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Nov 16, 2009
Baron Von Steuben at Valley Forge
By:
Lawrence Koppy
The German officer took George Washington's disparate fighters and molded them into a disciplined army that would go on to win the Revolutionary War.
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Nov 3, 2009
Cannon Blasts Signal Living History Lessons
By:
Annette Mardis
Perched at the edge of the once New World, St. Augustine's Castillo de San Marcos lets visitors see and imagine centuries-old scenes within and around its scarred walls.
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Oct 10, 2009
The Conquistadors
By:
Alex Graham-Heggie
The Spanish Empire was pushed forward and brought to its initial scale and power, not by armies of the State, but by freelance Conquistadors.
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Sep 10, 2009
The Golden Age of Piracy
By:
Alex Graham-Heggie
Buccaneers were the second generation of fringe participants in the colonial economy. After buccaneers came the true, classic form of piracy we remember best today.
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Aug 18, 2009
Baron von Steuben
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Megan Winkler
Baron von Steuben trained soldiers at Valley Forge during the American Revolution and enacted important regulations for the training and maintaining of the American Army.
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Jul 7, 2009
Buccaneers of the 17th Century Caribbean
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Alex Graham-Heggie
Pirates, in the Elizabethan Era, had been profitable and glamorous people. However, that changed with the change in rulers.
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Jul 6, 2009
The Life of Sir Francis Drake
By:
Alex Graham-Heggie
When the Spanish Empire seized the riches of the Americas, their rivals in Europe resented this, and made bids to claim some of the riches themselves.
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