, Moravia

Battle of Austerlitz Story – Witness Account ver 2

December 2, 1805 — A Witness Account Moravia, in what is now the Czech Republic. Napoleon Bonaparte commands 73,000 French troops against an Austro-Russian coalition of 85,000. It is the first anniversary of his coronation as Emperor. By nightfall it will be called his masterpiece. 04:30 — The

Thermopylae historical fiction

Thermopylae historical fiction

A Spartan at Thermopylae, August 480 BC Before the Pass You smell it before you see it. The road north from Trachis bends around a shelf of limestone, and the wind comes off the Malian Gulf carrying salt and something else — a breath of sulphur, deep and mineral, rising from

The Weight of Signals

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The Weight of Signals

The Battle of Trafalgar.