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Lt Michael Murphy was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 2007 after being mortally wounded while leading his Seal unit in Afghanistan in 2005. more...
Marshal Nicholas Charles Oudinot
Nicholas-Charles Oudinot enlisted as a private at age 16 and served France for the next 64 years, rising to become one of Napoleon's Marshals and surviving 24 wounds. more...
V2 Rocket Lauched From Carrier
In 1947 the largest warship afloat, the USS Midway launched the most formidable weapon of the twentieth century, a ballistic missile, in its first naval test. more...
The only known US Naval mutiny in documented history ended in 1842 with three mutineers having their necks prematurely lengthened. more...
Interventionists in the Far East
Japanese troops, assisted by the British, French and Americans, occupied the Russian far east for several years during the Russian Civil War. more...
Growing from a unit of volunteers that fought for the Tsar against the Hapsburg Empire, these 50,000 Czechs fought an amazing campaign for survival. more...
Czech Volunteers in Russia WWI
The Czech Legion started from humble beginnings in 1914 and ended up as one of the last reliable units on the World War One Eastern Front. more...
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Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian victory at the Battle of the Pyramids against the Mamluk forces of Murad and Ibrahim Bey on July 21 1798. more...
The medal has become one of the most coveted awards for valour in the world and the Commonwealth's highest honour for conspicuous bravery in the face of the enemy. more...
By: Harlan Whatley
Mansfield Lovell was a West Point educated engineer whose career as a Confederate general was tarnished by losing the port city of New Orleans to Admiral David Farragut. more...
By: Harlan Whatley
Archibald Gracie, Jr. was from a prominent New York City family that owned cotton interests in Mobile, AL. He attended West Point when Robert E. Lee was commandant. more...
By: Martin Gosling
Nelson was a small, frail man whose enormous spirit enabled him to overcome losing his arm and the sight in one eye in the years before Trafalgar more...
By: Harlan Whatley
Part II of the history of the Veteran Corps of Artillery of the State of New York and the Military Society of the War of 1812. more...
10th Hussars Charge at Benavente
By: Martin Gosling
Sir John Moore's venture into Portugal and Spain ended in his successful withdrawal to Corruna. But the French Army, led by Napoleon and Soult were close on his heels. more...
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