A reevaluation of George Armstrong Custer suggests he was actually left in the lurch by his subordinates at the infamous Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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Who Captured Union Colonel Percy Wyndham
Who really did capture Percy Wyndham, adventurer, son of an English lord, and a colonel in the 1st New Jersey Cavalry during America’s Civil War?
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John Paul Vann: Man and Legend
By the time of his death in Vietnam in June 1972, Lt. Col. John Paul Vann had taken on the highest military authorities in Washington and had earned the respect and trust of a small group of newsmen.
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Burning High Bridge: The South’s Last Hope
In the final week of the war in Virginia, small villages, crossroads and railroad […]
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Blowup in Beirut: U.S. Marines Peacekeeping Mission Turns Deadly
The BLT is gone!” The staff sergeant bellowed his message to the major as […]
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Wyatt Earp’s Vendetta Posse
At about 11:30 p.m. on December 28, 1881, some two months after the so-called […]
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The Hunting of Billy the Kid
A rugged bunch of Texas cowboys pursued the stock-stealing Kid; some of them helped Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett capture him.
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Iroquois Battle Fellow Iroquois on the Niagara Frontier During the War of 1812
Iroquois of the Six Nations proved invaluable allies to both sides during the War of 1812 — until the inevitable day when they found themselves fighting each other.
By Dana Benner
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Ulysses S. Grant: The Myth of ‘Unconditional Surrender’ Begins at Fort Donelson
Grant was a master of the art of forcing surrender.
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Battle of Hürtgen Forest: The 9th Infantry Division Suffered in the Heavily Armed Woods
The bitter and bloody experience of the 9th Infantry Division in the Hürtgen Forest in autumn 1944 should have been enough to warn Allied leaders that the German army wasn’t finished just yet.
By Mark J. Reardon