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The Hong Kong Flu During Vietnam Was Also Thought to Have Originated in China.
The Hong Kong Flu outbreak appeared on 13 July 1968. By the end of July 1968, it was a full on pandemic in Singapore …
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Ernie Pyle’s Greatest Post
The Death of Captain Waskow AT THE FRONT LINES IN ITALY, January 10, 1944 – In this war I have …
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Bernard Montgomery. Brilliant General. Otherwise, Quite Difficult.
From Rick Atkinson’s brilliant An Army at Dawn. “Sparks flew up around Montgomery. He was puerile, petty, and egocentric, bereft of irony, humility, and …
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Return to Lake Trasimène. A Failure of Intelligence
It’s odd talking about a battle I wrote about ten years ago. But this is not my first visit to Lake Trasimène. This is: ( …
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Grant Had A Plan For Blacks To Vote.
“In fact, Grant’s imagination had charted the entire arc of the freed slaves from wartime runaways to full voting citizenship. This man who had …
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Privateers Are One of the Reasons There is an America.
In Atkinson’s book, The British Are Coming, the point is made that the Colonists did not fare well in battle against to British that often …
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An Idiot With A Gun
President William McKinley was a youth of Niles, Ohio when he joined the 23rd Ohio Regiment in the Civil War. He fought at Antietam, Cedar …
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A Child With A Gun.
Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle in the American Civil War. A total of 51,000 casualties were tallied between both sides. After wars concluded on the …
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American Civil War Cemeteries and Their Inhabitants.
Each state that participated in the American Civil War has dedicated a cemetery to that war. It took a painstaking study finished in 1908 to …
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John Wilkes Booth’s Brother Saved Lincoln’s Son.
Robert Todd Lincoln, the son of President Abraham Lincoln didn’t have to mess with warfare. He was protected because of his father’s occupation. One day, …
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From “The British are Coming,” a quote about equipment needs.
“Over the past nine months, the king’s ministers had carefully reviewed the watercraft and other matériel sent up the St. Lawrence in the last …
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Arms Manufacturing
German armor vehicle production included Italian, Hungarian and Czechoslovakian factories, and as such churned out 53,1887 tanks and self-propelled guns of all calibers. Compare that …
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Attrition
It’s easy to forget that Germans and Russians won or lost not so much because of how well their equipment worked, but because of how …
Kursk, By the Numbers
There is hardly a battle on the Eastern front that was not devastatingly lethal and similarly large. At Kursk, the Russians had accidentally produced a …
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During the Revolutionary War, about 20% of the Population of America Had Cast Their Lot With The Crown.
“One can tell a Tory by his looks,” Lewis Howell, a surgeon with the 2nd New Jersey Regiment, wrote his father in late June. The …