Hidden, Suppressed History of Red Terror in Post-WWI Europe Today on 23rd November we remember the Holodomor disaster, the Stalinist man made famine in Ukraine, killing millions of Ukrainian men, women and children between 1932-1933. The exact number of deaths will never be known, some sources say between 5-10 million deaths, the biggest genocide…
Category: Historical Study
On This Day in History, November 22, 1963
Know Your Guerilla Warfare History: The Boer War
Boer War Origins The origins of the Boer War lay in Britain’s desire to unite, or confederate, the British South African territories of the Cape Colony and Natal with the Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic (also known as the Transvaal). The Boers, Afrikaans-speaking farmers, wanted to maintain their…
Small-Unit Tactics: The Flying Column
Ireland’s Wars: Flying Columns The popular memory of the Irish War of Independence, at least if you happen to be Irish, often revolves around the image of the IRA “flying column”. For a large number of people, those two words indicates a very particular type of unit: A sort of mobile platoon that lived and…
Know Your Real WW2 History: The French Resistance
Know Your Southern History: Causes of Southern Secession in the Upper South, Part 1
Part 1: Causes of Southern Secession in the Upper South “If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be subverted, and an Empire is to be established in their stead; if that is to be the last scene of the great…
Know Your Firearms History: The Maxim Irony
Know Your History: White Immigrants & Free White Persons
The Bad Ass Files: Colonel Charles Askins, US Army (Ret.)
The Legend Of Charley Askins by Skeeter Skelton (As Published in Shooting Times Magazine, May 1972) In The West Wing of a secluded, tile-roofed Spanish home in San Antonio, Texas is a room that is one of my favorite retreats. It’s a large room, carpeted with the rich hides of Polar and…
Know Your Southern History: The Battle of Sabine Pass
The Battle of Sabine Pass Less rowdy Irish were found in the Davis Guards, formally known as Co. F, First Texas Heavy Artillery. They were posted at Ft. Griffin at the mouth of the Sabine River, as it empties into the Gulf of Mexico. The site was near Beaumont, Texas, an important railway junction. The…