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James Houser
- Oct 5, 2020
- 12 min
October 5, 1877 - The Nez Perce War
October 5, 1877. The Nez Perce are cornered. Stripped of their ancestral lands and hunted down by the United States Army, they have led...
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James Houser
- Oct 4, 2020
- 11 min
October 4, 1853 - The Crimean War Begins
October 4, 1853. If they’d all just minded their business, this never would have happened. A religious dispute in Palestine blossoms into...
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James Houser
- Oct 3, 2020
- 12 min
October 3, 1993 - Black Hawk Down in Mogadishu
October 3, 1993. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The United States has deployed forces to Somalia to restore order to a fractured...
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James Houser
- Oct 2, 2020
- 11 min
October 2, 1944 - The Warsaw Uprising
October 2, 1944. Shooting finally ceases in the smoking ruins of Warsaw. After 63 days of bitter fighting, massacres, and terror, the...
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James Houser
- Oct 1, 2020
- 11 min
October 1, 1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Expedition of the Thousand
October 1, 1860. Five months ago, the revolutionary leader Giuseppe Garibaldi landed on the shores of Sicily with only a thousand men....
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