The Civil War was a four-year affair that required the armies on both sides of the conflict to shell out a ton of cash in their quest for victory before the Union ultimately prevailed over the Confederacy. In the waning days of the Civil War, Jefferson Davis and his cronies supposedly fled

As far as sensitivity goes, I’d say wars have pretty thick skin. Not too many passive-aggressive twitter beefs going down between @francoprussian1870 and @falklandsforthewin. Sure, there may be some gentle jealousy towards WWII, the Crusades, and some of the other blue checkmark holders, but it’s

Author: David D. Kirkpatrick / Source: New York Times Reuters A military leader who has vowed for years that he would seize control of Libya ordered his troops on Thursday to march on the capital, Tripoli. By nightfall, they had come within 25 miles of the city and a powerful rival militia was

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama Russia’s timeline in World War II is confusing enough, but its role in World War I was even more so. While most European countries were fighting each other, Russia had their own civil war, which lasted years and split the country into partisans, each with

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama While there were already artistic images of St. Nicholas/Father Christmas/Santa Claus, the first time we saw the jolly old elf as a fat man with a pointed stocking cap was in 1863, in a political cartoon showing Santa celebrating Christmas with Union