Odd Fighting Units: Trotsky's Red 100 & Armored Trains in the Russian Civil War, 1919-1921

During the Russian Civil War of 1919-1921, the Bolshevik-Russian politician and military leader Leon Trotsky (b.1879-1940) rode throughout ...

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Brief History of the Chinese Warlords, 1920-1937

In China’s long history the massive size of its empire both past and present creates many geographical, cultural, and chronological problems...

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Lord Cardigan and the Charge of the Light Brigade: The Battle of Balaclava, 1854

James Thomas Brudenell (b.1797-1868), 7th earl of Cardigan, known popularly as Lord Cardigan, commander of the 600 or so British cavalrymen ...

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Russia's Hawaiian Fortress: The Old Russian Fort on Kauai, 1817-1853

One of the most impressive man-made structures on the beautiful “Garden Island” of Kaua’i County, Hawaii’s most populated, westernmost islan...

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