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/Black is such a powerful word because it conveys d... ...lack widow spider often refers to the three North American species known for their dark bodies and red hourg... ...ave been evolutionarily advantageous because they warn predators to avoid the spider. For example, if a... ...and people during the cheque...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/04/The-Book-of-Black-Black-Holes-Black-Death-Black-Forest-Cake-and-Other-Dark-Sides-of-Life/In the time of Halloween, the serious and not-so-s... ...he Ouija board, in fact, came straight out of the American 19th century obsession with spiritualism, the bel... ...half of the 19th century. Spiritualism worked for Americans : it was compatible with Christian dogma, meaning... ...dbirth; children died...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/29/The-Strange-and-Mysterious-History-of-the-Ouija-Board/The following is an article from Uncle John's Curi... ...ago, it reminded us if this quote, attributed to Warren G. Harding: "I can take care of my enemies all ri... ...t. The Continental Army invaded Canada during the American Revolution, and the U.S. Army made repeated incur... ...the U.S. Army made repeate...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/30/War-Plan-Red-The-US-Plan-to-Invade-Canada/
