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Becoming one with the Civil War - The Frederick News-Post Online - (video)

"The Civil War is a part of our history, but it becomes something more when you realize ‘the war was fought by someone whose blood runs in my veins,’" said George Wunderlich, the executive director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick.

Battle of Gettysburg video tour and interactive map

Take a tour of the Luna Mimbres Museum - Las Cruces Sun-News

The museum that has been called a "mini-Smithsonian’ will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2008 and construction crews and volunteers are just finishing up a $1,220,000 spruce-up and renovation project.

14th Century Chinese Gunpowder Warfare (Huolongjing) - Wikipedia

The Huolongjing … is a 14th century military treatise that was compiled and edited by Jiao Yu and Liu Ji of the early Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 AD) in China. It outlined the use of various ‘fire–weapons’ involving the use of gunpowder.

July 3, 1863: Confederate forces attack the center of the Federal line at Gettysburg, but fail to break it. - SoonerFans.com Message Boards

144 years ago on this day in 1863, after two desperate days of slugging it out in the July heat in southern Pennsylvania, Robert E. Lee sends the equivalent of three divisions of infantry up the middle in a last ditch attempt to crack the Federal line at Gettysburg.

Lessons from the Cold River - Los Angeles Times

If the Lebanese army can stand up to jihadists, anybody can.

History comes to life at Hopkinton celebration - Hopkinton News

It might be an understatement to refer to Goffstown’s Ben and Jane Hampton as “patriotic” Americans.

Both have traced their roots back to Revolutionary War soldiers, visited all but one of the major Civil War battlefields and, on Thursday, July 4, the two were asked to make a presentation at Hopkinton’s celebration of the United States’ Independence Day.

Books - Movies - TV

Our Top 10 best military movies of all time - Army Times

We’re talking about classic movie moments that provide a snapshot of American military history, must-see films like “The Sands of Iwo Jima” and “The Green Berets” (two of the Duke’s finest. God bless you, John Wayne, wherever you are).

Why the American Revolution was ‘Almost a Miracle’ - The Christian Science Monitor

Ultimately, "the war came much closer to ending short of a great American victory than many now realize," argues historian John Ferling in Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence.

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