On 1 Jan 1781, 1,500 soldiers from the Pennsylvania Line–all 11 regiments under General Anthony Wayne’s command–insisted that their 3-yr enlistments had expired, killed 3 officers in a drunken rage and abandoned the Continental...
On 17 Dec 1777, the French foreign minister, Charles Gravier, count of Vergennes, officially acknowledged the US as an independent nation. News of the Continental Army’s overwhelming victory against the British General John Burgoyne at...
On 10 Sept 1776, General George Washington asked for a volunteer for an extremely dangerous mission: to gather intelligence behind enemy lines before the coming Battle of Harlem Heights. Captain Nathan Hale, 21 years old, of the 19th Regiment of the...
Some wives of British military men decided that they would pose for a calendar and sell it to the public with the proceeds going to groups dedicated to helping veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars. One of the ladies thought something along the lines...
A couple of months ago President Obama went to Europe; one big request he had for our allies was that they provide more combat troops for the war in Afghanistan. The reply from everyone of them? NO!!!! Of course, the US media didn’t mention...
It appears that the recently released National Security Estimate is somewhere between inaccurate and just plain wrong.br /British spy chiefs have grave doubts that Iran has mothballed its nuclear weapons program, as the US report claimed last week...