(Photo: US Navy)It’s not unusual for warships to change hands. When belligerent powers lose wars , they sometimes forfeit warships as prizes. And victorious powers may sell off the... ....The Confederacy commissioned the construction of warsh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/02/19/This-Warship-Served-6-Different-Nations/(If the CSA won World War I by Jordan)Alternate history is a genre of specu... ...y is set in our own historical timeline for World War II and is thus historical fiction. Harry Turtledo... ...world in which the Axis powers prevailed in that war and is thus alternate history.Al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/08/The-10-Best-Alternate-Histories/(The Monitor vs. The Merrimac by Louis Prang &... ...The Merrimac by Louis Prang & Co.)During the American Civil War , the US Navy blockaded Southern ports and largely... ...most effective naval effort of the South was the warships that it sent far out to sea to capture and destro... ...ged the Union...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/03/The-Extraordinary-Voyage-of-the-CSS-Shenandoah/In the United States, the name of Benedict Arnold... ...ld promised to betray his cause and hand over the American fort at West Point. When American leaders discovered the plot, Arnold fled.But it&r... ...a, participated in the invasion of Quebec and led American naval forces...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/01/Americas-Monument-to-Its-Most-Infamous-Traitor-Benedict-Arnold/It's Sam Houston (1793-1863), a man who lived an e... ...xperience gave him a lifelong sympathy for Native Americans .Houston won battlefield fame under General Andrew... ...ield fame under General Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812. Cultivated by Jackson, Houston rose in T... ...were preparing for what th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/29/Who-Is-the-Only-Person-to-Be-Elected-Governor-of-2-Different-US-States/(Texas Military Forces Museum)It can be hard to de... ...cisely which is the first or last engagement of a war or what qualifies as a battle. But one can plausi... ...e can plausibly argue that the last battle of the American Civil War was the Battle of Palmito Ranch. This event occur... ...Maj. Gen. John G....
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/16/The-South-Won-the-Last-Battle-of-the-Civil-War/(USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama by Xanthus Smith)I&... ...Kingdom that led to the 1871 Treaty of Washington. American and Britain had a border dispute over the San Jua... ...n as the “Alabama claims.” During the American Civil War , British companies built several warships...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/13/1871-War-Averted-Between-the-US-and-Britain-When-the-US-Agrees-to-Not-Split-Infinitives/(Image via the US Navy Art Collection)During the American Civil War , Confederate commandos and agents launched small... ...s and Lake Champlain. By 1863, there was only one American warship on the Great Lakes: the 14-gun steamboat USS Mich...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/11/The-Confederate-Navys-Crazy-Plan-to-Raid-the-Great-Lakes/[http://youtu.be/_Yzi79zpqQA] (YouTube link)Abraha... ...the short but powerful speech recited aloud. Most American students had to memorize it as children, but it i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/14/The-Gettysburg-Address/(Photo: Rodolfo Gonzalez/AP/Austin American -Statesman)Craig Denham bought a home in the subur... ...k or two underground. That was the length of time civil defense officials estimated — at least for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/12/Opening-a-Bomb-Shelter-Sealed-Since-1961/
