Military History Digest #323

H-War Military History Digest #323

Blog Post published by David Silbey on Sunday, December 30, 2018

Ancient: •Ultra-Precise Ice Core Sampling and the Explosive Cause of the Dark Ages https://kottke.org/18/12/ultra-precise-ice-core-sampling-and-the-explosive-cause-of-the-da...

Medieval: •Cawdor Castle Highland, Scotland - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cawdor-castle •The Nature of War and Its Impact on Society During the Barons' War, 1264-67 - Medievalists.net http://www.medievalists.net/2018/12/the-nature-of-war-and-its-impact-on-society-during-the...

18th Century (to 1815): •A Hot Dinner and a Bloody Supper: St. Helenas Christmas Rebellions of 1783 and 1811 Age of Revolutions https://ageofrevolutions.com/2018/12/17/a-hot-dinner-and-a-bloody-supper-st-helenas-christ... •Global Maritime History Book Review: Lincoln: "Trading in War" - Global Maritime History https://globalmaritimehistory.com/book-review-lincoln-trading-in-war/ •Historical Firearms - Patrick Ferguson and His Rifle - Journal of The... http://www.historicalfirearms.info/post/181140457294/patrick-ferguson-and-his-rifle-journa... •Life and Death at Valley Forge - 10 Surprising Facts About the Revolutionary War's Darkest Winter - MilitaryHistoryNow.com https://militaryhistorynow.com/2018/12/02/six-months-at-valley-forge-10-astonishing-facts-... •What's Wrong With This Picture? - Seven Strange Facts About One of America's Most Iconic Paintings - MilitaryHistoryNow.com https://militaryhistorynow.com/2018/12/22/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-seven-strange-fact...

1815-1861: •Remembering West Points Eggnog Riot of 1826 | Mental Floss http://mentalfloss.com/article/72776/west-points-eggnog-riot-1826?fbclid=IwAR3PbfMMlQkyKTX...

Civil War •Book News: The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 18461876 | Civil War Books and Authors https://cwba.blogspot.com/2018/12/book-news-civil-war-on-rio-grande.html •Booknotes: Visual Antietam Vol. 1 | Civil War Books and Authors https://cwba.blogspot.com/2018/12/booknotes-visual-antietam-vol-1.html •Freedom by the Sword: A Battlefield Monument at New Market Heights: The Time Has Come https://sablearm.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-battlefield-monument-at-new-market.html •Interview: Emerging Scholars at American Civil War Museum | Interviews | Civil War Monitor https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/blogs/interview-emerging-scholars-at-american-civil-war-mu... •Jacksons Gun Line | Bull Runnings https://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2018/12/13/jacksons-gun-line/ •Of Battlefields and Bibliophiles: Antietam Tour With Tom Clemens, May 2019 http://obab.blogspot.com/2018/12/antietam-tour-with-tom-clemens-may-2019.html •Silent Sam to Remain at Unc-Chapel Hill Civil War Memory http://cwmemory.com/2018/12/03/silent-sam-to-remain-at-unc-chapel-hill/ •The Best Civil War Books of 2018 | Articles | Civil War Monitor https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/blogs/the-best-civil-war-books-of-2018 •The War for the Common Soldier and The Calculus of Violence Review: Billy Yank and Johnny Reb - Wsj https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-war-for-the-common-soldier-and-the-calculus-of-violence-r...

1865-1914 •The Dakota Sioux Execution Was The Largest in U.S. History but America Has Forgotten It https://www.bustle.com/p/the-dakota-sioux-execution-was-the-largest-in-us-history-but-amer... •The French Conquest of Algeria Was Sick With Nostalgia - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-history-of-nostalgia •US Returns 3 Disputed Bells Taken From Philippines in 1901 https://www.snopes.com/ap/2018/12/11/us-returns-3-disputed-bells-taken-from-philippines-in...

