You'd have to travel 100 miles (160 kilometers) an hour for two whole hours to get from one end to the other of a line of fortresses along the eastern border of France. And you'd have to pay two...
THE TREE OF THE SAD NIGHT
> This drawing shows the army of Hernando Cortes fighting the Aztec > Indians long ago. > The Tree of the Sad Night in Tacuba, Mexico Long ago, Hernando Cortes of Spain decided to capture the...
“FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO”
In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, you can see the place where one of the bloodiest battles of American history was fought. Some people say that the Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point in the...
IT SOMETIMES PAYS TO BE SMALL
More than three hundred years ago, the small English Navy met and defeated the big Spanish Armada in the English Channel. Long ago, when most boats had sails, the people of Spain called their navy...
THE LITTLE BIGHORN
In 1876, United States soldiers were sent to make the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians move onto a reservation---a section of land where they would have to stay. But the Indians decided to fight for their...
FREE FOR ALL
"Storm the Bastille! Free the prisoners!" That's what an angry crowd shouted as they ran through the streets of Paris, France, on July 14,1789. The French Revolution had already begun. And the...
THE RED BRICK WALL
Long ago, some African people, called the Moors, built a fortress in Granada, Spain. They also built a palace behind the red brick walls of the fortress. They called the fortress and palace...
D-DAY BEACHES
When is D-day? That's a military secret because a D-day is a day when an invasion begins. During World War II, D-day was supposed to be June 5, 1944. Almost three million men from the armies of the...
REMEMBER THE ALAMO
> A cannon is shot off in front of the Alamo as people in costumes > celebrate the anniversary of Texas statehood. "Victory or death---I shall never surrender or retreat. Those were the words of...
WHERE BATTLES WERE FOUGHT
Men have battled in cities, at fortresses, in the open countryside, and on the seas. Sometimes the battles are so important that the battlegrounds become famous. On the next pages, you will visit...
