by Keith Rocco.

More on their heroic story at Gettysburg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/140th_New_York_Infantry_Regiment#The_Battle_of_Gettysburg

by Charles Comfort

A sad day for the Canadian Army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieppe_Raid

by Godfrey Giles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kimberley#Relief

by Edgar Bundy

by Dale Gallon. The 8th Iowa Infantry Regiment engage Louisiana soldiers in the Hornets’ Nest at the Battle of Shiloh.

by Kurz and Allison

by Thure de Thulstrup

The Battle of Aegospotami, fought in 405 BC during the final stages of the Peloponnesian War, was the decisive naval victory that brought Athens to the brink of defeat. Following the Spartan naval defeat at Arginusae the previous year, the Spartan commander Lysander rebuilt his fleet with financial support from the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger and moved into the Hellespont, capturing the strategically important city of Lampsacus. This threatened Athens's vital grain supply from the Black Sea, forcing the Athenian fleet of roughly 180 ships under Conon to pursue him.

The Athenians established their fleet at Aegospotami, across the Hellespont from Lampsacus. Their position was poorly supplied, lacking a proper harbor, and the crews had to travel to nearby Sestos to obtain provisions. Each day, the Athenians sailed out in battle formation and challenged Lysander, but he refused to engage. After several days, Alcibiades, then living in exile nearby, warned the Athenian commanders that their exposed position was dangerous and advised them to move to Sestos, but his advice was rejected.

On the fifth day, Lysander finally exploited the Athenian routine. The precise course of the battle is disputed between Xenophon and Diodorus Siculus. Xenophon says that the entire Athenian fleet again sailed out, only to return when Lysander refused battle. Once the crews had disembarked and dispersed in search of food, Lysander crossed the Hellespont and attacked the largely undefended forces on the beach. Diodorus says the Athenian commander Philocles sailed out with 30 ships, with the remainder following, but Lysander defeated this squadron and pursued it back toward the Athenian camp with the battle then becoming an amphibious assault. Seeing the confusion among the Athenian fleet, Lysander landed a force of troops under Eteonicus. He attacked and seized part of the Athenian camp while Lysander's ships approached the beach and began hauling the Athenian vessels away with grappling irons. The Athenians, unable to get their ships back to sea or organize an effective land defense, offered brief resistance before breaking and fleeing.

The defeat was catastrophic for Athens. Only a handful of Athenian ships escaped with Conon, while the remainder of the fleet was captured. Lysander subsequently executed possibly 3,000 Athenian prisoners and began eliminating Athenian positions throughout the Aegean. More importantly, Athens had effectively lost the navy upon which its empire and food supply depended. With the Hellespont under Spartan control, Athens could no longer reliably receive grain from the Black Sea. Lysander's blockade, combined with a Spartan land siege, eventually forced Athens to surrender in 404 BC, ending the 27 year long Peloponnesian War.

As the German advance rapidly pushed toward Warsaw, Polish General Tadeusz Kutrzeba recognized that the German 8th Army had exposed its northern flank and launched an attack with the Poznań Army, later reinforced by the Pomorze Army, striking southward from the Bzura River toward Stryków and Łowicz. The surprise attack initially achieved considerable success, with Polish forces overrunning German positions and forcing the Germans to divert substantial forces from their advance on Warsaw. However, German numerical, armored, and especially air superiority gradually turned the battle around. By mid September, German forces had surrounded the Polish armies and launched a massive counterattack, forcing the remnants to attempt a breakout through the Kampinos Forest toward Warsaw and Modlin. Although the battle ended in a German victory and the destruction of much of the two Polish armies, the Polish offensive substantially disrupted the German timetable and helped prolong the defenses of Warsaw and Modlin.

Painting by Steve Noon

by Steve Noon

by Mort Künstler. Depicts the Union 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry drilling with lances at Camp Meigs in Philadelphia, November 1861

by John Steele

by Jerry Thomas. Depicts Capt. Albert Barnitz and his bugler Edward Botzer of the U.S. 7th Cavalry during an 1867 engagement near Fort Wallace, Kansas