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Military History Magazine 1986 December Horsemen Of Cruel Cunning
Military History Magazine 1986 December Horsemen Of Cruel Cunning
This Magazine is published six times a year. COVER: Union Admiral David Farragut watches his flagship Hartford exchange volleys with the powerful Confederate ironclad Tennessee in the Battle of Mobile Bay, Aug. 5, 1864. While Farragut brought the Rebel ship to heel in barely an hour's time at Mobile Bay, the Union's Mississippi River forces had a more difficult encounter two years earlier with the little-known gunboat CSS Arkansas (Story, Page 20). Painting by William Heysham Overend.
20 LEGENDARY WAKE OF TERROR
By Michael L. Gillespie
With Union warships menacing Vicksburg on the Mississippi, a curious-looking Rebel "box" steamed out to do battle one hot July morning in 1862. In her wake, the CSS Arkansas would leave a legend.
26 DRIVEN TO CONSTANT COMBAT
By Mark Sufrin
Overage "Mick" Mannock first struck his squadron mates in France as a coward in combat. None knew he was half-blind. No German pilot later would have suspected such handicap either.
34 HORSEMEN OF CRUEL CUNNING
By Peter A. Kiss
The Mongols had planned a campaign of two decades to subdue 13th-century Europe, but in Hungary stiff opposition awaited the horsemen from the East. Undeterred, the Mongols laid their careful plans anyway.
42 SURPRISE LAUNCH AT DAWN
Interview by Blaine Taylor
In the air above, the Japanese air commander saw his target, the Pacific Fleet. On board the battleship Nevada, young Ensign Joe Taussig prepared for the morning flag-raising, then noticed a low-flying torpedo plane.
6 EDITORIAL
8 ESPIONAGE
Jewish-born Eli Cohen was Israel's highly-placed man in Damascus. By Jason Vail
10 WEAPONRY
The spin of a ship's wheel may have been inspiration for Sam Colt's famous revolver.
By Raymond Schuessler
14 PERSONALITY
The rose was her emblem, and the Russian Yak fighter her catapult to wartime fame.
By Truman R. Strobridge
50 TRAVEL
A visiting Englishman's musings by the River of Death at Chickamauga. By Tom T. Ritson
58 BOOKS
Jeb Stuart's cavalier style was overtaken by the tragedy of war and a cause that was lost.
By Michael J. Marshall
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