War History

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

This secret facility trained seals for the Swedish navy during the Second World War.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

The large rock formation where the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa stood and encouraged his warriors during the Battle of Tippecanoe.

This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.

German and American troops joined forces to defend this fortress during the strangest battle of World War II.

The longest stone bridge in England has an impressive history that dates back over 700 years.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.