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Jul 3, 2024 · Andrew Summers Rowan, the U.S. Army officer who at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War was sent on a secret mission to Cuba to meet with rebel leader General Calixto Garcia y Iniguez, an undertaking that was romanticized and popularized in Elbert Hubbard’s essay ‘A Message to Garcia.’.
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Jun 28, 2024 · Robert Gould Shaw, Union army officer who commanded a prominent regiment of African American troops during the American Civil War, the 54th Massachusetts. He died fighting alongside the regiment while assaulting Fort Wagner, South Carolina, in 1863. Learn more about Shaw in this article.
Jun 28, 2024 · Colonel Bogey March, composed by Malcolm Arnold, is one of the most recognizable military marches in history. However, it is interesting to note that Arnold did not actually write this iconic tune. The honor goes to Lt. F.J. Ricketts, who composed it under the pseudonym of Kenneth J. Alford.
Jun 20, 2024 · There was a real life counterpart to the fictional Colonel Robert Hogan in Hogan's Heroes. Lieutenant Robert Hogan was an American bomber pilot shot down and imprisoned in Oflag 73, companion camp to Stalag 13D, near Nuremberg.
Jun 27, 2024 · Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, tells a powerful tale of poverty and undying hope in his moving novel No One Writes to the Colonel.
Jun 22, 2024 · Not one cavalry trooper lived to tell the story of “Custer’s Last Stand.” Two days later a scouting party from General Terry’s column discovered Custer’s nude, unscalped body lying amid a ring of dead cavalry horses where he and 40 other men had rallied for a final stand.
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