First World War: •'Mimesis: African Soldier' At IWM | Calendar | the New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/event/mimesis-african-soldier-at-iwm/ •~ How Should We Remember the First World War? With Dan Todman | History Hit https://www.instapaper.com/read/1130945352 •Alfred Munnings: War Artist, 1918, National Army Museum, November 2018 https://www.instapaper.com/read/1137037640 •Mimesis: African Soldier | Imperial War Museums https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/mimesis-african-soldier •Nursing Clio Bearing the Brunt of Their Fathers Service: Ex-Soldiers and Child Murder, 1914-1935 https://nursingclio.org/2018/12/06/bearing-the-brunt-of-their-fathers-service-ex-soldiers-... •Over There 10 Surprising Facts About the American Expeditionary Force in World War One - MilitaryHistoryNow.com https://militaryhistorynow.com/2018/12/09/over-there-10-surprising-facts-about-the-america... •Scientists Scour WWI Shipwreck to Solve Military Mystery | Military.com https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/12/14/scientists-scour-wwi-shipwreck-solve-milita... •Surgical Specialties Emerging From World War I | of Ships & Surgeons https://ofshipssurgeons.wordpress.com/2018/12/03/surgical-specialties-emerging-from-world-... •The Day German U-Boats Passed Under Tower Bridge IanVisits https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2018/12/03/the-day-german-u-boats-passed-under-tower-bridge/ •The Sinking of Jacob Jones https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-i/his...

Second World War: •A New Mobile App Allows Tourists to Explore the Effects of Atomic War in Hiroshima - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hiroshima-pecae-tourism-map •Its Modi and Bose vs Gandhi and Nehru in Indias Battle of Legacies | This Week in Asia | South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2170583/its-modi-and-bose-vs-gandhi-and-ne... •Kurt Vonneguts Unpublished World War Ii Scrapbook | RealClearDefense https://www.realcleardefense.com/2018/12/15/kurt_vonnegutrsquos_unpublished_world_war_ii_s... •Pearl Harbor Re-Burials Across the US Give Families Closure | Military.com https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/12/06/pearl-harbor-re-burials-across-us-give-fami... •Selma Engel, 96, Dies; Escaped Death Camp and Revealed Its Horror - the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/obituaries/selma-engel-dead.html?rref= •Shock of Combat Changed George H.W. Bush's Life | HistoryNet http://www.historynet.com/george-h-w-bush-shock-of-combat.htm?fbclid=IwAR1nrfqlv62QfmgTN1a... •| of Ships & Surgeons https://ofshipssurgeons.wordpress.com/2018/12/12/surgical-specialties-emerging-from-world-... •The 1945 'Liberation Concert' Played by an Orchestra of Holocaust Survivors - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/liberation-concert-at-st-ottilien-archabbey

Cold War: •43 Years Later, Retired Vietnam Vet Receives Navy Cross | Military.com

Citation: David Silbey. Military History Digest #323. H-War. 12-30-2018. https://networks.h-net.org/node/12840/blog/military-history-digest/3484595/military-history-digest-323 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 2 H-War https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/12/04/43-years-later-retired-vietnam-vet-receives... •America Lost a Lot of Nukes During the Cold War | War Is Boring https://warisboring.com/57101-2/ •Blog - the Swedish Pilots Who Rescued a Stricken Sr-71 - Osprey Publishing https://ospreypublishing.com/blog/us_air_medal_sr_71/ •Chronology https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/vietnam-war0/ch... •In 1961, India Finally Kicked Portugal Off the Subcontinent | War Is Boring https://warisboring.com/in-1961-india-finally-kicked-portugal-off-the-subcontinent/ •Iran Almost Invaded Afghanistan in 1998 | War Is Boring https://warisboring.com/iran-almost-invaded-afghanistan-in-1998/ •The Last Secret of the 1971 India-Pakistan War | The Diplomat https://thediplomat.com/2018/12/the-last-secret-of-the-1971-india-pakistan-war/ •The Weight-Lifting Rabbi of Vietnam - Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A. https://www.jwv.org/the-weight-lifting-rabbi-of-vietnam/

Post Cold War: •George H.W. Bushs Persian Gulf War: Victory, With Tragedy | Just Security https://www.justsecurity.org/61769/george-h-w-bushs-persian-gulf-war-victory-tragedy/ •Lund Professor Freed Student From Islamic State War Zone - the Local https://www.thelocal.se/20181213/lund-professor-freed-student-from-islamic-state-warzone •The Histories of Today's Wars Are Being Written on Facebook and YouTube. but What Happens When They Get Taken Down? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/facebook-youtube-icc-war-crimes •The Will to Fight and the Fate of Nations https://warontherocks.com/2018/12/the-will-to-fight-and-the-fate-of-nations/ •U.S. Naval Institute Blog https://blog.usni.org/posts/2018/12/24/an-adaptation-of-the-sof-truths

