On July 6, 371 BC, in a quiet plain near the Boeotian town of Leuctra, the military supremacy of Sparta—unquestioned for over a century—was dealt a stunning and irreversible blow. That day, the Theban army, under the innovative command of Epaminondas, shattered the myth…
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At 7:30 a.m. on July 1, 1916, whistles blew across the British trenches in northern France, marking the start of what would become the single bloodiest day in British military history. The First Day of the Battle of the Somme—a major Allied offensive against…
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On June 13, 1777, a young French aristocrat named Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, landed near Charleston, South Carolina, to join the American Revolutionary cause. Barely 19 years old, Lafayette arrived not as a representative of the French crown, but as an…
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