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American Revolution
American Revolution links on World History Compass.

Bagley's Battle Boutique - Military History and Art Links

The Buffalo Barracks Historical Web Site
An extremely well constructed web site where visitors can search for ancestors who served in the U.S. Army, here on the Niagara Frontier, between1836-1846. An oustanding resource of information for students and historians provides much insight to this period of American History.

Canadian Military
Canadian Military Links on World History Compass.

Civil War (U.S.)
U.S. Civil War links on World History Compass.

Clausewitz Homepage
The site is designed to help anyone seeking to know more about the life, works, ideas, or impact of the influential Prussian soldier and strategic theorist Carl von Clausewitz. Includes links, bibliographies in several languages, an on-line bookstore, articles and other readings (including academic papers, military manuals, and complete books), as well as indexes to Clausewitz's On War.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The Commission was established by Royal Charter in 1917. Its duties are to mark and maintain the graves of the members of the forces of the Commonwealth who were killed in the two World Wars, to build memorials to those who have no known grave and to keep records and registers, including, after the Second World War, a record of the Civilian War Dead.

Documents in Military History
Hillsdale College's collection of primary sources for military history.

Hector Macdonald - Fighting Mac
Hector Macdonald, a crofter's son, began his military career as a private in the British army, and later became a Major General. Hector Macdonald fought in the Afghan war and both Boer wars. Distinguished himself when he saved the British army from total destruction at the Battle of Omdurman.

Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth
This site strives for comprehensiveness, bringing together all internet resources pertaining to land forces that were at any time part of the British Empire or Commonwealth.

Little Big Horn Associates
Brings together many sources of information regarding the study of George A. Custer, Native Americans the Indian Wars period.

Map Library, U.S. Military Academy
A series of six atlases and nearly one thousand maps, encompassing not only America’s wars but global conflicts as well.

MILGEN.HTM
Military history links.

Military History
Information Resource Centre, Canadian Forces College.

Military Order of the Loyal Legion -- Decendants of Union Civil War Officers

Online Bibliography of Military Leadership

Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Re-enactors

Scottish Military History Society - Dispatch.
Journal for Scottish military history and regiments.

Texas Military Forces Museum
Austin,Texas

U.S. Army Center of Military History
The Center of Military History (CMH) is responsible for the appropriate use of history throughout the U.S. Army.

U.S. Army Military History Institute (MHI)
USAMHI collects, organizes, preserves, and makes available source materials on American military history to the defense community, academic researchers, and the public.

The War Times Journal
A quality presentation of articles and archives relating to military history and military science.

The Wardrobe
Home of the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment Museum. Salisbury, UK.

Gulf War

Operation Desert Storm Debriefing Book
A comprehensive look at the facts, figures and faces behind the Persian Gulf War of 1991.

Persian Gulf War (1991)
Information Resource Centre, Canadian Forces College.

Korean War

Korea+ 50: No Longer Forgotten
Contains links to information on Korean exhibits and conferences; primary sources such as oral histories, documents and photographs; subject guides to archival materials relating to the Korean War, and teacher guides. A joint project between the Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Libraries.

Medieval

Arador Armour Library

Royal Armouries
Covers the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, Fort Nelson and HM Tower of London.

Vietnam

E. Kenneth Hoffman - Vietnam Portfolio
The personal photo portfolio of a former lieutenant of the 221st Signal Company (Southeast Asia Pictorial Agency).

Edwin Moïse Bibliography of the Vietnam War
This is primarily a bibliography of books; very few articles are listed.

Grover Furr's Vietnam War Page

Vietnam Archive
The Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and making available for study the records of the Wars in Southeast Asia.

Vietnam-Era Prisoner-of-War/Missing-in-Action Database
Library of Congress

Wars for Viet Nam: 1945 to 1975
Robert Brigham's historical overview of the Viet Nam War, including excerpts or full text of key historical documents as well as links to other pertinent resources.

World War I

The Battle of Verdun - the greatest battle ever
This site gives a description of the Battle of Verdun, which was fought in 1916 between France and Germany. This battle is the largest battle in world history and caused over 700,000 casualties.

Canada and the First World War
This exhibition is designed to illustrate, through the National Archives of Canada's collections, the many roles that Canadian men and women played during the First World War, and the definite mark the war left on Canadian society.

