What English Colony Did Not Settle Near Water?
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Daily Quiz for October 11, 2016
On May 10, 1940 this man was appointed Prime Minster of Great Britain.
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This Obscure Pioneer-Era Dialect Is Still Alive. Here’s Who Still Speaks It.
Capot de maïs poc à poc chat chouage?
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The Death of a Prince: Louis Napoléon and the Tragedy of the Zulu War
Ask anyone with a little knowledge of Victorian British military or colonial history about […]
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Outrage at Maizar: The Great Pathan Rising Begins
Following the annexation of the Punjab in 1849, the British inherited the problem of […]
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Ambush at Abu Sunt: The 21st Lancers at the Battle of Omdurman
There is an old myth that the charge of the 21st Lancers against the […]
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An Offensive by the Numbers – Russia and Turkey On the Caucasus Front, 1916
The Great War’s Caucasus Front did not deserve the name of sideshow. Although for […]
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Book Review: Napoleon on War
Colson, Bruno. Napoleon on War. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2015. $45.00 Bruno Colson […]
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Shawnee Warrior of the Sky
During a busy November afternoon in Miami, Oklahoma, Mrs. Lorean Blaine took a break […]
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White Death and the Winter War: How Finland’s Tiny Army Defeated the USSR
The Winter War, as it became known, would go down in history as one of the most mesmerizing modern-day models of the David and Goliath narrative.