Tales of war: great stories from military history for every day of the year
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Preface
xxi
1
January
1945:
We were sitting ducks, and our chances
were slim and none
1
2
January
1492:
Ferdinand and Isabella capture the last
Moorish stronghold in Spain
3
3
January
1777:
A glorious day for the American rebels
5
4
January
46
ВС:
Caesar loses a battle
7
5
January
1477:
Charles the Bold perishes on the snowy
fields at Nancy
10
6
January
1842:
Retreat from Kabul
12
7
January
1942:
Wasted hope and sure defeat
14
8
January
1815 :
Andrew Jackson wins a peacetime battle
16
9
January
1916:
The British abandon Gallipoli
18
10
January
49
ВС:
Caesar crosses the Rubicon
19
11
January
1879:
An unexpectedly rough outing in
Zululand
21
12
January
1943:
Leningrad under siege
23
13
January
86
ВС:
The death of Gaius Marius, the general
who saved Rome from the barbarians
25
14
January
1208:
Murder triggers the Albigensian Crusade
27
15
January
1902:
Ibn Saud s daring raid captures Riyadh
29
16
January
1809:
Sir John Moore falls at
La Coruña
31
17
January AD
532:
A tough-minded empress saves her
husband
s
empire
33
18
January
1871 :
Germany s first emperor is crowned in
France
35
19
January
1915:
Civilians are bombed for the first time
—
by a Zeppelin
37
20
January
1812:
Wellington takes
Ciudad Rodrigo
39
TALES
OF WAR
21
January
1968:
The siege of Khe Sanh
42
22
January
1944:
British and Americans land at Anzio
44
23
January
1942:
Rommel pommels the British in North
Africa
46
24
January AD
41 :
Caligula is killed by his own guards
47
25
January
1945:
The Burma Road
50
26
January
1885:
Chinese Gordon goes down fighting
52
27
January
1939:
The first flight of the fork-tailed devil
53
28
January
1945:
Hitlers last gamble
-
the Battle of the
Bulge
55
29
January
1814:
Napoleons last roll of the dice
57
30
January
1945:
The greatest maritime disaster in history
60
31
January
1943:
The German 6th Army surrenders at
Stalingrad
62
1
February
1967:
A frozen moment that put a wincing
face of horror on the war
64
2
February
1509:
How Portugal became a great naval power
66
3
February
1377:
How the butcher of
Cesena
started
the Papal Schism
68
4
February
1945:
The Big Three meet at Yalta
69
5
February
1856:
For some signal act of valour
72
6
February
1862:
The one-two punch
74
7
February
1915 :
The Winter Battle of the Masurian Lakes
77
8
February
1942:
The fall of Singapore
79
9
February
1904:
Surprise attack from the sea
82
10
February
1846:
Now I ll be at them with the bayonet.
84
11
February AD
641:
Heraclius
-
emperor, general
and warrior
86
12
February
1429:
The Day of the Herrings
87
13
February
1945:
The bombing of Dresden
91
VI
CONTENTS
14
February
1797: Nelsons Patent Bridge
for Boarding
94
15
February
1898:
The sinking of the battleship Maine
triggers the Spanish-American War
96
16
February
1940:
The Royal Navy captures the
Altmark
98
17
February
1843:
Peccavi!
