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Currently we have 7,529 articles, 10,675 pictures, 423 maps, 958 unit histories, 2,174 book reviews and over 6,332,300 words in original articles. We don't just cover the best known conflicts, although we do have good coverage of the First and Second World Wars, the Napoleonic Wars and the American Civil War.
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USS
Carmick
(DD-493/ DMS-33)
was a Gleaves class destroyer that served on convoy escort duty in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, supported the D-Day invasion and the invasion of the South of France, and after the war served as a mine sweeper in the Pacific.
We now have a
day-by-day history of the Second World War
, covering the 2,214 days of the war from the German invasion of Poland on
1 September 1939
to the Japanese surrender in Hong Kong on
16 September 1945
(two weeks after the surrender in Tokyo Bay), and currently containing 5,308 individual facts.
Our 1,000th book review is
Teenage Tommy: Memoirs of a Cavalryman in the First World War, ed. Richard van Emden
, a young cavalryman who was present when the BEF fired its first shots of the First World War and was still at the front, with the cavalry, at the end of the war.
Our 7,000 article looks at the Acorn class destroyer
HMS
Staunch
(1910)
, sunk by
UC-38
in 1917 off the coast of Palestine. Our 6,000th article looks at the
first day of the battle of Leipzig (16 October 1813)
, Napoleon's best chance to actually win the battle. Our 5,000th article is a biography of
Gaston de Foix, Duke of Nemours (1489-1512)
, a daring French commander of the Italian Wars who was killed at the battle of Ravenna. Our 4,000th article looks at the
Great Peloponnesian War of 431-404 BC
. Our 3,000th article looks at the
battle of Truillas (22 September 1793)
, a Spanish victory early in the War of the First Coalition. Our 2,000th article is a look at the German battlecruiser
Von der Tann
, part of our recent focus on the First World War. Our 1,000th article, on the
Supermarine Spitfire Mk XII
came during our War in the Air themed month in 2007. Our 1,000th aircraft was the
Supermarine Spiteful
.
Our six millionth word comes in an article on the
battle of Clastidium (222 BC)
. Our five millionth word comes in a look at the
7.2in Howitzer Mk 6
. Our four millionth word comes in a biography of
Marshal Ney
, Napoleon's bravest marshal. Our three millionth word comes in a biography of the Sicilian Tyrant
Hippocrates of Gela
. Our two millionth word came in our biography of the Roman general
Manius Aquillius (died 89/88 B.C.)
, our 1000th battle was the
battle of Rivoli of 14 January 1797
, our 500th military aircraft, the
Kawasaki Ki-48 Army Type 99 Twin-engined Light Bomber (Lily)
and our 500th article on the Napoleonic Wars, a biography of
General Freidrich Bianchi
. Our 2000th article on the Second World War was a look at the
Heavy Assault Tank A33 (Excelsior)
.
In 2006-2007 we ran a series of themed months, on the
Napoleonic Wars
, the
American Civil War
and
War in the Air
in which we created subject home pages which bring together all of the information we have on those subjects. We also have a subject home page on the
Second World War
.