Military History Matters 106

'- Clash of nations: how the Royal Navy captured the pride of the US fleet
- Julius Caesar: Rome’s great commander
- Barbarossa: building the medieval German ‘Reich’
- The Siege of Sebastopol, 1854-1855
- Churchill and Stalin: an unlikely alliance

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Military History Matters 106

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Legion versus Legion The Late Republican legionary [below] was a heavily armoured, highly drilled, citizen soldier equipped with shield (scutum), javelins (pila), and short stabbing sword (gladius). The soldiers depicted on the Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus [above] are the basis for Peter Connolly’s reconstruction. Those shown on the Mainz relief [right] are somewhat later Imperial legionaries, but they are depicted wielding scutum and gladius in close quarters action in a manner that would have been familiar to Caesar’s men.The Battle of Pharsalus, 9 August 48 BCMHM Editor Neil Faulkner analyses Caesar’s greatest victory.
Above Roman legionaries in action at the Siege of Alesia in 52 BC.Great Commanders: Julius CaesarGraham Goodlad analyses the military genius of ancient Rome’s best-known general.
Above Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin awkward allies at the Yalta Conference.Churchill and Stalin: an unlikely allianceFrom 1917 to the 1950s, Winston Churchill had a long and bumpy relationship with the Soviet Union, and it had a profound effect on his…