19 APRIL 1861 THE “ANACONDA” PLAN At the outbreak of the Civil War the senior-most officer in our federal Army was GEN Winfield Scott, the victor of the Mexican War of the 1840s. As an overall strategy to deal with the Read More
24 OCTOBER-21 NOVEMBER 1962 QUARANTINE OF CUBA On the 14th of October, 1962, a high-flying Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane photographed what appeared to be a missile base under construction at San Cristobal, Cuba. Shortly it was learned that Soviet Il-28 Read More
25 FEBRUARY 1863 THE PETERHOF AFFAIR The Union Navy’s blockade of the Confederacy during the Civil War yielded quite a few captures. In disposing of these ships and their cargoes, there emerged a controversy over what to do with the mail Read More