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Black Troops Prove Their Valor at the Battle of New Market Heights
At New Market Heights, a Union general orders an attack that makes heroes and […]
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Heraclius Brings Persia to Its Knees
One general preserved the Eastern Roman Empire for seven more centuries, crushing the Sassanids […]
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Death of the Wehrmacht
In 1942, the German Army, turning one last time to its traditional Prussian tactics of maneuver, met its end.
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Interview: Charles A. Krohn / Author of The Lost Battalion
In 1993 retired Lt. Col. Charles A. Krohn shocked the U.S. Army with his […]
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Media Digest | Even Early On, Hill Country Was a Key Battleground
“Take the high ground” is one of the oldest and truest maxims of military […]
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How the Rough Riders Got Their Name
One of Teddy Roosevelt’s favorite reporters wrote the definitive account back in the 1920s, but his memoir of the episode was never published—until now
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How “Catkillers” in a Bullet-Riddled Cessna Turned Back an NVA Attack on a Base Near the DMZ
Flying low and slow, pilots in a Cessna O-1 Bird Dog hunted down the enemy at Con Thien, a Marine outpost called the “Hill of Angels.”