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How do we decide which Presidential elections were the least important? We have to acknowledge that any election had some importance, because it chose the United States chief executive for four years. So we need to ask which elections match this statement: “For all the effect the election had on history, we could have skipped [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, November 3, 2008 at 10:26 pm
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In our modernized, mechanized age of warfare, where decisions are made by civilians, officers far from any line of combat, congressional committees, and unknown military strategists in committee, an army is a faceless thing. For the last six decades, the idea of massed armies doing battle has been considered a curiosity of the past, and [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 12:02 am
Filed under History · Tagged America, Armies, battle, Benedict Arnold, Charles II, conquerors, Controversial, Erwin Rommel, field commanders, frederick the great, Generals, genghis khan, George Washington, Hannibal Barca, Independence, Joan of Arc, Julius Caesar, Marc Antony, military strategists, Pancho Villa, Saladin, top 10 list, War, Washington