The siege of charleston

Early on 8 November 1942, Adolf Hitler’s special train was en route from Berlin to Munich when it was stopped at a small station in the Thuringian Forest to receive an urgent message from the Foreign

KINGDOM OF SAXONY 16-19 OCTOBER 1813

Carthage burned for six days. After three long years of siege, in the spring of 146 BC Roman soldiers finally broke through the city’s defences and began to slaughter the population. But still the Car

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Confederate victory at Antietam might have contributed to the end of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency in the election of 1864