Month: November 2012
Lone Star Fleet — Remembering The Texas Navy
FOLLOWING LAST WEEK’S U.S. federal election victory by President Barack Obama, disgruntled Republicans from the state of Texas have rallied around a petition to secede from the Union. The appeal, which was launched by a single frustrated…
The Quasi War – A Young America Slugs It Out With France
“Known as the Quasi War… the seeds of this strange and often forgotten struggle were actually sown a generation earlier.” BARELY 15 YEARS after winning independence from Great Britain, the United States found itself in a brand…
Lest We Forget — How Different Countries Remember Their War Dead
“The small artificial flowers, which are pinned to the lapel, symbolize the poppies that grew in Flanders fields during the First World War.” EVERY NOV. 11 at exactly 11 a.m., life throughout much of the British…
The Dogs of War — A Short History of Canines in Combat
“Archeologists suspect that humans have been using dogs in warfare since the animals were first domesticated more than 15,000 years ago.” A NEW MONUMENT commemorating the sacrifices of some very special warriors will be dedicated in…
Rule Britania – More than 80 percent of Planet Invaded by Brits, Book Reveals
What do Burundi, Guatemala, Luxembourg and Uzbekistan all have in common? Simple: They are four of the small handful of countries in the world that have never directly experienced British military intervention. According to a…
Invasion U.S.A. – Which World Powers Have Had Plans to Conquer America?
Redcoats raze Washington D.C., Aug. 24, 1814 — the first and last time a foreign army has invaded the continental United States. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons) “Amazingly a number of nations (both friendly and hostile…
