Whether it be websites or books, I'm fine with both! I've always had a fascination with that period, and would love to read up on it!

edit: In the United States

Just wondering when did the British army transition from the brightly coloured red coat uniform, to more camouflaged/ modern looking uniforms. I know that rifle regiments in the Napoleonic wars wore green uniforms, but when did this become more mainstream within the army?

Thanks in advance for any responses!

Pinging u/coinsinmyrocket and u/pantstime for an assist with this one, as I posted a similar question a few weeks ago, but didn't get a response. I'm curious how the Allies got their armor into Holland for Operation Market Garden. Obviously, dropping them by air couldn't have been a practical option, so how did they get the tanks and heavy trucks in-country? How did the Allies keep this movement from tipping the Germans off to their intentions (if at all)? As I understand it, the Allies had a full armored brigade attached to the operation, so how did it get from (presumably?) France to Holland?

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate subreddit to ask this, so a suggestion for a more proper subreddit would be appreciated.

Didn't membership entail sovereignty? And why just those two, why not the other constituent SSRs?

Could they feed and dress the people, furnish the houses, equip the army, using only local craftsman's work?

Were semiprecious gems as valuable as precious gems?

Did they confuse some gems with others (eg. Garnet with ruby)?

On the second day of the battle both the Gauls on the outside of Caesar's wall and the ones within simultaneously attacked the east side. How did they communicate this?

In high school, I was taught that one of the main reasons for the crippling of Chinese society and productivity was that opium use was so widespread that it turned a large portion of the country into useless adicts. But other countries, including the USA and Britain had legal opium trades that were never mentioned along those lines. Was opium abuse actually a significant factor in China's weakened state before and after the opium wars?

Aside from the US.

1. The Romans likened him to their Alexander, was the description accurate? If so, why?

2. How was he as a commander? Did his men really admire him, or was that just propaganda?

3. What was his 'finest moment' as General (his Gaugamela, Pharsalus, Cannae)?

4. Had he not been recalled to Rome, is it feasible that he could have likely conquered Germany?

5. What are some great books on the General and his career? I saw that Adrian Goldsworthy had wrote an excerpt on his time as general in 'In the Name of Rome', would you recommend reading that?

I have recently been reading Charles Messenger's The D-Day Atlas and on two of his maps, one of German coastal artillery in Normandy and another of the Allied bombardment plan, he marks an area as "Band" to the east of Sword Beach. Alas the book provides no further clarification to this, and a Google search provides conflicting results. Some say that Band Beach was a naval bombardment sector rather than a landing zone, others say that the Royal Marines were to land there if the 6th Airborne Division did not succeed in destroying the Merville Gun Battery. To my amazement neither Hastings nor Beevor talk about the area either.

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I hope this question is proper for this sub.

Australia is the only inhabited continent that did not build cities or develop true civilisations, as per the Aztecs, Romans, Mali, etc. I understand there were reasons for this, but what reasons were there for never developing at least proper settlements? Was it simply too hard? Surely it was possible and just a cultural thing, right?