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11/12/2025

Battle of the Month: Trenton (Dec. 26th, 1776).
'Tis the season...In the fall of 1776, after losing New York, Gen. George Washington’s demoralized army moved south to regroup and prepare to defend New Jersey and Philadelphia. Lt. Gen. Charles Cornwallis, meanwhile, pursued the rebel force, hoping to defeat them before winter. Fortunately for Washington, during his retreat, he managed to delay Cornwallis long enough for Washington’s army to escape across the Delaware River. Then, he did something extraordinary. As Cornwallis’s army went into winter quarters, Washington launched a surprise attack on the Hessian garrison at Trenton. This bold stroke caught the British and Hessians off guard, resulting in the first significant American victory of the war. The timing was as desperate as it was brilliant. Just when American morale was at its lowest ebb, Washington motivated the new American nation to carry on. (Mailing this one out to our subscribers in a few weeks!)

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14/11/2025

Battle of the Month! Vicksburg (4 Nov., 1862- 4 July, 1863)
1863 was a pivotal year in the American Civil War. In both theaters, eastern and western, Confederate forces had recently seized the initiative. Northern support for the war ebbed to an all-time low, threatening President Abraham Lincoln’s dream of a unified nation. But everything changed in the summer of 1863 when Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant captured the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg. With his victory, Grant had cut the Confederacy in two and assured Union control of the Mississippi River. This, combined with Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s defeat at Gettysburg, restored Union confidence in the war and helped reelect Lincoln. For the South, however, the loss of Vicksburg was devastating ‒ representing the beginning of the end.

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23/10/2025

Battle of the Month: Kings Mountain (Oct., 7th 1780)
In 1780, with the Revolution in its fifth year, British attention turned south. After the capture of Charleston, South Carolina, British Maj. Gen. Cornwallis moved inland and destroyed the Continental Army at Camden ‒ setting the stage for his movement north. But as Cornwallis began his campaign, a simple proclamation by a subordinate would unravel his plans. Maj. Patrick Ferguson, a promising young officer in charge of recruiting and training Loyalists on Cornwallis’s western flank, sent the inflammatory message into the “over-mountain” region west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The “over-mountain” men responded by joining up their militias and coming after him. When they caught him at Kings Mountain, the resulting battle ‒ pitting American against American ‒ would end the string of British successes in the South and alter the course of the war.

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07/10/2025

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03/10/2025

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02/10/2025

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01/10/2025

Check your mailboxes! This classic goes out tomorrow: The Battle of Lutzen (Nov.16, 1632).
By 1618, complex religious alliances, dynastic influences, and mercenary ambitions had thrown Europe into the tumultuous Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648). As the war spread, King Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden brought his army across the Baltic Sea to aid the Protestant cause. But this was no ordinary army. Gustavus’s army, often considered the first “national” army, was organized and trained differently than the others of the time. In fact, its success on the battlefield would help usher in fundamental changes in the character of warfare. Gustavus’s final act, however, was in 1632 at the Battle of Lϋtzen. In this bloody struggle, the “Lion of the North” ‒ the man who helped create the dawn of modern war ‒ was killed. And although he had changed warfare, his loss would prevent Sweden from becoming a dominant power on the European continent.

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09/09/2025

Battle of the month: Antietam (17 Sept., 1862)
After a year and a half of fighting, the Confederacy held the military initiative in the Civil War. In the West, Confederate forces were on the march toward the Ohio River Valley. In the East, Gen. Robert E. Lee, who had recently assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia, had just defeated Gen. John Pope’s Union Army of Virginia in the Second Bull Run Campaign. During the late summer of 1862, Confederate forces launched their first invasion of the North. When Union forces met them near Sharpsburg, Maryland, along Antietam Creek, the result was the “bloodiest day” in American military history. Although the Battle of Antietam was a tactical draw, Union Gen. George McClellan stopped Lee’s invasion. It was a significant enough strategic “victory” to discourage European intervention in the Civil War and for President Abraham Lincoln to broaden the moral aspects of the conflict by issuing his famous Emancipation Proclamation.
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11/07/2025

Learn how the Civil War really began, in our just released summer issue "First Bull Run" (July 21, 1861)!

Preview: In April of 1861, after Confederate guns forced the surrender of Fort Sumter, the American Civil War began. Both sides rushed to build armies and prepare for what most thought would be a short war. But the first pitched battle, along a creek in northern Virginia known as Bull Run, would shatter those expectations when inexperienced generals ‒ with untrained staff ‒ led their mostly amateur soldiers to war. As the battle began, a clever Union flanking maneuver initially had the surprised Confederates on their heels. But the Union offensive stalled against determined resistance and reinforcements. And by late afternoon, the humiliated Union army was streaming back to Washington in defeat. The wake-up call had sounded: This war would not be quick or easy. It would require the serious business of building professional armies for the years ahead.

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16/06/2025

It's the 250th Anniversary of Bunker Hill!
In the weeks following the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord, Colonial militia and volunteers rallied around Boston to besiege Lt. Gen. Thomas Gage’s British garrison. But when reinforcements arrived from England, Gage devised a plan to regain the initiative by occupying Dorchester Heights south of town. When the Colonials heard of Gage’s plan, however, they preempted him by occupying different high ground ‒ the heights of Bunker Hill near Charlestown. When Gage awoke on 17 June to the sight of rebel positions on Breed’s Hill, he quickly attacked in what would be the first pitched battle of the American Revolution. The misnamed Battle of Bunker Hill would prove a costly and shocking victory for the British, while giving the Colonials faith in their militias and an important boost of confidence for the long struggle ahead.
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17/04/2025

It happenned 250 years ago! Lexington/Concord (April 19th, 1775).

Tension between Britain and her North American colonies had been building for years. After numerous protests and acts of defiance, things took a serious turn after the December 1773 Boston Tea Party, when an irate King George III and Parliament took more drastic action to teach their rebellious citizens in Massachusetts a lesson. After shutting down Boston’s port, dissolving elected government, and placing the colony under military occupation, the dry tinder of Colonial resentment was ready to ignite. The spark came on the morning of 19 April 1775, as a British force moved west to destroy military supplies secretly stored in Concord. When the column came upon a small company of militia waiting on Lexington Green, the fateful “shot heard round the world” rang out. The American Revolution had begun.

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