ACG WebOps (16 June 2007)
Welcome to WebOps, Armchair General’s weekly recon of links to military history news, articles, websites, and more. Making the headlines this week: Napoleon’s sword is sold, a report on the military history that has been uncovered at Roger’s Island to date, part three of the Military History Carnival, and a brief look at Niccolo Machiavelli and his most famous work, The Prince. Clicks away!
News
Napoleon’s sword sold for $6.4 million – Yahoo! News
FONTAINEBLEAU, France – A gold-encrusted sword Napoleon wore into battle in Italy 200 years ago was sold Sunday for more than $6.4 million, an auction house said.
{default}The unveiling of a new million-dollar military museum was ushered in with all the pomp and ceremony befitting the legacy it’s preserving: about 10,000 artifacts, from planes and pins, to tanks and biological warfare.
Remembering Stillwater’s military history – Stillwater Gazette
CAMP RIPLEY – The 34th Infantry Division of the Minnesota National Guard, which includes troops from Stillwater, has served Minnesota and the nation for 90 years.
A special exhibit at the Military Museum at Camp Ripley has been dedicated, honoring the soldiers who have served from the 34th’s creation in 1917 to its current service in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the former Yugoslavia.
Expansion in works for WWII museum – FortWayne.com
AUBURN – An addition to Auburn’s World War II Victory Museum will include a veterans’ hall of fame and research library, museum officials announced Thursday.
Articles
Local history, unearthed – The Saratogian
FORT EDWARD – Archaeologists have unearthed thousands of valuable military and Native American artifacts at Rogers Island during the past few decades. When it comes to realizing the site’s tourism potential, the town still hasn’t scratched the surface.
Announcements
FORT DRUM – The 10th Mountain Division’s historian, Douglas R. Cubbison, will host the first of a series of round table discussions about U.S. military history June 19 at Fort Drum’s Heritage Center here.
Books – Movies – TV
Blogs – Netcasts
Machiavelli’s Prince – Military History Podcast
Niccolo Machiavelli was a political and military philosopher around 1500AD in Florence, Italy during the Italian Renaissance. His name is associated with shrewd, cunning rule. His most famous work, The Prince, features many tips for princes to conquer territory (whether it is decentralized, or centralized):
The Ticonderoga Staff Ride – Pt 1 – Blog Them Out of the Stone Age
On the third day of the five-day Basin Harbor workshop, the group took a staff ride to Fort Ticonderoga, about an hour’s drive away. As staff rides go, this one was pretty straightforward: we reached the Ticonderoga area around 9:30 a.m. and departed at 3 p.m., with a leisurely lunch in between.
Although it was the shortest staff ride I’ve ever been on, its purpose was less to be an extensive review of the action than to illustrate the utility of staff rides for education — it was, after all, a workshop on the teaching of strategic studies — and to offer a sort of practicum.
Welcome to the third Military History Carnival! Here you’ll find a random and eclectic selection of recent blog posts talking about military history of one kind or another. These are hardly an exhaustive survey of all military history posts, obviously, but may point you to new time sinks for future enjoyment.
Wallachian-Ottoman Wars: The Night Attack – about.com: Military History
June 17, 1462 – Vlad III Dracula of Wallachia launches his "Night Attack" against the army of Sultan Mehmed II. After provoking war by refusing to pay tribute to the Ottomans and raiding into Bulgaria where he impaled 23,000 Turks, Dracula prepared to repulse the invasion of his home territory.
War of the Brothers, c.241-236 BC – Military History Blog on the Web
The War of the Brothers, c.241-236 BC was a civil war in the Seleucid Empire that followed the Third Syrian War.
Civil War Talk Radio – Gerry Prokopowicz
Three Ways to Remember Robert E. Lee – Civil War Memory
Every few days I check online newspapers for articles on Robert E. Lee. I am putting together a talk for two conferences that I will take part in later this year. My particular focus is on how black Americans remember Lee and the Civil War more generally. Here are a couple of items that I’ve come across in recent days.
Bubonic Nukes – Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
What would happen if half the population died in a short period of time? Dan looks at the Black Death and other plagues that created almost apocalyptic conditions in the past…and maybe in the future.
WebOps is a weekly report linking to military history news and articles published in mainstream online media. Excerpts are taken exactly as they are on the noted source websites; quotation marks are not used. The hyperlinks are added by me as I can find them. Please visit the Armchair Forums to discuss the topics in WebOps and much more!
(front page photo: Ethan Allen and Capt. De La Place – The National Archives #94758)
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Jim H. Moreno
