History
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest: The History and Legacy of the Roman Empire's Greatest Military Defeat
Every great nation or empire has had at least one horrific military loss or disaster in their history, and the Roman Empire, perhaps the greatest empire that ever existed in the Western world, was no exception to this rule. While...
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The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Battle of New Orleans: The History of the Battles that Led William Henry Harrison and Andrew Jackson to the Presidency
The Battle of Tippecanoe, fought on November 7, 1811 near present-day Lafayette, Indiana, involved forces of fewer than 2,000 Native American warriors and white soldiers, and only about 300 men were killed or wounded on both sides. Given those numbers,...
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The Battle of Tippecanoe: The History and Legacy of the American Victory That Ended Tecumseh's War
*Includes pictures *Explains the roles played by Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison before, during, and after the battle *Includes various accounts of what happened at the battle according to both sides *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table...
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The Battle of Vienna (1683): The History and Legacy of the Decisive Conflict between the Ottoman Turkish Empire and Holy Roman Empire
*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading“Ours are treasures unheard of . . . tents, sheep, cattle and no small number of camels . . . it is victory as nobody ever knew before, the enemy now...
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The Battle of Wake Island: The History of the Japanese Invasion Launched in Conjunction with the Attack on Pearl Harbor
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the fighting by soldiers on both sides*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsAll Americans are familiar with the “day that will live in infamy.” At 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, December...
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The Battle of Yellow Tavern: The History of the Civil War Battle that Ended J.E.B. Stuart's Life
Alongside Robert E. Lee, no one epitomized the chivalry and heroism celebrated by the Lost Cause more than J. E. B. Stuart, the most famous cavalry officer of the Civil War. Stuart was equal parts great and grandiose while leading...
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The Battle on the Ice: The History and Legacy of the Slavs' Decisive Victory Against the Teutonic Knights
*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading“He was taller than others and his voice reached the people as a trumpet, and his face was like the face of Joseph, whom the Egyptian Pharaoh placed as next to the king after...
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The Battleship Potemkin: The History and Legacy of the Famous Mutiny aboard the Russian Ship
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the mutiny*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading“The hero is the sailors' battleship, the Odessa crowd, but characteristic figures are snatched here and there from the crowd. For a moment, like a conjuring trick,...
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: President Kennedy's Failed Attempt to Overthrow Fidel Castro
"Openly and unabashedly they are organizing training camps; openly and unabashedly they are building air bases and air strips. Everyone knows who is building the strips and buying planes, that mercenaries are recruiting troops. They even have the cynicism to...
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The Bear River Massacre: The History and Legacy of the U.S. Army's Most Notorious Attack on the Shoshone in the Pacific Northwest
From the Trail of Tears to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete without the inclusion of the Native Americans that lived on the continent before European settlers arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries....
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The Beer Hall Putsch: The History and Legacy of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party's Failed Coup Attempt in 1923
"You can see that what motivates us is neither self-conceit or self-interest, but only a burning desire to join the battle in this grave 11th hour for our German Fatherland... One last thing I can tell you. Either the German...
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The Belgrade Offensive: The History and Legacy of the Campaign to Liberate Yugoslavia's Capital from the Nazis during World War II
*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading “The peoples of Yugoslavia do not want Fascism. They do not want a totalitarian regime, they do not want to become slaves of the German and Italian financial oligarchy...
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The Berlin Airlift and Berlin Wall: The History and Legacy of the Fight Over the Occupied City during the Cold War
*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents In the wake of World War II, the European continent was devastated, and the conflict left the Soviet Union and the United States as...
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The Berlin Airlift: The History and Legacy of the First Major Crisis of the Cold War
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the blockade and airlift by Berliners, American officials, and pilots *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “Here in Berlin, one cannot help being aware that you are...
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The Berlin Wall: The History and Legacy of the World's Most Notorious Wall
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts written about the construction and fall of the wall by people at the time *Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the...
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The Bermuda Triangle: The History and Mysteries of the Devil's Triangle
Most scientists believe that mankind was originally spawned in the salty waters of the seas, and that over millennia creatures managed to evolve into today's primates. If this is so, the oceans have made it abundantly clear that have no...
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The Biggest Battles of the Eastern Front During World War II: The Siege of Leningrad, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Kursk,
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the battles by soldiers and generals on both sides*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsWorld War II was fought on a scale unlike anything before or since in human history,...
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The Biggest Battles of the Pacific Theater: The History of the Decisive Campaigns that Led to Victory Over Japan in World War II
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the campaigns*Includes a bibliography for further readingThe waters of the Pacific Ocean – stretching deep blue under the tropical sun, or scourged by typhoons – provided World War II's most far-flung battlefield. Two of the world's...
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The Biggest Civil War Battles of 1863: Stones River, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, and the Chattanooga Campaign
*Includes pictures.*Includes accounts of the battles by important generals who fought them.*Includes bibliographies for further reading.*Includes a table of contents.The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in American history, and had the two sides realized it would take 4 years...
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The Birth of the Italian Republic: The History and Legacy of the Allied Occupation of Italy after World War II
*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingOn March 25, 1957, Italy signed the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic Community (EEC), a forerunner of the European Union (EU) that was promoted as a guarantor of future peace in...
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