Spanish Civil War Ends Further Reading: The Spanish Civil War: 1931-1939 (6 parts) The Spanish Distinction The Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War
Category: On This Day in History
On This Day in History: Japanese Soldier Hiroo Onoda Surrenders 29 Years After the End of WW2
One-Man War Finally Ends March 9, 1974 — Nearly 30 years after the end of the Second World War Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda finally surrendered on this day. He had been waging his own war from a jungle and the mountains. In December, 1944, towards the end of the global conflict, Onoda, an intelligence officer, was…
Know Your Texas History: 188 Years Ago Today the Siege of the Alamo Began and Lasted for 13 Days
Remembering the Alamo February 23, 1836 — Native Americans had lived in Texas for thousands of years, undisturbed until Spanish explorers arrived in 1519 and took control. Mexico’s war of independence pushed out the Spanish in 1821 and Mexican Texas was born. To boost settlement, Mexican authorities encouraged immigration from the United States, the campaign becoming so successful that by 1834,…
Know Your American White History: Guadalupe Hidalgo Day
Happy Guadalupe Hidalgo Day: Celebrating The Victory That Gave America The Southwest—And Even Oregon The United Press reports today that “On This Day In History”: In 1848, the war between the United States and Mexico formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It provided for Mexico’s cession of the territory that…
On This Day in History: D-Day, the 78th Anniversary
Veterans return to Normandy to mark 78th anniversary of D-Day landing Read my original short story in memory of D-Day titled Forever and a Day.
On This Day in History: The Chios Massacre
The Chios Massacre On the 11th April 1822 an army of some 40,000 Ottoman troops began landing on the Greek island of Chios, which is situated just 7 kilometers off the Turkish coastline of Anatolia, with express orders to kill all Christian infants under three years old, all males 12 years and older, and all…
On This Day in History: The Battle of Arogee, 1868
“Never Give Way to Barbarians” The British Abyssinian Expedition of 1868: A Matter of Honor The Abyssinian Expedition of 1868 was unlike any military campaign before or since. Today, the idea that an entire expeditionary force could be raised to invade a country on another continent and just to rescue eight people might seem…
On this Day in History (12/2/1805): Napoleon Wins at Austerlitz
Napoleon’s Win At Austerlitz – His Greatest Success On December 2, 1805, Napoleon achieved what many consider his greatest success. Outnumbered by the combined armies of the Russian Tsar Alexander I and the Austrian Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, he won a stunning victory at the Battle of Austerlitz. A Lesson in How to…
On This Day in History: Remembering D-Day
Today take a moment to Remember the Military Men and Women who participated and gave their Lives in D-Day. And let General Patton’s words ring true: “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” Seventy-two years ago, on June 6, 1944, Allied troops…
On This Day in History: The Chernobyl Disaster
On this day, 30 Years Ago, in 1986, the world’s worst nuclear accident to date occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear plant near Kiev in Ukraine. The full toll from this disaster is still being tallied, but experts believe that thousands of people died and as many as 70,000 suffered severe poisoning. In addition, a large…