History
This catalogue has best historical articles of TWC historians, from ancient times to modern era, if you are interested in history, this is the place where you want to spend time.
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History
General
- A Place in History: Andalusia
- A Place in History: Bayeux
- Alcohol, its History and Place in Britains Society
- Alexander the Great matched against Chinggis Khan or Subotai
- Classical historians and the Pursuit of Truth
- Debate by Clausewitz
- East Roman Military Equipment, Part One
- How to Take a City
- History and Components of European Heraldry
- Legalism and Militarism in China
- Links to History
- Muhammed and Hitler - quite possibly history's two most impacting men
- The Lost Temple of India
- The 'Jesus Myth' Myth
- The Just War
- The Right Hand of the King
- The Commanders of Military History - a Compilation
- The Hungarian Hussar – A Magyar Huszár
- Universal Truths of History
- What is Hybrid Warfare?
- Who Are The British
Antiquity
- A City like no other- The History of Athens up to the Peloponnesian War
- A Look in the Politics of the Western Roman Empire (454-480)
- A Short History of the Lydian Kingdom
- Achaemenid Chronology
- Actium and the Propaganda War
- Alexander the God
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander the Great: The Man, the Life, the Legacy
- An analysis of the Fall of the Roman Empire
- Ancient Cities: Tenochtitlan
- An Official Program Of Art In The Achaemenid Empire?
- Antiochus III and the 'Anabasis' in the Upper Satrapies
- Antoninus Pius : Golden Age of Rome
- Artaxerxes II and Sparta
- Assaulting Egypt
- Athens during the Hellenistic age
- Atlantis:The Lost Civilization
- August 3, 216 B.C. - Cannae; Was Maharbal correct?
- Belisarius and Narses's Wars
- Bringing the Hun Horsearchers to life
- Charioting in ancient Egypt: the tactics
- Chou Military
- Crete during the Hellenistic era
- Cyrus the Great: Founder of Ancient Persia
- Did The 'Immortals' Fight At Platea?
- Early Years of the Sassanid Empire
- Fall of the Eagle
- Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse
- Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
- Great Roman Generals of the 2nd Punic War
- Greek Fire
- Hamilcar Barca
- Hannibal Barca
- Hannibal's Oath
- Hasdrubal Barca
- History and Theory of the Peloponnesian War
- Images of Peace at Persepolis?
- King Philip II of Macedonia: Sent by Apollo
- Kings and cities in the Hellenistic World
- Mago Barca
- Masters of the Sea: Phoenicians
- Masters of the Sea: Vikings
- Megabyzus: Noble by birth, Noble in action
- Mysterious Druids
- Ostracism at Athens
- Pyrrhus of Epirus - His Expedition to Italy and the Battle of Heraclea
- Reign of Darius the Great
- Rhodes during the Hellenistic age- The siege of Demetrios
- Rise of Scipio and the Fall of New Carthage
- Rivals in Arcadia - Tegea and Mantineia in the Archaic and Classical Greek World
- Roman Achievements
- Roman Army Officers in Early Principate
- Roman Republic Early History
- Sassanian Royal Cavalry
- Shapur and the First Roman-Sassanid War
- Significance of Teutoburg Forest
- Solon's Reforms
- The Accession of Darius III
- The Act of Devotio: A Brief History of One Family
- The Arms of Alexander the Great and His Enemies
- The Arms of Rome Fall Off, Yet She is Able to Reattach Them
- The Army of Carthage during Hannibal's time
- The Battle of Granicus River
- The Council of Nicea
- The Danube Limes
- The Famous Oath: Hannibal, Antiochus, Nicander and Polybius
- The Iberian peninsula in the iron age
- The Iberians: Compilated Information
- The Immortals of Achaemenid Persia
- The influence of the concept of the Barbarian
- The First Punic War
- The Guard - Protection of Emperors
- The Kardakes Infantry of Late Achaemenid Persia
- The Last Imperator
- The Legacy of Julia Maesa and Her Daughters
- The Libyan Kingdom of the Garmatians
- The Life of Julia Domna
- The Life of Livia Drusilla
- The Life of Octavia Minor
- The Life of Valeria Messalina
- The Lydian Campaign
- The Madness of King Cambyses
- The Mauryan Empire
- The Origin of the Philistines & The Sea Peoples Hypothesis
- The Panathenaea
- The Rebellion of Cyrus the Younger
- The Rise of Marcus Antonius
- The Rise of the Demos
- The Roman Army and Fortification of the Later Empire
- The Roman Empire: Victim to Many Things, Even Itself
- The Roman Emperors Whose Reigns Were Shorter Than the Lifespan of a Worker Ant
- The Roman Republic and Eumenes II of Pergamon
- The Seven Kings of Rome
- The Significance of Adrianople, 378 A.D.
