The Scottish army had superior numbers and position on the morning of September 3, 1650, but all Oliver Cromwell needed was an opportunity–and he spotted one.
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Isaac ‘Ike Camacho: Escaped from Captivity During the Vietnam War
Captured during a November 1963 attack by VC on the CIDG camp at Hiep Hoa, Isaac Camacho managed to escape from Cambodia after 20 months of captivity.
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Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Khambula
Flushed with past victories, including one the day before, the Zulu in the Gobamakhosi Regiment charged the British at Khambula in March 1879, shouting, ‘We’re the boys from Isandlwana!’
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Eastertide Offensive Lessons for the Gulf War
The savage 1972 Eastertide Offensive in Vietnam provided an invaluable lesson for Marines in the Gulf War two decades later.
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Colonel Thomas Moe: American POW in North Vietnam
Brought down by a faulty fuze on his wingman’s bomb, Tom Moe survived more than five years as a POW in North Vietnam.
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Irish Confederate Wars: Oliver Cromwell’s Conquest of Ireland
Oliver Cromwell’s Irish campaign is remembered for both its brilliance and its bloody-handed ruthlessness.
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American History: 1840 U.S. Presidential Campaign
Modern presidential campaigns are routinely criticized for presenting more style than substance. It’s nothing new. Take, for example, the 1840 campaign, which pitted Old Tip against Sweet Sandy Whiskers and was often waged with song.
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Nurse Pember and the Whiskey War
During the Civil War, Phoebe Pember had come to tend the sick and comfort the dying. but she ended up fighting violent alcoholic patients over control of the medicinal whiskey.
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Interview: Adolf Galland / WWII Luftwaffe General and Ace Pilot
Battling overwhelming odds in the air and his superiors on the ground, Germany’s Adolf Galland became a legend.
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Long Life of Hudson’s Bay Company
For nearly 150 years, the royally chartered Hudson’s Bay Company battled Frenchmen, Canadians, Indians, mixed bloods and Scots for control of the lucrative fur trade in the Great White North.