South Carolina’s state convention voted 169-0 on this day in favor of “dissolving the union now subsisting between South Carolina and the other states” declaring itself an “Independent Commonwealth.” Five states were to follow South Carolina’s lead within weeks – Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana. Then came the big one of Texas, followed…
Category: History Roundup
Know Your Real History: The Jewish Hand in the World Wars
On This Day in History: Operation Restore Hope, Somalia 1992
U.S. Army in Somalia 1992-1994 US Marines and allied nations launch an amphibious and airborne operation in Mogadishu, Somalia to restore order to the war-torn nation. Authorized by UN Security Council Resolution 794 passed on December 3. UNDER FIRE: Battle of the Black Sea On October 3, 1993, a composite force of United…
The Bolshevik Revolution
In Memoriam: The Holodomor
Hidden, Suppressed History of Red Terror in Post-WWI Europe Today on 23rd November we remember the Holodomor disaster, the Stalinist man made famine in Ukraine, killing millions of Ukrainian men, women and children between 1932-1933. The exact number of deaths will never be known, some sources say between 5-10 million deaths, the biggest genocide…
On This Day in History, November 22, 1963
Know Your Guerilla Warfare History: The Boer War
Boer War Origins The origins of the Boer War lay in Britain’s desire to unite, or confederate, the British South African territories of the Cape Colony and Natal with the Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic (also known as the Transvaal). The Boers, Afrikaans-speaking farmers, wanted to maintain their…
Small-Unit Tactics: The Flying Column
Ireland’s Wars: Flying Columns The popular memory of the Irish War of Independence, at least if you happen to be Irish, often revolves around the image of the IRA “flying column”. For a large number of people, those two words indicates a very particular type of unit: A sort of mobile platoon that lived and…
Know Your Real WW2 History: The French Resistance
Know Your Southern History: Causes of Southern Secession in the Upper South, Part 1
Part 1: Causes of Southern Secession in the Upper South “If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be subverted, and an Empire is to be established in their stead; if that is to be the last scene of the great…