Before the frigate USS Merrimack was captured and converted into the Confederate ironclad Virginia, it had been famous for this.

Many of the troops in the Polish II Corps, organized as an Allied unit in 1943, had been recruited in this country.

Pinkney B. S. Pinchback held this distinction of being the first African American to hold this post.

Sir Thomas O. M. Sopwith, the aircraft manufacturer who developed the Sopwith Camel for Britain in WWI, was also responsible for this famous plane.

During World War II, fighting took place on the island of Madagascar between British and Commonwealth troops and the troops of this nation.

This was the last American Civil War battle in which United States Colored Troops played a role.

Government indecision over whether to use gold or "greenbacks" was a factor in causing this.

The Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, is often called "the longest day" because that is how this man referred to it.