First Division (U.S.) Museum at Cantigny
History of the 1st Infantry Division from World War I to the present. The research center provides resources for the serious study of 1st Infantry Division and general military history. It also houses the Tribune Archives that contain materials pertaining to Colonel McCormick and Tribune Company business history.

First World War, July-August 1918, around Soissons, France (Photographs)

The Great War Society 1914-1918

In Flanders Fields Museum
These pages are a compendium of information on the First World War and on the Museum.

The Poster War--Allied Propaganda Art of the First World War
These posters represent some of the work of Allied poster artists and the best work of their Canadian counterparts during the First World War. From The Provincial Museum of Alberta, Canada.

Propaganda Postcards of the Great War
Postcards on all facets of World War One and from all the belligerent states.

Robert Lindsay MacKay's 1st World War Diary
11th Batallion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from 1915 until the end of the war.

Trenches on the Web

The Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive
Contains a host of material relating to the First World War poet Wilfred Owen, in particular, and a large amount of related background material on the War in general .

The World War I Document Archive

World War I in the Adriatic
A section devoted to naval operations in the Adriatic and the history of the navies involved.

WWI Another Look (Photographs)

World War II

358th Infantry Regiment

Peragimus, A Brief History of the 358th Infantry Regiment
A World History Compass transcription of the WW II history of the Regiment from training, Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge and through Germany. The 358th was part of the 90th Infantry Division.

U.S. Army, 358th Infantry, 1st Battalion Journal, November 1944
A World History Compass transcription of the Journal of the 1st Battalion, 358th Infantry Regiment, November 1944.

D-Day

The American Experience/D-Day
From PBS.

The D-Day Museum, Portsmouth, Hampshire UK
Not much content here but the museum has some interesting exhibits.

D-Day on the Web
On this site you will find historical essays, images, personal accounts and other sites pertaining to D-Day.

Fact Sheet D-Day, 6 June 1944 Normandy, France
From the The Kansas Heritage Server.

The National D-Day Museum
The National D-Day Museum is a dynamic educational resource serving the needs of students from grade school through the post-graduate level. At the Museum students from all backgrounds explore the values and beliefs—the universal concepts—that Americans and their Allies embraced during World War II.

The Navy Art Collection; D-Day, Normandy: Operation Overlord
For this exhibition the paintings of three artists have been selected: Mitchell Jamieson, Alexander Russo and Dwight Shepler. These paintings by the U.S. Navy's combat artists are the visions and images of the greatest amphibious operation ever launched--the Normandy Invasion.

General, WWII

22d Marines Corp. Homepage
U.S. Marine Veterans of W.W.II - Samoan Islands, Marshall Islands, Eniwetok, Guam, Okinawa & China.

The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment during WW II
82nd Airborne Division.

A-Bomb WWW Museum

Battle of Arnhem Monument Site
This site contains information about the monuments, which were established after the Battle of Arnhem. This battle was a part of Operation Market Garden: the largest Airborne operation in history.

The Battle of Britain
These pages will catalogue the official reports of the most important event in Royal Air Force history, the Battle fought over Britain between the 10th July and 31st October 1940.

Battle of the Atlantic
A multi-media journey into World War II via virtual artifacts and documents declassified within the past 3 years.

Canadian War Museum
The national military history museum.

Decision To Invade Norway and Denmark

First Division (U.S.) Museum at Cantigny
History of the 1st Infantry Division from World War I to the present.
The research center provides resources for the serious study of 1st Infantry Division and general military history. It also houses the Tribune Archives that contain materials pertaining to Colonel McCormick and Tribune Company business history.

George C. Marshall Foundation
Museum, library, archives and educational programs.

The German Enigma Cipher Machine - History of Solving
Details the work on breaking the German ENIGMA Cipher Machine Code in World War II.

Imperial Japanese Navy

MacArthur Memorial
Museum, library, archives. Norfolk, Virginia.

Pearl Harbor
Chronicle of an expedition in November 2000 by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Robert Ballard in the waters around Pearl Harbor. There is also a fairly detailed description of the attack.

Research of WW II Built Underground Systems
A Group of private Historians, Journalists and interested private people, exploring (mainly) underground systems of WW II, mostly build by prisoners and slave workers.

U-boat Net, The U-boat War 1939-1945

World War II Factbook
Timeline of World War II.

World War II Plus 55
Focus on the USS Washington.

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