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Military History Quarterly Noah Andre Trudeau |
Charles Lee's Disgrace at the Battle of Monmouth Charles Lee's military credentials were solid. But his failure to coordinate subordinates led to a crucial breakdown at the Battle of Monmouth, and a rare public rebuke from George Washington. |
Military History Quarterly August 2007 Willard Sterne Randall |
The First American Victory: Ethan Allen Takes Fort Ticonderoga Ethan Allen led his Vermont militia on a daring mission to capture Fort Ticonderoga -- and in so doing gave George Washington the means to expel the British from New England. |
Military History December 24, 2004 Ross Rosenfeld |
Battle of Princeton: Washington Outfoxes Cornwallis Facing Maj. Gen. George Washington's army at Assunpink Creek on January 2, 1777, Lt. Gen. Charles Cornwallis expected to 'bag the fox' the following day, but the next morning brought an unpleasant surprise--the fox had vanished. |
Military History August 2005 Pierre Comtois |
Battle of Bennington The left prong of Lt. Gen. John Burgoyne's invasion of New York found itself caught up in a most costly sideshow. |
Military History Quarterly Spring 2006 Stuart W. Sanders |
Robert Charles Tyler: Last Civil War Confederate General Slain in Combat Against impossible odds and following orders issued half a year earlier, Robert Charles Tyler became the last Confederate general slain in Civil War combat. |
America's Civil War March 10, 2005 Fred L. Ray |
Pre-Dawn Assault on Fort Stedman Led by select groups of sharpshooters, the weary, muddy troops of the Army of Northern Virginia made one last desperate push to break out of Petersburg. |
America's Civil War January 12, 2005 Michael C. Hardy |
April 2, 1865: 'A Day of Carnage and Blood' Sixth Corps Yankees stumbled out of their earthworks and toward the muddy pits of the Army of Northern Virginia. It was the beginning of the end. |
America's Civil War David A. Norris |
Bloody Day at Boteler's Ford Just two days after the Battle of Antietam, the deadliest day of the Civil War, the savage Battle of Shepherdstown made for a bloody little coda to the 1862 Maryland campaign. |
Military History Quarterly Thomas Fleming |
Old Hickory's Finest Hour In January 1815, General Andrew Jackson led a menagerie of American defenders against some of the British Empire's finest soldiers in a battle that would determine the future of America. |
Military History Quarterly Jon Swan |
America's Forgotten Patriots During the American Revolution some of the most ardent Patriots could be found among the colonies' African-Americans. |
Military History Jul/Aug 2006 Michael D. Hull |
Peter Francisco: American Revolutionary War Hero In 1776, the young 'giant' Peter Francisco was the most renowned common soldier in the Continental Army -- and possibly in the entire history of the U.S. Army. |
America's Civil War July 2005 Jeffry C. Burden |
Failed Attack at Vicksburg Ulysses S. Grant thought his formidable Army of the Tennessee could take Vicksburg from a "beaten" foe by direct assault. He was wrong, thanks to near-impregnable fortifications, renewed Southern spirit, and surprisingly suspect Northern generalship. |
Military History Quarterly Summer 2006 Bernd Horn |
Surviving the Devil's Cauldron It was their ability to overcome their daunting environment that set WWII parachutists apart. |
Civil War Times July 2007 Michael Dreese |
Fighting and Dying for the Colors at Gettysburg Beyond their practical value on Civil War battlefields, regimental flags and other banners embodied the pride, honor and bravery of the soldiers who willingly gave their lives to defend them. |
America's Civil War Allan L. Tischler |
Union Major General Philip H. Sheridan's Scouts Civil War Union General Phil Sheridan put together a group of scouts who wore Rebel uniforms and captured Confederate irregulars, dispatches and generals. |
America's Civil War November 2005 James A. Morgan |
Ball's Bluff: 'A Very Nice Little Military Chance' Confederate soldiers drove inexperienced Union troops acting on faulty intelligence into the Potomac River like lemmings. |
World War II Jon Guttman |
Closing the Falaise Pocket In August 1944, the Germans fought desperately to hold open their last escape route from Normandy while the Polish 1st Armored and the U.S. 90th Infantry divisions fought equally hard to close it. |
America's Civil War Ronald E. Bullock |
Last-Ditch Rebel Stand at Petersburg After nearly 10 months of trench warfare, Confederate resistance at Petersburg, Va., suddenly collapsed. Desperate to save his army, Robert E. Lee called on his soldiers for one last miracle. |
America's Civil War James B. Ronan II |
Union Regulars Brigade Desperate Stand at Chickamauga Civil War Brigadier General John King's disciplined brigade of Union Regulars found itself tested as never before at Chickamauga. For two bloody days, the Regulars dashed from one endangered spot to another, seeking to save their army from annihilation. |
America's Civil War January 2007 Gordon Berg |
Battle of Chickamauga and Gordon Granger's Reserve Corps In 1863, Gordon Granger's rookie Reserve Corps saved the Army of the Cumberland from impending destruction. |
American History October 2007 James B. Daniels |
The Battle of Chippewa An unlikely victory on the Canadian side of the Niagara River during the War of 1812 helped transform the motley U.S. Army into a professional fighting force. |
World War II December 2006 Mark J. Reardon |
