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In 2024, they made up about 14% of Canada’s active Armed Forces, even though they represent less than 1% of the country’s ...
The war turned Vietnam’s lush landscapes into scorched earth. Entire provinces were reduced to rubble, waterways were polluted, forests decimated, and soil rendered infertile by chemicals ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNHow a Relentless, 484-Mile March From Virginia to Massachusetts Fueled the Legend of the Dashing Frontier RiflemanIn the early months of the American Revolution, Daniel Morgan and his soldiers raced north to join the Continental Army ...
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The Business & Financial Times on MSNHow Burkina Faso is redefining south-south cooperationBy Amos SAFOOn June 26, 2025, a very significant political and diplomatic event took place in Burkina Faso.This involved agreements Captain Ibrahim Traore signed with eight African, Asian, European ...
This is the first in a weekly series to be featured every Saturday in The Recorder over the next on the founding of this ...
In the Treaty of Paris France ceded Canada to Britain and the Louisiana Territory, including New Orleans, to Spain. Spain gave up its claim to Florida. Shortly after the Treaty, King George issued a ...
As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military ...
Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had been before or since.” Washington was pursuing a ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNArchaeologists Discover Site Where George Washington Stopped a Friendly Fire Incident by Blocking Muskets With His SwordIn 1758, during the French and Indian War, the future president saved lives by stepping into the middle of a deadly skirmish in Pennsylvania ...
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WCAX on MSNRouses Point exhibit to recount 1775 Invasion of QuebecAs the country counts down to its semiquincentennial next year, historians in New York’s North Country are taking another ...
The Cane River flows through northwest Louisiana where Caddo Indians once farmed corn and hunted deer. French explorer Louis ...
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