Category: Museums & Landmarks
Oliver Hazard Perry – 10 Things You Didn’t Know About America’s Iconic Naval Commander
“Famous for his legendary “Don’t Give Up the Ship” naval banner run up during the savage fighting on Lake Erie, Perry’s name would one day grace an entire class of modern warship.” OLIVER HAZARD PERRY,…
Bermuda at War – How Britain’s Atlantic Island Territory Played a Role in Eight Different Conflicts
“During the war, Bermuda teemed with Allied naval and air force personnel: British, American and Canadian.” By Bob Richards BERMUDA does not exactly loom large in the annals of military history. When most people think…
Battlefield Stalingrad — Four Maps That Tell the Story of World War Two’s Pivotal Struggle
“With street-to-street fighting raging and casualties piling up casualties, Hitler still insisted that the 6th Army’s last stand would be ‘heroic drama.’” By Liz Wyse, the Map Archive SOMETIMES DESCRIBED AS the biggest defeat in…
The Bladensburg Races – Inside America’s Most Humiliating Battlefield Defeat
“At Bladensburg, the British did everything right and the Americans did everything wrong.” By John Danielski THE BATTLE OF Bladensburg, August 24, 1814, was the greatest military debacle in American history; a martial comedy-of-errors. Yet…
Of Fifes and Drumsticks – Victory at Saratoga and America’s First Thanksgiving Holiday
“The American triumph at Saratoga was considered the turning point of the eight-year War of Independence.” By Sean Kelleher MOST PEOPLE REMEMBER the first Thanksgiving being held by pilgrims at Plymouth in what is now Massachusetts in…
Gibraltar in the Crosshairs – Inside the Secret Nazi Plan to Grab the Rock
“Even before France had fallen, Hitler’s generals lobbied the German leader for permission to roll on into Spain and wrest control of Gibraltar from the British.” SHORTLY AFTER THE defeat of France in 1940, Adolf…
