On December 13, 1916 one of the deadliest avalanche in history occurred, and barely made the newspapers. The White Friday avalanches were a little remembered event of the little remembered, but uniquely horrible, Italian front in the Great War.
In August of 1918, as the armies of Europe neared exhaustion, American troops of the 28th “Keystone” division were thrown into a nearly forgotten battle that fully represented the horrors of the War to End All Wars.
Of the vaunted ironclad warships of the US Civil War perhaps the mightiest and most terrifying was the confederate ram Tennessee. On August 5, 1864, she would be put to the test in the largest naval engagement of the war, an engagement that defined the divided loyalties of the War of the Rebellion.