Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate ... From behind their fortifications, the Confederate forces at Fredericksburg assault the approaching Federals with ...

The second Sudanese civil war lasted from 1983 to 2005 and ended with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). In 2011, nearly 99 percent of South Sudanese voted in favor of the independence ...

All cadets who attended West Point after 1833 and before the start of the Civil War studied under Mahan. Mahan’s textbook became the bible of field fortifications for both the Union and the ...