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The BattlefieldTravels Deep Research Collection brings together the platformโs most original and extensively researched military history studies โ articles that required years of fieldwork, engagement with primary sources in multiple languages, GIS terrain analysis, and firsthand exploration of battlefields that most researchers have never visited.
These are not syntheses of existing literature. They are original contributions to military history. In many cases, they are the only serious English-language treatment of their subject available anywhere.
The collection currently spans 2,000 years of conflict and is growing as new research is completed. Members who join now get access to everything published and everything that will be added going forward.
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Monthly Research Dispatches โ primary source analysis, PhD research updates, and behind-the-scenes investigation. New dispatches published monthly.
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ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL WARS
16TH-CENTURY CONFLICTS
18TH-CENTURY CONFLICTS
19TH-CENTURY CONFLICTS
1792-1815 French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
1861-1865 American Civil War
- ๐๐ Field Note: Fredericksburg, 13 December 1862 โ Confederate defences at Maryeโs Heights
- ๐1864 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee
- ๐งBattle of Franklin, Tennessee, 1864: Hoodโs Suicidal Assault
1866 Austro-Prussian War
- ๐๐Field Note: Battle of Kรถniggrรคtz, 3 July 1866, Czech Republic โ the fight for Chlum
- ๐งKรถniggrรคtz, 1866: The Dreyse Needle Gun and the Dawn of Mission Command
1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War
1609-1890 American Indian Wars
- ๐1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, Montana
- ๐งGarryowen in Glory: A Tactical Study of Little Bighorn, Montana, 1876
1883-1886 Tonkin Campaign and Sino-French War
- ๐1883 Son Tay Campaign, Vietnam
- ๐1884 Bแบฏc Lแป Ambush, Vietnam
- ๐งAmbush at Bแบฏc Lแป, Tonkin, 1884: Catalyst of the Sino-French War
- ๐1885 Siege of Tuyรชn Quang, Vietnam
- ๐1885 Battle of Hoa Moc
1899-1902 2nd Anglo-Boer War
20TH-CENTURY WORLD WARS
1914-1918 World War One
- ๐๐Field Note: Liege Forts, Belgium, 1914 โ Fortifications versus Super Heavy Artillery
- ๐๐Field Note: Battle for Verdun, France, Feb โ Dec 1916
- ๐งBite and Hold: The 1917 Battle of Polygon Wood, Belgium
- ๐1917 Capture of Aqaba, Jordan
- ๐งThe Desert Gamble: T.E. Lawrence and the Fall of Aqaba, Jordan, 1917
- ๐๐Field Note: Belleau Wood, France, June 1918 โ Close terrain and small-unit combat
1939-1945 World War Two
- ๐ ๐Field Note: Fort Eben-Emael Glider Assault, Belgium, 10 May 1940
- ๐๐ Field Note: Battle of Isurava, Papua New Guinea, 26-31 August 1942
- ๐ ๐Field Note: Guadalcanal โ Beach Red landings, 7 August 1942
- ๐ ๐Field Note: Guadalcanal โ Battle for Tulagi Island, 7-8 August 1942
- ๐ ๐Field Note: Guadalcanal โ Battle for Gavutu & Tanambogo Islands, 7-9 August 1942
- ๐ ๐Field Note: Guadalcanal โ Goettge Patrol Incident, 12-13 August 1942
- ๐ ๐Field Note: Guadalcanal โ First Battle of the Matanikau, 18-19 August 1942
- ๐1944 D-Day, Pegasus Bridge, France
- ๐งPegasus Bridge 1944: Seizing the Caen Canal and Orne River Bridges
- ๐ ๐Field Note: XXX Corps Orders, Leopoldsburg, Belgium, 15 Sep 1944
- ๐๐ Field Note: Achterste Brug, 17 September 1944 โ Armour on a Single Axis
- ๐๐ Field Note: Nijmegen, 20 September 1944 โ The Waal River Crossing
- ๐๐ Field Note: Arnhem, 17 September 1944 โ The Kussin Ambush Site
- ๐๐ Field Note: Easy Company assault at Randwijk Crossroads, 5 October 1944
POST-1945 CONFLICTS
1946-1954 French Indochina War
- ๐1947 Operation LEA (Viet Bac offensive), Vietnam
- ๐1948 Battle of Phu Tong Hoa
- ๐1950 Battle of Route Coloniale No. 4 (Cao Bแบฑng Ridge Disaster)
- ๐งIndochina, October 1950: Battle of Route Coloniale 4
- ๐๐ Field Note: Battle of Nghฤฉa Lแป, Tonkin, Sep-Oct 1951 โ the hilltop positions at Ba Khe
- ๐๐ Field Note: Tu Lรช, Vietnam, 11โ24 October 1952 โ A desperate fighting withdrawal
- ๐๐ Field Note: Battle of Nร Sแบฃn, 23 Nov โ 10 Dec 1952, prelude to Dien Bien Phu
- ๐1953 Operation HIRONDELLE (Raid on Lang Son), Vietnam
- ๐งOperation Hirondelle, July 1953: The Audacious French Paratrooper Raid on Lแบกng Sฦกn
- (FREE) 1954 Battle for ฤiแปn Biรชn Phแปง, Vietnam
1955-1975 Vietnam War
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