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Sign In | Subscribe Ad-Free Latest News Home Recommended Wednesday, October 30 Tuesday, October 29 Monday, October 28 Saturday, October 26 Friday, October 25 Thursday, October 24 Wednesday, October 23 Remembering Sinking of USS Reuben World War II Today 1941 USS Reuben James Sunk by German U-Boat Seventh Crusade a Study in Lessons Unlearned Ancient History Encyclopedia 1270 Seventh Crusade Ends With Treaty of Barbary How Mussolini Created Fascism and Rode Party to Power Daily History 1922 Mussolini Sends Blackshirts Into Rome Dreams of India Shattered by 31 Bullets William Smith, Time 1984 Indian PM Indira Gandhi Assassinated Here’s Why Henry VII Really Was Important The History Press 1485 Henry VII Crowned Genesis of October Manifesto Alpha History 1905 Tsar Nicholas Issues October Manifesto Night That Panicked America a Myth W. 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Kay Larson , New York TimesIf you look in pretty much any history of the Civil War that discusses the siege of Chattanooga that followed the Union defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga, you will find some assertion that General William S. Rosecrans, commander of the Army of the Cumberland, went into a state of depression which essentially destroyed his capacity for command. From an intelligent, aggressive commander he suppose Read More more from Civil War No, Blacks Didn’t Fight Alongside White Confederates Paul Quigley , New York TimesCivil War: Battle of Brown’s Ferry Stephan Benzkofer , Chicago TribuneThis Sub Sunk Twice Before Making HistoryCivil War: Harpers Ferry Raid Noah Andre Trudeau , History NetCrime Goons, Buffoons: Anatomy of Kerrigan Clubbing E.M. Swift , Sports IllustratedIt began with a fourth-place finish in China, Japan, a result that, except in the mind of Tonya Harding, could not have been less extraordinary. 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