Major-General Whitworth Porter (1827–1892) was a British Army officer in the Royal Engineers, known also as a historical writer.
During the Crusades, turcopoles (also "turcopoles" or "turcopoli"; from the Greek: τουρκόπουλοι, literally "sons of Turks"; singular: τουρκόπουλος) were locally recruited mounted archers and light cavalry employed by the Byzantine Empire and the...
The Attack on Modon was a military expedition by the Knights Hospitallers to capture the city of Modon held by the Ottomans. Initially, the knights managed to capture the city, but the citadel held out, and an Ottoman relief force arrived, forcing...
Fort Picklecombe stands on the extreme south eastern coast of Cornwall, a couple of miles south of the city of Plymouth. The fort has been a residential complex since the early 1970s but has a history dating back 150 years.
The fortifications of Malta consist of a number of walled cities, citadels, forts, towers, batteries, redoubts, entrenchments and pillboxes. The fortifications were built over hundreds of years, from around 1450 BC to the mid-20th century, and they...
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, and commonly known as the Order of Malta or the Knights of Malta, is a Catholic lay religious...
General Porter may refer to: Andrew Porter (Civil War general) (1820–1872), Union Army brigadier general David Dixon Porter (Medal of Honor) (1877–1944), U.S. Marine Corps major general Fitz John Porter (1822–1901), Union Army major general Horace...
Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim (9 November 1744 – 12 May 1805) was the 71st Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, formally the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, by then better known as the Knights of Malta. He was the first German elected to the...
The Bengal Engineer Group (BEG; informally the Bengal Sappers or Bengal Engineers) is a military engineering regiment in the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army. The unit was originally part of the Bengal Army of the East India Company's Bengal...
Philibert de Naillac (c. 1340 – 1421) was grand master of the Knights Hospitaller from 1396 until his death in Rhodes in 1421. Prior to his election he was grand-prior of Aquitaine.
