Land Forces & Warfare

The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken disor...

The Constitution provides Congress with broad powers over the Armed Forces, including the power to raise and support Armies, to provide and main...

In January 1863, a long-anticipated military order arrived on the desk of Massachusetts Governor John Andrew. President Lincoln's secretary of w...

Few 19th-century Americans were as adventurous as Henry Baxter. Best known for his Civil War exploits--from leading the 7th Michigan Volunteer I...

The Fifth New York Cavalry was a volunteer regiment organized in response to the Union defeat at the Battle of Bull Run in July 1861. The citize...