by Bob | Mar 13, 2022 | Hidden History
George Washington On the Ides of March, 1783 George Washington gives a dramatic speech, halting a coup by his officers against Congress and saving the fledgling United States. The bulk of the Army was encamped in Newburgh, New York. Things were relatively peaceful as...
by Bob | Feb 3, 2022 | Hidden History
One of the things I had to memorize as a plebe at West Point, besides esoteric stuff such as ‘How’s the Cow’ was an interesting piece of not-so-trivia: In sixty of the major battles of the Civil War, West Pointers commanded both sides. In the other five, they...
by Bob | Dec 5, 2021 | Hidden History
Pearl Harbor “Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it would not be enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms...
by Bob | Aug 24, 2021 | Hidden History
Tennessee I’ve been in Tennessee a while now and never really thought about the state’s name. I assumed it was Native American, but figured it might mean “Lots of Rocks” or “Hilly on one end, flat on the other”. I was on a All Who Wander wander the other day in the...
by Bob | May 31, 2021 | Hidden History
Today we remember fallen comrades. I think of two team-mates, Jim and Dave, who were KIA on deployments but didn’t know it until years later when disease that can be traced directly to toxins they were exposed to during combat deployments ravaged their bodies and took...
by Bob | Apr 8, 2021 | Hidden History
The Great Wall Basic Facts: Length: 5,500 miles (8,850 kilometers) With all branches included, it measures 13,171 miles (21,196 kilometers) Started: Various walls were initiated as early as the 7th Century BC. But it was Shi Huang, in 220 BC, who is credited with...
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