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James Houser
- Dec 23, 2020
- 14 min
December 23, 1688 - The Glorious Revolution
December 23, 1688. King James II has been fired. Well, kinda. When James took the thrones of England and Scotland four years ago, he was...
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James Houser
- Dec 22, 2020
- 13 min
December 22, 1944 - The Siege of Bastogne
December 22, 1944. It was a small Belgian town that no one had ever heard of, off the beaten trail of Europe’s great highways and in a...
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James Houser
- Dec 21, 2020
- 14 min
December 21, 1864 - Sherman's March to the Sea
December 21, 1864. After only a few short skirmishes, the tired Union soldiers of General Sherman’s army enter the city of Savannah,...
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James Houser
- Dec 20, 2020
- 14 min
411 BC - The Astounding Career of Alcibiades and the Athenian Revival
DECEMBER 20 - 411 BC. The city of Athens is in serious trouble. It has wasted much of its military strength in the disastrous Sicilian...
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James Houser
- Dec 19, 2020
- 13 min
December 19, 1944 - The German Defeat in the Battle of the Bulge
December 19, 1944. The senior Allied commanders meet in a bunker near Verdun, France to discuss the issue on everyone’s mind: how to stop...
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