Military History
The Krag Jorgensen Rifle: How it Defined the Future of American Warfare
By Christopher MiskimonDuring the era in which the Krag Jorgensen rifle came into its own, an arms race was in effect among the nations of Europe. Read more
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Patton in WWI
By John MikolsevekHistory is full of great men and great deeds. All American schoolchildren know the story of George Washington crossing the Delaware River in the dead of winter during the Revolutionary War. Read more
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Bloodbath at the Colline Gate
By Barry PorterBy the winter of 82 bc, the Roman civil war had been raging off and on for six years. Read more
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The Fourth Fitna: A Family Feud that Crippled a Caliphate
By Jefferson M. GreyTo his contemporaries, Harun al-Rashid, fifth caliph of the Abbasid dynasty, seemed the most fortunate of men. Read more
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The Multiple Launch Rocket System
By Christopher MiskimonOn February 24, 1991, the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm began. Over the next four days, the soldiers of an international coalition, formed to eject the Iraqi army of Saddam Hussein from the neighboring nation of Kuwait, carried out a whirlwind offensive that quickly overwhelmed their foe. Read more
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Decision at the Battle of the Dunes
By Roy Morris Jr.The cold North Sea surf washed over the boots of the advancing English infantry of Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army as they tromped through the drifting sand dunes across the beach at Dunkirk on the morning of June 14, 1658. Read more
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The Air War for Rabaul
By Allyn VannoyOn February 23, 1942, one month after Rabaul had fallen to the Japanese, six B-17s of the U.S. Read more
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Delaying Action at Kapyong
By Marc D. BernsteinThe Chinese always attacked at night. It was April 22, 1951, and the Communists had just launched the largest offensive of the Korean War. Read more
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Indian Victory in Bangladesh
By William StroockAfter the British left India in 1947, abandoning the jewel in their centuries-long empire, the subcontinent was partitioned into two states, India and Pakistan. Read more
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Canadians in Spain: The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion
By Jerome BaldwinAfter years of social upheaval, political unrest, and violence, Spain erupted into all-out civil war on July 18, 1936, when General Francisco Franco led a junta of right-wing army officers in a revolt against the democratically elected government of the Spanish Republic. Read more
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King Henry VIII of England and the Siege of Boulogne: His Last War
By Bob SwainIn November 1541, roughly three years before the Siege of Boulogne, King Henry VIII of England suffered one of the most severe shocks of his life when he was shown a report alleging that his plumpish 19-year-old queen, Catherine Howard, had been intimate with other men before their marriage. Read more
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U.S. Marine Hero John J. Kelly in World War I
By William E. WelshChicago native Private John J. Kelly of the 78th Company of the 6th Marine Regiment and another soldier requested permission from First Lieutenant James M. Read more
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George Washington’s Counterpunch at Germantown
By Chuck LyonsOn the morning of September 11, 1777, 19-year-old Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, calmly sat on his horse next to George Washington, commander in chief of America’s revolutionary forces. Read more
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George Washington’s Daring Gamble at Yorktown
By David A. NorrisSergeant Joseph Plumb Martin, a sapper in the Continental Army, waited for the signal that would begin the night attack on two enemy-held redoubts. Read more
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Dismal British Retreat to Corunna
By Eric NiderostIt was December 1808, and the French Army was struggling though the 4,500-foot Sierra de Guadarrama Mountains in central Spain. Read more
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Locating Enemies on the Western Front
By John E. GoodwinAll wars give rise to change and innovation. In the early years of the 20th century, a short but nasty territorial war erupted between Russia and Japan. Read more
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Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar
By William StroockRodrigo Diaz de Vivar, a Castilian mercenary who served Christian kings and Muslim emirs alike in late 11th-century Spain, was born in 1043 in the village of Vivar, about six miles north of the city of Burgos. Read more
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Armored Clash on the Road to the Yalu
By Christopher MiskimonThe chase was on in early autumn 1950. The North Korean People’s Army, after its invasion of South Korea, fell back north with United Nations’ forces in close pursuit following the Battle of Inchon the previous month. Read more
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For Nearly a Century the Nomadic Huns Dominated Much of Europe
By Ludwig H. Dyck“A hitherto unknown race of men had appeared from some remote corner of the earth, uprooting and destroying everything in its path like a whirlwind descending from high mountains” wrote Ammianus Marcellinus, a 4th century AD Roman officer and historian. Read more
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Jedediah Hotchkiss’ Map
After his exploratory expedition to the Shenandoah Valley in 1716, Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood encouraged Germans and Dutch farmers residing in eastern Pennsylvania to settle the region when he found Virginians in the Tidewater and Piedmont regions of his state initially reluctant to settle beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains. Read more
