Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/February 2022/Articles


 * Jadran (training ship) : Continuing PM's series on naval vessels of the former Yugoslavia, this article looks at the somewhat involved history of a sail training ship. Commissioned in the early 1930s for the Yugoslav Royal Navy, Jadran served with the Italian Navy in a training role after being captured in World War II, and was restored to Yugoslavia following the war. She remained in Yugoslav hands until the wars in the 1990s, and is now part of the Montenegrin Navy, though her ownership is disputed by Croatia.
 * Fakhr al-Din II : Fakhr al-Din II came from a line of Druze chiefs from the Ma'n dynasty and, in nominator Al Ameer's words, "far exceeded his ancestors in ambition and achievement". By the early 17th century he had become governor and tax collector of Mount Lebanon, Galilee and much of the western Levant, and opened the ports of Sidon, Beirut and Acre to European commerce. He eventually became too powerful for the Ottomon Empire to accept and he was forced to surrender during a siege of his Chouf hideout in 1633; he was executed in Constantinople two years later.


 * Battle of St. Charles : Another in Hog Farm's series of American Civil War articles, this conflict took place when a Union army in Arkansas had to be resupplied by river and the resupply fleet ran into Confederate shore batteries. A Confederate cannon shot hit the boiler of the lead Union ship, and scalding steam killed or badly wounded nearly everyone on board. The resupply mission continued upriver, but was stopped by low water levels; the army that was the object of the mission managed to extract itself, the first time in the war that an army operated without a supply line.


 * Draft Eisenhower movement : The article is about the political movement that eventually persuaded General Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for the US presidency in 1952. Eisenhower was so popular that he was heavily recruited by both sides of politics but chose to go with the Republicans. The famous slogan "I Like Ike" arose from this campaign.


 * List of British divisions in World War II : This list provides a summary of each of the 85 divisions raised by the British during World War II. Usually commanded by a major general, they ranged from elite airborne formations to less glamorous coastal defence and anti-aircraft units.


 * Siege of Ngatapa (Zawed) : This article covers a battle from one of the New Zealand Wars, specifically Te Kooti's War of the late 1860s and early 1870s. The Siege of Ngatapa was the largest engagement of that war. It involved around 900 combatants and finished up with a war crime. This may be the first first article relating to the New Zealand Wars to reach A-Class status.


 * Marmaduke–Walker duel (Hog Farm) : Hog Farm described the subject of the article as the "worst case of dysfunction in a frequently dysfunctional Confederate high command". It describes a duel fought between generals John S. Marmaduke and Lucius M. Walker on September 6, 1863 near Little Rock, Arkansas. Tensions between the two men arose from disagreements and a failure to cooperate with one another during several battles. Walker was killed in the duel, and Marmaduke survived and eventually became the Governor of Missouri.


 * 42 cm Gamma howitzer (Vami IV) : To quote Vami IV "this is an article about a very big, very heavy, very frustrating-to-read-and-write-about German artillery piece used in World War I and that somehow survived in one example to be used again in World War II". The 42 cm Gamma howitzer was one of the largest artillery pieces ever fielded. It entered service with the German Army in 1911, with ten being produced. They were used in various sieges, with only one gun surviving the war to be used in the next world war.


 * List of British infantry brigades of the Second World War (1–100) (EnigmaMcmxc) : This is an article that covers exactly what its title indicates it does! Due to the large numbers of infantry brigades fielded by the British Army in World War II, EnigmaMcmxc has covered them in two lists. The article provides a summary of the role and structure of the brigades and summaries of each of them.