Battle Digest

  • Battle Digest: Cowpens
    By Michael E. Haskew, Christopher J. Petty

    John Eager Howard , 300 veteran Delaware and Maryland Continentals - reinforced by 200 Virginia militiamen - were concealed on the reverse slope of the second small hill . They were charged with holding the line as the fatigued and ...

  • Battle Digest: Shiloh
    By Michael E. Haskew, Christopher J. Petty

    The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned.

  • Battle Digest: Chancellorsville
    By Michael E. Haskew, Christopher J. Petty

    Get facts, maps, historical significance, strategies, and more in this concise summary of Robert E. Lee’s victory in Virginia.

  • Battle Digest: Antietam
    By Michael E. Haskew, Christopher J. Petty

    Get facts, maps, historical significance, strategies, and more in this concise summary of the notoriously bloody Civil War battle.

  • Battle Digest: Gettysburg
    By Christopher J. Petty

    A concise guide to the American Civil War battle that set the North on the path to victory, with maps, facts, historical significance, and more.

  • Battle Digest: Cannae
    By Christopher J. Petty

    The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned.

  • Battle Digest: Desert Storm
    By Christopher J. Petty

    A concise guide to the American-led coalition’s speedy defeat of Saddam Hussein in 1991, with maps, facts, historical significance, and more.

  • Battle Digest: Pearl Harbor
    By Michael E. Haskew, Christopher J. Petty

    A concise guide to the Japanese attack on Hawaii that plunged America into WWII, with facts, maps, historical significance, and more.

  • Battle Digest: Midway
    By Christopher J. Petty

    The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned.

  • Battle Digest: Yorktown
    By Christopher J. Petty

    A concise guide to this resounding American victory in the Revolutionary War, with facts, maps, historical significance, and more.

  • Battle Digest: The Alamo
    By Michael E. Haskew, Christopher J. Petty

    Get facts, maps, historical significance, strategies, and more in this concise summary of the Texas Revolution’s legendary “last stand.” During the Texas Revolution, the Mexican Army clashed with Texan forces on several ...

  • Battle Digest: Bunker Hill
    By Christopher J. Petty

    The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned.

  • Battle Digest: New Orleans
    By Christopher J. Petty, Christopher Miskimon

    Get facts, maps, historical significance, strategies, and more in this concise summary of Andrew Jackson’s, and America’s, War of 1812 triumph.

  • Battle Digest: D-Day
    By Flint Whitlock, Christopher J. Petty

    A concise guide to the Normandy invasion with facts, maps, historical significance, strategies, and more.

  • Battle Digest: Saratoga
    By Christopher J. Petty

    A concise guide to this dramatic Revolutionary War campaign with facts, maps, historical significance, and more.

  • Battle Digest: Little Bighorn
    By Michael E. Haskew, Christopher J. Petty

    A concise history of Custer’s Last Stand with maps, facts, historical significance, and more.

  • Battle Digest: Lexington-Concord
    By Christopher J. Petty

    A concise summary of the fight that sparked the American Revolution, with key facts, maps, images, historical significance, and more.

  • Battle Digest: Fredericksburg
    By Christopher J. Petty

    The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned.

  • Battle Digest: Okinawa
    By Christopher J. Petty

    ... battle into a head-on grind of attrition. He even overruled a plan by Maj. Gen. Andrew D. Bruce (77th Inf. Div.) to ... BattleDigest.com reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, form, or by any means ...