100
18
February
1563:
Deadly ambush for the
duc de
Guise
101
19
February
1945:
American Marines land on Iwojima
102
20
February
1810:
Execution of an Austrian patriot
104
21
February
1916:
The Battle of Verdun
105
22
February
1847:
Give them a little more grape, Captain
Bragg
107
23
February
1930:
The creation of a Nazi martyr
110
24
February
1525:
A king is captured at the Battle of Pavia
113
25
February
1634:
Wallenstein
is assassinated
115
26
February
1815:
Napoleon escapes from Elba
117
27
February
1776:
Americans defeat the Scots
118
28
February
1900:
The siege of
Ladysmith
120
29
February
1704:
The Deerfield massacre
123
1
March
1896:
Ethiopians crush the Italian army at Adwa
126
2
March
1476:
Charles the Bold loses his treasure
127
3
March
1931 :
Inspired during a battle, The Star-Spangled
Banner becomes Americas national anthem
128
4
March
1193:
The great Saladin dies
130
5
March
1776:
Colonial rebels drive the British out of
Boston
131
6
March
1204:
French cunning captures Richard the
Lionheart s impregnable castle
133
7
March
1815:
Napoleon confronts the king s army
134
8
March
1863:
The Grey Ghost strikes again
136
9
March
1862:
The first battle of ironclad ships
138
vu
TALES
OF WAR
10
March
1831 :
The story of the French Foreign Legion
139
11
March
1942:
General MacArthur leaves the Philippines
141
12
March AD
557:
Belisarius magnificent defence of Rome
143
13
March
1905:
Mata Hari
springs full-grown into the
145
147
148
150
152
154
world
14
March
1757:
Admiral John Byng faces the firing squad
15
March
44
ВС:
The Ides of March
16
March
1802:
Creating Americas Army officers
17
March
1787:
The start of the greatest career
18
March
1871:
Insurrection in Paris
19
March
1279:
Kublai Khan completes the Mongol
conquest of China
155
20
March
1815:
Napoleons return to Paris
157
21
March
1804:
The best and worst of Napoleon
158
22
March
1820:
Stephen Decatur is killed in a duel
159
23
March
1849: Vater Radetzky
tames the Italians
161
24
March
1944:
Wingate crashes in the jungle
163
25
March
1818:
Light Horse Harry
165
26
March
1351 :
Drink your blood, Beaumanoir; your
thirst will pass!
168
27
March
1945:
Operation Starvation
170
28
March
1461 :
The battles of Ferrybridge and Towton
in the Wars of the Roses
173
29
March
1951 :
The Rosenbergs are convicted of treason
174
30
March
1707:
The greatest military engineer in history
176
31
March
1854:
Gunboat diplomacy opens Japan
178
1
April
1945:
The last battle of the Second World War
181
2
April AD
742:
Charlemagne, the greatest conqueror
of them all?
183
3
April
1312:
Philip the Fair suppresses the Templars
185
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4
April
1814: Napoleons
marshals force him to abdicate
188
5
April
1242:
The Battle of the Ice
190
6
April
1199:
Richard the Lionheart s last battle
192
7
April
1862:
The hope for an easy war and a cheap
victory was gone forever
194
8
April AD
217:
Emperor Caracalla is murdered on
campaign
195
9
April
1865:
The American Civil War comes to an end
197
10
April
1741:
The 18th century s greatest general runs
from his first battle
199
11
April
1512:
The fall of the Thunderbolt
200
12
April
1861 :
The South fires the first shot of the
American Civil War
202
13
April
1868:
Mission to Ethiopia
204
14
April
1865:
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
207
15
April AD
73:
Mass suicide at
Masada
208
16
April
1746:
Bonnie Prince Charlie is defeated at
Culloden Moor
210
17
April
1920:
Chesty Puller-Marine!
211
18
April-1
9
April
1775 :
Paul Revere
s ride
and the start
of the American Revolution
214
20
April
1918:
The Red Barons last kill
217
21
April
1526:
Babur founds an empire
220
22
April
1915:
Gas! Gas!
222
23
April AD
303:
St George loses his head
224
24
April
1547:
Emperor Charles V wins the Battle of
Mühlberg 226
25
April
1792:
Allons enfants de la Patrie,
/
Le jour de
gloire est arrivé!
228
26
April
1937:
Guernica
229
їх
TALES
OF WAR
27 April 1521 :
Magellan the great explorer is killed in the
Philippines
230
28
April
1945:
Mussolini is lynched with his mistress
232
29
April AD
711 :
The Moors invade Spain
234
30
April
1945:
Hitler commits suicide
236
1
May
1797:
The first enemy soldiers enter in Venice in
1,100
years
239
2
May
1863:
Stonewall Jackson is shot by his own soldiers
at the Battle of Chancellorsville
240
3
May
1481:
Death comes to the Turkish sultan who
brought an end to the Byzantine empire
242
4
May
1942:
The Battle of the Coral Sea begins
244
5
May
1821 :
Napoleon is murdered?
