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Donald Trump isn’t the first US president to try to negotiate a peace deal. But he appears to be doing it differently than ...
Authorities showed up at the West Haven home for a welfare check on March 24, after Theodore Lloyd allegedly told police that his 70 year old mother, Tina Lloyd, had been missing for two months, ...
Former President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt did a whistle-stop tour of Schuylkill County towns in October 1914. After arriving in Tamaqua on October 26, he journeyed to Pottsville, where he ...
As church bells rung out at 6 a.m., people from all over stood in bravery, knowing the danger they were about to encounter, while remaining firm that they wouldn’t be taken down. After shots ...
The Regulars were ordered to disarm the militia, but not fire. With the militia defiant, refusing to lay down their arms, the Regulars affixed their bayonets and began to march forward. A single shot, ...
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You could hear their fifes and drums before you could see them, but a few minutes later, the battle green was full of red-coated soldiers holding muskets with bayonets at the end. Both sides were ...
62-cal. muzzleloaders. A French Model 1728 musket shown next to its socket bayonet. Image courtesy of Rock Island Auction. French Military Muskets Following the Massachusetts Powder Alarm in ...
Or maybe someone was hiding in the woods, determined to pick a fight. The British forces fired a series of volleys before charging with bayonets. Within minutes, the British commander, Major John ...
But the British then fired volleys and charged with bayonets, killing eight. Concord was now fully on alert. Again, there was a wary stand off. Again, someone fired. During this confrontation at ...
The portrait of Teddy Roosevelt charging up Cuba's San Juan Hill, now hanging in the West Wing's Roosevelt Room, was painted in 1909, the year TR left the White House. A painting depicting the ...