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April 27 in U.S. military history

Featured image: “… to the shores of Tripoli…” Lt. Presley O’Bannon leading Marines during the Battle of Derna, inspiring the

1777: 16-year-old Sybil Ludington – “the female Paul Revere” – begins her 40-mile, all-night ride across an isolated circuit of

1865: The war lost, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee concludes, “There is nothing left for me to do, but to

1865: A day after the Confederate government evacuates by rail, Union troops march into the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va.

Today’s post is in honor of Gunnery Sgt. Justin E. Schmalstieg who was killed while defusing a roadside bomb he