Category: Odd Facts
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…
“We Happy Few” – The Battle of Agincourt and the Birth of an English Legend
“Gentlemen of England shall think themselves accursed they were not here” – Henry V, Act IV, Scene 3 (Originally published Oct 24, 2015) By Anne Curry WHY DOES THE Battle of Agincourt, fought in northern…
Castro’s Cold Warriors – Inside the Foreign Campaigns of the Cuban Army
“Throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s, Castro was only too eager to export revolution to the Third World. Often this support came in the form of combat troops.” AMERICA WAS STILL REELING from its humiliation in Vietnam…
The Not So ‘Phoney War’ – There Was No Shortage of Bloodshed In WW2’s Supposedly Quiet Opening Weeks
“The first six months of World War Two are often remembered as a relatively tranquil phase of the conflict… It was hardly uneventful.” IN BRITAIN, it became known as the “Phoney War” or the “Bore War.”…
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…
