Nancy Harkness Love proved her mettle in the air and gained recognition for women pilots in a man’s world.
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Last Ditch Rebel Stand at Petersburg
After nearly 10 months of trench warfare, Confederate resistance at Petersburg, Va., suddenly collapsed. Desperate to save his army, Robert E. Lee called on his soldiers for one last miracle.
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Battle of Boydton Plank Road: Major General Winfield Scott Hancock Strikes the Southside Railroad
With Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia stubbornlyclinging to Petersburg, Ulysses S. Grant decided to cut its vital rail lines. To perform the surgery, he selected one of the North’s proven heroes — Major General Winfield Scott Hancock.
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America’s Civil War: The South’s Feuding Generals
It sometimes seemed that Southern generals were more interested in fighting each other than in fighting Yankees. Their inability to get along together contributed greatly to the South’s demise.
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An Englishman’s Journey Through the Confederacy During America’s Civil War
Suave, gentlemanly Lt. Col. Arthur Fremantle of Her Majesty’s Coldstream Guards picked an unusual vacation spot: the Civil War-torn United States.
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USS Constellation: Union Man-of-War in the American Civil War
Organization and training were essential to coordinate the activities of the hundreds of men who crewed a Union man-of-war.
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First Crusade: Battle of Dorylaeum
Their first victorious encounter with Europeans had left the Turks with a low opinion of Crusaders, but the second Christian wave was made of sterner stuff.
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First Crusade: Siege of Jerusalem
On July 8, 1099, 15,000 starving Christian soldiers marched barefoot around Jerusalem while its Muslim defenders mocked them from the battlements. One week later, the situation would be astonishingly altered.
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Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Hlobane
Colonel Henry Evelyn Wood had expected little trouble as his cavalry ascended Hlobane Mountain. What he got was a Zulu army, 22,000 men strong.
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War Watchers at Bull Run During America’s Civil War
A crowd of Washington politicos, socialites, and newsmen came out to watch the war’s first real battle, along northern Virginia’s Bull Run. For most, the view was as disappointing as the fight’s outcome. But a few got to see all the action they could handle, and more.