During his years as President, Eisenhower owned a farm near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He used it as a personal retreat and a place to meet with other world leaders like Winston Churchill (whose chamber pot I have on another page), De Gaulle, and Krushchev. ...
Delivered on November 19, 1863 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania by former US President Abraham Lincoln, this was considered one of the greatest speeches in the history of American rhetoric. One of the three founding documents of American freedom along with the Constitution and the Declaration of Independe...
For years the stone lodge served as the “Melrose Caverns Civil War Musuem “, which displayed photos of the Valley Rangers who once traversed the caves and information on the 300 Union soldiers who hid in the caverns before marching north to the Battle of Gettysburg. Leave a comment Benja...
“The British Defeat of the French in Pennsylvania, 1758: A Military History of the Forbes Campaign Against Fort Duquesne”)and Dr. Kevin Weddle (U.S. Army War College Professor and author of “The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution”). The event is free and open to ...
Finally, back to the American Civil War Museum (part of the White House) to see things we didn’t have time to see before the tour of the White House… Anchor of the CSS Virginia Please buy me this, Mom. Peter was sulking at lunch because I would not buy him this gun. It costs...
【题目】In her new book, “The Smartest Kids in the World,” Amanda Ripley, an investigative journalist, tells the story of Tom, a high-school student from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, who decides to spend his senior year in Warsaw, Poland. Poland is a surprising educational success story: in...
Without Jackson, Lee blundered at Gettysburg. The course of the war inexorably turned in the east. When Grant arrived in 1864 he suffered a bloodbath in the same Wilderness that caught out Hooker. But unlike Hooker, he did not blink. He was the general Lincoln needed to prosecute the war ...
In her new book, “The Smartest Kids in the World,” Amanda Ripley, an investigative journalist, tells the story of Tom, a high-school student from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, who decides to spend his senior year in Warsaw, Poland. Poland is a surprising educational success story: in the past...
and of course the battlefield which I have visited more than any in my life, Gettysburg. There are times when I walk these fields that I am overcome with emotion. This I think is a good thing, for as an American who has family ties to the Civil War, Gettysburg in particular is hallo...
Pacific and was present at the Battle of Surigo Strait. Heavily damaged by an aerial torpedo at OkinawaPennsylvaniawould be repaired and following the war used as a target for the atomic bomb tests. She was sunk as a gunnery target in 1948. She received 8 battle stars for her WWII ...