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The Roman Furca
The Roman legionaries were of then called muli mariani, or Marius' mules. Let's meet a unique piece of Roman kit that helped them shoulder this load, literally!
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Chesley Mosman Digs In!
Explore what it was like to dig in as a Civil War soldier. A veteran's account from the war is used as a guide to the work. Chesley A. Mosman was in the 59th Illinois and he provides great details on what pickets were doing to entrench outside Chattanooga in 1863.
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Casey's Stack Arms
Silas Casey wrote a drill manual which was approve in 1862 and became the predominate system of drill in the Union armies later in the Civil War. Here, explore how a group of four man can make a stack of their weapons so they can walk away and not just set them on the ground. Enjoy this update an...
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M1 Rifle Preparatory Training - WW2 Film
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Pack the 1928 Haversack
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USCT Stack Arms
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M1 Garand Disassembly
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General Casey's Stew
Army cooks were provided mess kettles, pans, and not much information at the beginning of the war. In fact, they were usually men detailed from the ranks for the duty. General Silas Casey recognized this weakness and decided to help. We learn a little about his attempt to help educate the men of ...
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Hardee's Revised Stack Arms
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Wade's Fancy Coffee
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Union Civil War Tents
“In cold or rainy weather…they are most unwholesome tenements, and to enter one of them of a rainy morning from the outer air, and encounter the nights accumulation of nauseating exhalations from the bodies of twelve men was an experience which no old solder has ever known to recall with any grea...
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Revolutionary War Musket Nomenclature
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With Pick and Shovel - Civil War Tradecraft
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Sword and Saber Nomenclature
Updated with additional photography and remastered audio.
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Dry Dock with Keel Bilge Pumps - WW2 Navy Training
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Chiggers - WW2 USMC Training Film
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The Monster Gun of the Crimean War
The story of a 'superweapon' designed to break the stalemate of siege warfare in the Crimea using all the industrial might Victorian Britain had to offer. This massive 36in mortar could fire a 2900lb shell nearly two miles - built in 1854 as a Crimean War superweapon by Robert Mallet, an Irish g...
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Martello Towers - Coastal Defences of the Napoleonic Wars, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
With England under threat of invasion, these 'Martello' towers were built all along the shores of Southern and Southeast England. Filmed at the Slaughden Martello Tower in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, one of 74 Martellos built in England between 1804-1814 as part of the British preparations for a...