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We aim to make our site your first call for information on any aspect of military history. If we don't have what you want, then <a href="contact.html">contact us directly</a></p> <p> Currently we have 7,635 articles, 11,139 pictures, 423 maps, 958 unit histories, 2,245 book reviews and over 6,423,500 words in original articles. We don't just cover the best known conflicts, although we do have good coverage of the First and Second World Wars, the Napoleonic Wars and the American Civil War. </p> <div class="sidepicture"> <p><b>Recent Image (<a href="recent_pictures.html">go to updates</a>) </b><a href="Pictures/pictures_persian_police_being_drilled.html" title="Persian Police being drilled, c.1918 "> <img src="icons2/persian_police_being_drilled.jpg" alt="Persian Police being drilled, c.1918 " width="150" height="102" border="2" align="absmiddle"> <br> Persian Police being drilled, c.1918 </a><br> last update <br> 6 March 2025 </p> </div> <p>Check our <a href="recentframe.html" title="recent articles on military history">recent articles page</a> (23 January 2025) to see what we are doing at the moment. </p> <p>Our section of <a href="new_books.html">reviews of new book releases</a> was last updated on 2 March 2025 </p> <hr> <p><a href="articles/weapons_HMS_Grenville_1916.html">HMS <em>Grenville </em>(1916)</a> was a Parker class flotilla leader that served with the 15th Flotilla of the Grand Fleet from late in 1916 to the end of the First World War, apart from a brief spell spent at Harwich, briefly served in the Baltic after the war then went into the reserves and was sold for scrap in 1931.</p> <hr> <p>We now have a <a href="secondworldwar/date/index.html">day-by-day history of the Second World War</a>, covering the 2,214 days of the war from the German invasion of Poland on <a href="secondworldwar/date/1939_09_01.html">1 September 1939</a> to the Japanese surrender in Hong Kong on <a href="secondworldwar/date/1945_09_16.html">16 September 1945</a> (two weeks after the surrender in Tokyo Bay), and currently containing 5,308 individual facts. </p> <p>Our 1,000th book review is <a href="bookpage/emden_teenage_tommy.html">Teenage Tommy: Memoirs of a Cavalryman in the First World War, ed. Richard van Emden</a>, a young cavalryman who was present when the BEF fired its first shots of the First World War and was still at the front, with the cavalry, at the end of the war. </p> <p>Our 7,000 article looks at the Acorn class destroyer <a href="articles/weapons_HMS_Staunch_1910.html">HMS <em>Staunch </em>(1910)</a>, sunk by <em>UC-38</em> in 1917 off the coast of Palestine. Our 6,000th article looks at the <a href="articles/battles_leipzig_16_october.html">first day of the battle of Leipzig (16 October 1813)</a>, Napoleon's best chance to actually win the battle. Our 5,000th article is a biography of <a href="articles/people_foix_gaston_de.html">Gaston de Foix, Duke of Nemours (1489-1512)</a>, a daring French commander of the Italian Wars who was killed at the battle of Ravenna. Our 4,000th article looks at the <a href="articles/wars_great_peloponnesian_war.html">Great Peloponnesian War of 431-404 BC</a>. Our 3,000th article looks at the <a href="articles/battles_truillas.html">battle of Truillas (22 September 1793)</a>, a Spanish victory early in the War of the First Coalition. Our 2,000th article is a look at the German battlecruiser <a href="articles/weapons_SMS_Von_der_Tann.html"><em>Von der Tann</em></a>, part of our recent focus on the First World War. Our 1,000th article, on the <a href="articles/weapons_spitfire_mkXII.html">Supermarine Spitfire Mk XII</a> came during our War in the Air themed month in 2007. Our 1,000th aircraft was the <a href="articles/weapons_supermarine_spiteful.html">Supermarine Spiteful</a>. </p> <p>Our six millionth word comes in an article on the <a href="articles/battles_clastidium.html">battle of Clastidium (222 BC)</a>. Our five millionth word comes in a look at the <a href="articles/weapons_ordnance_7_2in_howitzer_6.html">7.2in Howitzer Mk 6</a>. Our four millionth word comes in a biography of <a href="articles/people_ney.html">Marshal Ney</a>, Napoleon's bravest marshal. Our three millionth word comes in a biography of the Sicilian Tyrant <a href="articles/people_hippocrates_of_gela.html">Hippocrates of Gela</a>. Our two millionth word came in our biography of the Roman general <a href="articles/people_aquillius_manius_2.html">Manius Aquillius (died 89/88 B.C.)