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Disputed Islands — The Many Battles for the Falklands
“After years of laying empty, the British military re-occupied the islands in 1840, establishing a port facility for trans-oceanic shipping. It would become a vital waypoint for the Royal Navy for the next several decades.”…
U.K. Museum Lists 20 Greatest Battles in British History
Question: What do Naseby, Quebec City and the Imjin River have in common? Answer: Each one was the setting for a landmark battle from British history. These three famous dust-ups are included in a recently…
Big Bangs — Some of the Largest Wartime Explosions in History
At precisely 11:11 a.m. on Nov. 27, 1944, the relative quiet of RAF Fauld near Staffordshire, England was shattered in a split second when a 4,000-lb. bomb in the base’s 1,700 sq. ft. underground munitions…
A “Neutral” Power? – American Involvement in WW2 Before Pearl Harbor
“Despite Washington’s official position of neutrality, in the weeks and months leading up to Dec. 7, 1941, American forces clashed with the Germans and Japanese.” THE JAPANESE SURPRISE attack on Pearl Harbor may have officially propelled…
Get Out of Jail Free — How Allied Flyers Used Monopoly to Escape From German POW Camps
“The games containing these secret escape kits were unwittingly distributed to POWs as part of care packages right under the nose of German prison guards.” FOR CAPTURED flyers in World War Two, Monopoly was more…
Dying in a Winter Wonderland — Unearthing the Hidden Cause of Napoleon’s Stunning Reversal in Russia
Two hundred years ago today, the last of Napoleon’s Grande Armee staggered out of Russia frostbitten, starving and half dead. The ramshackle column of fewer than 50,000 scarecrows was all that remained of the seemingly…
