Military

In legend, Marathon is one of the decisive battles of the world; in fact, Stuart E.P. Atherley suggests, it marked the repulse of a comparatively small “colonial” expedition from Persia.

J.J. Bell describes a powerful force of raiders on the early modern Scottish Borders.

Elizabeth Wiskemann writes that Bentinck’s achievements as British Minister in Sicily, and inspirer of Italian resistance to Napoleon in the years 1811-1814, suggest interesting parallels with recent conflicts.

T.H. McGuffe describes the invasion, and subsequent hurried retreat, of England during the Jacobite Rebellion.

Erich Eyck looks at the battles fought - and won - by Napoleon's Prussian nemisis.

G.H.L. LeMay sets the unique military features of Napoleonic France against those of the eighteenth century at large.

L.B. Namier on both the pre- and post-war case against would-be plotters within the Nazi regime.

A.H. Burne assesses the achievements of the leading generals of the first English Civil War.

Cyrill Falls describes how a succession of rebellions challenged a sodden but sturdy English soldiery in late 16th century Ireland.

Eric Linklater finds that among medieval champions of Scottish independence was an ancestor of Elizabeth II, the heroic Robert the Bruce.