During the Middle Ages, a besieging army needed manpower, siege engines, and, more often than not, patience in order to carry a fortress.
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Big Jim French and the Lincoln County War
He was by Billy the Kid’s side when Sheriff William Brady was killed and when Alexander McSween’s house was set on fire, yet little else is known about the one-time ‘Regulator.’
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Jim Hill: Railroad Builder and Visionary
Possessing abundant ability and Napoleonic ambition, the Canadian-born entrepreneur Jim Hill believed that his new railway would fill the wasted northern Plains with settlers.
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Lakotas: Feared Fighters of the Plains
The Teton Sioux, or Lakotas, battled other tribes to become the dominant force on the Northern Plains and then took on the U.S. Army in an effort to maintain their way of life.
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America’s Civil War in War Tennessee’s Hickman County
Midnight justice, ‘devilish brutality’ and coldblooded murder sometimes characterized the Civil War in border regions.
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Captain George S. Blake Saved the USS Constitution
‘Old Ironsides,’ flagship of the U.S. Navy, beats a hasty retreat in the face of secessionist plots.
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Sparta: The Fall of the Empire
Sparta, the greatest military power in ancient Greece, was in the end its own worst enemy.
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Battle of Thermopylae: Leonidas the Hero
At Thermopylae a king and three hundred of his soldiers set the standard for battle to the death against overwhelming odds.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: FBI’s Campaign to Discredit the Civil Rights Leader
After the March on Washington, the FBI launched a vicious campaign to utterly discredit Martin Luther King Jr.
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Dr. Lawrence H. Climo Recalls His Vietnam War Service
A young U.S. Army doctor tried to strike a balance between clashing cultures and the obligations of his Hippocratic oath.