Napoleon’s Italian campaign and the Fall of Mantua.
The song is about the incident in the Tonkin Gulf, that led to the US entering Vietnam War.
The Battle of Trafalgar 1805.
Warsaw Uprising in 1944 of World War II.
Treaty of Versailles after World War I.
The song is about the “Vietnamization” of the Vietnam War and the Bombing Raids in the last years of the war.
The End of the Soviet Union and the Cold War.
The Winged Hussars and the Battle of Vienna in 1683 against the Ottoman Empire.
German Submarine warfare in World War II.
Irish conflict and IRA.