At dawn on 13 December 1939, smoke was seen on the horizon; HMS Exeter was told to close in and investigate. Two minutes
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On 20 October 1944, the U.S. Sixth Army began landing on Leyte's eastern coast, supported by the U.S. Navy's 3
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Under the auspices of the 1938 Flood Control Act, the U.S. Corps of Engineers began to pursue an aggressive dam-building
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Though not so famous as the battles of Tannenberg or the Marne, the fight between the French and German armies at Alsace
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Before the Battle of El Alamein in 1942, the British had never won a major battle on land against the Germans; nor indee
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It has been famously pointed out that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, but it was also not an empire i
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*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents On October 29, 1937, a la
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