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Just days after Monocacy, on July 12th, 1864, Confederate forces under Jubal Early probed the northern defenses of Washington near Fort Stevens. As skirmishers traded fire and Union troops manned the earthworks, President Abraham Lincoln came to the front lines to see the situation for himself, standing on the parapet within range of enemy rifles.
On December 29th, 1972, the United States halted the intense B-52 and tactical bomber campaign known as Linebacker II against targets around Hanoi and Haiphong in North Vietnam.
A story of adaptation, reliability, and hard lessons in steel, told through the crews who fought from its turret.
Less than three weeks after North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel, President Harry Truman moved to unify the international response under a single commander. On July 8th, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, already commanding United States forces in the Far East, was designated to lead United Nations military operations in Korea.
During the Second World War’s Pacific campaign, the Gilbert Islands became a stepping stone toward the central Pacific.
The Mark IV tank was not fast, refined, or comfortable, but it was the machine that helped make Cambrai one of the defining armored battles of the First World War.
A Medal of Honor story of courage under fire in the Battle of the Bulge.
Two pinned-down Filipino companies, a barren ridge in the Philippine highlands, and one American corporal who decided to move forward when everyone else was stuck.
In Europe, the fortified city of Metz had long been viewed as a tough nut to crack, with layers of forts dating back to earlier German rule.
As the First World War neared its close, American forces in France were still locked in brutal combat.
On the night of November 13th, 1942, American and Japanese surface forces slammed into each other in the dark waters near Guadalcanal in one of the Pacific War’s most chaotic clashes.
With the Second World War over in Europe, Allied leaders grappled with how to respond to the crimes committed by the defeated regime.
In the wooded hills of north Georgia, the Western Theater saw its own grim test when Union and Confederate armies collided along Chickamauga Creek.
On November 9th, 1989, the emblem of Cold War division in Europe suddenly became porous.
On December 16th, 1998, American and British forces began a four-day air and missile campaign against Iraqi targets known as Operation Desert Fox.
Another November 8th, separated by two decades, found American paratroopers pushing through thick jungle rather than surf.
A story of a fast, hard night strike to remove a dictator and reshape the balance of power in a vital crossroads of the Americas.
In the early hours of December 20th, 1989, American forces launched Operation Just Cause, a large joint operation to remove Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega and secure key sites.