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on March 17, 2008
"NUTS!" . . . With one now very famous reply to a German demand for surrender, the American garrisonholed up in Bastogne, Belgium, on 22 December 1944 ...
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on March 14, 2008
Having successfully warded off the threat of imminent German invasion in 1940, the British gave considerable thought to hitting back at the Germans. While the British had achieved some morale-building ...
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Marcus Cowper on July 01, 2002
Douglas MacArthur was born on 26 January 1880 in Little Rock, Arkansas, the third child of the renowned Civil War general Arthur MacArthur II. He had won renown in the Civil War as the 'boy colonel', winning the ...
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Nicholas Sekunda on January 01, 2002
The diet of the ancient greek soldier was rather different than his modern counterpart.
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Ian MacPherson McCulloch on January 01, 2002
Though the Roman army was the first to practice organised military medicine on a large scale, the need to care for the wounded had existed since tribes and city-states had first taken up arms and made war upon one another.
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on July 01, 2001
Augustus had gradually pushed Rome’s eastern European frontier to the Danube. But a frontier consisting of the Rhine and the Danube made a very long and devious line, including a right angle along their upper courses. An Elbe-Danube line would ...
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René Chartrand on March 01, 2001
At the beginning of July 1758, the hopes of Britain and her American colonies were high. Full-scale hostilities had been raging in North America for three years and, while British arms had seen some limited successes, the French had proven ...
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Elizabeth Von Aderkas on January 01, 2001
Captain George Pickett of Company D, Ninth Infantry, spent 3 August 1859 waiting for the British to wipe out his company on San Juan Island. In total, he commanded some 60 men with three brass field pieces...
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Martin Brayley on November 01, 2000
The formidable weather encountered in Korea led the British forces into developing a new combat uniform, closely modelled on the US M1943 multi-layered system...
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Nicholas Sekunda on July 01, 2000
The helmet, heavy spear and shield were the equipment that defined the Greek hoplite warrior. Contemporary vase paintings clearly show the many different images that were painted onto shields. Were these mainly decorative ...