The Scottish army had superior numbers and position on the morning of September 3, 1650, but all Oliver Cromwell needed was an opportunity–and he spotted one.
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Irish Confederate Wars: Oliver Cromwell’s Conquest of Ireland
Oliver Cromwell’s Irish campaign is remembered for both its brilliance and its bloody-handed ruthlessness.
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CIA’s Secret War in Tibet
In a top secret and still little-known, decade-long ‘war at the top of the world,’ the CIA fostered, trained and supplied a tenacious Tibetian resistance force in its struggle against the Communist Chinese.
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Winchester, Virginia: A Town Embattled During America’s Civil War
Winchester, Virginia, saw more of the war than any other place North or South.
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World War II: Soviet and Japanese Forces Battle at Khalkhin Gol
The undeclared conflict between the Soviet Union and Imperial Japan at Khalkhin Gol cast a long shadow on subsequent events in the Pacific theater and on the Russian Front.
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Old Dominion Brigade in America’s Civil War
The Virginia regiments originally under the brigade command of William Mahone seemed to save their best for last. After two years of average service, they became Robert E. Lee’s go-to troops in the Wilderness and at Petersburg’s Crater.
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Eyewitness to American Civil War: Iron Brigade Soldier’s Wartime Letters
Timothy Webster survived Fredericksburg and Gettysburg with the Iron Brigade, but not Petersburg.
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America’s Civil War: Desperate Ironclad Assault at Trent’s Reach
With Confederate forces strangled at Petersburg, the Southern Navy prepared to assault the enemy’s supply depot at City Point. But first, Rebel ships had to get past Trent’s Reach.
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Boudica: Celtic War Queen Who Challenged Rome
It was easy for Emperor Nero to dismiss a woman from a barbarian tribe in faraway Britannia. But when Boudica and her warriors decimated a legion, Rome took her seriously.
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Theodore Roosevelt: Leading the Rough Riders During the Spanish-American War
In 1898, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt pushed hard for war with Spain. When it came, Teddy proved that he was ready, willing, and able to take part.