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Jean Edward Smith • FDR
The bloodiest combat unfolded at Chatterton’s Hill. In the first wave of attacks, Captain Alexander Hamilton, positioned with two fieldpieces on a rocky ledge, sprayed the invading forces with deadly fire, driving them back. After regrouping, the British grenadiers and Hessian soldiers forded the Bronx River and bravely clambered up the wooded slop
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War From the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics (Conflict Classics)
“But by our deaths here with honor, in the face of these insuperable odds, we transform vanquishment into victory. With our lives we sow courage in the hearts of our allies and the brothers of our armies left behind. They are the ones who will ultimately produce victory, not us. It was never in the stars for us.
Steven Pressfield • Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
War did not just level, it plowed the field, raising the muck and sinking the stubble.
Mark Teppo • The Mongoliad: Book One (The Foreworld Saga) (The Mongoliad Cycle 1)
Washington had served as commander in chief for eight and a half years, the equivalent of two presidential terms. His military triumphs had been neither frequent nor epic in scale. He had lost more battles than he had won, had botched several through strategic blunders, and had won at Yorktown only with the indispensable aid of the French Army and
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