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Roman Legion: The Reforms of Marius
By Lindsay PowellThe basic unit of the Roman army of the late Republic was the legion, derived from the Latin word legio, meaning “military levy.” Read more
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Surviving France’s Shame: French General Maxime Weygand in WWII
By Blaine Taylor“What General Weygand has called the Battle of France is over,” intoned British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. “The Battle of Britain is about to begin.” Read more
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“Is Paris Burning?” Liberating the City of Light
By Kelly BellBy the late summer of 1944, the Third Reich was almost surrounded. Two years earlier Adolf Hitler had ground 10 European countries under his heel along with vast expanses of North Africa and Soviet Russia. Read more
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The Canadian Military Heritage Museum
By Jerome BaldwinThe Canadian Military Heritage Museum in Brantford, Ontario, has a four-part mission: to collect, preserve, and display artifacts pertaining to the military history of Canada; to maintain and manage a museum for the purpose of education; to display the artifacts at community events; and to honor the fallen and all veterans who have served and are still serving in the Canadian military. Read more
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Able Archer 83: Did a NATO Exercise Almost Escalate to Nuclear War?
By Todd Avery RaffenspergerOn the night of November 20, 1983, Armageddon went prime time. Over 100 million Americans tuned in to the ABC television network to watch the two-hour drama The Day After. Read more
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Battle of the Thames
By Christopher MiskimonA British squadron lay wrecked on the waters of Lake Erie. Six vessels of war floated in ruins and 135 English sailors lay dead or wounded. Read more
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Brian G. Horrocks: Bernard Montgomery’s Frontline General
By Michael D. HullA big challenge faced Maj. Gen. Brian G. Horrocks, an infantryman, when he was cross-posted to take command of the British Army’s 9th Armored Division in March 1942. Read more
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Airborne Close Encounter
By Chris BlenheimAt midnight, the jumpers of 2nd Battalion, 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team, as well as the 596th Parachute Combat Engineer Company, still dripping from the paint-spray line, shuffled across Ombrone Airfield to the waiting C-47s of Serial 6 and climbed aboard. Read more
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Fiasco at the Bay of Pigs
By Peter KrossOn the morning of April 18, 1961, readers of the New York Times awoke to a startling headline: “Anti-Castro Units Land in Cuba; Report Fighting at Beachhead; Rusk Says U.S. Read more
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The “Pueblo Incident”: The U.S. Navy’s Grave Miscalculation
By John WalkerThe humiliating seizure of the American spy ship Pueblo on January 23, 1968, by North Korean gunboats proved both an enormous intelligence setback and a searing indictment of America’s Cold War policy. Read more
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Spanish Disaster at Rocroi
By William WelshFive hundred Spanish musketeers filed into the dim forest on the southern edge of a wooded plain south of the border fort at Rocroi, France, at dusk on May 18, 1643. Read more
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Bloodbath at Mukden: Imperial Russia and Japan Collide
By Louis CiotolaJanuary and February 1905 were critical months for both the Russian and Japanese empires, which were locked in a war over East Asia that neither of them could sustain. Read more
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The Wannsee Conference & Hitler’s ‘Final Solution’
By Blaine TaylorIt is, perhaps, not as well known as other prewar and wartime gatherings of the World War II era, but the quietly held meeting of top Nazi bureaucrats at a secluded villa on Lake Wannsee in the Berlin suburbs on January 20, 1942, was just as much a landmark event as others with higher profiles. Read more
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Monmouth: Longest Battle of the American Revolution
By Eric NiderostOn June 19, 1778, Continental soldiers marched out of Valley Forge, happy to leave the rough wooden cabins where they had spent a miserable winter; cold, hunger, and disease had been their constant companions. Read more
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The Ill-Fated Goettge Patrol: Richard Tregaskis
by John WukovitsThe heated reaction by the Marines to the slaughter at the Goettge Patrol, answered in kind by the Japanese, led to some of the fiercest combat seen in the war. Read more
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U.S. VIII Bomber Command: From Savannah to Glory
By Sam McGowanWhen World War II in Europe came to an end, the Eighth Air Force was the most famous unit in the U.S. Read more
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Red Army Generals: Ivan D. Chernyakhovsky
By Steven L. OssadThe American jeep holding the 3rd Belorussian Front Commander, General Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky, drove quickly through the city of Mehlsack, just outside Königsberg. Read more
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Mackenzie’s Rebellion
By Chuck LyonsIn December 1837, 400 men armed with muskets, pitchforks, and staves marched against the city of Toronto and the British government. Read more
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Doomed Expedition to Algiers
In the late summer 1541, 40 warships appeared off the shores of Sardinia, part of a grand armada gathered by Charles the V of Spain, Holy Roman Emperor. Read more
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Final Conflict on Okinawa
By Dr. Carl H. MarcouxAlthough neither side was aware of it at the time, the battle for Okinawa would be the last major battle of World War II. Read more
