The State of Maine and Canada went to war - against each other.
Darn frogs.
Well, that’s a little strong. The USA came into Russia to aid the Government it considered legit. At that point in time, there was no legit or stable government in Russia.
On top of that, according to the link above, the whole thing was a joint operation run by the Allies, led by the British.
I mean, it’s not QUITE the UN, but about as close as you had back then, I suppose.
I imagine for a lot of Russians it amounts to the same thing.
Anyway, no matter how you spin it, I’d bet it qualifies as little known history for most Americans.
If I remember correctly, Teddy Roosevelt’s cavalry charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish-American War was made on foot. He was too impatient to wait for the horses to be unloaded from the ship.
I’d be mildly curious if most Russians know it happened. Might rank as high for them nowadays as the Quasi-War With France does for Americans nowadays.
Oh yeah, did we mention that one yet? A brief war, fought primarily on the seas, between the United States of America and the Republic of France, in response to the French Navy and privateers siezing American merchant ships for carrying contraband goods (identified as being “Any British good, including an English handkerchief in the Captain’s pocket”)
While the US and the UK weren’t allies during this period, the Brits were more than happy enough to let the American ships use their bases and to sell them munitions and supplies, and merchants from either country could convoy together if the opportunity arose.
•Almost forget a good one: Henry Kissinger used to sell popcorn at Disneyland…while he was Secretary of State (apparently, it helped him unwind).
•Likely not on the same day as the yippie/hippie riot at Disneyland, though.
•…or the one murder.
•Like the name implies, Disney’s Epcot—“Experimental Prototype City Of Tomorrow”—Center was originally envisioned, not as a theme park, but as a planned, Disney-controlled city…with it’s own nuclear power plant.
I have no cite,so if anyone digs one up I will be well chuffed,but read once that Franklin was almost certainly a double agent working for the British.
I’ve wracked my brains but just can’t remember where I saw it.
Slightly off topic but the Irish were amongst the first people to land on Iceland,also as slaves of the Vikngs.
Also the first long range WW2 fighter used for U.S. bomber escort over Germany(The Mustang I believe)was in actual fact a British designed aircraft that was built in the U.S. as U.K. aircraft production was at its full stretch.
And it wasn’t made on San Juan Hill. as Richard Schemkman points out in Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History, it was up nearby Kettle Hill.
This must be some rule of American history – Battles abnd Military actions arwe never named after the right hill. Look at Bunker Hill/Breed’s Hill. I wonder if they got Pork Chop Hill right.
How about the *Eastland *disaster in Chicago in 1915?
I don’t think many people realize that JFK and co were involved with the Mafia. Good 'ol Joe Kennedy especially. Or, for that matter, all the insane schemes we had for assassinating Castro. Wasn’t one of them an exploding cigar? Not even Kennedy’s mafia budies, like Sam Giancana managed to do it.
Then there’s the fact that we once supported Sadam Husein, during the Cold War. Or even that one of our allies in the CW was, IIRC, one Josip Broz Tito, the communist leader of Yugoslavia.
Or hey, that Charles Nelson Reilly was one of the survivors of the Hartland Circus Fire?
Franklin started out by energetically trying to avoid war, and by trying to talk sense to the British about giving the colonies a fair shake. He was well received initially, and even courted, entertained, etc. After all, he was living in London at the time and liked his perks. After ten years living there, it may have given the appearance that he was in bed with England, especially since he showed no intention of ever returning to the colonies or his wife. He was quite a strategist, so who knows what was going on in his mind.
Not quite correct: the P-51 was designed for the British to meet their specifications, but was designed and built by North American Aviation.
New Jersey, apparently. And I have no idea why a company would want facepalm to be their public image.
The Civil War alone offers scores of anecdotes. To name only a few:[ul][]Early in the war, based on a strategic theory widespread at the time, most people believed that the war would be a largely bloodless contest of maneuver and counter-maneuver.[]The introduction of breechloading and repeating arms was slowed by generals who feared that they would only encourage infantry to waste ammo.A leading general of the Union, Joseph McClellan, routinely believed that Lee’s army outnumbered his 2-1, even though the reverse was actually true.[/ul]
Geez, what IS it that we can’t get the names of hills straight? I hope it’s just us; otherwise, I’ll start wondering just which mountain Sir Edmund Hillary climbed up.
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The Civil War alone offers scores of anecdotes. To name only a few:[ul][li]Early in the war, based on a strategic theory widespread at the time, most people believed that the war would be a largely bloodless contest of maneuver and counter-maneuver.[]The introduction of breechloading and repeating arms was slowed by generals who feared that they would only encourage infantry to waste ammo.[]A leading general of the Union, Joseph McClellan, routinely believed that Lee’s army outnumbered his 2-1, even though the reverse was actually true.[/ul][/li][/QUOTE]
More little-known Civil War trivia: The Siege of Petersburg, Virginia, late in the war, involved widespread trench warfare in a manner not entirely unlike what would be seen in the First World War. Of particular note is the Battle of the Crater, where Union forces dug a mineshaft beneath a Confederate fort and destroyed it with high explosives, effecting a breach in the Confederate lines. Unfortunately, the breakthrough itself was executed poorly, and over 5,000 Union troops were lost when they were pinned down in the resulting crater because they had decided to run into it to use it for cover rather than go around it to penetrate further into the Confederate defenses.
The Siege of Petersburg would continue for nearly another year.
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The Civil War alone offers scores of anecdotes. To name only a few:[ul][li]Early in the war, based on a strategic theory widespread at the time, most people believed that the war would be a largely bloodless contest of maneuver and counter-maneuver.[]The introduction of breechloading and repeating arms was slowed by generals who feared that they would only encourage infantry to waste ammo.[]A leading general of the Union, Joseph McClellan, routinely believed that Lee’s army outnumbered his 2-1, even though the reverse was actually true.[/ul][/li][/QUOTE]
Wouldn’t that be George McClellan?
Kerensky (whose title was President, not Prime Minister) also served for a time as a Stanford professor. He taught a senior seminar on – naturally enough – the Russian Revolution. As a former student interviewed for this article put it:
My father was a boy in Cleveland when Antanas Smetona settled in that city after being exiled from his post as Lithuania’s president.
The Dearborn Independent, a newspaper famous for such anti-Semitic sensationalism as the publication of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, was published by a man whose name has almost certainly appeared on a vehicle or two in which you have ridden.
Ah, the link between Henry Ford and anti-Semitism is finally clear! I’d heard his name bandied about as an anti-Semite and never quite understood how the connection was made.