(VIDEO) From Vikings to GIs — Centuries of History Play Out at Old Fort Niagara

MilitaryHistoryNow.com was on hand for “Soldiers Through the Ages”, a Memorial Day salute to centuries of North American history at Fort Niagara in Youngstown, N.Y. Click to check out exclusive footage of the event.

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InfoGraphic — The 3,000-Year History of BioChem Warfare

This infographic comes to us from Jasmine Henriques of the career website SecurityDegreeHub.com. In it, she tracks the nearly 3,000-year history of chemical and biological warfare from the ancients’ use of sulphur and weaponized animal…

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From “Overlord” and “Desert Storm” to “Dracula” and “Mermaid Dawn” — The Cryptic History of Codenaming Military Operations

“Designating operations by their objectives or points on a map didn’t offer much in the way of security… and using simple alphanumeric designations, like “Operation 12a” was seen as unimaginative.” HAD IT NOT been for…

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Military History in 100 Objects – Seven Famous War Horses Preserved for the Ages

While history’s most illustrious commanders have long since shaken off this mortal coil, a surprising number of their horses are still with us to this day… at least in body. Check out this bizarre collection…

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The St. Albans Raid – The Confederate ‘Invasion’ of Vermont

In the fall of 1864, Vermont seemed far removed from the bloody battlefields of the American Civil War. Although as many as a tenth of the state’s 300,000 residents were in uniform, the actual fighting…

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Fighting First Families — Meet the Relatives of WW2’s Most Famous Leaders

RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, son of the Britain’s legendary prime minister, could easily have opted out of dangerous wartime duty by using his top drawer family connections, but he didn’t. In fact the 28-year-old Churchill, would go on…

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