In their baptism of fire, the green paratroopers of General Maxwell Taylor’s 101st Airborne Division performed like seasoned veterans.
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Napoleon’s Masterpiece, the Battle of Austerlitz
Facing a formidable coalition, the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte I devised a plan to defeat his counterparts from Austria and Russia in one swift campaign.
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Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Bannockburn
As a final, unnerving touch at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, a howling host swept over the rim of the hill and careened down the steep slope — not soldiers, but rather camp followers.
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Battle of Pierre’s Hole
Still bleary-eyed from their annual rendezvous, Bill and Milton Sublette’s mountain men were ill-prepared for battle. But the dreaded Gros Ventre–‘Big Bellies’–could not be avoided without a fight.
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Gilbert Islands Campaign: Capturing Makin Atoll
While Marines fought a desperate battle for Tarawa, the capture of nearby Makin Atoll was primarily an Army operation.
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China Marines
In the twilight of peace, the China Marines found themselves on the front lines of conflict.
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44th Georgia Regiment Volunteers in the American Civil War
The hard-fighting 44th Georgia suffered some of the heaviest losses of any regiment in the Civil War.
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Battle of Antietam: Taking Rohrbach Bridge at Antietam Creek
While Union commander George McClellan fumed and the Battle of Antietam hung in the balance, a handful of Rebels held off Federal troops at ‘Burnside Bridge.’
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Battle of Champion’s Hill
With Ulysses S. Grant’s army steadily menacing Vicksburg, Confederate General John Pemberton left the town’s comforting defenses to seek out the enemy army. Too late, he found it, at Champion’s Hill.
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America’s Civil War: Union Soldiers Hanged in North Carolina
Eight months after Major General George E. Pickett led his famous charge, he hanged Union prisoners in North Carolina.