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Ordinary Seaman William Seeley Royal Navy Victoria Cross Shimonoseki, Japan September 6, 1864 In the 155 years since it was instituted by royal warrant, the Victoria Cross —Britain’s highest military honor for valor in battle—has been awarded to just 1,353 individuals. Of those, only five were Americans, and the first Yank so honored was a …
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Daily Quiz for October 27, 2017In 1880, Francis D. Clarke and M.G. Foster were issued the first US patent for this kind of device.
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… Read MoreHallowed Ground: Bosworth Field, EnglandThe premature death of England’s King Henry V in 1422 left a power vacuum that in the Middle Ages could have but one result—civil war. For a time a regency council ruled in the ste… Read MoreBehind the Lines | Train ManWhen the Continental Army captured a huge cache of British artillery at Fort Ticonderoga, George Washington turned to Henry Knox to get them to Boston. It would have been easy to f… Read MoreBill, Willie, and JoeThe artist made two dogfaces world-famous, and they did the same for him
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… Read MoreWhat We Learned From… Nagashino, 1575On June 28, 1575, in central Honshu, Japan, warlord Nobunaga Oda led a force of 38,000 Oda and Tokugawa clan troops to break Katsuyori Takeda’s siege of Nagashino Castle, defended … Read More
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