The idea that a battle might alter the course of history, though first popularised in the 19th century, is not without foundation. For as one writer remarked a generation after 1066, ‘French customs ...
History loves a good story, and battles seem to bring out the storyteller in all of us. The problem is that somewhere between the smoke clearing and the textbooks arriving, facts get stretched, heroes ...
When you look at the overall history of warfare, air battles are still relatively new. Considering the airplane is only around 120 years old, compared to civilizations fighting wars for centuries, air ...
The Wild West was filled with famous battles, but many smaller conflicts are often forgotten. Beyond the Texas Revolution and the Battle of Little Bighorn, countless lesser-known struggles shaped ...
BRUSHING UP ON OUR LOCAL REVOLUTIONARY WAR HISTORY TONIGHT. THE FIRST BATTLE OF CEDAR SPRINGS TOOK PLACE BACK IN 1780, RIGHT IN SPARTANBURG COUNTY. AND TODAY, RE-ENACTORS RETURN TO THE BATTLEFIELD.