The Island Packet11d
Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek.
Smithsonian Magazine7mon
How Coffee Helped the Union Caffeinate Their Way to Victory in the Civil War
Ten months into the Civil ... the war. Though coffee was cultivated around the world from Java to Ethiopia to Haiti, Brazil had been the main supplier to the United States. The Union blockade ...
China’s military launches live-fire exercise in escalation of blockade drills near Taiwan
The Chinese military staged a second day of exercises around Taiwan on Wednesday, launching live-fire strikes in the East ...
StrategyPage9mon
Book Review: Franco's Pirates: Naval Aspects of the Spanish Civil War 1936–39
notes., biblio., index. $37.95. ISBN:1636242758 Commercial Shipping and Blockade Operations during the Spanish Civil War With his newest book, Hooton, a retired defense journalist and author of a ...
Daily Mail5d
China sends armed forces to surround Taiwan: Beijing deploys army, navy and air forces to simulate blockade - as the island launches its own military response
China has sent its army, navy, air and rocket forces to surround ... forces fled to Taiwan after losing the Chinese civil war with Mao Zedong's communist fighters. Taiwan sees itself as a ...
Aid workers reported killed and missing in Gaza as Israeli blockade nears one month
More than a dozen aid workers have been killed or gone missing in Gaza over the past few days, several groups say, as Israel ...