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Sea Dog Francis Drake battled, looted and bought his way from scourge of Spain to Queen Elizabeth’s favorite commander. “That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet,” wrote William Shakespeare in the 1590s. Perhaps a well-known contemporary of the great playwright heard those words shortly before embarking on …
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America’s Civil War Review: Birth of a NationD. W. Griffith’s technologically brilliant, virulently racist film, Birth of a Nation, is the Higgs boson from which all modern Civil War cinema has evolved. In turn hailed and rev… Read MoreShowdown on South MountainPennsylvania was Robert E. Lee’s target in September 1862. But Maryland and George McClellan got in the way. On September 13, 1862, Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia was da… Read MoreCrossing Over the Rappahannock RiverTwo Union officers discover bridging the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg is even more difficult while dodging bullets. “We arrived about 3 o’clock on the morning of the 11th o… Read MoreHer War: Fighting Sarah ThompsonUnion troops in Confederate territory opposition from secessionist women. Confederates, expected however, hadn’t anticipated having to do battle with Union-sympathizing Southern wo… Read MoreFiasco at FredericksburgOffensive action. That’s what Abraham Lincoln wanted from his new commander in November 1862. The exasperating Maj. Gen. George McClellan was out as head of the Army of the Potomac… Read More
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