246
6
May
1527:
The
duc de
Bourbon is killed sacking Rome
247
7
May
1954:
The fall of
Dien
Bien Phu
248
8
May
1429:
Joan of Arc relieves
Orléans
250
9
May
1386:
The oldest peace treaty in Europe
253
10
May
1940:
Hitler invades the West as the seeds of his
own destruction are sown
254
11
May
1864:
General
Jeb
Stuart meets his match
256
12
May
1797:
Mutiny on the Thames
257
13
May
1940:
Churchill offers blood, toil, tears, and sweat
259
14
May
1509:
The fortunes of Venice come full circle
261
15
May
1479
ВС:
The Pharaoh leads his army into battle
263
16
May
1811 :
British muskets stop the French at Albuera
266
17
May
1900:
British troops relieve Mafeking
269
18
May
1864:
Lee stymies Grant at Spotsylvania Court
House
270
19
May
1935:
The mysterious life of Lawrence of Arabia
272
20
May
1834:
Death of a revolutionary aristocrat
274
21
May
47
ВС:
Veni,
vidi, vici
275
CONTENTS
22
May
145 5 :
The first battle of the Wars of the Roses
277
23
May
1706:
Marlborough wins at Ramillies
279
24
May
1941 :
A temporary victory: the Bismarck sinks
the Hood
281
25
May
1233:
The Mongols obliterate the Jin in China
283
26
May
1940:
Sacrifice at Calais
285
27
May
1942:
The last ride of SS3
287
28
May
1918 :
Cantigny
-
Americas first
maj
or battle in
the First World War
290
29
May
1453:
Constantinople falls to the Turk
-
the end
of the Middle Ages
292
30
May
1431 :
The death of a valiant soldier
294
31
May
1223:
A Mongol reconnaissance in force
296
1
June
1813:
Don t give up the ship!
300
2
June
1882:
Death comes to Giuseppe Garibaldi
301
3
June
1942:
ULTRA wins the Battle of Midway
302
4
June
1940:
Dunkirk: Wars are not won by evacuations
304
5
June
1916:
Kitchener goes down with the ship
305
6
June
1918:
Sergeant Dan Daly creates a Marine Corps
legend
307
7
June
1906:
The launch of the
Lusitânia
308
8
June
1376:
Death of the Black Prince
310
9
June
1358:
Knights in shining armour crush the peasant
revolt
312
10
June
1704 :
Marlborough meets Eugene of Savoy
314
11
June
2004:
Private Johnson Beharry wins the VC
316
12
June
1937:
Stalin purges his army
319
13
June
323
ВС:
Alexander the Great dies in Babylon
320
14
June
1801 :
Death of a traitor
322
15
June
1815:
The Duchess of Richmond
s
ball
323
xi
TALES
OF WAR
16
June
1487: Henry
VII
captures a royal impostor
325
17
June
1775:
Americans lose a battle but gain heart at
Bunker Hill
327
18
June
1815:
The sayings of Waterloo
328
19
June
1867:
Mexican emperor Maximilian faces the
firing squad
329
20
June AD
451:
Europe is saved from
Attila
the Hun at
the Battle of Chalons
332
21
June
1756:
The Black Hole of Calcutta
334
22
June
1898:
Americans land on Daiquiri Beach
336
23
June
1314:
Robert the Bruce defeats the English at
Bannockburn
337
24
June
1859:
Two emperors and a king slug it out at
Solferino
339
25
June
1876:
Custer
s
last stand
340
26
June AD
363:
Emperor Julian the Apostate
—
done in
by a saint?
