Archive: France

Winning the Revolutionary War

On 17 Dec 1777, the French foreign minister, Charles Gravier, count of Vergennes, officially acknowledged the ...

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Alvin York and the Medal of Honor

On 8 Oct 1918, during WWI, Corporal Alvin C. York killed over 20 German soldiers and ...

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Mein Kampf today

On 18 July 1925, 7 months after being released from Landsberg jail, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ...

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D Day

On 6 Jun 1944, now known as D-Day, General Dwight Eisenhower, then supreme commander of Allied ...

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Cinco de Mayo

May 5th, Cinco de Mayo, is the date of the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over French ...

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Chaos

At West Point we were taught that the Commander goes with his maneuver element to influence ...

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More on the Surge in Afghanistan

While General McChrystal, the US and NATO commander in Afghanistan, sought 40,000 additional troops, Obama eventually ...

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And you could have heard a pin drop

These stories are some of my favorite. Enjoy.br /br /When in England, at a fairly large ...

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