Soon after the introduction of the Lockheed C-130, four U.S. Air Force pilots came up with a great way to demonstrate just how maneuverable and powerful the new transport was.
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Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet at Odds at Gettysburg
At Gettysburg, Longstreet told Lee that a direct assault would end in disaster—but Pickett’s Charge went forward anyway.
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First Transcontinental Car Race Crossed Oregon Trail
The journey across the United States was a pretty rough trip in 1905, but two motorized buckboards set out to navigate the Oregon Trail.
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World War I: Cuxhaven Raid — Britain’s Bold Strike From the Sea
On Christmas Day 1914, an audacious British air attack on a Zeppelin base in northern Germany caught the Germans with their defenses down.
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America’s Civil War: Battle for Kentucky
It had been almost one month since Confederate General Braxton Bragg had pulled off an organizational masterpiece—four weeks since the first troop trains had rumbled into Chattanooga, Tennessee, completing an improbable 800-mile odyssey.
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Operation Meade River: Marine Search-and-Destroy Cordon of the Vietnam War
Operation Meade River in ‘Dodge City’ was the largest and most successful Marine search-and-destroy cordon of the war.
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Kit Carson: The Legendary Frontiersman Remains an American Hero
The small but courageous adventurer made his mark on the frontier as a mountain man, guide, scout, Indian fighter and Indian protector.
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The History of the Roman-Persian Wars
Missiles fell on the capital city of Iraq. The invaders were speedy and destructive, compelling surrender, occupying much of the country. It sounds like today’s headlines, but it comes instead from ancient Rome’s 600-year struggle for world domination, one of the earliest tests of East versus West.
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Napoleonic Wars: Women at Waterloo
As was the case throughout the Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo saw its share of female participants — and casualties.
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Battle of Aboukir Bay
‘This little Europe is too small a field,’ Bonaparte supposedly said before setting out for Alexandria. ‘Great celebrity can be won only in the East.’