Military History Aficionado Mugs

Old lady in Pope's hat scolds Louis-Napoleon

Self Practice for Paratroopers

"Hey buddy, don't fly too close to me! I'm a military carrier pigeon: I'm often shot at..."

". . . Unlike the feel-good portion of World War II."

Chuck Hagel finally confirmed as Secretary of Defense.

'Breaker Morant would have been proved innocent if he hadn't shot the people needed for his defence.'

"Waterloo, please."

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

George Hamilton-Gordon

Napoleon with his Teddy Bear

Kamakazi pilots actually owed a lot more to poor engineering than to bravery

"Have you any regrets, Captain Hale? Our readers would like to know."

Ad Valorem

The War on the Mississippi - Secesh Ladies Seeking Supplies at US Commissary

Gate of Calais.

The Colonel reading Clive's letters to the ladies of the regiment.

Army of the Potomac Facing Lee in Virginia- Sniper Improvises a Rifle Rest

"Approaching 10,000 steps."

'A portcullis is SO yesterday!'

Servicemen.

"Postwar is hell."

HDQTRS division, Motor Pool and Covert Ops.

'I think I'll stay in and try to catch up on my reading.'

Scene of seagull troops about to charge a picnic.

'You can come down a peg. Mesopotamia gave the world bureaucracy, you know.'

Monuments

Mission Kinda Accomplished

'I was in the catering corps.'

'Forget what?'

Shell Fire

Thank you to those who never came home and to those who never left their side.

Defence Cutbacks.

'It's amazing what you can get on e-Bay these days.'

'You bought an F-14 equipped with an internal 20 mm vulcan gatling-type paintball gun? I think you might be taking this paintball thing a little too seriously!'

"I'm a common dolphin, I swim the west coast of Scotland foraging for fish and squid."