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Reviews- Armchair General September 2013
Moment of Battle: The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World by James Lacey and […]
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1st CAV on the War Path
A search-and-destroy mission in the mountainous terrain above the Vinh Thanh Valley devolved into […]
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Valor: The Other Custer Hero
Thomas Ward Custer U.S. Army Medal of Honor (double award) Virginia 1865 “He should […]
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Did This Unreliable Sioux Chief Make Up the Custer Myths We Know Today?
A U.S. Infantry captain took down the first detailed narrative of the famous battle from the chief in 1876.
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Luther Standing Bear Went From Pine Ridge to Carlisle to Hollywood
The boy known as Plenty Kill followed a lively path. Plenty Kill of the […]
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This Springfield Trapdoor Carbine Belonged to Trumpeter John Martin
He carried more than a message at the Little Bighorn. Italian immigrant Giovanni Crisostomo […]
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Everything You Know About the Indian Wars Is Wrong
Reiterate the same tale in enough films, shows, books and magazines, and it becomes “true” by dint of saturation. The Indian wars are replete with examples.
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The Other Magpie and The Woman Chief Were Crow Warriors of the ‘Weaker Sex’
Cheyenne and Lakota women also took up arms. When the Crows sent some 175 […]
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Eleazar Williams, the ‘Lost Dauphin,’ Claimed to Be Real Bourbon French
The Mohawk who would be king also envisioned an Indian empire. Many an Indian, […]