Every summer Americans spend millions of dollars to destroy, or at least repel, the pesky mosquito. As a people, we hate mosquitoes. But we might be a little less hostile toward these creatures if we realized the role mosquitoes played in winning the American Revolution. Certainly the … [Read more...]
How Mosquitoes Helped Win the Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Antietam, Photography, and the Visualization of Modern War
InThePastLane.com by Edward T. O'Donnell Historians like to describe the American Civil War as the first “modern” war, in large measure because of the central role played by new industrial technology. The telegraph, for example, allowed for instant communication … [Read more...]
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