In 1614-15 Osaka Castle was Japan's greatest fortification, measuring approximately 2 miles in le...

Japan and Okinawa provides an up-to-date, coherent and theoretically informed examination of Okin...

Constant Spanish guerrilla activity so drained the resources and diverted the attention of the Fr...

The part played in the Civil War by the small Marine Corps of the United and Confederate States i...

The bombardment by Confederate artillery of Fort Sumter on 12 April 1861 was the spark that final...

A brilliant but little-known operation, the Shimazu clan raid on the independent kingdom of Ryuky...

In 1543 three Portuguese merchants entered a turbulent Japan, bringing with them the first firear...

The battle which took place on the Little Bighorn river on June 25, 1876 has passed into legend a...

Japan and Okinawa provides an up-to-date, coherent and theoretically informed examination of Okin...

The volunteer army that fought the Mexican dictator Santa Anna from 1835 to 1836 was immortalized...

By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania ...

Feared throughout the Far East, Japanese pirates were likened to ''black demons'' and ''flood dra...