The Battle of Two Sisters was a military encounter that took place during the 1982 Falklands War. It was fought between the 45 Commando Royal Marines, under Lt Col Andrew Whitehead, and the Argentine Army’s 4th Infantry Regiment, led by Major Ricardo Cordon, from June 11 to June 12, 1982, on Two Sisters hills, about [...]

The Battle of Goose Green was a fought between British paratroopers, commanded by Lt Colonel Herbert Jones, and the Argentine Army’s 12th Infantry Regiment, under Lt Colonel Italo Piaggi, on May 28, 1982, on east Falkland, during the Falklands War. Although they were outnumbered, the British forces managed to capture the Argentinean forward positions on [...]

The Argentine Invasion of the Falkland islands took place during the early hours of April 2, 1982, triggering the Falklands War. Code-named Operation Rosario (Rosary), it was carried out by an Argentinean task force composed of marines elements, totaling 650 troops, under the command of Counter-Admiral Carlos Büsser. Transported by ARA Santa Fe submarine and [...]

The Battle of Cassano was a military engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars. It was fought between the French Army, led by Jean Moreau, and the Austro-Russian forces, commanded by Alexander Suvorov, on April 27, 1799, at Cassano, Lombardy, northern Italy. With Napoleon occupied in the Egyptian Campaign, the Austro-Russian coalition had invaded northern Italy. [...]

Fought in a succession of fierce clashes, the Battle of Ulm was a five-day-long military engagement between the French Army, under Napoleon, and the Austrian forces, commanded by Mack von Libereich, from October 14 to October 19, 1805, near the city of Ulm, Germany, during the Napoleonic Wars. It was part of Napoleon’s Ulm Campaign [...]

The Battle of Rooiwal was a military encounter between British forces, led by Robert Kekewich, and the Boer guerrillas, under the command of Ferdinandus Jacobus Potgieter, on April 11, 1902, in Rooiwal valley, South Africa, during the Second Boer War. It was the last battle fought in this conflict which ended in a British victory. [...]