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Valley Forge
Valley Forge was the winter encampment of the Continental Army from 19 December 1777 until 18 June 1778, during one of the most difficult winters of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Despite being undersupplied, underfed, and plagued...
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Works and Days
Works and Days is an epic poem written in dactylic hexameter, credited to the 8th-century BCE Greek poet Hesiod. Hesiod is generally remembered for two epic works, Theogony and Works and Days but, like his contemporary Homer, he was part...
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Hundred Days
The Hundred Days refers to the second reign of French Emperor Napoleon I, who unexpectedly returned from exile to reclaim the French throne. It encompasses Napoleon's triumphant return to Paris on 20 March 1815, his climactic defeat at the...
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Interview: The Last Days of the Incas (Kim MacQuarrie)
How did a mere 167 Spaniards conquer an empire of 10 million people? The Spanish were outnumbered 200-to-1 yet they were able to seize the Inca capital, Cuzco, and dispose of the Inca ruler within only a year. Kim MacQuarrie's The Last Days...
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Interview: Arcadian Days by John Spurling
Join World History Encyclopedia as they sit down with John Spurling to talk about his new book of Greek mythology retellings Arcadian Days, published by Pegasus Books. Kelly: Thank you so much for joining me to talk about your book Arcadian...
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Plato's Greater, Better World in The Last Days of Socrates
The Last Days of Socrates is a modern-day title for the collection of four Socratic dialogues by the Greek philosopher Plato – the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo – telling the story of the trial, imprisonment, and death of Socrates...
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The Newly Discovered Tablet II of the Epic of Gilgamesh
Surpassing all other kings, heroic in stature, brave scion of Uruk, wild bull on the rampage! Going at the fore he was the vanguard, going at the rear, one his comrades could trust! (Prologue, Tablet I, The Epic of...
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March to Valley Forge
March to Valley Forge, a depiction of General George Washington leading the Continental Army to Valley Forge in December 1777. Oil on canvas by William Brooke Thomas Trego, 1883. Museum of the American Revolution, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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Washington and Lafayette at Valley Forge
George Washington and Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-78. Reproduction of a painting by John Ward Dunsmore, 1907.
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
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Baron Steuben Drilling Continental Soldiers at Valley Forge
Baron Friederich von Steuben drills Continental soldiers at Valley Forge in the spring of 1778. By Edwin Austin Abbey, sometime before 1911.