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World war 1 has always fascinated me but if we’re talking knowledge relative to the average person then for me it’s the Arab-Khazar wars
Civil War. Idk something about how close to home it is and how absolutely barbaric it was considering it wasn’t even that long ago relatively speaking.
Did The Citadel fire the first shots of the Civil War?
They fired on a civilian cargo ship Star of the West that was bringing supplies in January 1861 to Fort Sumter, forcing it to turn around. That was a spontaneous act by the cadets - not ordered by the government of South Carolina. Some historians consider this to be the first shots of the Civil War.
I think most historians consider that to be the opening of the Civil War (which further gives the lie to the notion that it was a war prosecuted by the North, against the South, since it was the South that began it).
Sorry, I was trying for a light discussion, since we had a rough week (I was just put on gardening leave) and I wanted light-ish reading recommendations, but the civil war buffs decided to make this tense.
The British-Zanzibari war is a personal favorite, given that it lasted somewhere between 38-45 minutes depending on who you ask. There was exactly one injured guy on the British side and a few hundred dead on the zanzibari sultanate side.
For what I actually know the most on, I think it has to be the northern campaign of the revolutionary war. I think I finally hit the last battlefield last month in Greenwood Cemetery, which was the highest ground in Brooklyn, but I basically trapsed all of NJ for it.
1) Falklands War
2) Rhodesian Bush War
Some wars are too broad so I'll narrow it down to theatre:
Eastern front in WW2 (Battle of Stalingrad the most bloodiest and brutal in the Russian winter and the Battle of Kursk (1943) one of the largest ever tank battles in history).
Build up to WW1 is also very interesting from archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination to the great imperial powers mobilising and siding with each other (ie Russia - Serbs, Germans-Austro-Hungary and UK-France etc). There's a book called the guns of August which was one of JFK's favourite books.
Speaking of JFK, Cuban Missiles Crisis was also one of the best topics I learned in History. There's a great film on YouTube called 13 Days (free to watch) with awesome, authentic acting on how the US responded right on the brink of war.
Punic wars
Which one? While we're in northern Africa, Rommel's time at the head of AfricaKorps under the doctrine "War Without Hate" seems so much cooler. I think he's my favorite military commander of all time. Never a Nazi party member, Highest rank possible in the military and chose to kill himself to save his family.
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