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I n 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That, at least, is what the famous rhyme tells us. Memorising such dates is a common experience of being taught history – a cliché superbly lampooned by the w
A Spain allied with the Nazis in the Second World War would have ruined the Allied campaign in the Middle East, but doomed the Francoist state to an earlier collapse
FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA, USA 11-15 DECEMBER 1862
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THE TURNING POINTS OF 1812
Confederate victory at Antietam might have contributed to the end of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency in the election of 1864