The Battle of the Ebro: The Spanish Civil War’s Longest, Bloodiest Battle
By the summer of 1938, Republican military planners knew that even a total victory on the...
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Tippecanoe: The Battle That Made a President’s Legend
Tecumseh was hundreds of miles to the south that autumn, working to recruit tribes into a...
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The Battle of the Big Hole: Dawn Attack and a Desperate Siege
Colonel John Gibbon’s soldiers crept into position under cover of darkness and struck a...
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Wounded Knee: The Massacre That Marked the End of the Indian Wars
A single rifle discharged during a search for weapons, and within minutes, soldiers armed with...
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Zama: The Battle That Ended Hannibal’s War With Rome
Scipio Africanus faced eighty war elephants bearing down on his legions and did something that...
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Mogadishu: The Battle That Inspired Black Hawk Down
Two Delta Force snipers watched a wounded helicopter pilot burning to death in his crash site,...
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Dien Bien Phu: The Siege That Ended French Rule in Indochina
French military planners chose the remote valley of Dien Bien Phu because its surrounding hills...
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Bunker Hill: The Battle That Proved Militia Could Stand and Fight
Colonel William Prescott gave his amateur militia an order that ran against every instinct of a...
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Shiloh: The Battle That Revealed the War’s True Scale
Ulysses S. Grant commanded the winning side at Shiloh, yet he later wrote that the battle changed...
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The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s Desperate Gamble in the Ardennes
In December 1944, American soldiers in the Ardennes Forest faced two enemies at once: a massive...
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