By Mike Shepherd
Hector Garcia was born in Llera, Tamaulipas, Mexico, on January 17,1914, to schoolteacher parents, Jose Garcia Garcia and Faustina Perez Garcia. The Mexican Revolution drove them from their homes in 1917 and his family legally immigrated to Mercedes, Texas.
Hector’s father, a teacher in Mexico, was not allowed to   More »

By 1519, the Aztec civilization was highly advanced, but their expansion and prosperity was due in large part to the contributions of their predecessors.   More »

The penny pocket can opener was a well-known and useful piece of GI gear during World War II.   More »

Spaniard Bernardo de Galvez besieged British-held Pensacola in 1781. It fell to Scotsman John Campbell to defend the remote outpost.   More »

Confederate Earl Van Dorn did not have the right stuff to succeed as an army commander, but he excelled as a cavalry general.   More »

John Maxwell placed a bomb aboard a cargo ship at City Point in August 1864 in a desperate bid to slow the flow of supplies to Union troops at Petersburg.   More »

Kansas Brigadier James Henry Lane’s zealous prosecution of the Union cause made him a marked man in the western theater.   More »

A powerful typhoon wreaked havoc with the U.S. Navy’s task force 38 in December 1944. It would be followed shortly after by a second.   More »

In the deep woods of Chickamauga Creek, wary Union and Confederate soldiers thrashed the the under brush seeking a confrontation to the death.   More »

The five-month campaign by the U.S. Army in 1847 to capture Mexico City pitted Winfield Scott against Antonio de Santa Anna.   More »