Today in Military History
From 1479 B.C. to 1999, these pages provide a day-by-day listing of events of significance from 3,500 years of military history. Each day, one or more events -- battles, surrenders, victories and defeats -- are shown along with a brief description of the action and the results. World War I, World War II, The American Civil War, the Wars of the Roses, the Crimean War, the Boer Wars, the Crusades, Alexander's Macedonian conquests, Julius Caesar, Napoleon -- you'll find all this and more.
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"Whether war is a necessary factor in the evolution of mankind may be disputed, but
a fact which cannot be questioned is that, from the earliest records of man to the
present age, war has been his dominant profession. There has never been a period
of human history altogether free from war, and seldom one of more than a generation
which has not witnessed a major conflict: great wars ebb and flow almost as regularily
as the tides."
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