- The Themistokles Decree
- Those Dastardly Persians & Those Splendid Persians
- Thracians in Herodotus
- Tourism in Roman Greece
- Vipsania Agrippina
- Warfare of the Roman Republic
- Was Hannibal perfect at Zama?
- Was the loss of the First Punic War due to marine disasters?
- Who was Alcibiades?
- Who won the Battle of the Hydaspes?
- Why Did The Persian Army Fail To Conquer Mainland Greece in 480 B.C.?
- Why have so many empires been compared to Rome? An Essay
- Achaemenid Persian Infantry of Darius and Xerxes
Middle Ages
- A Brief History of the Medieval Cannon
- A tale from the Byzantine Empire: Greek or Roman?
- A tale from the Byzantine Empire: The Battle of Manzikert
- Advancements of the Byzantine Empire
- Alexius Komnenos and the Byzantine-Pecheneg Wars
- Amir Temur Gegan: Scourge of God
- Bulgaroctonus - The Bulgar Slayer
- Byzantine Influence on the Medieval West
- Constantinople: The Sack of 1204
- Cosimo de' Medici: a "Reigning Prince"?
- Could Batu and Subotai have altered history?
- Ghenghis Khan
- Gregory VII and Henry IV and the Battle over Investiture
- Guide to the Crusades
- History of the People of Novgorod
- The Portuguese in Japan
- Holy War in the Baltic
- Hounds of Hell
- Medieval Nubian Kingdoms
- Merlin/Myrddin
- Mixing David with Goliath: Comments on the Hundred Years War
- Noble by birth, Noble in action
- Norman Conquest: Continuity or Change?
- Piero de' Medici: More Than a Mere Hunchback
- Serenissimo: The Most Serene Republic
- Significance of the Battle of Manzikert
- The Alan Kingdom
- The Danish Reappear!
- The distortion of the image of Charlemagne in the Einhard’s ‘Life of Charles the Great
- The Historic Arthur
- The Imjin War: A Basic Guide
- The Latin Empire of Constantinople
- The Battle of Crécy
- The Battle of Grunwald -1410
- The Battle of Mantzikert
- The Dynastic Cycle in Ming and Yuan China: State Capacity and Military Effectiveness
- The Saxon Invasions
- The Welsh in America or The Legend of Prince Madoc
- Vladimir the Great - The Grand Prince of the Kievan Rus
- When Christ and His Saints Slept: The Anarchy 1135-54
- Yue Fei: Seperating Myth From Fact
Early Modern
- A Comparison of Ogier de Busbecq and Michele de Montaigne
- A Guide to the Age of Sail
- Absolutism in the Reign of Louis XIV
- Admiral Lord Nelson
- Admiral Yi Soon Shin: Asia's Forgotten Champion
- Africa: Made Better or Worse by European Colonisation?
- Danish Naval History and the Nordic Wars
- Development of the Swedish and Dutch Tercia
- Fierce as Fire, Immovable as a Mountain: Oda Nobunaga's war against Takeda Shingen
- Gustavus Adolphus in Livonia and Polish Prussia, 1617-1629
- Hideyoshi by Mary Elizabeth Berry
- How responsible was Louis XVI for the crisis of 1789?
- James VI/I and Religion
- King Philip's War
- Matchlocks: Giver of Firepower
- Mughal Afghanistan
- Napoleon's Invasion of Russia - The Invasion
- Napoleon's Invasion of Russia - The Retreat
- Nobunaga's ambition, how far did it go?
