In Vietnam’s Ia Drang Valley and at the World Trade Center, Rick Rescorla helped others get out alive.
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Cornwallis: From Yorktown to India — and Redemption
In America, General Cornwallis lost the Yorktown battle. In India, he won acclaim as […]
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An American Fandango in Monterrey
His expansionist appetite whetted by the 1845 annexation of Texas, U.S. president James K. […]
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An Assault Company Commander’s Memories of the Tet Offensive
A retired four-star general recounts his experiences as a captain leading a company of 7th Cavalry troops at the height of the war.
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Rainy Sky, Bloody Ground
U.S. Marines battle well-trained and equipped NVA forces at the Battle of Cam Khe. […]
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Controlling Changsha, Controlling China
Now all but forgotten, Changsha was one of the most bitterly contested cities of […]
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Artemisia at Salamis
When the outnumbered Greek feet outfought Xerxes’s great navy in 480 BC, the Persians’ […]
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Longstreet Reeled in his Saddle
The War in Their Words: A staff officer recalls the moment when friendly fire nearly killed one of the confederacy’s top generals. The following article about the wounding of Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet at the Battle of the Wilderness on May 6, 1864, appeared in several Northern and Southern newspapers, including the Savannah Republican and then the New York Commercial Advertiser, in December 1865. The piece is unsigned, but the author was probably Francis Dawson, a captain and ordnance officer on Longstreet’s staff. Dawson’s Reminiscences of Confederate Service, published in 1883, has an account of Longstreet’s wounding that includes two quotes from the ill-fated General Micah Jenkins that are nearly identical to those in the December 1865 newspaper accounts.
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Where to Find a List of Confederate Soldiers?
Where would I find a list of Arkansas Confederate Civil War Soldiers and Confederate […]
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French Lessons at West Point
How Napoleonic strategy and tactics influenced generations of American officers. It is easy to […]