Featured Firearm: April, 2026
“Enfauser”
During and after the Great War, the Turks were pressed by a shortage of modern rifles, and in some cases they would turn to unorthodox solutions using captured weapons.
Day by Day History
The Battle of the Little Bighorn
Great Sioux War - 1876
Follow the ill-fated campaign of General George Custer as he makes his march to annihilation on the banks of the Little Bighorn River in Montana
Terry is infuriated as he learns of Reno’s deviation from his orders, while Crook’s battered column reaches their camp in Wyoming. Meanwhile, Sitting Bull moves along the Little Bighorn after interring their dead from the Rosebud.
Reno makes contact with Gibbon as he reaches the Yellowstone, while Crook begins to move his mauled force back southward into Wyoming after the defeat at the Rosebud.
Reno begins to move northward to rejoin the main force, as just to his south Crook encounters the Sioux in force on the Rosebud, engaging in a significant battle on the hills around the creek with Sitting Bull’s warriors, eventually left in control of the field but compelled to retreat, his supplies nearly exhausted.
Custer locates a burial ground along the Tongue, while Reno moves the Rosebud after finding Sitting Bull’s trail. Meanwhile, Crook moves out for the north, reaching the headwaters of the Rosebud as both his men and Sitting Bull’s warriors prepare for battle.
Custer moves out from the Powder River Depot, while Reno continues to move westward and Crook prepares to move out from his camp to move northward into Montana. Meanwhile Sitting Bull experiences a vision as the Sun Dance comes to a close along the Rosebud.
Biographic: September, 2025
Paul Reynaud
The last Prime Minister of the French Third Republic was thrust into office just in time for the crucible of 1940, whereupon he presided over the fall of his nation to German invasion. A lifelong politician, he would go on to serve an important role in the post-war French government as well.
From the Collection: December, 2023
1940 Italian 5 Lire Banknote
From the Collection: A banknote from the Fascist Era of Italy
World War Two Briefing - Part Three, Chapter 45 - The War - Specials
The Battle of Manila
3 February - 3 March, 1945
The Japanese naval garrison in Manila choses to fight to the death in the Philippine capitol, engaging in a concerted effort to slaughter the entire population and raze the “Pearl of the Orient” to the ground before it can be liberated by the Americans.
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