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Last time on Battles that Made History, we talked about the legendary Battle of the 300, commonly known as Thermopylae, where Spar...
There is an old Neil Young song that has a line that says "rust never sleeps." Our lives rust over the years as time chips away at all that we have come to know...
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General Sir Henry Clinton was a British General during the American Revolutionary War. After arriving in Boston three years pr...
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Florence Nightingale was an English nurse known for her work during the Crimean war. Every night, she would make rounds through the camps,...
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Robert E. Lee was the general of the Confederate Army during the infamous American Civil War. He first served in the American A...
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During the American Revolutionary War, the HMS Jersey, or “Hell” as many called it, was used by the British to store prisoners. The Br...
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General Henry Knox was a close friend of George Washington’s, and the first Secretary of War. Knox quickly became the chief artillery ...
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Culper Ring was a spy ring that General George Washington had ordered Major Benjamin Tallmadge to create in 1778. The names “Samuel Culp...
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In 480 BC, during what is called the Second Greco-Persian War, King Xerxes of Persia sent an army of some hundred-thousand Persian ...
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Last week on History's Badasses, we talked about Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history, who rack...
