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Was the USS Monitor the most revolutionary technological development of the American Civil War?

Battle of Cold Harbor: The Folly and Horror

The blame for a broad command failure that led to 7,000 unnecessary Union casualties in a single hour applies to more than just the commander in chief.

Battle of Iwo Jima

Battle of Chalons: Attila the Hun Versus Flavius Aetius

American Volunteer Group: Claire L. Chennault and the Flying Tigers

ANCIENT - MEDIEVAL WARS & CONFLICTS

First Crusade: Siege of Jerusalem
On July 8, 1099, 15,000 starving Christian soldiers marched barefoot around Jerusalem while its Muslim defenders mocked them from the battlements. One week later, the situation would be astonishingly altered.

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15TH - 16TH CENTURY WARS & CONFLICTS

English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor
At Marston Moor in 1644, the English Civil War teetered for nearly two hours between decisive victory for Royalists or Roundheads.

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17TH - 18TH CENTURY WARS & CONFLICTS

English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor
At Marston Moor in 1644, the English Civil War teetered for nearly two hours between decisive victory for Royalists or Roundheads.

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19TH CENTURY WARS & CONFLICTS

War of 1812: Battle of Lake Erie -- Oliver Perry Prevails
With Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's flagship unable to fight, an outmatched British flotilla faced the prospect of a remarkable victory. But Perry only transferred his pennant to another ship and fought on.

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20TH - 21ST CENTURY WARS & CONFLICTS

CIA's Secret War in Tibet
In a top secret and still little-known, decade-long 'war at the top of the world,' the CIA fostered, trained and supplied a tenacious Tibetian resistance force in its struggle against the Communist Chinese.

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AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR

Charles Lee's Disgrace at the Battle of Monmouth
Charles Lee's failure to coordinate subordinates led to a crucial breakdown at the Battle of Monmouth, and a rare public rebuke from George Washington.

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NAPOLEONIC WARS

Battle of Jena: Napoleon's Double Knock-out Punch
Napoleon returned to his headquarters believing he had just crushed the main Prussian army at Jena. He was wrong. At Naumburg, 18 miles to the north, Marshal Louis Nicholas Davout was facing 2-to-1 odds against Duke Carl of Brunswick's troops.

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AMERICAN INDIAN WARS

Wounded Knee Massacre: United States versus the Plains Indians
Some 30 years of warfare between the United States and the Plains Indians reached a grisly climax on December 29, 1890, at South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation.

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AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

Battle of Cold Harbor: The Folly and Horror
The blame for a broad command failure that led to 7,000 unnecessary Union casualties in a single hour applies to more than just the commander in chief.

America's Civil War: Why the Irish Fought for the Union

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WORLD WAR I

Alvin York and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive
German records reveal the view from the receiving end of Corporal Alvin C. York's torrent of bullets on October 8, 1918 during World War I.

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WORLD WAR II

Lost Prison Interview with Hermann Göring: The Reichsmarschall’s Revelations
A long-overlooked interview with imprisoned Nazi Hermann Göring provides a window on Hitler’s flawed decision-making and explains why Germany’s blueprint for victory depended on keeping America out of the war.

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KOREAN WAR

Korean War: Operation Chromite
Operation Chromite -- the September 1950 amphibious landings at Inchon -- rehabilitated the U.S. military's tarnished post-World War II image.

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VIETNAM WAR

Operation Babylift: Evacuating Children Orphaned by the Vietnam War
American relief effort worked nonstop to evacuate abandoned Amerasian children from Vietnam before Saigon fell.

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WEAPONRY

Weaponry: Lancers
Lancers fell into disuse after the Thirty Years' War until Napoleon employed lancer squadrons in his army, and then lance-bearing cavalry remained fixtures of Western armies until World War I.

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MILITARY TECHNOLOGY

Medieval Warfare: How to Capture a Castle with Siegecraft
During the Middle Ages, a besieging army needed manpower, siege engines, and, more often than not, patience in order to carry a fortress.

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