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Fed up with being shadowed, badman Edward Moore confronted Nevada City lawman William Kilroy, gunned him down and headed for the hills. Prospectors and merchants settled Nevada, California, during the 1849 gold rush but didn’t settle on a name until 1864 when they chose Nevada City to avoid confusion with the neighboring state. By August …
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Allenby Captures JerusalemThe British General’s muted entry through the Jaffa Gate as the tidewater moment in his well-conceived and hard-fought campaign for Palestine. In June 1917, amid another round of d… Read MoreSideshow on the DanubeKutuzov has spent most of military career fighting the Turks. On April 1, 1811, one-eyed General Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov arrived in Bucharest to take command of Russia’s army… Read MoreHallowed Ground: Columbus, New MexicoIn the predawn darkness of March 9, 1916, several hundred armed Mexican horsemen crossed the border into the United States to attack the unsuspecting garrison town of Columbus, N.M… Read MoreBloody Culloden, 1746This close-quarters clash on a windswept moor would challenge the Scottish clan tradition and direct the course of British rule. On a frigid, rainy day in mid-April, on a windswept… Read MoreTaming ChechnyaWhat seemed a simple intervention to the Russian Army in 1994 quickly turned into a bloodbath with lessons for another war. Forty years after emerging victorious from World War II,… Read More
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