January 25, 1573. It is Japan’s Age of War – the age of the great samurai warlords, the Sengoku. Two great samurai warlords clash on a...

January 24, 41 CE. Shortly after declaring that he was setting himself up as a living god, a group of Senators and Praetorian Guards...

January 23, 1795. A troop of absolute madman French cavalry capture the Dutch war fleet at anchor off the coast of Holland. On horseback....

Something else I shoulda/coulda written much more about. January 22, 1879. A British force invading the Zululand in what is now South...

I've written more and better articles about the Irish War of Independence since this one. January 21, 1919. 73 Irish Members of the...

January 20, 1944. American troops try to cross the Rapido River in Italy, and the result is a fiasco and Texas's worst day of World War...

George H. Thomas is one of my favorites. Mill Springs, though, is a forgotten battle. January 19, 1862. Two small American armies clash...

I think this the only post I did on Southeast Asian history? Should've done more. Talked about the Trung Sisters, Bayinnaung, the Khmer...

To get this out of the way, I LOVE the Carolinas Campaign of the Revolutionary War. It is one of my favorite military history stories of...

January 16, 27 BC. A warlord is made dictator of a once-free republic to thunderous applause. Well, for a given definition of "warlord,"...

January 15, 1865. 58 ships off the coast of North Carolina open fire on a shadowy edifice glimpsed through the fog. On land, almost...

January 14, 1943. A disabled American and an alcoholic Englishman meet in a big Muslim city to decide the fate of the world. Or, more...

This is actually an incredibly important story. You know what I'm gonna say, and yes: I should have written more about it. January 13,...

I could have written a lot more about this, but I could say that about almost all my posts in January. This was before COVID, and before...

I do not know enough about Islam, so this one might be a bit sketchy, I think. January 11, 630. A motley army comes out of the mountains...

January 10, 49 BC: Julius Caesar and his 13th Legion cross the Rubicon River, initiating the Roman Civil War and setting Caesar on the...

This post was super glammy. Not pleased with it, and the hero-worship nature of this post is me not being a very good historian. Nelson...

January 8, 1815. Andrew Jackson and a rag-tag group of American soldiers, militia, and pirates (yes) defeat the cream of the British Army...

January 7, 1942. Douglas MacArthur's American army in the Philippines withdraws into Bataan. Surrounded by Japanese forces on land and...

Side note: I really screwed up the details on this story. I have since read several books on the British invasion of Afghanistan and most...