Showing posts with label military. Show all posts
Showing posts with label military. Show all posts
Nov 11, 2018

How Edgar Allan Poe Got Kicked Out of the U.S. Army

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(Library of Congress) (Daily Beast) In discussions of great American writers who were also military veterans, the name Edgar Allan Poe i...
Aug 31, 2016

1807: Jenkin Ratford, Chesapeake-Leopard affair casualty

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(ExecutedToday.com) On this date in 1807, the British navy hanged Jenkin Ratford from the yardarm of the HMS Halifax off the coast of Maryla...
Jul 8, 2014

Harry Gilmor's Raid

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(Wikipedia) Gilmor's Raid, also known as The Magnolia Station Train Raid, was a foraging and disruptive cavalry raid that was part of a...
Jun 20, 2014

The Civil War in Dry Fork, WV: The Historic Ride of Jane Snyder

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(Rural Librarian) There is a lot of history in Harman, West Virginia. Indians migrated through here and hunted here. Early settlers came ...
Jul 4, 2013

Fight at Monterey Pass

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(Wikipedia) The Fight at Monterey Pass (or Gap) was an American Civil War military engagement beginning the evening of July 4, 1863, during...
Jun 22, 2013

150 years ago: The Gettysburg Campaign

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  (Wikipedia) The Gettysburg Campaign was a series of battles fought in June and July 1863, during the American Civil War. After his vi...
May 8, 2013

V-E Day

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  (Wikipedia) Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day or VE Day) was on May 8, 1945, the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted t...
May 6, 2013

Battle of Chancellorsville

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  (Wikipedia) The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, and the principal engagement of the Chancell...
Mar 31, 2013

Forgotten US airship crash recalled 80 years later

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  (AP) History buffs will gather this week near the New Jersey coast to commemorate a major airship disaster. No, not that one. Newsr...
Mar 16, 2013

Sergeant Stubby

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(Wikipedia) Sergeant Stubby (1916 or 1917 – March 16, 1926), was the most decorated war dog of World War I and the only dog to be promot...
Mar 12, 2013

The Girls of the Manhattan Project

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  (The Daily Beast) ... In The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II, Denise Kiernan recrea...
Feb 28, 2013

Fatal Cruise of the USS Princeton

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  (Navy History) On a late February day in 1844, a long line of black carriages drew up to the wharf at the Washington Navy Yard and dro...
Feb 23, 2013

1778: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge to help train the Continental Army

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  (Wikipedia) ... On September 26, 1777, the Baron, his Italian greyhound, Azor (which he took with him everywhere), his young aide de c...
Feb 16, 2013

First Barbary War

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(Wikipedia) The First Barbary War (1801–1805), also known as the Barbary Coast War or the Tripolitan War, was the first of two wars fough...
Feb 10, 2013

Treaty of Paris (1763)

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  (Wikipedia) The Treaty of Paris, often called the Peace of Paris, or the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763, by the kingdom...

Engineers of Victory

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(NYTBR) The historian Daniel Boorstin once complained to me about the Smithsonian Institution’s decision in 1980 to delete the final two wo...
Feb 3, 2013

Dr. Langley to Discuss War of 1812 Maritime Archaeology at Society on April 13

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(WoCCP) Star-Spangled Archaeology: Commemorating the War of 1812 Through Maritime Archaeology, a recently added lecture, will wrap up the ...

Joseph E. Johnston

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(Wikipedia) Joseph Eggleston Johnston (February 3, 1807 – March 21, 1891) was a career U.S. Army officer, serving with distinction in the ...
Jan 8, 2013

Project Diana

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(Wikipedia) Project Diana, named for the Roman moon goddess Diana — goddess of the hunt, wild animals and the moon — was a project of the ...
Dec 7, 2012

Air Raid on Pearl Harbor

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(LoC) On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor , Hawaii Territory, killing more than 2,...