General Winfield Scott called him "the very best soldier I ever saw in the field" and suggested the U.S. government insure his life for $5 million:
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Daily Quiz for March 25, 2008
He commanded the British troops that burned Washington D.C. during the War of 1812:
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Daily Quiz for March 24, 2008
In direct reprisal for the killing of Nazi Gestapo official Reinhard Heydrich by Czech agents, this town was completely destroyed and thousands of its residents murdered.
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Daily Quiz for March 22, 2008
A Teutonic tribe known as the Frisians (or Friesians) settled in what is now this country in the first century A.D.
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Japan’s Panama Canal Buster
Japan’s I-400 class special submarines, known as Sen-Toku, weren’t just the largest subs of their time. They were the world’s first underwater aircraft carriers, intended to attack the Panama Canal with Seiran bombers.
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Daily Quiz for March 21, 2008
Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to do this on August 6, 1926:
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Rescue Behind Enemy Lines
Downed World War II allied airmen needed help from the Chetnik army, the Fifteenth Air Force, and OSS agents to get airlifted out of the Balkans, and it was one of the most successful rescues in air force history.
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Daily Quiz for March 20, 2008
In 1889, Buffalo Bill?s Wild West Show star Annie Oakley, using a Colt .45, shot the ash off the end of a cigarette held in the mouth by this world leader.
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Daily Quiz for March 19, 2008
John W. "Bet-You-a-Million" Gates proved the value of this invention in 1877 and then earned his fortune producing it: