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Grave of the last Civil War general killed found in Georgia

At Fort Tyler Cemetery in West Point, Georgia, lies Brigadier General Robert C. Tyler — the last general killed on either ...
The bones of a home sit along Route 7 in Milton, the only remaining pieces on the former property of General George Stannard, ...
A separatist group has seized control of an oil-rich region in southern Yemen, threatening to reignite the country's civil ...
For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the ...
An October conference examined the legacy of the Siege of Petersburg, a grim episode in America’s “great single tragic event.” ...
Ulysses S. Grant is often dismissed as a simple butcher of his troops. In fact, Grant was an inspired military leader with a genius for issuing lucid orders, maneuvering his troops adroitly, and ...
Are military leaders fired in the middle of a war? Often, yes, but extreme circumstances are required to get to ...
During his remarks at Marine Corps Base Quantico several weeks ago in late September, Donald Trump told the military leaders and generals in attendance that they will play a "major part" in the "war ...
History — and Clarence Thomas — loomed large on Friday as an appellate panel wrestled with the future of the False Claims Act ...
From the early days of 1919's I Accuse to the modern intensity of 1985's Come and See, this is the best war movie of every decade in the 20th century.
An Emirati-backed secessionist group in Yemen said its forces were marching Monday to another province as part of the group’s ...
A Myanmar military air strike killed at least 31 people and wounded 68 at the general hospital in Mrauk-U in western Rakhine ...