Happy San Jacinto Day, 2023: Texas Celebrates 187 Years Of Not Being Ruled By Mexico Sorry folks, yesterday was extremely busy and I neglected to Celebrate a Red Letter Date in my beloved State’s History: San Jacinto Day! The San Jacinto Column, the world’s tallest monument, was built in 1936 by Sons and Daughters of the Republic of Texas who…
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Guerilla Warfare 101: Lessons from the Spanish Civil War
H/T WRSA The Spanish CNT-FAI Anarchist Defense Cadre Operating Concept The author of this essay, Karl Dahl has a book out titled Faction that I highly recommend. Study Up and Gear Up Gents. Spicy Times are on the Menu.
Know Your WW1 History: The East Africa Campaign and Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
H/T WRSA The East Africa Campaign On the outbreak of war in 1914, Colonel Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck was the commander of a small army in German East Africa (Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda). He was determined to tie down as many Allied troops as he could in the region to prevent them from…
Know Your WWII History: The True Story that Inspired ‘Fury’
The True Story that Inspired ‘Fury’ Is Fury a true story? Was the Fury tank an actual Sherman? It sure seems to be. In this article, the renowned and redoubtable Red2Alpha73 (Mike Durand) reviews Belton Y. Cooper’s 1998 memoir: Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II.
Know Your Military History: The Black Watch Regiment of the Royal Highlanders
Black Watch: Royal Highlanders The Black Watch regiment is a storied unit within the Scottish military, dating back to the early 18th century. The origin of the Black Watch is similarly steeped in history, with a long lineage of skilled marksmen dating back centuries. Following the Jacobite Rebellion, loyalists of the Highland clans of…
Two Rode Together
Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight made history in 1866, and 120 years later Larry McMurtry made them legends The story of Loving and Goodnight influenced Texas Western writer Larry McMurtry to write one of the most authentic and influential western saga’s of our time, Lonesome Dove.
Requiem for a Culture, Part 5: The Graves of the Ancestors
Requiem for a Culture, Part 5: The Graves of the Ancestors This is the fifth essay in an occasional series. Previously: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun, Act I, Scene III (page 80 in the Vintage paperback edition)
Obscure American History: The Legend of the Moon-Eyed People
The Legend of the Moon-Eyed People According to formulations of Cherokee legend as told by historians, the Cherokee in Appalachia–before the arrival of colonists–expelled a race of small, bearded people who could only see by night. Some historians claim that the legend states that the Moon Eyed people were white. This is likely an…
Remembering Waco Thirty Years Later
Remembering Waco Thirty Years Later 30 years ago today, the ATF raided the Branch Davidians’ church/home on a bullshit gun warrant. They murdered 6 innocent people and lost 4 of their own to defensive fire. 51 days later Bill Clinton sent the FBI Hostage Rescue Team and Delta Force to finish them off. I highly…
What If Rhodesia Survived? | Alternate History
For all you fellow History Nerds.