Custer's Last Stand enters the annals of military history with a bang. Major Marcus Reno who commanded one of the 3 wings to support Custer has been vilified as a coward or praised as a shrewd military commander just as long and with as much gusto. Rod Serling of the Twilight Zone even weighed in... Continue Reading →
Brigadier General Herbert McMaster, jr. was born on July 24th 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at about 4 o'clock in the morning, giving him the HS of Cancer 06 "a boxer skipping rope," a symbol suggesting his dexterity and skill in enlisting his varied experience in the greater service of the self. The downside is an... Continue Reading →
Mikhail Skobeleff was born in Saint Petersburg on 29 September 1843 (Michaelmas) to philanthropist Olga Skobeleva, and Russian general Dmitry Ivanovich Skobelev. Like his father, he graduated from the General Staff Academy, seems to be equivalent to the American West Point, as a staff officer, and was immediately sent to Turkestan, Central Asia, in 1868... Continue Reading →
Admiral Charles William de la Poer Beresford, First Baron Beresford, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., Royal Navy was an officer of the Royal Navy. from his Memoirs Born in Curraghmore, Waterford County, Ireland, on February 10 1846 he was son of a Protestant minister and his wife. Beresford enjoyed a career in the Royal Navy and as a... Continue Reading →
I read book review "A pawn in a deadly game" by Colin Greenwood in the UK Spectator issue 2 Feb 2019, a while ago and remembered it for today, the first day of Passover in the Jewish calendar. Greenwood was reviewing "Hilter's Scapegoat: The boy Assassin and the Holocaust" written by Stephen Koch published by... Continue Reading →
April 7, 2019, marks the hundredth anniversary of Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles — the infamous war-guilt clause. Although the treaty was not signed until June 28, the Supreme Council approved the notorious article on April 7, 1919. The authors were John Maynard Keynes, & John Foster Dulles. The Allied and Associated Governments... Continue Reading →
William Clarke Quantrill was a Confederate captain during the American Civil War. He was the Confederate version of General William Tecumseh Sherman who is renowned for his burning and pillaging non-military supporters. It is hard to say which man invented the scorched earth policy, but historians seems to favour Quantrill over Sherman because of the Lawrence KS... Continue Reading →
It is hard to write an unbiased report for General Forrest because we have a far different perspective of the Civil War than what was predominant 170 years ago. Instead, we are just posting his chart and commenting on the salient astrological points. Biograph: Nathan Forrest was the eldest of twelve children and a twin... Continue Reading →
One of the lectures I went to at SoTa was on classical rulers. The presenter gave Patton as having Mars in Libra, seventh house. That struck me as odd, so I went to Astro.com and looked it up. They have November 11, 1885 18:38 at San Marino California. This gives him a 01 Gemini Ascendant... Continue Reading →
Hindenburg was the son of a Prussian officer of old Prussian Junker stock but his mother was not. He was a cadet at the age of 11, and served in the Austro-Prussian (Seven Weeks’) War of 1866 and in the Franco-German War of 1870–71 that Germany won and General Fochs his WWI adversary lamented. .... Continue Reading →
Field Marshall Ferdinand Foch is credited with the man who ended the War to end all Wars -- World War i in the Allies favour. He was born on October 2, 1851 in Tarbes, France. Tarbes is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region of southwestern France and the capital of Bigorre.... Continue Reading →
