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By the Spring of 1944, Dwight David Eisenhower had served in the U.S. Army for 29 years. He held postings as far afield as Panama and the Philippines; in the States: Texas, Georgia, and Maryland. He was subordinate to many prominent officers including John J. Pershing, and Douglas MacArthur. But now, on 6 June 1944, he was the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. As he told the thousands of soldiers, sailors, and airmen under his command that they were to embark upon “the Great Crusade” to wrest the Continent from Nazi control, he knew it would be a close-run thing. To that end he had penned a propitiatory statement, “...If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.”
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U.S. Grant was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. Grant entered West Point in September of 1839 and...
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In 1831, William B. Travis, a middling lawyer and failed newspaper publisher, found himself in debt and headed for prison. Instead, he headed to Texas. He purchased land in Mexico’s...
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Twenty-three years after escaping slavery, Fredrick Douglass became this country’s foremost social reformer and moral agitator. Once free, Frederick chose the new surname of Douglass, moved to Massachusetts, and married Anna...
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Lafayette was a French aristocrat and military officer who commanded American troops in the American Revolutionary War. In France he was a commissioned officer by age 13, and in America he was made a...