The Somers Mutiny: Justice From the Yardarms
In 1842 the captain of the brig USS Somers hanged three of his sailors for having plotted a mutiny—but had they?
The Yank Coastwatcher Who Risked All in the Pacific
During World War II, young American cattle rancher Franklin Nash served as a member of Australia’s covert Coastwatchers
Tommy’s Other Guns: Firearms Inventor John T. Thompson
Thompson’s namesake submachine gun became the stuff of legend, but his other firearms and ammunition innovations are nothing to sneeze at
Odyssey of the Ten Thousand
Hiring on for a Persian war they didn’t understand, Greek mercenaries faced an epic fight for their lives
Warplanes of a Different Stripe
A tragic 1943 friendly fire incident in Sicily prompted development of aircraft identification markings that saved countless lives on D-Day
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
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
The Wages of War
In 1965 Rhodesia’s white-minority government went rogue, sparking a war whose reverberations have left a nation in anguish
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
George H.W. Bush: A Nation Bids Farewell
Hearse, not horses, took former president to lie in state in the Capitol
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
High Tide of Viking Ireland
At Clontarf on Good Friday 1014 the Irish united under High King Brian Boru to drive out Viking invaders
Queen’s Ransom
How Hawaii’s indebted last queen lost her throne to sugar barons and the American rush to empire
Payoff in Tokyo Bay
In September 1945 General Douglas MacArthur commanded center stage aboard the battleship Missouri as Japan’s surrender ended World War II
Camelback Colonialism
The Somaliland Camel Corps mopped up a Mad Mullah and policed and pacified the British protectorate through two world wars
