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19 October 1987 - On this day, The US launched Operation Nimble Archer, using warships to attack two Iranian oil platfor...
19/10/2025

19 October 1987 - On this day, The US launched Operation Nimble Archer, using warships to attack two Iranian oil platforms during the Tanker War. It followed Iran’s attack against MV Sea Isle City, a Kuwaiti oil tanker.

After warning the platform’s crews to abandon them, the four US destroyers opened fire, starting blazes. Special forces also boarded a platform to seize intelligence and plant explosives.

Speaking with reporters after the strikes, President Ronald Reagan was asked if the US was at war with Iran. He replied: "No, we're not going to have a war with Iran: they're not that stupid."

Picture, an Iranian oil platform, Rostam, is set afire after being shelled by four US Navy destroyers during Operation Nimble Archer (PH3 Henry Cleveland, USN via Wikimedia Commons).

19 October 1781 - On this day, the Continental Army, supported by French Army troops, won the American Revolutionary War...
19/10/2025

19 October 1781 - On this day, the Continental Army, supported by French Army troops, won the American Revolutionary War’s final battle. Following two days of negotiations, the belligerents held a surrender ceremony. The British commander, Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis and the British Army capitulated, leading Britain to negotiate the conflict’s end.

Following the surrender, Continental Army and French officers invited their British counterparts to dinner, attended by Charles O’Hara rather than the commander Charles Cornwallis. O’Hara charmed the French into expressing sympathies for the British, leading to American concerns about the possible deterioration of its relationship with the French.

Pictured, ‘Surrender of Lord Cornwallis’ by John Trumbul.

Inside issue 151 - Frontline features on:➤The decline of the British Army over the past 35 years with Ben Barry, who ser...
18/10/2025

Inside issue 151 - Frontline features on:

➤The decline of the British Army over the past 35 years with Ben Barry, who served in the army from 1975-2010
➤The struggle for China's memory of VJ Day.
➤Rapid Dragon: The Offensive C-130.
➤Operation Kipion and 14 years of Royal Navy efforts against Iran-backed terror in the Persian Gulf.

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Inside issue 151 - Life and death in Hi**er's wolfpacks - the U-boatmen who served "haunted by the spectre of their own ...
17/10/2025

Inside issue 151 - Life and death in Hi**er's wolfpacks - the U-boatmen who served "haunted by the spectre of their own destruction."

We spoke with Second World War historian Roger Moorhouse on the hardship, filth and extreme danger experienced on Dönitz's subs.

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Pictured, a U-boat launches in 1941. Many lasted only a few patrols (Wydawnictwo Prasowe Kraków-Warszawa via Wikimedia Commons).

16 October 1813 - On this day, a coalition force including Russia, Austria, Prussia and the United Kingdom faced Napoleo...
16/10/2025

16 October 1813 - On this day, a coalition force including Russia, Austria, Prussia and the United Kingdom faced Napoleon’s Grande Armée at Leipzig in the Battle of the Nations. It was likely the world’s largest battle before the First World War. The battle involved over half a million men. Over 400,000 artillery rounds were expended by 2,200 artillery pieces. The forces suffered 133,000 casualties.

The Coalition victory forced Napoleon back to France, allowing for Napoleon’s defeat and exile to Elba the following year. The battle is considered a complete French failure, although they were able to retreat in good order.

Pictured, ‘The Declaration of Victory After the Battle of Leipzig, 1813’ by Johann Peter Krafft. It depicts the meeting of Alexander I of Russia, Francis I of Austria, and Frederick William III of Prussia after the battle.

15 October 1964 - On this day, China successfully conducted its first nuclear weapons test, making it the world’s fifth ...
15/10/2025

15 October 1964 - On this day, China successfully conducted its first nuclear weapons test, making it the world’s fifth nuclear power. The device had a 22 kiloton yield, comparable to the Soviet Union’s RDS-1 and the American Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki.

"Now we're already stronger than we were in the past, and in the future we'll be even stronger than now. Not only are we going to have more airplanes and artillery, but also the atomic bomb. In today's world, if we don't want to be bullied, we have to have this thing." explained Mao Zedong to prominent Chinese communists in 1956.

China tested a further 44 nuclear bombs (1964-1996), all at the Lop Nur Test Base. They quickly developed nuclear weapons that could be dropped from an aircraft or fitted as a warhead on a medium-range missile.

Picture:《人民画报》via Wikimedia Commons

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15/10/2025

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14 October 1944 - On this day, Erwin Rommel died after taking a cyanide pill. He had been implicated in the 20 July Plot...
14/10/2025

14 October 1944 - On this day, Erwin Rommel died after taking a cyanide pill. He had been implicated in the 20 July Plot to assassinate Adolf Hi**er. Due to this status, Rommel was offered su***de instead of ex*****on and assured that his family would not be persecuted.

The N***s announced that Rommel had died from a cerebral embolism. They stated this occurred as a complication to skull injuries Rommel sustained after an Allied aircraft strafed his staff car in Normandy.

Pictured, Rommel’s casket, draped in a Sw****ka, drives past a crowd during his state funeral. The funeral occurred in Ulm rather than Berlin.

Inside issue 151 - Mark Turnbull on the Battle of Marston Moor. During the First English Civil War, a force led by Princ...
13/10/2025

Inside issue 151 - Mark Turnbull on the Battle of Marston Moor. During the First English Civil War, a force led by Prince Rupert marched from the northwest of England to relieve the Marquess of Newcastle's defence of York.

Both sides gathered their full strength at Marston Moor, a meadow west of York. When they clashed on 2 July, it was the largest battle of the Civil Wars.

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Pictured, 'The Battle of Marston Moor' by John Barker (Cheltenham Art Gallery via Wikimedia Commons).

Inside issue 151 - An exploration of the N**i Occult with Ben Gazur. The Thule Society, a German occultist and Völkisch ...
12/10/2025

Inside issue 151 - An exploration of the N**i Occult with Ben Gazur. The Thule Society, a German occultist and Völkisch group founded in Munich shortly after the Great War, developed a warped vision of German A***n heritage that influenced the development of N**i ideology.

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Pictured, a Neo-Pagan harvest celebration in Germany (1933). Such events were brought into the N**i calendar as esotericism merged with National Socialist ideology (Lucas J. Goodwin via Wikimedia Commons).

Inside issue 151 - Louisiana State University in Shreveport's Professor of History Alexander Mikaberidize and Napoleonic...
10/10/2025

Inside issue 151 - Louisiana State University in Shreveport's Professor of History Alexander Mikaberidize and Napoleonic scholar Alexander Mikaberidze on Napoleon's invasion of Russia.

Discover why, despite Napoleon winning several major battles, the campaign ended in a disaster that was ruinous for France's empire.

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Pictured, 'The Dutch Red Lancers of the Imperial Guard during the retreat of the army of Napoleon from Russia, 1812' by Jan Hoynk van Papendrecht

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