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Hace 5 días · Guerrilla warfare, also known as unconventional or irregular warfare, is named after the Spanish for “little war.”. The term comes from the resistance to Napoleon during the Peninsula War (1807–1814). It’s generally a strategy of smaller, weaker forces against larger, stronger forces. The OSS had to start from scratch and look beyond ...
Hace 7 horas · George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the ...
Hace 3 días · We Were Soldiers is a beautified account of the first major engagement of the Vietnam War, the Battle of Ia Drang, November 14–18, 1965, focusing on the action at LZ X-Ray, November 14–16. American Air Cavalry fought elements of the North Vietnamese Army in the central highlands of Vietnam near the Cambodian border, heavily outnumbered, by ...
Hace 1 día · The American Civil War (1861-1865) is often remembered as a conflict fought by men, but the truth is that women played an equally crucial role in the war effort. From tending to the wounded as nurses to disguising themselves as soldiers and fighting on the front lines, women made significant contributions to both the Union and Confederate causes.
Hace 3 días · Audie Murphy (born June 20, 1925, near Kingston, Texas, U.S.—died May 28, 1971, near Roanoke, Virginia) was an American war hero and actor who was one of the most-decorated U.S. soldiers of World War II.
Hace 3 días · The American Revolution (1775–83) was an insurrection carried out by 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies, which won political independence and went on to form the United States of America. The war followed more than a decade of growing estrangement between the British crown and many North American colonists.
Hace 1 día · From their inception during the American Revolutionary War, the U.S. Armed Forces have played a decisive role in the country's history. They helped forge a sense of national unity and identity through victories in the early-19th-century First and Second Barbary Wars.
