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Category Archives: MILITARY
King Pepin III (also Pippin III, Pépin le Bref) of the Franks
This will continue the story about the end of the Merovingian dynasty. Charles Martel died on 22 October A.D. 741 in the present-day Picardy section of France. His remains are buried at Saint Denis Basilica in Paris. He divided his … Continue reading
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The Vascones
Mithridátēs is the name given to the kings of several kingdoms in the ancient world. It does get confusing when you run across people named Mithridátēs I of Pontus, who was also Mithridátēs III of Cius, whose descendants included both … Continue reading
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The Merovingian Dynasty
Introduction So far, we’ve spoken about the Celts, which take us back several hundred years before the common era, the Roman period in Gaul, the development of post-Roman Franks, and the migrations of the Visigoths into the Iberian Peninsula. Now … Continue reading
Project Blue Book and other Fairy Tales — Part 2
The Robertson Panel In July 1952, after hundreds of sightings over the previous few months, a series of radar detections coincident with visual sightings were observed near the National Airport in Washington, D.C. Following much publicity, the Central Intelligence Agency … Continue reading
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Project Blue Book and other Fairy Tales — Part 1
The Sightings On 19 September 1961, Barney and Betty Hill returned to their home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, when they encountered an alien spaceship. The couple was not the first to sight, report, or claim contact with beings from outer … Continue reading
Battle of the Wilderness (1864)
Background It is possible to argue that the seeds of the American Civil War were planted before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution. Fourteen signers of the Declaration of Independence owned slaves. The founding fathers’ goal was to … Continue reading
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The Stones River Fight — Part 1
Introduction In 1811, the Tennessee General Assembly determined that the location for a new county seat for Rutherford County should be called Cannonsburgh in honor of Newton Cannon, a local politician. A month later, however, those same politicians renamed the … Continue reading
Civil War Christmas
Shown right, Christmas Eve is an illustration by Thomas Nast for Harper’s Weekly, January 3, 1863. Introduction There is no worse time to be a soldier than the dead of winter. Young men, older than their years, so far from … Continue reading
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America’s Old Northwest
The history almost no one knows Initially, the territories claimed by Great Britain in North America included all of present-day New England, extending southward along the Atlantic seacoast to the northern boundary of Spanish Florida and then westward to the … Continue reading
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The Case of Tom Horn
Background Old West history books are filled with stories about large cattle ranches, the cattlemen that ran them, the long and dangerous trail drives that took months to complete, and the conflicts between cattle barons and small farmers and ranchers. … Continue reading
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Searching History 