Father John B. Tabb, an unreconstructed Rebel to the end, had served the Confederacy aboard blockade runners.
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Confederate General Samuel Garland
When Samuel Garland fell at South Mountain, the Confederacy lost a promising general and a proven leader.
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Disaster Strikes for Union Army at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff
Confederate soldiers drove inexperienced Union troops acting on faulty intelligence into the Potomac River like lemmings.
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Brigadier General John Gibbon’s Brief Breach During the Battle of Fredericksburg
Although overshadowed by the doomed Federal attack on the Confederate center, General John Gibbon’s 2nd Division managed — however briefly — to make a breakthrough on the Union left.
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Aleksandr Suvorov: Count of Rymniksky and Prince of Italy
Aleksandr Suvorov won many battles, but a retreat was the crowning achievement of his military career.
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Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar
When French Vice Adm. Pierre de Villeneuve emerged from Cadiz with his 33 mammoth warships, Britain’s Royal Navy awaited him with only 27, often smaller, ships of the line. But the British also had Lord Horatio Nelson.
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World War II: Yanagi Missions — Japan’s Underwater Convoys
A series of top-secret Japanese submarine missions could have altered the course of World War II.
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Battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s Ardennes Offensive, 1944-1945 (Book Review)
Reviewed by Robert Citino By Danny S. Parker Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2004 […]
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Stalin, the Russians, and Their War, 1941-1945 (Book Review)
Reviewed by David R. Stone By Marius Broekmeyer University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., […]
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If the Gods Are Good: The Epic Sacrifice of the HMS Jervis Bay (Book Review)
Reviewed by Robert Citino By Gerald L. Duskin and Ralph Segman Naval Institute Press, […]