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A 1873 photograph by Timothy H. O'Sullivan captures the fortresslike canyon from the ground as both Spanish and American invaders would have seen it.

Attacked by Both Spanish and American Invaders, This Sandstone Navajo Stronghold Was Built for Defense

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Canyon de Chelly is 300 yards wide and flanked by sheer red rock walls 1,000 feet high.

Illustration of a C-47.

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photo of A Nationalist sentinel on the Island of Quemoy watching the Communists' positions on the shore of Mao Tse-tun's China. Kinmen, November 1954

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Given the Choice Between Jail or the Military, Snuffy Smith Chose the Latter and Earned the Medal of Honor

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Whether As a Kingdom or As a Socialist Republic, Yugoslavia Proved an Impossible Experiment. Here’s Why.

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Zaporozhian Reply to the Babylonian Busboy 

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1755 engraving reasonably depicts the walls of circumvallation built by the Spartans during their 429–427 bc siege.

The Defense of Plataea Proved a Textbook Example of How to Survive a Siege

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Photo of British Army officer General Sir John Greer Dill (1881-1944), Chief of the Imperial General Staff, studies a globe in his office in London during World War II in January 1941.

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Photo of U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Samuel Galan, a UH-1Y Venom crew chief assigned to Marine Light Helicopter Attack Squadron (HMLA) 169, opens fire while conducting an interdiction mission over Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb. 3, 2013. Galan, from Houston, Texas, is deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Marine Corps

These Aircraft Have Saved Men on the Ground

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