by gee | Jul 10, 2021 | Popular
The Kingdom of France was a long-time rival of England and then England-centric Great Britain. To name an example of their conflicts, it lost every single one of its North American holdings in 1763 because of the Seven Years’ War, meaning that it was eager for...
by geeqdm | Jul 4, 2021 | Suggested
July 4, 1776, represents one of the most significant dates in the United States’ calendar. It was on this day that Congress declared independence from Great Britain. A declaration drafted by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and others showed that...
by gee | Jul 3, 2021 | History
The Battle of Gettysburg between July 1 and July 3, 1863, is considered the most significant war fought during the American Civil War. It ended with a victory for the Union troops. It began with the Confederates’ Army invasion of Northern Virginia on July 1, led...
by geeqdm | Jun 26, 2021 | History
The first 14,000 infantry U.S. troops landed in France at the port of Saint-Nazaire on June 26, 1917, during World War I. The motive to keep the site secret from the German submarines was thwarted by the sizable enthusiastic crowd that waited to welcome them....
by geeqdm | Jun 25, 2021 | History
As early as 1944, with World War II still raging, American leaders knew the next big conflict would be between the United States and the Soviet Union. In the post-war chaos, this conflict settled into what would become known as the Cold War; decades of tension,...
