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Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade! "Charge for the guns!" he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

"Forward, the Light Brigade!" Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldier knew Someone had blunder'd: Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred.

Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air, Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd: Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd. Then they rode back, but not Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, They that had fought so well Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wondered. Honor the charge they made, Honor the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred.

The Charge of the Light Brigade, Alfred, Lord Tennyson

General:

• NATO Official Homepage
• The Central Intelligence Agency
• Military Review Home Page - professional bulletin published by the US Army Command and General Staff College
• The Stars and Stripes - the daily newspaper of the US Armed Services
• PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly
• StrategyPage Wars and Rumors of War
• Military.com - news and resource, a community website serving members, friends, and families of US armed services
• NavWeaps.com - Naval weapons, technology, orders of battle, etc.
  • Order of Battle page - lists of combatants fought in major nval engagements of the 20th Century

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By Countries

Australia:

• Australian War Memorial

China:

• Annals of the Flying Tigers - history of the American Volunteer Group (AVG) of the Chinese Air Force

England/Great Britain:

• Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth - list of regiments and more
• The Royal Air Force Home Page
• RAF Commands, 1939 - 1945
• RAF Bomber Command history page
• Royal Navy, 1793 - 1815 - Ships of the Royal Navy During the Naploleanic Era
• WW II Cruiser Operations - Operational history and photos of cruisers and battleships (Royal Navy and other nationals, plus info on RN destoryers) in WW II

France:

• The French Foreign Legion

Germany:

• FeldGrau.com - The German Armed Forces 1919 - 1945
• German Armed Forces in WWII - Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS, auxiliary, more.
• The Luftwaffe, 1933-45
• Waffen-SS: History, Equipment, Organization, Images and Uniforms
  • Waffen-SS Order of Battle website
  • Das Reich: 2nd SS Panzer Division page
• Achtung Panzer!
  • The Panzergrenadier page - information on German motorized and armored infantry, 1935 - 1945
  • Panzer Page - The Illustrated History of German Tanks in World War II
• The Kriegsmarine - German Navy in WW II
  • The U-boat War 1939 - 1945: information on the men and submarines of the U-boat force
  • Battleship Bismarck
  • Bismarck class battleships
  • Scharnhorst class battlecruisers
  • Deutschland class pocket battleships
  • Admiral Hipper class heavy cruisers

Japan:

• Japan at War, 1931 - 1945
• The Imperial Japanese Navy Page
• Report of the USN technical mission to Japan 1945 - 1946
• The Yamato Museum / Kure Maritime History and Science Museum website - In Kure, Japan; dedicated to the battleship Yamato (Japanese language site)

The Netherlands:

• The Royal Netherlands Navy Warships of WWII

United States of America:

• Navy Online: index of USN Naval web sites
• The Battleship Page - all you want to know about US battleships
• History of the United States Navy
  • Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
• US Navy World War II damage/losses reports
• The Official Website of USS Constitution: "Old Ironsides"
• The Congression Medal of Honor Society

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By Eras/Wars/Campaigns

The Early Period

• The Battle of Hastings, 1066 - the Norman conquest of England
• The Crusades - material prepared by the Boise State University for an online history course

The Napoleonic Wars

• The Napoleonic Guide
• NapoleonicWars.com - the center for everything Napoleon
• Napoleonic Wars web directory
• Borodino, 1812 - the great battle during Napoleon's invasion of Russia, from a Russian perspective
• Borodino, and the retreat from Moscow - some nice battle maps
• Leipzig, 1813, the Battle of Nations - the greatest battle in the Napoleonic Era
• Waterloo 1815 - the Virtual Visitors Center
• Association of Friends of the Waterloo Committee
• Royal Navy, 1793 - 1815 - Ships of the Royal Navy During the Naploleanic Era

WW I:

• World War I Naval Combat

WW II:

• The World War II Aerial Reconnaisance Photos Archives - aerial photos taken by the Allies flyers
• Dunkirk, 1940 - BBC's Dunkirk Remembered page
• Pearl Harbor History Associates portal
• Kursk, 1943 - detailed info about the greatest tank battle in history
• Kursk reconsidered - another look at the great tank battle
• Normandy, June 1944 (Britannica.com presents)
• Operation Market-Garden - the massive airborn assault in the Netherlands, September 1944. It was a failed attempt to by-pass the West Wall and to defeat Germany by Christmas of 1944.
• MarketGarden.com - A Bridge Too Far
• The Battle for Leyte Gulf, 23-26 October 1944 - the largest naval battle in history, it marked the end of the line for the Imperial Japanese Navy Combined Fleet as a fighting force
  • The Battle Off Samar -- Oct. 25, 1944, the Japanese First Strike Fleet (finally) came to grip with the escort carriers of U.S. 7th Fleet near the entrance to Leyte Gulf. The story of the men and ships of the climax fight of the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
• The Battle of the Bulge, December 1944
• Center of Research and Information on the Battle of the Bulge - lots of info, detailed order of battle
• WW II Cruiser Operations - Operational history and photos of cruisers and battleships in WW II
• The Royal Netherlands Navy Warships of WWII
• The U-boat War 1939 - 1945: information on the men and submarines of the U-boat force
• The Netherlands East Indies Campaign, 1941 - 1942 -- Japanese invasion of the Nehterlands East Indies
• US Navy World War II damage/losses reports

The Korean War:

• Inchon, 1950
• The Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, 1950

Vietnam / the Indo-China Wars

• Ðiên Biên Phú - from a French prespective
• The Tet Offensive, 1968 / General Vo Nguyen Giap
•   The Battle for Khe Sahn - declassified documents

The Falklands War

• The Falklands War (1982)

Misc:

• The Alamo, 1836 (Texas War of Independence)
• Crimean War Research Society
• The 13th Hussars at Balaclava - October 25, 1854; post-action report, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (Crimean War)
• The Battle of Isandlwana, 1879 (Zulu War)
  • Isandlwana
  • Isnadlwana - isometric battlefield map, etc.
• Russo-Japanese War Research Society
• Admiral Heihachiro Togo and the Battle of Tsushima Strait, 1905 - the rise of the Imperial Japanese Navy (Russo-Japanese War)