Created after the Civil War, the Army’s all-Black cavalry and infantry regiments were nicknamed “Buffalo Soldiers” by Native Americans who encountered them in the nation’s Western ...

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Each of the students in the class has been tasked with researching four to five soldiers to learn more about their life before and after the Civil War. Plummer said 70 men enlisting in the USCT ...

Sign up for Verite's free newsletters and get the New Orleans news you need three times a week. Born in 1832 or 1833 to a white plantation owner and an enslaved Black ...

The Civil War had begun ... worries over the willingness of black soldiers to fight. Soon other regiments were being formed, and in May 1863 the War Department established the Bureau of Colored ...

In addition to the humanitarian catastrophe, the Syria civil war continues to take a serious toll on the country’s economy. The Syrian people are faced with homelessness, as at least 22 percent ...

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The commanding officer of the Household Cavalry Regiment has paid tribute to a "popular and very able soldier" who was killed in Iraq after his light armoured vehicle slid down a crumbling bank ...

Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad has fled his country as rebels marched into the capital city Damascus late Saturday. The brutal leader’s nearly quarter century rule came to a stunning end as ...