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A Union Charge at the Battle of Nashville
Battle of Nashville, oil on canvas painting by Howard Pyle, 1906. Depicted here is a Union charge at the Battle of Nashville (15-16 December 1864), a decisive Federal victory in the American Civil War in which...
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J. E. B. Stuart's Cavalry Cutting Union Telegraph Wires
Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart (1833-1864) had his cavalry cut the telegraph lines used by the Union army during one of his raids at the end of 1862. Illustration from Makers of the world's...
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Stonewall Jackson - General Lee's Lieutenant
Thomas J. Jackson (1824-1863), better known as Stonewall Jackson, was one of the most famous Confederate generals of the American Civil War (1861-1865). A veteran of the Mexican-American War and a former...
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Atlanta Campaign - The Bloody Struggle for Georgia During the US Civil War
The Atlanta Campaign (7 May to 2 September 1864) was a major military campaign in the western theater of the American Civil War (1861-1865). It saw a large Union force under Major...
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Franklin-Nashville Campaign - The Twilight of the Southern Confederacy
The Franklin-Nashville Campaign (September-December 1864) was the last major military operation in the western theater of the American Civil War (1861-1865). After the Southern stronghold...
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Miklós Horthy
Miklós Horthy (1868-1957) was a Hungarian admiral and statesman who served as regent for the Kingdom of Hungary from 1920 until his forced abdication in 1944. During the interwar period and for most of World War II, Horthy played...
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Hanged Soviet Civilians, Operation Barbarossa
A photograph showing Soviet civilians at Velizh hanged by Axis forces after the battle of Smolensk in 1941 during Operation Barbarossa in the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)
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Soviet Troops, Stalingrad
A photograph of Soviet Red Army troops moving forward during the battle of Stalingrad (July 1942 - February 1943) during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)
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Soviet Prisoners, Minsk, 1941
A July 1941 photograph showing lines of Soviet prisoners following the battle of Białystok-Minsk in Jun-Jul 1941 during Operation Barbarossa of the Second World War (1939-45). In the battle, the USSR's Red Army was...
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Soviet Embassy, Tehran
A photograph of the Soviet embassy in Tehran, Iran. This was the location of the Tehran Conference in late 1943 when the leader of the USSR Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt...
