#Military

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People (27)

Third Vice President of the United States — and Alexander Hamilton's killer

Frontier general, champion of the common white man, and 7th President of the United States

Benedict Arnold

Revolutionary War hero turned traitor, 1741–1801

Sauk leader whose 1832 return to Illinois became the last armed Native resistance east of the Mississippi

Nez Perce leader whose 1877 flight became a symbol of Native resistance

Civil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross

The Lakota war leader who defended the Plains and never surrendered to the reservation

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Supreme Allied Commander, 34th President, and the man who warned America about itself

George S. Patton

America's most aggressive — and most controversial — World War II commander

George Washington

Commander of the Continental Army and First President of the United States

The Apache leader whose final surrender in 1886 ended the last armed Native resistance in the American Southwest

Pioneer of computer programming and inventor of the first compiler

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States of America, 1861–1865

Continental Army Spy and American Martyr, 1776

Nathanael Greene

Self-taught general who drove the British from the American South

Boston silversmith and the most famous midnight rider of the American Revolution

Confederate general and the South's most celebrated — and most contested — military commander

President of Texas, U.S. Senator, and the man who refused to take the Confederacy's oath

Hunkpapa Lakota chief who united the Plains nations against American expansion

Shawnee leader who built the most powerful Indigenous confederacy in American history

The Marquis de Lafayette

The young French aristocrat who became a hero of the American Revolution

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Confederate General, Army of Northern Virginia, 1861–1863

Ulysses S. Grant

Commanding general of the Union Army and 18th President of the United States

William Henry Harrison

9th President of the United States, 1841

William Tecumseh Sherman

Union general whose March to the Sea broke the Confederacy's will to fight

General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army and the Soldier Who Defined an Era, 1786–1866

The Army officer who explored the southern Louisiana Purchase and never climbed Pikes Peak

Places (11)

Appomattox Court House

The Virginia village where the Civil War effectively ended, April 9, 1865

The Florida Launch Site That Has Carried American Ambitions Into Space Since 1950

The Baltimore harbor fortress whose defense in 1814 inspired the national anthem

The South Carolina fort whose bombardment started the Civil War

The Pennsylvania town where the Civil War's deadliest battle was fought

The Montana battlefield where Lakota and Cheyenne warriors defeated the 7th Cavalry

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

The Oglala Lakota reservation in South Dakota — site of Wounded Knee

The headquarters of American military power — and a symbol of it

The U.S. Naval Academy

Annapolis — where the Navy and Marine Corps train their officers

The Pennsylvania encampment where the Continental Army survived its darkest winter

The military academy that trained the officers who led America's wars

Eras (3)

The conflict that tore the United States apart and abolished slavery, 1861–1865

The ideological standoff between the United States and Soviet Union, 1945–1991

The global conflict that made America a superpower and reshaped the world order, 1941–1945

Events (50)

American Civil War

The 1861–1865 war over slavery and union that remade the nation

Battle of Antietam

The bloodiest single day in American military history, September 17, 1862

Battle of Brandywine

The defeat that opened the road to Philadelphia, 1777

Battle of Bull Run

The First Great Battle of the Civil War, July 1861

Battle of Bunker Hill

The 1775 bloodbath that proved American militiamen could stand against British regulars

Battle of Chancellorsville

Lee's tactical masterpiece — and the shot that cost him his most dangerous general

Battle of Cowpens

Daniel Morgan's masterpiece, January 1781

Battle of Gettysburg

The bloodiest battle of the Civil War, July 1–3, 1863

Battle of Guilford Courthouse

The victory that cost Cornwallis his army, 1781

Battle of Kings Mountain

The backcountry victory that turned the Southern war, 1780

Battle of Lexington and Concord

The First Shots of the American Revolution, April 1775

Battle of Long Island

The largest battle of the Revolution — and a narrow escape, 1776

Battle of Midway

The naval battle that permanently shifted the balance of power in the Pacific, 1942

Battle of Monmouth

The army that came out of Valley Forge, 1778

Battle of New Orleans

Andrew Jackson's lopsided 1815 victory — fought two weeks after the war had already ended

Battle of Princeton

Washington's second strike in ten days, January 1777

Battle of Saratoga

The 1777 American victory that brought France into the Revolutionary War

Battle of the Alamo

The 13-day siege that became a Texan rallying cry

Battle of the Bulge

Hitler's Last Gamble in the West, December 1944 – January 1945

Battle of Trenton

Washington's Christmas Crossing and the Revolution's Turning Point

Battle of Vicksburg

The 47-Day Siege That Split the Confederacy in Two

Battle of Yorktown

The 1781 siege that ended the Revolutionary War and secured American independence

The CIA's Failed Invasion of Cuba and Kennedy's Defining Early Crisis, April 1961

The 11-Month Mission That Defied the Soviet Blockade, 1948–1949

Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

The Revolution's first offensive victory, May 1775

Cuban Missile Crisis

Thirteen days in 1962 when nuclear war became a real possibility

The June 1944 Allied invasion that broke Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall and sealed the war's outcome in the West

Death of Osama bin Laden

The 2011 raid that ended a decade-long manhunt

Fort Pillow Massacre

The Confederate Slaughter of Black Union Soldiers, April 12, 1864

French and Indian War

The North American theater of a world war that made the American Revolution inevitable, 1754–1763

The "Forgotten War" that established the Cold War's logic of limited conflict, 1950–1953

March to the Sea

Sherman's 1864 campaign of deliberate destruction that broke the Confederacy's will to fight

Mexican-American War

The 1846–1848 war of conquest that gave the United States half a continent — and a crisis

The Japanese attack of December 7, 1941, that brought America into World War II

Sand Creek Massacre

The Slaughter of a Cheyenne and Arapaho Village Under a Flag of Truce, November 1864

Spanish-American War

The 1898 war that made America an empire in four months

The 1836 siege that became the defining myth of Texas independence

The American Revolution

The colonial war of independence that created the United States, 1775–1783

The Bonus Army March

The WWI veterans' encampment that Hoover destroyed — and Roosevelt studied carefully

The Burning of Washington

The only time since the Revolution a foreign power has occupied and burned the U.S. capital

The undeclared naval war that nearly broke the Franco-American alliance

The Star-Spangled Banner

The poem written during a battle that became the national anthem

The Texas Revolution

How American settlers broke Texas away from Mexico

The U-2 Incident

The 1960 spy-plane shootdown that wrecked a superpower summit

The Zimmermann Telegram

The intercepted 1917 message that helped push America into World War I

America's longest 20th-century conflict and the war that broke the postwar consensus, 1955–1975

The strange second war with Britain that nobody won — and that made America a nation

The European catastrophe that pulled America in, remade the world order, and produced the next war

America's 1941–1945 war that defeated the Axis and made it a superpower

Wounded Knee Massacre

The 1890 killing of at least 250 Lakota men, women, and children that ended the Indian Wars

Documents (2)

National Security Act of 1947

The law that created the CIA, NSC, and Joint Chiefs — and built the permanent architecture of the Cold War

North Atlantic Treaty

The 1949 alliance document that reversed 150 years of American foreign policy

Concepts (6)

Military-Industrial Complex

Eisenhower's Warning About the Alliance Between Defense Industry and Government Power

The alliance that deterred a war for 40 years — and redefined itself when that war never came

Nuclear Weapons

The weapon that redefined war, power, and the survival of nations

America's foreign spy agency — intelligence, covert action, and controversy

The United States Armed Forces

From a citizen militia to the most powerful military on earth

U.S. Intelligence

The secret agencies built to spy, protect, and sometimes overreach

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