General Pinochet soon emerged as the permanent head of the ruling junta and set about imposing a new era of authoritarianism and political repression. He ruled Chile until 1990.
The origin for the scandal lay in the discovery of a ripped-up letter in a waste basket at the German Embassy in Paris.
Combined British and Prussian military forces defeated the French, but Wellington himself said that the battle was ‘the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life’.
On 29th April 1975, America began Operation Frequent Wind – the evacuation of over 1,000 American civilians and a further 6,000 “at-risk” Vietnamese from Saigon.
The withdrawal of the last regular American troops from South Vietnam ended eight years of direct US military involvement in Vietnam.
The Victoria Cross, which is commonly referred to as the VC, is the highest military decoration in the British honours system and takes precedence over every other order and medal.
Cadets sought to continue the annual tradition of drinking homemade eggnog on Christmas Eve.
By the end of the Battle of the Somme, the Allies had advanced more than six miles into German-held territory.
Davis first entered military service following the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, and later served as Professor of Military Science and Tactics at both Wilberforce University in Ohio and Tuskegee University in Alabama as well as serving tours of duty around the world.
President George Washington wrote to Congress, stating that the military was something on which the “honor, safety and well being of our Country so evidently and essentially depend.”
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