</a>, our 1000th battle was the <a href="articles/battles_rivoli.html">battle of Rivoli of 14 January 1797</a>, our 500th military aircraft, the <a href="articles/weapons_kawasaki_ki-48.html">Kawasaki Ki-48 Army Type 99 Twin-engined Light Bomber (Lily)</a> and our 500th article on the Napoleonic Wars, a biography of <a href="articles/people_bianchi_v_f.html">General Freidrich Bianchi</a>. Our 2000th article on the Second World War was a look at the <a href="articles/weapons_heavy_assault_tank_A33_excelsior.html">Heavy Assault Tank A33 (Excelsior)</a>. </p> <p>In 2006-2007 we ran a series of themed months, on the <a href="napoleon/index.html">Napoleonic Wars</a>, the <a href="americancivilwar/index.html">American Civil War</a> and <a href="air/index.html">War in the Air</a> in which we created subject home pages which bring together all of the information we have on those subjects. We also have a subject home page on the <a href="secondworldwar/index.html">Second World War</a>. </p> <h4 align="center">In 2006 two of our authors walked <a href="wall_walk.html">Hadrian's Wall for the Perthes Disease Association</a></h4> <h2 align="center">Lest we forget, <a href="http://www.britishlegion.org.uk">Support the British Legion</a></h2> </div> <div class="left"> <ul class="sidemenu2"> <li class="menutop2">The Articles</li> <li class="button2"><a href="mainindexframe.html" title="Index to all the military history articles">Full Index</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="battleframe.html" title="Index to articles on battles and sieges">Battles and Sieges</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="weaponsframe.html" title="Index to articles on weapons, equipment and military units">Weapons, Equipment and Units</a> </li> <li class="button2"><a href="warsframe.html" title="Index to articles on wars, campaigns and treaties">Wars, Campaigns and Treaties</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="subjectframe.html" title="List of articles organised by subject">Special Subject Indexes</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="peopleframe.html" title="Index to articles on people">Biographies</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="conceptsframe.html" title="Index to articles on concepts">Concepts</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="periodframe.html" title="A timeline of military history">Timeline</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="countryframe.html" title="Index to articles organised by country">By Country</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="sources/index.html" title="Historical Documents">Documents</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="units.html" title="Unit Histories">Unit Histories</a></li> <li class="menutop2"><b>Services</b></li> <li class="button2"><a href="readingframe.html" title="Military History Books">Book Shop (With Amazon)</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="new_books.html">New Releases</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="linksframe.html">Links</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="pictures.html">Pictures and Maps</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="galleries.html">Picture Galleries</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="maps_overview.html">Maps Home</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="blog.html">Blog</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="topfilmframe.html">Top Ten Films</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="bookreviews.html">Book Reviews</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="timelines.html">Timelines</a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="interactive.html">Interactive Pages</a></li> <li class="menutop2"><b>Subject Homepages </b></li> <li class="button2"><a href="americancivilwar/index.html">American Civil War </a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="napoleon/index.html">Napoleonic Wars </a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="air/index.html">War in the Air </a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="secondworldwar/index.html" title="Second World War homepage">Second World War </a></li> <li class="button2"><a href="secondworldwar/date/index.html" title="Second World War Day by Day">Second World War Day by Day</a></li> </ul> </div> <br clear="all"> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2F&tag=militaryhistorye&linkCode=ur2&camp=1634&creative=6738"> <IMG SRC="amazonicon.jpg" alt="In Association with Amazon.co.uk" BORDER="0" HEIGHT="60" WIDTH="130"> </A> <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/militaryhisto-20"> <IMG SRC="home-logo-130x60b.gif" BORDER="0" HEIGHT="60" WIDTH="130" alt="In Association with Amazon.com"> </A> <A HREF="http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect-home?site=amazon&tag=militaryhis08-20"> <IMG SRC="amazoncanada.gif" BORDER="0" HEIGHT="60" WIDTH="130" alt="In Association with Amazon.ca"></A> </div> <div align="center"> <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-5012154621995510" data-ad-slot="7148377611" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div>  <hr width="50%"> <p align="center" class="linkmenu"> <a href="../help.html">Help</a> - <a href="../faq.html">F.A.Q.</a> - <a href="../contact.html">Contact Us</a> - <a href="../searchframe.html">Search</a> - <a href="../recentframe.html">Recent</a> - <a href="../about.html">About Us</a> - <a href="privacy.html">Privacy</a> </p> </body> </html>