Sent to delay the North Korean communist wave at the outset of the Korean […]
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What We Learned from Manila Bay, 1898
In 1890 naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan wrote, “When the opportunities for gain abroad […]
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The Highest Recognition: Private Johnson Beharry
Private Johnson Beharry British Army Victoria Cross Al ‘Ama¯rah, Iraq May 1 and June […]
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Hallowed Ground: Wereth, Belgium
In December 1944 German forces surged through the Ardennes region of Belgium, France and […]
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Mexico had an Irish army? How Irishmen “fought like devils” against the US
How U.S. nativism sparked an Irish exit to help the Mexicans fight against manifest destiny
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Alvin York: Hero of the Argonne
In northern France in 1918 this humble American rifleman from rural Tennessee set aside […]
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Taking Crimea… Again
Armies from antiquity to the present day have wrangled over this patch of ground […]
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Shaka Zulu: Africa’s Napoleon?
The warrior-king was a loyal son, a fearsome fighter, and master tactician, a ruthless tyrant, a national-hero—and in the end largely the stuff of myth.
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George Meade: Warrior and Engineer
Two Roads Taken: George Meade found fame as Both a Warrior and an Engineer. “What a waste of time and energy,” George Meade wrote to his wife on December 18, 1845, as he approached his 30th birthday. Describing his feelings about his 10 years in the U.S. Army since graduating from West Point, Meade was convinced he was a failure and added, “I tremble sometimes when I think of what I might have been, and remember what I am, when I reflect on what I might have accomplished.”
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Daily Quiz for March 14, 2017
Canadian humor writer Stephen Leacock was the head of economics and political science at this university.