James Armistead Lafayette
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Chapter 1
Henry Ossian Flipper
West Point, US Army
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Chapter 2
Buffalo Soldiers
10th Calvary M Troop
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Chapter 2
Capt. Nicholas M Nolan
Portrait by James J Sawyer, 1875
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Chapter 2
Filibuster Gen William Walker
Library of Congress
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Chapter 3
Gen William Walker’s Nicaraguan Flag
1856-1857
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Chapter 3
Gen William Walker, Nicaragua
Library of Congress
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Chapter 3
Gen William Walker Residence, Grenada
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Illustrated Newspaper
Library of Congress
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Chapter 3
Jacob Adolphus “Jelly” Bryce, c. 1930
Oklahoma City Police Dept.
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Chapter 4
Maj Gen Orde Charles Wingate
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Chapter 6
Chindit column crossing river
in Burma, 1943
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Chapter 6
Col Merrill, Col Alison, Brigadier Calvert, Capt Borrow, Gen Wingate, Lt Col Scott, Maj Stewart
Airfield “Broadway” in Burma
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Chapter 6
Private Eduardo Peniche
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Chapter 7
Operation Market Garden
Paratroopers land in Holland
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Chapter 7
Map, Battle of the Bulge
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Chapter 7
Battle of the Bulge
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Chapter 7
Bastogne Memorial, Belgium
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Chapter 7
Ralph Bunche
Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
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Library of Congress, public domain
Chapter 8
NK Dictator Kim Jong Un
UN Singapore Summit, June 12, 2018
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Chapter 9
North Korea/South Korea Border
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Chapter 9
RAF Station under attack
Battle of Britain, 1940
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Chapter 10
Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding with
Some of the Few
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Chapter 10
RAF Hawker Hurricanes, Oct 1940
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Chapter 10
RAF Wellington Crew
Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire
Preparing for night raid to Berlin
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Chapter 10
Flag of The Righteous Army
Japan
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Chapter 11
Japanese soldier with broken
statue of Sun Yat Sen, China, 1937
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Chapter 11
Gen Douglas MacArthur and
Emperor Hirohito of Japan
First meeting, Sept 27, 1945
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Chapter 11
1890s Capitol brawler William Taulbee
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Chapter 12
Susan Rosenberg
Capitol bomber & domestic terrorist
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Chapter 12
16th Century Janissary
Hungarian National Museum
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Chapter 13
Circular map of Vienna
Niclas Meldeman, 1518-1552
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Chapter 13
Suleiman the Magnificent
Portrait by Titian
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Chapter 13
Seige of Vienna, 1529
Painting by Pieter Snayers
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Chapter 13
Kara Mustafa
Palace Museum in Wilanow
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Chapter 14
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
Museum of Military History, Vienna
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Chapter 14
King Jan III Sobieski of Poland
Attack on Turks in Vienna, 1683
Painting by Juliusz Kossak
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Chapter 14
Battle of Vienna, 1683
Painting by Juliusz Kossak
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Chapter 14
Battle of San Jacinto
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Chapter 15
The Alamo
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Chapter 15
Stephen F Austin, Father of Texas
Texas State Library & Archives Commission
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Chapter 15
Sam Houston, c. 1848
Sam Houston Memorial Museum
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Chapter 15
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
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Chapter 15
Mexico, 1840-1842
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Chapter 15
US Pres James K Polk
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Chapter 16
John C Fremont
Portrait by George Peter Alexander Healy
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Chapter 16
Battle of Palo Alto
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Chapter 17
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo
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Chapter 18
Dr. José Protasio Rizal
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Chapter 18
Dr. José Protasio Rizal
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Chapter 18
José Rizal’s Execution
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Chapter 18
USS Maine
US Naval Historical Center Photo
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Chapter 18
Map of Philippines
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Chapter 20
8-Gun turret of USS Olympia
Battle of Manila Bay
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Chapter 19
USS Olympia, 1898
Battle of Manila Bay
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Chapter 19
Reina Cristina, Spanish Navy
Battle of Manila
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Chapter 19
Embarkation of Nebraska Volunteers
June 23, 1899
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Chapter 19
Raising US flag over Santiago
Philippines, Aug 13, 1898
Harpers Pictorial History of War w/Spain
Vol II, Harper Bros 1899
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Chapter 19
Gen Douglas MacArthur
Truman Library
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Chapter 20
Surrender of American troops
Corregidor, May, 1942
US National Archives & Records
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Chapter 20
Bataan Death March
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Chapter 20
Bataan Death March, May 1942.
