Battles & Campaigns

A unique first-hand narrative of the Falklands war. Rick Jolly was the Senior Medical Officer in the Falklands, setting up and running the field ...

General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the twentieth century, but his leadership of the second lar...

How the Vietnam War changed American artBy the late 1960s, the United States was in a pitched conflict in Vietnam, against a foreign enemy, and at ...

Considered by many to be the architect of the modern U.S. Army, Union General Emory Upton commanded troops in almost every major battle of the C...

This biographical dictionary catalogs the Union army colonels who commanded regiments from Missouri and the Western States and Territories during t...

The American War for Independence was under way before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, but the Continental Army didn't have the ...

Virginia saw significant action during the War of 1812, from the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair to the defense of Norfolk against British invaders. M...

Captain George N. Bliss of the First Rhode Island Cavalry survived some 27 actions during the Civil War. Midway through the war, he served nine ...

Much of the history of the Korean War has been misinterpreted or obscured. Intense propaganda and limited press coverage during the war, coupled...

Freedom of speech was restricted during the Revolutionary War. In the great struggle for independence, those who remained loyal to the British c...

Often neglected by historians, actions in Missouri and Kansas had an important influence on the course of the Civil War, with profound effects f...

In the summer of 1862, two great armies met outside of Richmond in a series of battles that would determine the course of the Civil War. The Uni...

After more than three years of grim fighting, General Ulysses Grant had a plan to end the Civil War--laying siege to Petersburg, Virginia, thus ...

If Americans were asked to select the best known and most celebrated outlaws, from among the many bad men produced by the Wild West, chances are Fr...

In June 1866, an 800-man contingent of the Irish Fenian Brotherhood invaded Canada from Buffalo, New York, in an effort to free Ireland from Bri...

For 50 years, civilians have avoided hearing about the controversial experiences of Vietnam veterans, many of whom suffer through post-traumatic...

Defeat was looming for the South--as the Civil War continued, paths to possible victory were fast disappearing. Dr. Luke Pryor Blackburn, a Conf...

As a 26-year old Marine radar intercept officer (RIO), Fleet Lentz flew 131 combat missions in the back seat of the supersonic F-4 B Phantom II ...

Like many other young men during the Vietnam War, Ed Corlew enlisted in hopes of having some influence regarding assignment--safety and training...

The Lost Cause ideology that emerged after the Civil War and flourished in the early twentieth century sought to recast a struggle to perpetuate a ...

Union General Philip Kearny began his career as a lieutenant with the 1st U.S. Dragoons. He studied cavalry tactics in France and fought with th...

The Vermont Brigade, sometimes referred to as the First Vermont Brigade or the Old Brigade, fought its first full-brigade battle in the Seven Days ...

1968 was a year filled with calamitous events that mired down the Lyndon Johnson presidency, not the least of which was the unheeded warnings leadi...

As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for l...