Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/October 2017/Articles


 * Battle of Rossbach : The Battle of Rossbach was an important engagement of the Seven Years' War in which Prussian forces commanded by Frederick the Great out-manoeuvred and soundly defeated a much larger French and Holy Roman Imperial force. The battle is considered one of Frederick's greatest strategic masterpieces, and effectively knocked France out of this theatre of the war. Auntieruth55 took the article through GAN and ACR prior to FAC as part of a series on Frederick the Great's four major battles during the war.


 * Rochdale Cenotaph : The latest in Harry's series on war memorials designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, this article describes structure in the northern English city of Rochdale. It was one of several that Lutyens based on his design for Cenotaph in Whitehall, London. The article passed ACR earlier this year.


 * Baltimore railroad strike of 1877 : Part of a series on the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 that took place in several US cities, this article covers events in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, when police and regiments of the Maryland National Guard clashed with protesters during July 1877. This is not only Timothyjosephwood's first FA under the MilHist banner but his first FA overall -- congratulations!


 * RAAF area commands : This is the parent article for a good topic Ian has written on area commands of the Royal Australian Air Force. The area commands structure existed within the RAAF from the early part of the Second World War to the mid-1950s, when it was replaced by a functional command-and-control system during the early stages of the Cold War. The article passed GAN and ACR before gaining FA status.


 * High Explosive Research : Despite its bland name, this article covers no less than the British post-war atomic weapons program. The program was led by the British civil service, and resulted in the rapid construction of nuclear weapons facilities across the UK and the first British atomic bombs. However, Britain ultimately failed to maintain an independent nuclear weapons program and joined US-led efforts in 1958. Hawkeye took the article through GAN and ACR prior to its successful FAC nomination.


 * Manchester Cenotaph (HJ Mitchell) : The latest article in HJ Mitchell's series on war memorials designed by Sir Edwin Lutyen covers a memorial located in the centre of the major city of Manchester. Harry described the article as "among the higher-hanging fruit" on this topic given the memorial's prominence and the extensive range of sources available. The article features an interesting range of photos, including of the process through which the memorial was relocated in 2014.


 * Wilbur Dartnell (Abraham, B.S.) : Wilbur Dartnell was an Australian-born soldier who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for an action during the East African Campaign in September 1915. He first saw military service during the Boer War, and after a period as a small businessman and professional actor back in Australia, moved back to South Africa. He joined the British Army under an assumed name in late 1914.


 * Raymond Leane (Peacemaker67) : Raymond Leane rose from the rank of captain to command the 12th Australian Brigade during WWI. He was considered by the Official War Historian, Charles Bean, to be the "foremost fighting leader" in the Australian Imperial Force. During 1916 he and several relatives served in the same battalion, which was nicknamed the the "Joan of Arc Battalion" because it was "made of All-Leanes". Following the war he served as Commissioner of the South Australia Police from 1920 to 1944.


 * Siege of Thessalonica (1422–1430) (Cplakidas) : Cplakidas' latest A-class article covers an lengthy seige which ended with the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Murad II capturing the city of Thessalonica from the Byzantine Empire and its Venetian allies. The siege revealed the limitations of Venice's maritime power when pitted against a strong land empire, and heralded the fall of Constantinople itself a generation later. Thessalonica remained in Ottoman hands for the next five centuries, until it became part of the Kingdom of Greece in 1912.


 * SMS Wittelsbach (Parsecboy) : SMS Wittelsbach was a German pre-dreadnought battleship which entered service in 1902. The ship took part in routine training cruises for most of her career, and was cycled in and out of reserve in the years prior to the outbreak of World War I. She took part in combat operations in the Baltic Sea during 1915, but was decommissioned the next year and used as a support vessel for the remainder of the war. Parsecboy developed this article to GA status in 2011, and recently further expanded it ahead of the A-class nomination.