DOD, USMC 114538, # 127
National Archives & Records
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Chapter 20
Pfc Samuel Stenzler, Pfc Frank Spear,
Capt James Gallagher
Bataan Death March
National Archives & Records
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Chapter 20
Bataan Death March
Improvised litters for the dead
National Archives & Records
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Chapter 20
Gen Douglas MacAurther
Layte, October 1944
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Chapter 21
Tanks line up for invasion
of Cape Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea, 1944
National Archives & Records
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Chapter 21
US Navy gun crews landing
on Mindoro Island, 1944
National Archives & Records
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Chapter 21
USCG landing barges in Lingayan Gulf
carrying first wave to Luzon, 1945
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Chapter 21
USS Shaw exploding at
Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1944
National Archives & Records
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Chapter 21
Japanese surrender in the
Philippines, Sept 15, 1945
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Chapter 21
British Opium Sales
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Chapter 23
Opium ships at Lintin, China, 1824
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public domain
Chapter 23
William Gladstone
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Chapter 23
Qing Dynasty opium smokers
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Chapter 23
Chinese opium smokers
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Chapter 24
Opium den in China
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Chapter 24
Opium hulks in Shanghai Harbor, 1901
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Chapter 24
Orange River Basin, South Africa
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Chapter 25
Battle of Isandlwana, Zulu Wars
Illustrated London News, public domain
Chapter 25
Zulu King Cetshwayo ka Mpande
Photo by Alex Bassano, public domain
Chapter 25
Zulu King Cetshwayo ka Mpande
Painting by Carl Rudolph Sohn
Royal Collection, public domain
Chapter 25
Zulu Warrior
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Chapter 25
Sir George Pomeroy Colley
Battle of Mujaba Hill
Illustrated London News, The Transvaal War
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Chapter 26
Cecil John Rhodes, Founder of De Beers
Portrait by George Frederic Watts
National Portrait Gallery
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Chapter 27
Afrikaner Commandos
Second Boer War
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Chapter 27
Boer Ambush
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Chapter 27
Officers of German Corps
Fighting with Boers
Battle of Spion Kop, Jan 24, 1900
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Chapter 27
British troop train crossing Modder River
on pontoon bridge, 1899
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Chapter 27
Emily Hobhouse
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Chapter 28
Krugersdorp Concentration Camp
Boer Wars
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Chapter 28
Women and children in
Boer Concentration Camp
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Chapter 28
Overcrowding in
Boer Concentration Camps
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Chapter 28
Boer Concentration Camp
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Chapter 28
Starving child
Irene Concentration Camp
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Chapter 28
For an extensive photo gallery of the Boer War concentration camps, see
The Boer War Genocide: Inside History’s First Concentration Camps by Mark Oliver. Click HERE.
Boston Tea Party
Engraving by WD Cooper, 1789
Library of Congress, public domain
Chapter 29
Sailor Crispus Attucks
One of first three casualties in the
American Revolutionary War, Mar 5, 1770
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Chapter 30
Battle of Lexington Engraving
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Chapter 30
Generals Washington & Lafayette
at Valley Forge
Painting by John Ward Dunsmore
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Chapter 30
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
Painting by John Trumbull
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Chapter 30
King Carlos III of Spain
Portrait by Anton Rafael Mengs, c 1761
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Chapter 31
General Daniel Morgan
Portrait by Charles Wilson Peale
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Chapter 32
Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton
Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds
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Chapter 32
National Guard Logo
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Chapter 32
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and wife
Sophie von Hohenburg in Sarajevo
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Chapter 33
Gavrilo Princip
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Chapter 33
Gavrilo Princip being brought
to court in 1914
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Chapter 33
Louvain Library, WWI
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Chapter 33
British troops passing ruins of
Albert Cathedral, France, WWI
National Library of Scotland
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Chapter 33
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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Chapter 33
Map, Battle of Verdun, 1916
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Chapter 34
Verdun Poster by Maurice Neumont
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Chapter 34
Verdun Reserves crossing river
on the way to Verdun
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Chapter 34
French 87th Regiment at
6th Division Hill 304
NW of Verdun, 1916
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Chapter 34
Western Front between Verdun and
St Mihiel, March 1916
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Chapter 34
Zimmerman Telegram
National Cryptologic Museum
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Chapter 35
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
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Chapter 37
US Pres Franklin D Roosevelt, 1938
National Archives & Records
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Chapter 36
Freedom of Speech, Norman Rockwell
National Archives & Records
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Chapter 36
Freedom of Worship, Norman Rockwell
National Archives & Records
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Chapter 36
Freedom from Want, Norman Rockwell
National Archives & Records
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Chapter 36
Freedom from Fear, Norman Rockwell
National Archives & Records
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Chapter 36
Four Freedoms Memorial
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Chapter 36
US Consulate in Benghazi, Sept 12, 2012
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Chapter 37
US Marines with Company A,
1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment
Fallujah, Iraq, April 7, 2004
Image by Cpl Matthew J Apprendi,
USMC, public domain
Chapter 38
1st Cavalry Division, Fallujah, Nov 4, 2004
Image by Sgt. 1st Class Johan Charles Van Boers
US Army, public domain
Chapter 38
Fallujah, November 10, 2004
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Chapter 38
US Marines, 2nd Battle of Fallujah
Supporting Operation Phantom Fury, Nov 11, 2004
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Chapter 38