The African American 92nd Infantry Division took on formidable German opposition in its push up the Italian boot.
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Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Aspern-Essling
At the twin villages of Aspern and Essling in the spring of 1809, Napoleon was prepared for battle with Austrian Archduke Charles. He was halfway across the Danube… and then came the flood tide!
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King Philip’s War: Indian Chieftain’s War Against the New England Colonies
Three hundred thirty years ago, a great Indian chieftain known as King Philip led a strong native American confederation in a bloody war to obliterate the New England colonies, nearly succeeding in dramatically altering the course of American history.
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America’s Civil War in War Tennessee’s Hickman County
Midnight justice, ‘devilish brutality’ and coldblooded murder sometimes characterized the Civil War in border regions.
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Invasion of Yugoslavia: Waffen SS Captain Fritz Klingenberg and the Capture of Belgrade During World War II
A quick-thinking, audacious Waffen SS officer and a handful of men captured the Yugoslav capital virtually without firing a shot.
By Colin D. Heaton
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America’s Civil War: Struggle for St. Louis
The dark clouds of civil war gathered over the nation as two aggressive factions — the Wide-Awakes and the Minutemen — plotted to gain political control of Missouri and its most important city, St. Louis. As is often the case, political power began at the end of a gun.
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War of 1812: Battle of Lake Erie: Oliver Perry’s Miraculous Victory
With Oliver Hazard Perry’s flagship dead in the water, the British had apparently won the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie. But then the quick-thinking American commander turned the tables and snatched an astounding victory in the bloodiest naval fight of the War of 1812.
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Cold War: Bay of Pigs Invasion
As the Cuban T-33 jet strafed the insurgents on the beach, a U.S. carrier plane closed to shoot it down. ‘Don’t fire! Don’t fire!’ cried the carrier’s air controller. ‘Rules of engagement have been changed.’
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Sir Thomas Cochrane: The British Naval Officer Who Proposed Saturation Bombing & Chemical Warfare During the Napoleonic Wars
During the Napoleonic Wars, a British naval officer believed that desperate times called for desperate measures — so he proposed the use of saturation bombing and chemical warfare.