Of courage undaunted, possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose which nothing but impossibilities could divert from its direction, careful as a father of those committed to his charge, yet ste...
May works be the test of patriotism as they ought, of right, to be of religion.
It is perhaps the consummate irony, Arthur Moore writes, that at each step up from savagery the human race has regarded the fruits of progress with a degree of misgiving and often longed against reaso...
By the beginning of March, K Company, 333rd Regiment, had reached the Rhine. The men settled down in the village of Krefeld to await Montgomery’s Operation Plunder, the crossing of the river; Monty wa...
The German today is like the June Bride. He knows he is going to get it, but he doesn't know how big it is gong to be.
You lead by fear or you lead by example. We were being led by fear.
The Enlightenment taught that observation unrecorded was knowledge lost.
Ronald Spiers: The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without me...
One observer estimated that in 1901 Texas alone had eight hundred million prairie dogs.4 Jack rabbits were nearly as numerous. Antelope and deer numbered in the millions, as did the wolves and coyotes...
Like Crazy Horse, Custer lived his life to the full; again like Crazy Horse, he was so involved with living that he did not have time to fear death.
Despite himself, Webster was drawn to the people. The Germans I have seen so far have impressed me as clean, efficient, law-abiding people, he wrote his parents on April 14. They were churchgoers. In...
Anyone who has ever canoed on the upper Missouri River knows what a welcome sight a grove of cottonoods can be. They provide shade, shelter, and fuel. For Indian ponies, they provide food. For the Cor...
Was to filter hair tonic through bread and then mix it with grape juice. Like virtually every other drink devised in the Pacific, it was known as Jungle Juice.
When the shooting started, they wanted to look up to the guy beside them, not down.
Vice-President Aaron Burr was full of plots and schemes and conspiracies to break the west loose from the United States and form a new nation. Jefferson
They were learning about others. A common experience: the guy who talked toughest, bragged most, excelled in maneuvers, everyone’s pick to be the top soldier in the company, was the first to break, wh...
Nor did the Americans find it necessary to wage a ruthless campaign. As has been mentioned previously, both sides respected
No war can be won without young men dying. Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.
McGovern had other problems as well, personal ones with his
Lieutenant Edward S. Godfrey, who was present at the meeting and who later became the authority on the battle of the Little Bighorn, recorded the aftermath. This ‘talk’ of his [Custer’s] was considere...