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Of the roughly 120 Union and Confederate generals present during the three-day Battle of Gettysburg, nine were either killed outright or mortally wounded. More general officers lost their lives at Gettysburg than in any other battle in American history. This thread will cover these nine men, their previous military careers, and how each met his death during those three terrible days in Pennsylvania. The nine generals were as follows: **Confederacy:** Brig. Gen. Paul Semmes Brig. Gen. William Barksdale Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead Brig. Gen. Richard Garnett Maj. Gen. William Dorsey…

After the successful invasion of Panama, known as Operation Just Cause, by the US Military, Panama's former Dictator found himself fleeing from US special forces operators. After a time, he would find himself seeking shelter in the Apostolic Nunciature, the Holy See's embassy in Panama. As a result, Delta force found themselves in a particular situation, unable to invade the embassy by force, due to treaties with the Vatican, the Special forces soldiers were forced to get creative. Dubbed Operation Nifty Package, the National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft would later…

In 1852, President Millard Fillmore assigned Commodore Matthew C. Perry to force the opening of Japanese ports to American trade after more than two centuries of self-imposed isolation. Fillmore authorized Perry to use “gunboat diplomacy” in order to accomplish the task at hand. After nearly 250 years of isolation, the Japanese nation was about to be opened to the world by force. Perry’s fleet arrived at Uraga, near the entrance to Edo Bay, on July 8, 1853. Ignoring Japanese demands to leave, Perry had a white flag and a letter…

The men on both sides of Appomattox unironically had more respect for each other then they ever would for modern leftist. Union General Joshua Chamberlain (my favorite commander of the war) even made his men stand at attention and salute the recently vanquished confederate army as they marched by. He would later say of that moment - "For us they were fellow-soldiers as well, suffering the fate of arms. We could not look into those brave, bronzed faces, and those battered flags we had met on so many fields where…