This person said: “Well, I’ve been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to execution.”
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Daily Quiz for November 30, 2008
This newspaper publisher ran against Ulysses S. Grant in 1872.
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Daily Quiz for November 29, 2008
The 11th New York Zouaves was primarily composed of men from this vocation.
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Daily Quiz for November 28, 2008
This American president said, “Men make history and not the other way around.”
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Daily Quiz for November 27, 2008
“Wild Bill” Hickok was gunned down while playing poker in this town in the Dakotas.
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Letter from Military History – Feb/Mar 2009
Proper military training has been a key to victory from the time of Philip of Macedon through the World War II Louisiana Maneuvers into present-day warfare
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Letter From Vietnam – February 2009
In his last issue of Vietnam Magazine David Zabecki highlights articles on the extraordinary lives of the only two triple Combat Medical Badge winners, and a first hand account of a leader he followed in the first days of Tet in the battle for Hill 108 and who remains a role model for him to this day.
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Louisiana Maneuvers (1940-41)
In 1940 and 1941, American soldiers participated in the Louisiana Maneuvers, a series of war games that forged a common experience, trained them for combat and identified their future commanders.
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A Huey’s Wild Duel with a .50-cal Gunner During Tet
It seemed all South Vietnam was ablaze in the early hours of the 1968 Tet Offensive as a Huey helicopter gunship pilot performed a death-defying aerial maneuver to rescue an Australian unit ambushed and pinned down by a Viet Cong .50-caliber gunner.
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Interview: Christopher McQuarrie / About Valkyrie
An interview with Christopher McQuarrie about the movie Valkyrie, plus information on an interview with the son of Claus von Stauffenberg, the man who planted the bomb in an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler.