Acta Militaria

An idea of the response of the Papal States, and other countries, to Barbary piracy, can be seen from reports in the London Gazette over th...

Early days The armies of the early 19 th century had infantry, cavalry and cannon, like their Napoleonic predecessors. But some had anoth...

The road to promotion in the 1830s may have been to serve in the ships of the line, where you could be seen by Admirals, but for travel and ...

Look at Malayisa on the map and it appears a single, if odd shaped, state, but the situation in the 1860s was very different. Like "Ger...