Dutch Debacle – Warfare History Network
Franklin After launching the offensive in the spring of 1940, the Nazis swept to victory in the Netherlands. By…
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By Michael Haskew, Editor For three months during the autumn and winter of 1944, the U.S. First Army…
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The U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC) in Carlisle, PA covers more than a century of American…
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By Christopher Miskimon In the late afternoon of September 17, 1862 the 7th Maine Regiment received new orders.…
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By William E. Welsh In the 15th century the great powers of medieval Europe paid talented gunsmiths to…
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“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as…
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The protesters dumped feminine items they deemed symbols of oppression including “bras, girdles, curlers, false eyelashes, wigs, and…
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Born in Virginia in 1793, Houston moved with his family to rural Tennessee after his father’s death; as…
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Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam, the capital of New Netherland, to an English naval squadron under…
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President Truman appointed MacArthur to head the Allied occupation of Japan as Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers.…
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