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Anti-Semitism in the Crusades: Jewish Persecution during the Middle Ages

By: Terry Long

The Hanseatic League at War: The Hansa’s Battle with King Valdemar of Denmark

By: Alex Graham-Heggie

The People's Crusade: The Prelude to the First Crusade

By: Terry Long

Wax Bullets in Modern Combat: From Magic to Military and Police Use

By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Frankish And Carolingian Cavalrymen: The Origin Of Charlemagne's Knights

By: Nate Breidenbaugh

Weapons That Empowered The Medieval Infantryman: The Armored Cavalryman Loses His Place On The Battlefield

By: Nate Breidenbaugh

English Battle Tactics in the High Middle Ages: Massed Archery and Defensive Deployment Led to Stunning Victories

By: Nate Breidenbaugh

The Muslim Conquest of Spain: Arab and Visigoth Tactics in Battle and Conquest

By: Alex Graham-Heggie

The Sword Brothers: The First Baltic Crusading Order

By: Grant Sebastian Nell

Cavalry Tactics The Caracole: An Experiment in Integrating Firearms and Cavalry

By: Robert Marcell

The Crusades: The Council of Clermont: Feudal Europe's Great Mass Migration

By: Terry Long

The Origins of the Crusades: Holy War in Europe and the Middle East

By: Terry Long

Secular Motives in the Crusades: As Read in William of Tyre’s “History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea”

By: Alex Graham-Heggie

Struggle from the Dark Ages to the Renaissance: Charlemagne Christianizes Europe

By: Susan M. Andrus

Ludwig Lew Wetzel Indian Fighter: Carried on a One-Man Thirty Years War in Ohio and West Virginia

By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Saladin Moslem Military Hero: Conqueror of the Kingdom of Heaven and opponent of Richard the Lionh

By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Renaissance swords in battle: From Toledo Spain to the Streets of Verona the rapier was the sword of the enlightened era

By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Long sword or Two handed sword: The Claymore and Doublehander swords of the late middle ages in combat

By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Spatha and the Knightsword: Used by the Romans and Medieval Knights these swords gave birth to Myth and Legend

By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Pike as a Weapon in History: Twenty feet of steel tipped polearm ruled the battlefield

By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Landsknechts Colorful mercenaries: Paid soldiers of the 16th century Holy Roman Empire.

By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

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