342
27
June
1709:
Peter the Great crushes the Swedes at Poltava
344
28
June
1914:
Sarajevo
345
29
June
1644:
King Charles defeats the Roundheads at
Cropredy Bridge
347
30
June
1520:
The Night of Sorrows
349
1
July
1898:
Teddy Roosevelt s Rough Riders storm
San Juan Hill
353
2
July
1775:
The first American soldier-turned-president
354
3
July
1940:
Churchill wipes out the French fleet
357
4
July
1187:
Saladin triumphs at the Horns of Hattin
359
5
July
1809:
Napoleon
s
last victory
361
6
July
1189:
The first
Plantagenet
king dies humiliated
by his own son
362
7
July
1937:
The shot that started the Second World War
364
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CONTENTS
8
July
1918:
Ernest Hemingway s wound inspires a great
novel
366
9
July
1701 :
A dismal king s death leads to war
367
10
July
1940:
The Battle of Britain
369
11
July
1302:
The Battle of the Golden Spurs
370
12
July
1862:
Abraham Lincoln authorises the Medal
of Honor
372
13
July
1870:
Bismarck starts a war with a telegram
374
14
July
1789:
The fall of the Bastille
376
15
July
1099:
The Crusaders conquer Jerusalem
377
16
July
390
ВС:
The first fall of Rome
379
17
July
1453:
The end of the Hundred Years War
381
18
July
1936:
The Spanish Civil War begins
383
19
July
1333:
Arrows as thickly as the rays in sunlight
hit the Scots
385
20
July
1944:
The plot to murder Hitler
387
21
July
1403:
Hotspur dies in battle
389
22
July
1208:
Kill them all
391
23
July
1099:
El Cid s last great (posthumous) victory
392
24
July
1797:
Nelson loses his right arm
394
25
July
1799:
Bonaparte routs the Turks at Abu Qir
395
26
July
1683:
Eugene of Savoy escapes from France
397
27
July
1675:
Acannonball kills
agreat
soldier
399
28
July
1809:
Talavera
—
turning the tide in the
Peninsular War
401
29
July
1862:
A Confederate ship is born in Liverpool
403
30
July
101
ВС:
Rome crushes the barbarians at Vercellae
404
31
July
1556:
The soldier who founded the Jesuits
407
1
August
1798:
Nelson routs the French at the Battle of
the Nile
410
ХШ
TALES
OF WAR
2 August 216
ВС:
Hannibal destroys the Romans at Cannae
411
3
August
1757:
A victory in the wilderness
413
4
August
1914:
German cavalry charge into Belgium to
start the First World War
415
5
August
1864:
Farragut
damns the torpedoes at
Mobile Bay
417
6
August
1945:
Hiroshima
418
7
August
1942:
The Marines storm ashore at Guadalcanal
420
8
August
1588:
The Armada
422
9
August
48
ВС:
Caesar defeats Pompey at Pharsalus
424
10
August
1557:
A victory on the feast of St Lawrence
inspires the building of a palace
426
11
August
1415 :
Henry V takes on the French
427
. 12
August
1676:
The death of King Philip
430
13
August
1704:
How Blenheim Palace got its name
433
14
August
1385:
Portugal fights to keep its independence
435
15
August
1769:
Napoleone
is born
436
16
August
1777:
A bad day at Bennington
438
17
August
1786:
The passing of Frederick the Great
440
18
August
1227:
The last of Genghis Khan
442
19
August
1942:
Allied disaster at Dieppe
444
20
August
480
ВС:
The Spartans defy the Persians at
Thermopylae
445
21
August
1810:
Napoleons marshal
Bernadotte
becomes
Crown Prince of Sweden
447
22
August
1485:
Richard III dies on Bosworth Field
449
23
August
1305:
William Wallace pays the price for
treason
451
24
August AD
410:
Rome falls to the licentious fury of
the tribes of Germany and Scythia
453
25
August
1270:
St Louis s last crusade
454
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26
August
1346:
The Battle of
Crécy
457
27
August
1776:
The Dunkirk of the American Revolution
458
28
August
1914:
A lovely procession, like elephants
walking through a pack of dogs
461
29
August
1526:
Suleiman the Magnificent conquers
Hungary
463
30
August
1363:
A future emperor destroys his rival at
Lake Poyang
465
31
August
1870:
The Napoleonic dream is crushed for
