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In 1811, General Louis-Gabriel Suchet sought his marshal’s baton in the breach of a Spanish fortress. On the sweltering afternoon of Friday, June 28, 1811, French engineers surveyed the 10-meter- wide breach in the wall surrounding Tarragona’s Upper Town. After two months of exhausting siege work and brutal assaults, surrounded by the implacable Spanish, it …
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‘Cowards of the Army’: Straggling in the Civil WarStraggling became a major problem for both armies by 1862, as war-weary soldiers began opting out of fighting. IN THE WINTER OF 1861–62, “Stonewall” Jackson refused to grant furlou… Read MoreMay 2017 Table of ContentsThe May 2017 issue features a cover story about Napoléon Bonaparte's Egyptian Expedition
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… Read MoreSky Above, Mud BelowOnly those who endured the shrieking shells, stagnant water, creeping rats and rotting corpses could truly convey the horrors of World War I trench warfare
The post Sky Above, Mud … Read MoreCinematic SlaveryYou pull open the door and walk into the movie theater’s lobby, greeted with the familiar smell of buttery popcorn. But there’s also something unfamiliar in the atmosphere—a feelin… Read MoreFiring Joe HookerJust days before the Battle of Gettysburg, Union Secretary of War Edwin Stanton tasked youthful Colonel James Hardie with telling “Fighting Joe” he was done. THE BALTIMORE & OH… Read More
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