He firmly opposed a proposed U.S. visit by Nikita Khrushchev, warning it would confer recognition on the "Kremlin gangsters" and dispirit the captive people of Eastern Europe.

This Norman leader played an important role in the conquest of southern Italy and became prince of Capua in 1059.

Born in France, this son of a U.S. senator served in the Army Signal Corps during the Spanish-American War, but made his name as a proponent of air power.

SEATO, the regional defense organization created to protect members from communist expansionism, formally ended in this year.

When the Civil War ended, former Union soldier Dorence Atwater sought this person`s help to publish a list of soldiers who had died while interned at the Confederate Andersonville prison camp in Georgia.

This film producer created a patriotic silent movie about the American Revolution that led to his arrest under the Espionage Act, and to his imprisonment in 1918.

In 1862, Confederate General Earl Van Dorn attacked Union forces at this Mississippi railroad town in an effort to help Braxton Bragg’s invasion of Kentucky.

At Borthwick Castle on June 11, 1567, a thousand Scottish nobles cornered this person, who fled the castle by jumping out the window, disguised as a pageboy.