Fort William Henry, 1757: A Fate Worse Than Surrender
On capturing Fort William Henry in 1757, the French commander offered his British prisoners safe passage—but his Indian allies weren’t feeling as magnanimous
General John Stark: A Patriot Who Rose Above Rank
Overlooking a studied insult by Congress, John Stark rallied to the Patriot cause at Bennington in 1777
The Fight for the ‘14th Colony,’ Nova Scotia
At the onset of the American Revolution the British and Americans each sought to sway New England settlers and First Nations tribes in Nova Scotia
Nogales: A Border Town Divided Against Itself
In 1918 residents of the U.S.-Mexican border town of Nogales went to war with each other
Jesuits Waged War for the Guaraní People
These faithful fathers defended their Guaraní adherents in South America from ruthless slave traders
The Wages of War
In 1965 Rhodesia’s white-minority government went rogue, sparking a war whose reverberations have left a nation in anguish
Dick Cole, 103, Last of the Doolittle Raiders
Cole was co-pilot to famed USAAF Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle in the lead plane of 16 B-25B bombers that boldly raided targets in Japan on April 18, 1942
The Korean War That Almost Was
In the late 1960s North Korean incursions along the DMZ threatened to reignite the long dormant Korean War
Beneath Their Very Feet
In a covert 18-month effort Allied soldiers tunneled beneath German lines in Flanders to plant more than 500 tons of explosives
Red, White and Blue Over China
Amid the Second Opium War in 1856 a U.S. Navy commander violated his nation’s neutrality to defend the honor of the American flag
Great Guns!
In service to the British empire in Canada and South Africa, American machine gunner Arthur ‘Gat’ Howard lived up to his rat-a-tat nickname
High Tide of Viking Ireland
At Clontarf on Good Friday 1014 the Irish united under High King Brian Boru to drive out Viking invaders
The Secret Life of Erich Gimpel
Landed by U-boat on the coast of Maine in 1944, the senior agent of a two-man Nazi spy team had a thrilling tale to tell—most of it true
China’s American Imperial General
It took an American Christian adventurer to create an army capable of ending the only so-called Christian revolt in Chinese history
IEDs: Faceless Enemy
The toughest fight for U.S. troops in post-Saddam Iraq was the campaign against improvised explosive devices and related technology
The River Ran Red
When wary Zulus massacred a party of unarmed Boer settlers, the Afrikaners mounted a punitive campaign into the heart of the warrior kingdom
