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As the Dalton brothers discovered in Coffeyville and the James-Younger Gang did in Northfield, crime didnʼt pay when the citizens of a targeted community took a stand. Contrary to Hollywood myth, most townspeople didn’t walk the streets of their frontier com- munities packing a gun. As civilization spread west, “taming” towns in its path, citizens …
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Wallowing in Courage: 6th U.S. Cavalry6th U.S. Cavalry Medals of Honor Washita River, Texas September 12, 1874 During the Red River War, Colonel Nelson A. Miles, commanding a U.S. Army column against renegade Indians i… Read MoreLast Stand at ElyAfter the 1066 Norman conquest an alliance of English rebels held out on the swamp-ringed isle of Ely— but William would not be denied. On Oct. 14, 1066, the Norman- French army de… Read MoreCold War in CorfuWas a British Royal Navy flotilla making an ‘innocent passage’ or provoking a paranoid Albanian dictator in late October 1946. The waters of the world are perhaps its greatest muse… Read MoreWhat We Learned from Coral Sea, 1942Following their Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese military forces swept through the western Pacific at a shocking pace. Their strategic objective was to control the re… Read MoreDodging a BulletThe Indian Rebellion of 1857 was doomed to fail, but the religious and cultural tensions it inflamed would ultimately topple the British raj. On May 9, 1857, some 4,000 British sol… Read More
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