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The Battle of the Pyramids: Napoleon's Defeat of Mamluk Forces of Murad and Ibrahim Bey 1798

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By: Grant Sebastian Nell

Victoria Cross: Only 1,356 VCs have been awarded.

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By: William Silvester

Gen. Mansfield Lovell, CSA: A Confederate general who retired in New York City.

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By: Harlan Whatley

Gen. Archibald Gracie, CSA: A New York native who led the 43rd Alabama regiment in the Civil War

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By: Harlan Whatley

Admiral Lord Nelson's Wounds: How the Hero of Trafalgar lost his Arm and the Sight in One Eye

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By: Martin Gosling

More VCASNY History: History of the VCASNY and the Military Society of the War of 1812.

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By: Harlan Whatley

10th Hussars Charge at Benavente: A Classic Cavalry Skirmish during the Corruna Campaign of 1808-09

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By: Martin Gosling

Lt Michael Murphy MOH: First Naval Winner of the Medal of Honor since Vietnam

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Tuskegee Airmen: The first African-American fighter pilots in the US Army Air Corps.

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By: Harlan Whatley

Wilhelm I and the Potsdam Giants: The King of Prussia and his Love of Tall Men

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By: Feature Writer Isaac M. McPhee

The Chesapeake and the Shannon: For Free Trade and Sailors Rights the US Went to War with Britain

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By: Martin Gosling

NYC's Oldest Artillery Regiment: The History of the VCASNY

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By: Harlan Whatley

79th New York "Highlanders": NYC's Scottish Regiment in the American Civil War

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By: Harlan Whatley

Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg: A WWI hero and President of the Weimar Republic who appointed Hitler

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By: Harlan Whatley

Marshal Nicholas Charles Oudinot: Napoleans Forgotten Battle Lion

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

V2 Rocket Lauched From Carrier: USS Midway Fired Captured Nazi V-2 in Operation Sandy in 1947.

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Flying Tigers: American combat aviators in China during World War II

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By: Harlan Whatley

Army Pigeons in World War I & II: Avian Allied Forces for the Australian, British and U.S. Armies

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By: Harlan Whatley

Eagle Squadrons: American pilots who flew for the RAF during World War II.

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By: Harlan Whatley

Kosciuszko Squadron: American Combat Pilots in Poland

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By: Harlan Whatley

The Lafayette Escadrille: Early American Combat Pilots of World War One

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By: Harlan Whatley

USS Somers Mutiny 1842: The Only Known American Mutiny on the High Seas

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Interventionists in the Far East: The Saga of Allied Intervention in the Russian Far East

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Czech Volunteers in Russia WWI: The Origin of the Czech Legion 1914-1917

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Czech Legion 1917-1920: Russian Civil War Combatant on the White Side

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Siberian White Army 1918-1923: Led by Admiral Kolchak During the Russian Civil War

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Northwestern White Army 1919: Led by General Yudenich During the Russian Civil War

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The White Russian Armies 1917-1923: An Overview of the White Forces in the Russian Civil War

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Northern White Army 1918-1920: Russian Civil War Force Led by General EK Miller

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Southern White Army 1917-1920: Founded by Kornilov and Alekseev in the Russian Civil War

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Military History of Tonga: Pacific Kingdom has Fought in Two World Wars and is Still Going

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The 25th Infantry Regiment US Army: The Buffalo Soldiers Served for Almost a Hundred Years with Honor

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

167 Discharged without Honor: The Story of the 25th Infantry and the 1906 Brownsville Raid Affair

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Sinking of the Mary Rose: The Flagship of King Henry VIII's Tudor Navy

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By: Neil Gunn

The Turtle First Combat Submarine: Used in the Revolutionary War and Still Subject of Controversy

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Fulton Skyhook STAR System: Used by the CIA USAF and USN in the Cold War for Impossible Missons

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Korean War - opening stage: The Defensive stage June 1950 – September 1950

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By: Richard Cleary

The Post War Life of the Tacomas: The Frigates of the PF-03 Class Served 14 Different Navies

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Tacoma Class Frigates PF-03: The Forgotten Expendables of The Navy

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Italy - Forgotten Front Remembered: The Mutli-National Southern European Battlefront of World War II

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By: Steve DeVault

The Russian Imperial Guards: Origins and History 1683-1905

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Other Side of History: Sometimes Past Events Were a Bit Different than People Believe

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By: Charles Anderson

Essex Aircraft Carriers: Enhancing the American Pacific Fleet in World War II and Beyond

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By: Steve DeVault

D-Day and Operation Fortitude: Hitler Ensures the Success of Operation Overlord During World War II

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By: Steve DeVault

The Soviet PPSh-41 Submachine Gun: The Red Armys WWII Widow Maker of the Eastern Front Still in Service

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Alvin York: An Unlikely World War I Hero and Medal of Honor Winner

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By: Scott Hayden

June 4, 1944 the other Epic Day: The Day Rome Fell

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By: Richard Cleary

Sixty Five Years of Service: The USCGC Storis (WMEC -38) was the Last Surviving Veteran of WWII

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Ruhr Pocket of World War II: The U.S. 75th 'Bulgebusters' Infantry Division Enters Germany

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By: Steve DeVault

The Colmar Pocket of World War II: The U.S. 75th Infantry Division after the Battle of the Bulge