ever at Sedan
467
1
September
1898:
The Battle of Omdurman and the last
cavalry charge in British history
471
2
September
31
ВС:
Octavian
crushes Mark Antony at
Actium
472
3
September
1650, 1651
and
1658:
Oliver Cromwell Day
474
4
September
1886:
Gerónimo
surrenders
477
5
September
1566:
Suleiman the Magnificent dies in
the field
478
6
September
1862:
Barbara Frietchie defies General
Robert E. Lee
479
7
September
1812:
A continuous slaughter
481
8
September
1944:
Nazi Germany fires the first ballistic
missile at London
483
9
September
1087:
William the Conqueror dies in France
485
10
September
1813:
Commandant Perry defeats the
British on Lake Erie
487
11
September
1777:
The British trounce George
Washington at the Battle of Brandywine
488
12
September
1683:
Vienna is saved from the Turk as the
croissant and the cappuccino are invented
491
13
September
1759:
General James Wolfe dies while
winning Quebec
493
XV
TALES
OF WAR
14 September 1950: Douglas MacArthur
lands at Inchon
494
15 September 1916: Tanks
are used in warfare for the
first time
496
16
September
1387:
Agreat
warrior-king is born
497
17
September
1944:
A bridge too far
-
the largest airborne
operation ever
499
18
September AD
53:
Emperor Trajan
-
dreaded by none
save the enemy
501
19
September
1356:
The Black Prince captures a French
king
504
20
September
1792:
A triumphant deadlock for Republican
France
506
21
September
490
ВС:
The Greeks annihilate the Persians
at Marathon
509
22
September
480
ВС:
The ruse that saved the Western
world
—
the Battle of
Salamis 510
23
September
1779:
John Paul Jones has not yet begun
to fight
513
24
September
1326:
The She-Wolf of France invades
England
514
25
September
1066:
One victory too few for King Harold
516
26
September AD
70:
The destruction of Jerusalem and
its Temple
519
27
September
1066:
Three claimants, two invasions,
one throne
521
28
September
1781:
The American Revolution ends with
a victory at
Yorktown
524
29
September
522
ВС:
Darius the Great is chosen king
by his horse
525
30
September
1941 :
The
Wehrmacht
suffers its first defeat
529
1
October
331
ВС:
Alexander the Great overwhelms the
Persians at Gaugamela
530
2
October
1187:
Saladin reconquers Jerusalem
531
xvi
CONTENTS
3
October
42
ВС:
The battles of Philippi and the deaths of
Brutus and Cassius
533
4
October
1853:
The Crimean War begins
535
5
October
1795:
Napoleon gives the rabble a whiff of grape
537
6
October
1973:
The Yom Kippur War
538
7
October
1571 :
Christian Europe defeats the Turk at
Lepanto
540
8
October
1918:
Backwoods hero
-
Corporal
Alvin
York
542
9
October
1192:
The Lionheart heads for home
543
10
October AD
732:
Charles the Hammer earns his name
544
11
October
1899:
The Boer War begins
546
12
October
1915:
Edith Cavell before the firing squad
549
13
October
1775:
The American Navy is launched
550
14
October
1944:
Rommel the Desert Fox is forced to
commit suicide
552
15
October
202
ВС:
Scipio overwhelms Hannibal at Zama
555
16
October
1809:
The walls of Vienna
557
17
October
1586:
Thy necessity is yet greater than mine
559
18
October
1812:
Napoleon retreats from Russia
560
19
October
1864:
Sheridan s Ride
561
20
October
1918:
Eddie Rickenbacker gets his last kill
563
21
October
1805:
Trafalgar
565
22
October
1935:
The Long March mat changed Chinese
history
566
23
October
1917:
Americas first combat in the
First World War
568
24
October
1917:
Catastrophe at Caporetto
570
25
October
1854:
Courage and calamity in the Crimea
571
26
October AD
899:
Alfred the Great, the king who saved
Anglo-Saxon England
574
xvu
TALES
OF WAR
27
October
AD
312:
A
flaming
cross
inspires Emperor
Constantine
at Milvian Bridge
576
28
October
1628:
Richelieu takes
La Rochelle
578
29
October
1863:
Forward the Mule Brigade
579
30
October
1340:
The last Muslim invasion of Spain
