MILITARY HISTORY RESEARCH SITES

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(This Section Last update 17-07-03)

Useful resource Sites

Museums

General: Military History of Specific Countries - General Military History

Ancient: Indices - Prehistoric - Greek - Roman - Eastern and Byzantine

Dark Age & Medieval: Medieval General - Dark Ages - The Norman Conquest - The Crusades & Eastern Wars – Stephen & Matilda - The French Wars – The Italian Wars - The Scottish Wars - The Hundred Years War - Wars of the Roses - Asian & Far Eastern Wars - Medieval Iberia        

Renaissance: Renaissance General – Tudor Wars - The Eighty Years War

17^th Century: 17^th Century General -       The Thirty Years War - English Civil and Scottish Wars - Anglo-Dutch Wars – The Glorious Revolt - Eastern Europe - Northern Europe

18^th & 19^th Century:  General - War of Spanish Succession – War of Polish Succession – The Jacobite Rebellions - French and Indian & Seven Years Wars – East India Company - American War of Independence - Indian Wars 1790-1795 - Russo-Turkish Wars 1772-1812 - Napoleonic - War of 1812 -  African and Asian Wars of the 18^th & 19^th Centuries - British Colonial Wars – Other European Colonial Wars - South American Revolutionary Wars - The Dutch-Belgian War - The Carlist Wars - The US-Mexican War - The Indian Wars - The ‘Wild’ West - The Year of Revolutions 1848 - The Three Years War - The Crimea - Wars of Italian Unification - The American Civil War – Danish-Prussian War - Austro-Prussian War - Franco-Prussian War – Serbo-Turkish War - Russo-Turkish War – Serbo-Bulgarian War – Sino-Japanese War - Spanish-American War - Boer War

20^th Century: General - Boxer Rebellion - Russo-Japanese War – The Balkan Wars - World War 1 - Russian Revolution & Civil War -The ‘Back of Beyond’ Central Asia before 1939 -  Chinese Civil War - Spanish Civil War - World War 2 - Korean War - French Indochina - Vietnam War - Late 20^th Century Conflicts

Useful Resource Sites:

• Breeds of Livestock - Horses
• Documents in Military History
• DocumentsRelating to the History of International Relations
• E-Hawk : Internet Resources for Military History
• Eyewitness – Contemporary personal accounts of the great events of history.
• Flags of the World
• Forgotten Heroes – An excellent site remembering the unsung heroes of history
• Gardiner’s Atlas of English History – All these excellent maps available at one site.
• Heratlas - Very nice site covering French heraldry. (In French with English Introduction)
• Historical Text Archive
• The History Net
• The History Place
• History of Costume
• History of Tents – Seriously!! A very useful site if you want to get an authentic feel to your camp.
• Insects, Disease and History – An interesting site looking at how disease has affected the course of military campaigns and wars
• International History Project
• La Miroir du Monde – A full online reproduction of a 16th Century Atlas. Very useful for planning those period campaigns.
• Milieux Costume Links 
• Research Press – specialists in reprints of hard to find articles on firearms, and military history. Lots of good resources.
• Simonides Military History Links
• Uniformology
• Xenophon Group Military History Website
• Yahoo Index Military History Page

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Museums:

• Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps Museum – St Petersburgh
• Bletchley Park
• Bovington Tank Museum
• Canadian War Museum
• First Division Museum
• Hungarian Institute & Museum of Military History
• Imperial War Museum - London
• In Flanders Fields - Belgium
• La Musee de l'Armee - Paris
• Military Museum of Sussex
• Museum of Military History - Vienna
• National Army Museum
• National Maritime Museum
• RAF Museum Hendon – Hendon North London
• Royal Armouries - Leeds
• Royal Museum of the Army & Military History - Brussels

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General:

Military histories of specific countries and regions:

• African History Sourcebook - Part of the History Sourcebook library of original source material
• Ancient Forts of the Punjab
• Australians at War
• Balkan Military History
• Battles of Portugal – An excellent little site with summaries of  the medieval battles of Portugal
• Blasonario Piemontese – Coats of arms of Piedmont. In Italian but very useful
• Canadian Military Heritage
• History and Rifles of Bulgaria 1878-1948
• History of the Imperial Japanese Navy
• Hungarian Art of War
• The Irish in Uniform
• Islamic History Sourcebook - Part of the History Sourcebook library of original source material
• Jewish History Sourcebook - Part of the History Sourcebook library of original source material
• Military History of Denmark
• Portuguese Military Orders
• Romanian Royal Army
• Russian Military History
• Samurai Archives
• Swedish Wars
• US Army Centre of Military History
• US Army Insignia
• US Army Military History Institute
• Virginia Military Institute Archives

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General military history

• Annotated Chronology of Military events
• The American War Library
• 15 Decisive Battles of the World
• Heraldica - Heraldry through the ages and across the world
• History Data
• Maritime History & Naval Heritage Homepage
• The Naval History Homepage
• Navies in Transition
• Notes on Sailing Warships
• Ships of the Old Navy – A history of the sailing ships of the Royal Navy
• Victoria Cross Reference Library
• West Point Military Academy History Department

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Ancient:

Indices:

• Ancient Europe – An excellent source of primary and secondary material from Boise State University
• Ancient History Sourcebook - Part of the History Sourcebook library of original source material
• Argos Ancient & Medieval Search Engine
• Byzantine and Medieval Links Index
• Historical Atlas of Late Antiquity - In French but a very useful resource
• Maps of Ancient Warfare – From the West Point Military Academy website
• The Perseus Project - Online Ancient Resource Library
• War Elephants

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Prehistoric:

• Akkade – Reference Images for Near Eastern and Bronze Age Warfare
• The Battle of Kadesh 1294BC - Translation of an original text from the Documents in Military History site.
• The Battle of Kadesh
• The Battle of Meggido 1469BC - Translation of an original text from the Documents in Military History site.
• Neolithic Warfare - An interesting article on the possible forms of Neolithic Warfare

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Greek: 

General:

• Classical Atlas Project
• Overview of Archaic and Classical Greek History Part of The Perseus Project of online Ancient Resource Material.
• Phoenician Ships
• Warfare in the Ancient World - A Bibliography of Ancient Warfare

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Archeaic:

• Thrace & the Thracians 700BC-46AD - Including information on Skythians, Illyrians & Dacians
• Troy VII and the Historicity of the Trojan Wars

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Classical Greece:

• The Battle of Syme 411BC
• The Battle of Thermopylae 480BC
• Greek Hoplite Page
• History of the Peloponnesian Wars - Thucydides - A translation of the original text.
• The Peloponnesian War
• The Peloponnesian War – From the Ancient Europe website
• The 1^st Persian War
• The 2^nd Persian War
• The Persian Wars – From the Ancient Europe website
• The Syracusan Expedition

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Alexander and Macedon:

• Alexander the Great – From the Ancient Europe website
• Alexander the Great History Project
• Alexander the Great Homepage
• The Battle of Chaeronea 339BC - From the Wargame.com website
• The Battle of Gaugamela 331BC - From the Wargame.com webs