As Union warships steamed past the Confederate defenses near Port Royal, Flag Officer Samuel Du Pont proudly noted that army officers aboard his ship looked on ‘with wonder and admiration.’ A revolution in naval tactics had begun.
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Operation Barbarossa: Albano Castelletto Recalls His Time with the Voloire Regiment on the Russian Front
In a firsthand account, a former artillery lieutenant recalls his experience with the Voloire Regiment during Operation Barbarossa, when Italy’s horse-drawn field artillery proved its worth on the Russian Front.
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Cavalry Clash at Hanover
Southern beau sabreur J.E.B. Stuart hardly expected to run head-on into enemy cavalry on his second ride around the Union Army. But a trio of ‘boy generals’ would soon give the famed Confederate horseman all the action he could handle.
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Account Of The Battle of Philippi
At Philippi, in western Virginia, one overly optimistic young colonel confidently awaited reinforcements as Union columns converged on his tiny force from all directions in the first full-fledged battle of the Civil War.
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The Fatal Fetterman Fight
Called a massacre at the time, the December 1866 clash near Fort Phil Kearny was, in fact, a military triumph by the Plains Indians and the Army’s greatest blunder in the West until the Battle of the Little Bighorn 10 years later.
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Sand Creek Massacre
More often called a massacre than a battle, the attack by Colonel John M. Chivington’s Colorado volunteers on Chief Black Kettle’s village will forever be controversial.
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The Hoa Binh Campaign
At Hoa Binh, the watershed of the First Indochina War, the Viet Minh succeeded in bottling up the French in the Red River Delta.
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Buffalo Soldiers: Facts About the Famed Black Cavalry Regiment
Facts about the famed Black cavalry regiment known as Buffalo Soldiers
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President William McKinley: Assassinated by an Anarchist
Anarchist Leon Czolgosz came to Buffalo, New York, with a mission. He believed that government was evil, and he planned to stamp out that evil, beginning at the top.
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Book Review: Stonewall Jackson / The Man, the Soldier, the Legend
Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend, by James I Robertson, Jr. (Macmillian, […]