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Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans

The English siege of Orleans began in October 1428 and lasted seven months. French commander Joan of Arc broke it in seven days.

3 January 2020

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Roman Army Pluck at the Battle of Pydna

A Roman army under Lucius Paullus took on Perseus’s formidable Macedonian army at the Battle of Pydna in 168 bc during the Third Macedonian War.

24 December 2019

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Germany’s Bold Naval Raider

The German cruiser Emden compiled an impressive record as a raider in the opening months of World War I before meeting an untimely end.

20 December 2019

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Spain’s Invincible Admiral

Alvaro de Bazan fought Ottoman fleets and corsairs in the Mediterranean Sea, but the pinnacle of his career was the conquest of the Azores.

20 December 2019

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Bloody Clash at the Battle of Ia Drang

Elite U.S. air cavalrymen won a desperate battle against North Vietnamese regulars in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam in November 1965.

10 December 2019

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Intelligence: Stephen Decatur

U.S. Navy commodore Stephen Decatur’s death in a duel may have been part of a conspiracy orchestrated by aggrieved rivals.

15 November 2019

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Alexander Nevsky’s Glorious Victory

The Teutonic Order sought to expand east into the Principality of Novgorod in the early 13th century, but it underestimated the will of the northern Russians.

15 November 2019

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Clash of Giants

Napoleon set out in the summer of 1809 to punish the Austrians for having the audacity to go to war against him again. He stumbled initially in his quest to restore French hegemony.

31 October 2019

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“Italy Is Ours”

Prince Eugene of Savoy led an Imperial relief force to Turin in 1706, intending to raise the French siege of the city during the War of the Spanish Succession.

25 September 2019

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Soldiers: Quanah Parker

Comanche Chief Quanah Parker proved a formidable opponent of the U.S. Army on the Southern Plains in the late 1800s.

18 September 2019

Carl Gnam

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Manhattan’s First Terror Attack: Decades Before 9/11

Decades before 9/11, on an island in the middle of the Hudson River, Manhattan was rocked by another terrorist blast.

31 March 2019

Carl Gnam

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George Washington and Lord Cornwallis at Germantown

After arriving unopposed in Philadelphia, Lord Cornwallis looked forward to a peaceful winter. But George Washington had other ideas.

29 March 2019

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Mark Antony’s Roman Navy: Clash at Actium & the Ionian Sea

Having gambled all for love, Mark Antony sent his warships into the Ionian Sea for one last toss of the dice at Actium.

29 March 2019

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The Duke of Marlborough at Malplaquet

The Duke of Marlborough, Winston Churchill’s illustrious ancestor, achieved his own 'finest hour' at Malplaquet.

28 March 2019

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The Marines and North Vietnamese at Khe Sanh

For both the Marine defenders and their North Vietnamese adversaries, the military base at Khe Sanh was the center of a deadly serious chess match between two determined commanders.

27 March 2019

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