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Smithsonian Magazine13d
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 ...
The Island Packet27d
Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
The city of Beaufort is developing six acres of prime property along Battery Creek into a park to honor the unsung story of a remarkable group of Civil ... the Navy as part its blockade of ...
Florida's Civil War history, the costs of secession, the first push for tourism
History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...
StrategyPage10mon
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 Mail21d
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 ...