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Exhibit Review: On track to victory
The new sesquicentennial exhibition at Baltimore’s B&O Railroad Museum recalls how ‘The War Came […]
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The Great Greek Turncoat
During the 431–404 BC Peloponnesian War, the unscrupulous Alcibiades was a victorious general—for all […]
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What We Learned: The Tet Offensive
The fall of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 led to peace talks in Geneva […]
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Wild Irish Geese
Driven from their homeland by centuries of English domination, Irish soldiers went to war […]
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Crimean Fiasco: Battle of the Alma
Incompetence, stupidity and arrogance trumped bravery and technological innovation in the first truly modern […]
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Bill, Willie, and Joe
The artist made two dogfaces world-famous, and they did the same for him
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Hallowed Ground: Bosworth Field, England
The premature death of England’s King Henry V in 1422 left a power vacuum […]
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A Powerful Texas Rancher Had a Longtime Affair — Setting Up a Comanche Battle Decades Later
Tom L. Burnett’s relations with the Comanches didn’t stop with Chief Quanah Parker and land deals. He also became involved with Jennie Ho-we-ah. Their descendants would go head-to-head years later.
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Bertram Ramsay: The Mastermind of Operation Dynamo
In 1940 more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were trapped on the French coastline. Bertram Ramsay got them out.