Naval: •Capsizing the Grog Tub: Busting a Favorite Myth - USS Constitution Museum https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2013/06/05/capsizing-grog-tub-busting-favorite-my/?fbcli... https://www.navalhistory.org/2018/12/16/operation-desert-fox-20-years-ago-a-first-for-women • https://www.navalhistory.org/2018/12/16/operation-desert-fox-20-years-ago-a-first-for-women •Sailor From Patchogue Killed in Pearl Harbor ID'd https://www.longislandpress.com/2018/12/11/sailor-from-patchogue-killed-in-pearl-harbor-id... •The Long Blue Line: William Fessendenthe Man and His Cutters Coast Guard Compass http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2018/12/the-long-blue-line-william-fessenden-the-man-and-his... •U.S. Naval Institute Blog https://blog.usni.org/posts/2018/12/12/behold-the-clipper-ships •U.S. Naval Institute Blog https://blog.usni.org/posts/2018/12/18/gray-ghosts-past-as-preview-for-aircraft-carrier-ra... •Wreck of John Paul Jones' Ship USS Bonhomme Richard Located Off YorkshireOld Salt Blog http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2018/12/wreck-of-john-paul-jones-ship-uss-bonhomme-richard-loca...

Thematic/Misc: •10 Tanks That Changed the History of Armored Warfare | RealClearDefense https://www.realcleardefense.com/2018/12/17/10_tanks_that_changed_the_history_of_armored_w... •B-24 Wreckage on Steep Rocky Slope. https://www.trailrunproject.com/photo/7011123 •Christmas #Airpower Reading List From Balloons to Drones https://balloonstodrones.com/2018/12/15/christmas-airpower-reading-list/ •Flag Pins and Shoulder Patches - the American Interest https://www.the-american-interest.com/2018/12/27/flag-pins-and-shoulder-patches/ •Geologists Are Measuring Bullet Damage to Ancient Middle Eastern Settlements https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07320-1?utm_source=briefing-dy&utm_medium=email&u

•Medics Save Lives With Newly Developed Medical Technology https://www.instapaper.com/read/1131315033 •Naval Intelligences Lost Decade | U.S. Naval Institute https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2018-12/naval-intelligence%E2%80%99s-lost-decade •Science / War / Technology / the Military. Surveying Complex Relationships. 59th International Conference for Military History and Social Sciences | H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation Und Fachinformation Fr Die Geschichtswissenschaften https://www.hsozkult.de/searching/id/tagungsberichte-7997?title=science-war-technology-the... •Sex Ratio of the Population Aged 2549 in Europe: 1950 vs. 2017 [Oc] : MapPorn https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/9tj1x9/sex_ratio_of_the_population_aged_2549_in_... •The Boer War and Malayan Emergency: Examples of British Counterinsurgency Pre- and Post-Minimum Force | Small Wars Journal http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/boer-war-and-malayan-emergency-examples-british-count... •The Dark Side of Disarmament: Ocean Pollution, Peace, and the World Wars ActiveHistory.ca http://activehistory.ca/2018/12/the-dark-side-of-disarmament-ocean-pollution-peace-and-the... •The Histories of Today's Wars Are Being Written on Facebook and YouTube. but What Happens When They Get Taken Down? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/facebook-youtube-icc-war-crimes •The Strategy Bridge https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2018/12/14/a-cult-of-lethality •The Strategy Bridge https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2018/12/7/how-romanticization-of-the-us-civil-war... •Utsa Awarded Grant to Collect Oral Histories From Women in the Military | Texas Public Radio http://www.tpr.org/post/utsa-awarded-grant-collect-oral-histories-women-military •Why Eastern European Soldiers Wear Ski Masks | War Is Boring https://warisboring.com/why-eastern-european-soldiers-wear-ski-masks/

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