IN ISSUE:

THE BRITISH EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
Garnet Wolseley faced a daunting task defending the Suez Canal in 1882 after a bloody clash unfolded at Tell El Kebir during the Anglo-Egyptian War.

LIGHTNING ASSAULT ON PEGASUS BRIDGE
British glider-borne troops assaulted strategic canal and river bridges on D-Day to protect the Allied flank. A desperate battle erupted when crack German troops tried to retake the bridges.

SAVAGE ACTION AT NEWBURY
The Parliamentarians found their path to London blocked at Newbury in September 1643. Furious charges by the Royalists captured key ground, but a crucial mistake cost them their tactical advantage.

REBEL BLUNDER AT FREDERICKSBURG
Brig. Gen. George Meade’s Pennsylvania Reserves drove deep into the Confederate line at Fredericksburg in December 1862. It fell to Stonewall Jackson to drive them out.

ALEXANDER’S TRIUMPH AT GAUGAMELA
Alexander the Great pitted his elite Macedonians against Darius III’s army at Gaugamela in northern Mesopotamia in 331 B.C. At stake was the future of the Persian Empire.

“A VERY MURDERING BATTLE”
The bloody clash at Malplaquet in 1709 during the War of the Spanish Succession pitted the Duke of Marlborough against his ablest opponent, France’s Duke of Villars.

HAMMER OF THE NORMANS
Duke William of Normandy invaded southeastern England in 1066 to press his claim to the throne. But first he had to vanquish King Harold’s Anglo-Saxon shield wall at the Battle of Hastings.