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By: Steve DeVault

Canadian HMCS Huron DDH 281: CDF Navy Destroyer 1972-2005

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Tales from Spandau: Nazi War Criminals and the Cold War 1949-1988

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The U.S. 75th Infantry Division: The Bulgebusters From Activation Through The Battle of the Bulge

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By: Steve DeVault

Admiral Shigetaro Shimada: Japan’s WWII Navy Minister Sails and Sinks with General Hideki Tojo

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By: Steve DeVault

The USCGC Icarus vs Uboat U-352: Outmatched Coast Guard Cutter Sinks Deadly Submarine off NC Coast

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Eastern Europe’s Post WWII Fate: German and Russian Plans for Eastern Europe early in World War II

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By: Steve DeVault

The Faithful Italian Carabinieri: Military Police and Corps of Heroes

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Admiral Stark at Vladivostok 1922: White Russian Admiral Led the Last Fleet into Exile

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Admiral Stark at Port Arthur 1904: Scapegoat Naval Commander in the Russo-Japanese War

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Salvage of the High Seas Fleet: German Ships Sank at Scapa Flow in 1919

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Scuttling of the High Seas Fleet: The German Navy Self Destructed to Save its Honor

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Internment High Seas Fleet 1918: The Pride of the German Navy was Surrendered at Scapa Flow

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Lost Guns of the General Alekseev: The Cannons from the Russian Battleship were Spread Far and Wide

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Battleship Imp Aleksander III: The Russian battleship that fought in WWI and the Civil War

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Canada Remembers Vimy: Young and Old Canadians Honour Veterans

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By: Scott Hayden

Tun Tavern, Birthplace of the USMC: The first U.S. Marines were raised at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, PA

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By: John Crandall

World War II U.S. Coastal Defense: Women Protect American Shores by Forming Air Raid Defense Group

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By: Laurie McLaughlin

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in WW II: Captured at Battle of the Bulge Witnesses Fire-Bombing of Dresden

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By: Brent Sedo

Attack on Darwin Australia 1942: Japanese B54s Bomb the City, Civilians Flee in Adelaide River Stakes

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By: Susan Thompson

The Swiss Guard Guardia Svizzera: The Vatican Hosts the World's Smallest Professional Standing Army

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Secret MiGs Flown By the USAF: The US Flew Dozens of MiG Fighters in a Classified Cold War Project

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Robot Boat of Nikola Tesla: The Beginnings of the UUV and remote control weapons

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Grace O'Malley, Female Pirate: A Pirate of Ireland

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By: Minden Pettengill

The British in India 1825-1859: United Kingdom Army Dress, Weapons, and Tactics

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By: Henry Berry

Hauptman Detzner WW I Holdout: World War I German guerilla fighter on New Guinea

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Eugene Esmonde: Victoria Cross: Profile of First Fleet Air Arm Pilot to Win Supreme Award

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By: Murray McLeod

Scarf :Victoria Cross: Squadron Leader Arthur King Scarf- the unheralded VC winner

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By: Murray McLeod

Ward: Victoria Cross: James Allan Ward- heroic New Zealand airman

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By: Murray McLeod

Albert Jacka Victoria Cross: Australia's greatest front line soldier of WWI

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By: Murray McLeod

Newton: Victoria Cross: Bill Newton- Heroic to the end

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By: Murray McLeod

Military History of Liechtenstein: 200 years of Liechtenstein 's Armed Forces

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Middleton:Victoria Cross: Aussie Bomber Pilot in World War II.

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By: Murray McLeod

Harry Murray: Victoria Cross: World War I Australian Army Hero

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By: Murray McLeod

US Air Combat Losses to the USSR: Twenty US - Soviet Shoot Down Incidents in the Cold War

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Soviet and US Air Combat 1950-1991: When the Cold War Turned Hot in the Air

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Flying Fortress Raid - Schweinfurt: Black Thursday, the worst day of WWII for the US Eighth Air Force

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By: Dan Conner

Grand Old Man of the Marine Corps: As every recruit knows, Archibald Henderson was the Grand Old Man

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By: John Crandall

Famous Minie Ball Pregnancy: Facts on the Civil War Urban Legend

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Surrender at Stalingrad: This month at War - Stalingrad February 1943

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By: Richard Cleary

Pacific Military Cargo Cults: World War Two US occupation had some strange results

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

US Navy Railway Guns France 1918: 14-inch naval rifles served ashore with the AEF in World War One

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The US 14inch/45calibre Naval Gun: The 14"/45 used by the US Navy from 1910 until 1945 in WWI & WWII

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Japanese Balloon Bombs of WWII: The Empire of Japan's use of one way free balloons to bomb the US

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Modern Military Duels: One on one combat for honor since the Napoleonic era.

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Duel in Military History: This ode to Ritualized Personal Violence had been common to the mili

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Henry Walton Grinnell: Naval Hero of the Civil War and Japanese Naval Advisor

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Captain Philo Norton McGiffin: The first American to command a modern battleship in wartime

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The Battle of the Yalu River 1894: First modern Naval Engagement Between Japan and China

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

Production variants of the FAL: The FN FAL and the L1A1 SLR Rifles and their users

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

The FN FAL NATO Battle Rifle: The Free World's Right Arm

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By: Feature Writer Christopher Eger

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