- States of the Protestant Catholic Wars
- Stradioti: Balkan Mercenaries in 15th and 16th Century Italy
- Swedish Battles
- The American Indians in Brief
- The Aztec History - A brief Description
- The Battle of Merv (1510)
- The Battle of September 11: Siege of Barcelona
- The Great Northern Showdown
- The Hakkapelitas
- The Invasion of Nicaragua
- The Irish Penal Laws
- The Knights of Rhodes
- The Poets Rebellion
- The Relationship of Badauni and Abu'l Fazl
- The Seven Years' War
- The Stockholm Bloodbath
- Vlad the Impaler: Take 2
- The Mughal Succession War of 1657-1661
- Famous Conquistadors of the Early-Mid 16th Century
- The unborn child in Private Law in the 18th century and its reflections on the 18th century society
Modern
- American Revolution - Battle of Breed's (Bunker) Hill
- American Revolution - Battle of Quebec City
- American Revolution - How the Conflict Started
- American Revolution - Battle of Lake Erie
- American Revolution - Siege of Fort Meigs
- American Revolution - The Battle of Lexington and Concord
- American Revolution - The Battle of Trenton
- American Civil War: Gettysburg Battlefield
- American Civil War: The Mountain Howitzer
- Armies of American Civil War
- Battle of Borodino
- Battles of the Finnish War 1808
- Causes and Effects of the Franco-German War
- Contributions of John Adams
- Crossroads at Antietam: an Exploratory Narrative
- Damn the Torpedoes: The Battle of Mobile Bay
- Defeating the Swarm – Observations from Kambula.
- Fall of Armenia: Chapter 1
- Fall of Armenia: Chapter 2
- Fall of Armenia: Chapter 3
- Fall of Armenia: Chapter 4
- Fall of Armenia: Chapter 5
- Fall of Armenia: Chapter 6
- Fall of Armenia: Chapter 7
- George Carol von Dobeln
- James Longsteet and the Lost Cause Movement
- La Révolution Française: Causes and Events That Lead up to the Terror
- Legacy of King George III
- Masters of the Sea: The British Empire
- Mexico's Fighting Irish
- Napoleon and the Conclusion of the Military Revolution
- Napoleon’s Grand Battery: Desperation or Tactical Revolution?
- Napoleon's War: The Reforms and Strategy of Napoleon Bonaparte
- Ohio History: Ohio-Michigan War
- Ohio History: The Battle of Fallen Timbers
- Russian Revolution
- Skirmishers of 19th Century and American Civil War
- Soldiers in America, 1754-1865
- The "Battle" of Copenhagen - 1807
- The Battle of Waterloo
- The First Minnesota at Gettysburg
- The "Heavies": Federal Heavy Artillery Regiments in the 1864 Wilderness Campaign
- The Real War of 1812 - Chapter 1: The Storming of Badajoz
- The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Kingdom
- The War of 1812 - Battle of Lake Erie
- The War of 1812 - Siege of Fort Meigs
- To Recognize or not to Recognize: the British Predicament During the American Civil War
- Wellington: The Very Model of a Modern Major General
- The Development of IRA Counter-Mobility Operations 1919-1921
WW1
- Andranik Toros Ozanian
- Lest We Forget...
- The Battle of Jutland (Skagerrak)
- The Battle of the Somme
- The Big Red One...The First US Infantry Division in WWI
- The Development of IRA Counter-Mobility Operations 1919-1921
- The Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the Post-War Settlement
- The Last Hapsburg
- What was the Schlieffen Plan?
- Why the Tsar caused Russia to fall into revolution
WW2
- A Bridge Too Far
- An Interview with my Grandfather, German 1st Infantry
- August 1945 - the A-Bombs or conventionally invade the mainland of Japan?
- Battle of Midway, the Stalingrad of the Japanese
- Battle of Okinawa
- Blitzkrieg and the Fall of France 1940
- Blitzkrieg: Implementation and Countermeasure
- Danish Collaboration and Resistance During the Second World War
- Deep Operation, confusion in doctrine form
- Defence in Depth, with reference to British preperations for Sealion
- Dunkirk: Germany’s Last Chance?
- From Man to Beast; Propaganda and the German Soldier in East 1941-1945
- Isurava 1942 - Australia's Thermopylae
- Stop Dacing! Stalingrad Has Fallen
- Stalingrad
- The Battle of Britain
- The Battle of France
- The Causes of World War II
- The Drama of Drama: One of the First Uprisings Against the Axis
- The Holocaust in Greece
- The Impact of Air Raids on the Outcome of the Second World War in Europe
- The V Weapons
Post WW2
- Hizbullah: Between Pragmatism and Radicalism
- How to Win a Nuclear War (According to Herman Kahn)
- Mohammad Mossadeq and Operation Ajax
- NATO’s New Role in a Modern Security Environment
- The Music of the Counter-Culture Era
- The Problem with Brussels
- The UN as a Worldwide Peacekeeper
- Was the Vietnam War Winnable?