5 times soldiers won against the odds
One of the better-known assumptions about combat is that the side with the greater numbers usually wins. Seems pretty self-explanatory, right? Being outnumbered puts you at an automatic disadvantage. Still,…
The French Navy’s best World War II victory came against Thailand
The early 1940s were not good years for the French. After declaring war on Germany over its invasion of Poland in 1939, France quickly found itself defeated and occupied by…
This disastrous battle is how the term ‘pyrrhic victory’ came to be
The pyrrhic victory was first used as an adjective in the 17th Century to mean a war resembling the Pyrrhus battle. It was mostly used to refer to the disastrous…