Who really did capture Percy Wyndham, adventurer, son of an English lord, and a colonel in the 1st New Jersey Cavalry during America’s Civil War?
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French Foreign Legion’s 13th Demi-Brigade Fought in World War II
It is doubtful that any other military unit had a more peripatetic journey through […]
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Daily Quiz for March 12, 2007
Russia?s "Bloody Sunday" occurred on this date:
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Daily Quiz for March 11, 2007
This American president was known as the "Little Magician" and the ?Red Fox of Kinderhook."
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Daily Quiz for March 10, 2007
This American president began the tradition of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch to open the baseball season:
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Daily Quiz for March 9, 2007
He united Algeria and Tunisia as military states under the Ottoman caliphate.
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Operation Market Garden: Last Stand at an Arnhem Schoolhouse
During Market-Garden, the last stand by 60 men at an Arnhem schoolhouse in September 1944, though largely forgotten, should be regarded as one of the British army’s most heroic feats of World War II.
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Jesse James’s Assassination and the Ford Boys
The house at 1318 Lafayette St. in St. Joseph, Missouri, was a one-story white […]
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Daily Quiz for March 8, 2007
This was the final battle of the War of the Roses:
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Napoleon’s Total War
When Revolutionary France declared war on the Austrian empire in the spring of 1792, […]