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Desmond Doss was A Seventh-Day Adventist Christian and he was the first conscientious objector to receive the Congresional Medal of Honor. He saved the lives of a huge number of other soldiers, most all while under intense fire. It is my opinion that he was protected time and again directly by God. When you read his story, see ifContinue reading “The Battle of Okinawa and the Amazing Desmond Doss”

One of the most amazing episodes in the modern history of mankind was the French Revolution. The attempt to bring it to young America was a most perilous time for our young county. Below, I have chronicled some of its history and the result of the attempt to bring it to the young republic ofContinue reading “The French Revolution”

In 1776 many of the Americans had had enough of the tyrany of the British king. They were ready to revolt and form their own independent country. This they did. However, it was such a dangerous course at the very beginning, that many were afraid to go along with the patriots. At this very criticalContinue reading ““The American Crisis””

The amazing Mountain Men of the old west tamed the frontier and made it possible for civilization to move to the western United States.  Here is a short history of these increible individuals.  Do enjoy it: History of The Mountain Men Following Lewis and Clark’s expedition, Christian missionaries made their way to the West. These include: Jason Lee, Methodist missionaryContinue reading “History of the Mountain Men”

“The bloody butcher” is what colonists called British Colonel Banastre Tarleton. He let his dragoons bayonet and hack hundreds of surrendering Americans at Buford’s Massacre during the Battle of Waxhaw, May 29, 1780. In January of 1781, 26-year-old Colonel Banastre Tarleton led 1,200 of Britain’s best troops, consisting of British dragoons, regulars, highlanders and loyalists, in a day-long, non-stop pursuit of theContinue reading “Battle of Cowpens: A Tactical Masterpiece & Revolutionary War Turning Point”

The first of the new American fighting ships was now finished in Boston. The war of 1812 had started. The USS Constitution, under the command of Captain Isaac Hull, sailed from Boston on August 2, 1812 and steered for the blustery waters southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. After two weeks of daily gun drills in preparationContinue reading “Exploits of the USS Constitution”

Algerian–American War (1785–1795): After Spain concluded a peace treaty with Algiers in 1785, the Algerian corsair captains entered the waters of the Atlantic and attacked American ships, refusing to release them except for large sums of money. Two American ships, the schooner Maria, and the Dauphin were captured by Algerian pirates in July 1785 and the survivors forced into slavery, theirContinue reading “History of the US in the Mediterranian Sea”

I wish to commemorate the anniversary of 9/11.  I could recall the actions of the brave firemen who climbed up those burning buildings, and it would be appropriate.  However, to make the commemoration more meaningful I much prefer to tell you a true story that happened that day about a brave blond girl,  which you have probably never heard. IContinue reading “Heather Penny – 9/11”

Back in the early 1900’s Britain calculated she could easily break up the tottering Ottoman Empire in order to get Mesopotamia with Kirkuk and its oil under control, to pull the plug on the emerging German oil line to Baghdad and to take Mesopotamia and the oil-rich Middle East including Persia itself. The plan is what became known in history as World War I. As theContinue reading “World War One and The Amazing Sargent York.”

Lafayette believed in the American Revolution, though he was a French citizen and a young French militay officer. While still in his teens, he purchased a ship and persuraded some other French Officers to sail to America and fight for its revolution against the British. General Washington was so grateful, and since he had noContinue reading “The Amazing Marquis de Lafayette”