King John’s rule was unpopular, and the end of his reign was marked with chaos, leading to an invasion by the French heir apparent. Into this era of uncertainty, a hero arose in the deep forests of the Weald, wielding a bow and leading a band - though perhaps not of ‘merry’ men.
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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.