Union agent Pryce Lewis had his share of close calls
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Lee to the Rear
A Texas private’s long-forgotten account of Robert E. Lee’s brush with death at the Battle of the Wilderness.
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Daily Quiz for January 8, 2011
The Battle of Bunker Hill near Boston was actually fought on this location, not on Bunker Hill.
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Flammenwerfer: Hell on Earth in the Trenches
The Flammenwerfer (“flamethrower”) first saw battlefield use in World War I at Verdun, France, but the weapon didn’t play a decisive role in combat until World War II.
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Socket Bayonet: A Musketeer’s Weapon of Choice
The socket bayonet, which saw duty in armies for more than a century, enabled a soldier to fix his bayonet while retaining the ability to fire.
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Interview: Gary Sheffield / Military Historian
In his books “Forgotten Victory” (2001) and “The Chief” (2011), British military historian Gary Sheffield lays to rest many of the persistent myths about World War I and British Army Field Marshal Douglas Haig.
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Daily Quiz for January 7, 2011
This astronaut was the only one of the Mercury 7 astronauts to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.
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Unstuck in Time: A Trip to Paimpont
Most of us think of World War II as the “big one”. That might not be true if you live in the small French village of Paimpont.
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Letter from Military History – March 2011
Though the word “battle” calls to mind history’s great conflicts on land, humankind’s battles at sea have been every bit as decisive and consequential.
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Tragedy at Fismette, France, 1918
Its defense by overmatched American troops exemplified the murderous futility of Western Front fighting