582
31
October
1917:
Take Jerusalem by Christmas
583
1
November
1950:
The Chinese enter the Korean War
586
2
November
1859:
American abolitionist John Brown is
sentenced to hang
588
3
November
1791:
The Indians attack at dawn
590
4
November
1942:
Montgomery defeats Rommel at
ElAlamein
592
5
November
1862:
The general who wouldn t fight
593
6
November
1632:
The battle that saved the German
Protestants
596
7
November
1917:
The October Revolution
-
the
Bolsheviks take over Russia
598
8
November
1620:
The Battle of the White Mountain
600
9
November
1799:
Napoleons
coup d état
. 601
10
November
1775:
The US Marine Corps is born
602
11
November
1918:
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day
of the eleventh month
604
12
November
1611 :
The Father of Modern Warfare
takes the Swedish throne
606
13
November
1312:
The king who started the Hundred
Years War
608
14
November
1940:
The whole city was ringed with
leaping flames
610
15
November
1864:
Shermans march through Georgia
612
16
November
1920:
The final death scene of Old Russia
613
XVUl
CONTENTS
1796: Bonaparte
wins a battle that builds
his own legend
615
1095:
Urban II launches the First Crusade
616
1274:
Kublai Khan and the Divine Wind
618
1945:
Judgement at Nuremberg
619
1970:
A helicopter raid behind enemy lines
622
1428:
Warwick the Kingmaker
624
1863:
A bright victory at Missionary Ridge
627
1542:
The battles of Henry
VIII 629
1177:
The leper king defeats Saladin
631
1812:
Napoleon escapes the Russians
633
AD
511 :
Clovis, the first French king
635
1943:
Operation Overlord is determined at
Teheran
638
1872:
Captain Jack and the Modoc War
640
1718:
Sweden s warrior-king is cut down
643
1808:
Napoleon besieges Madrid
644
1805:
Napoleon s greatest victory
647
1971 :
Operation Genghis Khan
648
1676:
The Danes fight the Swedes in the
bloodiest battle in Scandinavian history
651
1757:
Frederick the Great s greatest victory
653
1971 :
A Pakistani major earns the
Nishan-e-Haider
654
7
December
1815:
Marshal Ney is executed in the gardens
of the Palais Luxembourg
656
8
December
1941 :
A pyrrhic victory for the Japanese
658
9
December
1944:
The story of a warrior
660
10
December
1941:
Disaster on the South China Sea
662
17
November
18
November
19
November
20
November
21
November
22
November
23
November
24
November
25
November
26
November
27
November
28
November
29
November
30
November
1
December
2
December
3
December
4
December
5
December
6
December
XIX
TALES
OF WAR
11
December
12
December
13
December
14
December
15
December
16
December
17
December
18
December
19
December
20
December
21
December
22
December
23
December
24
December
25
December
26
December
1950:
Retreat? Hell, we re attacking in a
different direction!
665
1098:
The Crusaders most barbarous victory
668
1939:
The sinking of the GrafSpee
669
1799:
George Washington dies hard
672
1840:
Napoleons last trip to Paris
674
1773:
The Boston Tea Party
676
1830:
Death of
El Libertador
678
1912:
A father and son make military history
680
1944:
The Battered Bastards of Bastogne
682
AD
69:
A Roman general becomes emperor
after his soldiers lynch his predecessor
684
1192:
King Richard the Lionheart is captured
686
1793:
Napoleone
becomes a general after
the Siege of Toulon
688
1793:
Insurrection in the
Vendée
689
1914:
Truce on Christmas Eve
692
AD
800:
Charlemagne is crowned emperor
695
1776:
Washington crosses the Delaware to
surprise the Hessians
27
December
1979:
Don t take prisoners. No one should
be left alive.
28
December
29
December
30
December
31
December
Index
1879:
A prophet in his own country
1895:
The Jameson raid on Johannesburg
1460:
Score one for the Lancastrians in
the Wars of the Roses
1942:
Large ships are a thing of the past
696
698
701
704
705
707
711
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