After crossing the North Anna River, Ulysses S. Grant’s Union forces headed toward Cold Harbor.   More »

New York newspaperman Moses Beach undertook a secret mission for President James K. Polk at the height of the war with Mexico.   More »

The day after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces assaulted the small American-held atoll of Wake Island, 2,300 miles west of Hawaii. The defenders numbered fewer than 1,800 Marines, sailors, soldiers, and civilian contractors.   More »

Had Tennessee-born General Gideon Pillow fought as hard against the enemy as he did his own comrades, he might have become a military legend.   More »

Santa Anna hoped to stop the Americans at Cerro Gordo and trap the invaders in the malignant embrace of “King Death in his yellow robe”—yellow fever.   More »

After the Trent Affair, British Columbia governor James Douglas drafted an ambitious plan to invade Washington Territory.   More »

Inventor John Griffen’s 3-inch Ordnance Rifle was one of the safest, most reliable, and most accurate cannons of the American Civil War.   More »

The skillful and aggressive employment of mobile artillery ensured U.S. dominance on every major battlefield of the Mexican conflict.   More »

During the Battle of Lundy’s Lane, the trouble for the Americans was the center. However, the British managed to fight their way to the captured guns.   More »

At the First Battle of Bull Run during July 1861, the Federals had a good plan that very nearly worked…   More »