7-12 OCTOBER 1780 THE TEMPEST AND JOHN PAUL JONES On this date in 1780, John Paul Jones took the Continental Navy corvette ARIEL, 26, out of Groix Roads, France, and headed south. Though he would have preferred more exciting orders, he Read More
4 OCTOBER 1797 XYZ AFFAIR AND THE QUASI-WAR WITH FRANCE England and France, the naval superpowers of the 18th century, were at each other’s throats again in the 1790s. Spain and the Netherlands were soon drawn in, creating a true “world Read More
27 AUGUST 1928 KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT World War I left a scar on the psyche of the Western hemisphere. Northern France was left a moonscape of stripped forests, ghost villages, and farmland rendered permanently useless by unexploded ordnance. The 117,000 American fighting Read More