Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/August 2021/Articles


 * Momčilo Đujić : Another in PM's series on figures from the military history of the former Yugoslavia, Momčilo Đujić was a Orthodox priest who led some of the Chetnik movement in the so-called Independent State of Croatia during World War II, and openly collaborated with the Italian and then the German occupiers. After surrendering to the western Allies at war's end, he was convicted in absentia by the Yugoslav authorities for war crimes and went into exile in the US; he became a leader of the Serbian diaspora and died there in 1999.


 * Liberté-class battleship : Continuing Parsecboy's series on capital ships, this article covers a class of four pre-dreadnought battleships built for the French Navy in the early 1900s. The lead ship, Liberté, was destroyed with great loss of life in 1911, when its magazine exploded. The three surviving ships saw service in the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas during World War I, and in the Black Sea following the end of hostilities. They were decommissioned 1919–20.


 * Weardale campaign : Another in Gog's series on Edward III's military campaigns, the king's first in fact, this particular effort took place in July–August 1327 during the First War of Scottish Independence. It was a desultory experience for the English, as the Scots led them a merry chase before departing for home. The campaign's chief result as the Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton, which recognised Scottish sovereignty.


 * Treaty of Guînes : Gog's second FA entry this issue relates to a draft treaty to end the Hundred Years' War, when it was a mere 17 years old. Needless to say it wasn't ratified... A change of mind on the part of the French king, John II, led to renewed hostilities and the war lasting another 101 years, fully earning the name by which we know it today.


 * Charles Heaphy : Another in Zawed's series on the New Zealand military, the English-born Heaphy was the first soldier of the New Zealand armed forces to be awarded the Victoria Cross, the British Empire's highest military award for gallantry. This was just one aspect of an impressive career, and he is primarily known today for exploring much of his adopted land. He was also a painter, surveyor, amateur geologist, politician and civil servant.


 * List of orders of battle for the British 2nd Division : Another in EnigmaMcmxc's series of sub-articles spawned from the 2nd Infantry Division (United Kingdom) article, this entry lists the division's OOBs from its foundation during the Napoleonic Wars, through the Crimean War, the Second Boer War, and the World Wars.


 * Tito–Stalin split (Tomobe03) : The Tito–Stalin split was the culmination of a conflict between the political leaderships of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, under Josip Broz Tito and Joseph Stalin, in the years following World War II. Although presented by both sides as an ideological dispute, the conflict was the product of a geopolitical struggle in the Balkans. Tito sought to incorporate Albania into Yugoslavia and supported the Communist rebels in Greece, against Stalin's wishes. The split became public in 1948.


 * Capture of Sedalia (Hog Farm) : The capture of Sedalia occurred during the American Civil War when a Confederate raiding force attacked the Union garrison of Sedalia, Missouri, on October 15, 1864. The Confederates outnumbered the Union force, and quickly defeated them. The Union prisoners were paroled, and the town may have been looted.


 * Broad front versus narrow front controversy in World War II (Hawkeye7) : This article covers an important debate between the key western Allied generals in the autumn of 1944. Lieutenant Generals Omar Bradley and George S. Patton and Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery believed that the Allied forces should attempt to push into German on a narrow front (with the front being that they personally commanded) while their superior General Dwight D. Eisenhower favoured a broad front. Eisenhower considered, but ultimately rejected, the narrow front proposals on both military and political grounds.


 * 13th Missouri Cavalry Regiment (Confederate) (Hog Farm) : Originally consisting of men drawn from a headquarters guard, the 13th Missouri Cavalry Regiment was initially armed with experimental cannons before becoming a more traditional cavalry regiment. Often associated with Sterling Price, it served under him in the Camden expedition and Price's Raid. Over the course of its existence between April 6, 1863 and June 8, 1865, the unit played an undistinguished role in a number of battles and burned a depot, a bridge, and an entire train.


 * Yugoslav gunboat Beli Orao (Peacemaker67) : Peacemaker67's latest A-class article on a ship of the Royal Yugoslav Navy covers a vessel that served under five names and three flags over a nearly forty-year career. This ship was used as an admiralty yacht, submarine chaser/gunboat/escort, anti-submarine warfare training vessel and motor gunboat tender, and for several decades after World War II as a presidential yacht for the Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito.


 * Chilean cruiser Esmeralda (1883) (The ed17) : Esmeralda was the world's first modern protected cruiser. Variously lauded and criticized for its design particulars at the time of its construction, Esmeralda was quickly outpaced by rapid advances in naval technology. When Chile found itself falling further and further behind in an arms race with Argentina, it sold the ship to Japan to help fund a new armored cruiser. Renamed Izumi, the ship took part in the Russo-Japanese War and was scrapped in 1912.


 * 12th (Eastern) Infantry Division (EnigmaMcmxc) : The 12th (Eastern) Infantry Division was a second-line British division during World War II. Under-trained, it was taken off guard duty in the UK and dispatched to France in early 1940 to undertake construction tasks. In May 1940, when the German advance through the Ardennes caught the Allies off guard, the division was thrown into the frontline. It was rapidly destroyed, but bought precious critical hours for the Dunkirk evacuation. What was left returned home, and the division was broken-up in order to bring other formations up to strength.