Robert E. Lee faced a tremendously difficult situation when he took command of the Confederate army. In many ways, the most intimidating part of this situation lay not in the military sphere but in the civilian sphere. […]
Th Seven Days’ Battles is a series of battles fought during the American Civil War. The battles began on June 25, 1862, when the Confederate army, under General Robert E. Lee, made it a point to drive back General George B. McClellan’s Union forces and thwart their attempt to gain control of Richmond, Virginia. […]
The Battle of Fair Oaks led to some major changes in the configuration of the Civil War, changes that nearly ended up changing the trajectory of the war. […]
A peek inside the early battles and victories of American Revolutionary Wars: Elucidating how the the British failure to clinch complete victory opened space for new diplomatic opportunities. […]
What were the main tactics employed during the American Revolutionary War? And how were the armies organized tactically and socially by the famous generals of the war? […]
The Continental Army was in many ways similar to the British Army. What was the reason behind these similarities? And how did these similarities manifest themselves? […]
An episode in American history that you probably won’t read about in any textbook is the so-called Business Plot of 1934. […]
The committee for the Declaration of Independence was considered as a distant third behind the committee of foreign alliances and the committee responsible for writing the rules of confederation. […]
The American Revolution: from Congress’s rebellious authorization of a continental army to Richard Henry Lee’s resolution of independence. […]
The incidents at Lexington and Concord could have remained only that, an incident, if it was not for the British Empire’s failings in the American Revolution. […]
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