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Category: General History

Voyage to Freedom: Damon J. Gause and William L. Osborn

Posted onApril 30, 2021April 30, 2021

Damon Jesse “Rocky” Gause was born June 17, 1915 in Ft. Valley, and grew up in Winder, Georgia. He learned to fly airplanes at an early age and fell in love with flying. He was sent to the Philippines in Continue Reading

CategoriesGreat Escapes, Pacific Theater, World War II: General

Two Minute Patton

Posted onDecember 17, 2020

CategoriesGeneral History, Two Minute HistoryTags1912 Olympics, Bonus Army, Civil War, Dyslexia, George S. Patton III, George S. Patton Sr., VMI, Wast Point

Two Minute Grant (Ulysses S.)

Posted onDecember 17, 2020December 18, 20201 Comment

CategoriesTwo Minute HistoryTags18th President, Civil War Generals, Fun facts, Grant facts, James Longstreet, U.S.Grant

10 October 1845

Posted onOctober 10, 2017June 3, 2019

  The United States Naval Academy was established at Annapolis, Maryland. It was formally the Philadelphia Naval Asylum School. Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft is recognized as bringing the new academy to fruition. Fort Severn, a ten-acre Army post Continue Reading

CategoriesGeneral History

Queen Catherine: Middle-Ages Warrior or Myth?

Posted onOctober 9, 2017June 18, 2019

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catherine_aragon.jpg   By Gary Burns Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536), Queen of England from 1509 to 1533, acted as regent in the absence of her husband, Henry VIII (1491-1547), during his campaigns in France in 1512-13. Henry failed to achieve his Continue Reading

CategoriesGeneral History

A Historian’s Hawaiian Vacation

Posted onOctober 8, 2017March 27, 2019

         Waikiki Beach, Oahu, Hawaii, October 2015: The sun seems hotter and the humidity more prevalent than forty-plus years ago when I was stationed on, the then, Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps Air Station. Next door to the Hale Koa Continue Reading

CategoriesGeneral History

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