Battle of the Hurtgen Forest: The 9th Infantry Division Suffered in the Heavily Armed Woods The bitter and bloody experience of the 9th Infantry Division in the Hurtgen Forest in autumn 1944 should have been enough to warn Allied leaders that the German army wasn't finished just yet. |
Civil War Times Thomas T. Taylor |
Eyewitness to the Battle of Atlanta Among the blue-clad soldiers moving against Atlanta in late July 1864 was Major Thomas T. Taylor of Georgetown, Ohio. In these passages from the letter he wrote to his wife, Netta, he described what he saw, experienced, and did during the Battle of Atlanta. |
Vietnam August 2007 Mark Bernstein |
Vietnam War: Operation Dewey Canyon One of the most successful offensives of the Vietnam War was also one of its most controversial. |
Civil War Times August 2007 Marc Leepson |
At Washington's Gates: Jubal Early's Chance to Take the Capitol A Confederate army came within hours of capturing the Federal capital and dramatically altering the 1864 presidential election, the war and the ultimate fate of two American nations. |
Civil War Times May 2006 Maurice D'Aoust |
Hoodwinked During the Civl War: Union Military Deception Appearances could be misleading on the battlefields of the Civil War. |
America's Civil War September 2006 Gerald J. Smith |
44th Georgia Regiment Volunteers in the American Civil War The hard-fighting 44th Georgia suffered some of the heaviest losses of any regiment in the Civil War. |
Civil War Times July 2006 Jeffry D. Wert |
17th Maine Infantry in the Battle of Gettysburg The 17th Maine helped transform a Gettysburg wheatfield into a legend. |
World War II October 2007 Lloyd Clark |
Operation Market Garden Reconsidered A British historian argues that Operation Market Garden wasn't such a bad idea after all. |
Civil War Times September 2006 Ted Alexander |
Battle of Antietam: Two Great American Armies Engage in Combat The opposing armies at Antietam were two very different forces commanded by two very different men. |
America's Civil War Gary W. Dolzall |
Enemies Front and Rear Union forces under George H. Thomas destroyed the Confederate Army of Tennessee at Nashville as Thomas endured his own battle of resolve with Ulysses S. Grant. |
Outside November 2009 Brian Mockenhaupt |
Fire on the Mountain In the rugged eastern provinces of Afghanistan, American Troops are engaged in a kind of alpine warfare not seen for decades. Months can go by without combat, but the calm is often shattered when you least expect it. |
Civil War Times Virginia Kepler |
Buckeyes Make a Stand 'My God, We Thought You Had a Division Here!' The 21st Ohio Infantry's unique repeating weaponry was its salvation -- and nearly its undoing -- at Chickamauga. |
World War II Albano Castelletto |
The Last Horse Warriors In a firsthand account, a former artillery lieutenant recalls his experience with the Voloire Regiment during Operation Barbarossa, when Italy's horse-drawn field artillery proved its worth on the Russian Front. |
America's Civil War Donald Scott |
Camp William Penn's Black Soldiers in Blue Under the stern but sympathetic gaze of Lt. Col. Louis Wagner, some 11,000 African-American soldiers trained to fight for their freedom at Philadelphia's Camp William Penn. Three Medal of Honor recipients would pass through the camp's gates. |
Civil War Times August 2005 John Cabell Early |
A Southern Boy Remembers Gettysburg Major General Jubal Early's nephew recalls the famous meeting on July 1 between his uncle and General Robert E. Lee during the 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania. |
Military History |
Letters From Readers -- March 2007 Military History Magazine The German view of Alvin York... Inside the Cuban missile crisis... Peter Francisco, a great American soldier... |
Vietnam Joe Zentner |
Above and Beyond the Call From Roger Donlon in 1964 to Roy Benavidez in 1981, the Medal of Honor was awarded to 239 Americans who served in Vietnam. |
Vietnam John Mann |
Personality: Captain Lee Morrow Captain Lee Morrow was brave but not foolhardy. He got results in combat, and no one was cooler under fire. |
America's Civil War September 2007 |
Antietam Eyewitness Accounts Quotes from soldiers who experienced the carnage of the single bloodiest day in American history. |
Vietnam December 2006 Mark DePu |
Vietnam War: The Individual Rotation Policy The individual rotation policy was, in hindsight, clearly one of the worst ideas of the war. At the time, however, military planners had few options. |
National Defense April 2011 Eric Beidel |
Army Shifts Focus to Dismounted Soldiers Army leaders say soldiers are the service's greatest weapon, and they are asking industry to shift their focus from platform to person and consider the infantryman first as it plans investments in new technology. |
Salon.com September 19, 2001 Russell Morse |
Good to go For the first time I feel like an American, willing to fight for my country... |
National Defense August 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Tech-Warriors Changing the Face of the Army Private First Class Nicholas Johnson is not your average private. He was a network administrator in his previous life, and has an extraordinary ability to grasp soldiers' needs and turn them into digital products. |
AskMen.com Kyle Darbyson |
Underrated Civil War Movies The Civil War has been the source of inspiration for many Hollywood movies, most notably Gone With the Wind. Here are five others equally worth viewing: The Civil War (1990)... The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)... The Undefeated (1969)... Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)... Rio Lobo (1970)... |