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A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the...

A frogman is someone who is trained in scuba diving or swimming underwater in a tactical capacity that includes military, and in some European countries...

USS McKeever Brothers (SP-683), sometimes written as USS McKeever Bros., was a United States Navy patrol vessel and minesweeper in commission from 1917...

The Battle of Grahovac took place in the eponymous village of Grahovac from 11 to 13 May 1858, when the Montenegrin Grand Duke Mirko Petrović-Njegoš led...

The Morane-Saulnier Vanneau (en: plover) is a two-seat basic trainer built in France by Morane-Saulnier and ordered by the French Air Force. Designed in...

HMHS Rewa (His Majesty's Hospital ship) was a steamship originally built for the British-India Steam Navigation Company for their mail and passenger service...

Grigorovich M-5 (alternative designation Shch M-5, sometimes also Shchetinin M-5) was a successful Russian World War I-era two-bay unequal-span biplane...

HMS Camperdown was a Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN). She was named after the Battle of Camperdown, a naval engagement between the British...

General William John Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian, KT (13 March 1737 – 4 January 1815) was a British soldier and peer, styled Lord Newbattle until 1767...

Sir Martin Archer-Shee CMG DSO (5 May 1873 – 6 January 1935) was a British army officer and Conservative Party politician. He was the son of Martin Archer-Shee...

Sir William Burnett, KCB, FRS (16 January 1779 – 16 February 1861) was a British physician who served as Physician-General of the Royal Navy. Burnett was...

The Naval Service (Irish: an tSeirbhís Chabhlaigh) is the maritime component of the Irish Defence Forces. It was initially formed in 1923, as the Coastal...

The Bandy Papers is a series of novels chronicling the exploits of a World War I fighter ace named Bartholomew Wolfe Bandy. The author, Donald Jack, himself...

Year 255 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Nobilior and Paullus (or, less frequently...

Countries with major counterintelligence failures are presented alphabetically. In each case, there is at least one systemic problem with seeking penetration...

General Sir Robert Onesiphorus Bright GCB (7 July 1823 – 15 November 1896) was a British Army officer. He was born the son of Robert Bright and the brother...

At least three ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy have been named HNLMS Pelikaan after the Dutch word for Pelecanidae: HNLMS Pelikaan (A830), formerly...

Lenny J. Richoux is a retired United States Air Force major general who most recently served as the Director for Manpower and Personnel of the Joint Staff...