Greater than a decade earlier than sharpshooter Annie Oakley joined Buffalo Invoice Cody's Wild West, dancer Giuseppina Morlacchi made headlines when she appeared with Cody within the touring Western stage…
A gloomy and tragic scene—one with which the inhabitants of the oft-contested metropolis of Winchester, Va., had been sadly all too acquainted—unfolded all through the evening of September 19, 1864,…
As Germany crumbled in hearth and rubble within the last months of World Battle II, Adolf Hitler issued orders for 4 well-known Germans to be held hostage—not dwelling Germans, however…
In her day, Elizabeth Oakes Smith was a nationwide determine. Born in Maine in 1806, she and her household moved to New York Metropolis within the late 1830s, the place…
Odds are there isn’t a Civil Struggle buff dwelling who hasn’t seen a replica of this exceptional pencil sketch (above) by particular artist Edwin Forbes, which Forbes labeled as “William…
Henry Clay, nicknamed the Star of the West and the Nice Compromiser, served as Speaker of the U.S. Home of Representatives and a U.S. Senator from Kentucky, however he’s much…
The motor launch tied up on the small-boat pier in Seeadler Harbor in New Guinea to disembark a dozen males from the ammunition service USS Mount Hood. The date was…
O n the night of June 5, 1944, Louis Leroux, his spouse, and their six youngsters scrambled atop an embankment close to their farm to research the sounds of distant…
In the long run William “Billy” Dixon cared far much less about being a legend or hero than he did concerning the vibrancy of life he had skilled on the…
Norman Crockatt just isn’t a well known title, however the British intelligence officer was answerable for probably the most controversial choices of World Conflict II. When the Conflict Workplace in…
