Military History
Hungary’s National Hero
By Ludwig Heinrich DyckJanos Hunyadi, Hungary’s national hero, was one of the great captains in the war between Europe and the Ottoman Turks. Read more
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The Lion’s Last Roar
By Eric NiderostKing Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden rode forward confidently, digging his heels into Streiff, his war horse, signaling the animal to quicken his pace and jump the ditch that was just ahead. Read more
Military History
Frankish Disaster in Saxony
By William E. WelshThe Saxon warriors worked tirelessly from dawn to dusk atop the mountain felling trees, cutting them into logs, and adding them to the field fort they were building on a flat spur of the Suntel Mountains in the heart of their homeland. Read more
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Naval Carnage at Navarino
By Victor KamenirAt 2 PM on October 20, 1827, Allied squadrons sailed into the Bay of Navarino on the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula. Read more
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African American Revolutionary War Heroes: 1st Rhode Island
In 1778, the Rhode Island legislature passed a law that allowed black slaves to enter the war in order to gain their freedom. Read more
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Legendary Cavalry Commander Nathan Bedford Forrest
By Mike HaskewPrior to the American Civil War, Nathan Bedford Forrest amassed a fortune in real estate, agriculture, and the slave trade. Read more
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Female Revolutionary War Heroes: the Front Lines and at Home
by Mike Haskew Martha Custis Washington: General’s Wife and First LadyMartha Custis Washington, wife of General George Washington, came to the winter quarters of her husband’s army each winter of the Revolutionary War. Read more
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Battle of Chickamauga: Death in the Deep Woods
By Cowan BrewIt was nearly 11 on the morning of September 20, 1863, and the woods around slow-moving Chickamauga Creek in northwest Georgia were ominously quiet. Read more
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Greek Triumph at Plataea
By Eric NiderostPersian King Xerxes I “The Great” was a man who liked to solicit different opinions before he made a decision on any important matter. Read more
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Bloodbath at the Chosin
By John WalkerWhen dawn broke on December 1, 1950, on the barren hillsides on the eastern shore of the frozen Chosin Reservoir in northeastern North Korea, the ragged, tenuously held perimeter of the U.S. Read more
Military History
The Last Banner Falls at the Siege of Acre
By William E. WelshThe Latin Crusaders manning the battlements were armed with spears, axes, and crossbows. They shared with each other a desire to fight and die for the Cross. Read more
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Storming the “Splendid City”
By Eric NiderostU.S. General Winfield Scott’s army climbed through the mountains of central Mexico, an arduous trek that included blistering hot days and bitterly cold, rain-drenched nights. Read more
Military History
Blood on the Village Green: Battle at Concord
By David A. Norris“Soldiers, don’t fire!” In the half light of dawn on April 19, 1775, war was breaking out on a New England town common, and Major John Pitcairn of His Majesty’s Marine Forces was trying to stop it. Read more
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The Fall of Seringapatam
By Charles HilbertAs converging columns of British and native infantry surrounded the inner palace of his capital, Seringapatam, Tipu Sultan did not hesitate. Read more
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Halberds and Spontoons
By David A. NorrisPikes and most similar pole weapons disappeared from European armies by the early 1700s. After all, bayonets let each man convert his flintlock into a pike that fired bullets. Read more
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Benjamin Church Created America’s First Ranger Force
By Don HollwayWhen John Sassamon’s murdered body floated up under the ice of Assawompsett Pond, Plymouth Colony, in January 1675, few Puritan homesteaders could have foretold it would lead to the bloodiest war, per capita, in American history. Read more
Military History
The Battle of Rich Mountain
By William F. Floyd, Jr.The blue-coated soldiers trudged uphill through the forest trying their best not to get snagged on the laurel branches or stumble over the tree roots. Read more
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William Wells
By Joshua ShepherdLong before he attained fame as the co-commander of the Lewis and Clark expedition, William Clark was a discontented young lieutenant assigned to the U.S. Read more
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Sir Francis Walsingham
By Arnold BlumbergAmong the many portraits of famous Elizabethans hanging in London’s National Portrait Gallery is that of Sir Francis Walsingham, painted around 1587 by the artist John De Critz the Elder. Read more
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Belgrade Blitz
By John W. Osborn, Jr.It was the most exciting scene Associated Press correspondent Robert St. John had yet witnessed in the career he had abandoned for five years to farm in New Hampshire then returned to when he sensed that war was coming. Read more
