Tag: “Revolutionary War”

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  1. Galena

    Galena is a small, historic town. It is the adoptive home of the 18th President, Ulysses Grant, renowned Civil War General.

  2. War Memorials of the Falklands

    Two War Memorials and the Christ Church Cathedral (1892) hold honored places along the main street--Ross Road, in Stanley on the Falkland Islands. The 1914 Battle Memorial is an imposing monument as is the 1982 War Memorial designed by a Falklander and built by volunteers.

  3. Gettysburg

  4. Gallipoli Battlefield

    Battlefield of World War I where the British - ANZAC forces attmepted an amphibious assault on Turkey. The young Turkish colonel commanding the defenders later became the father of a new, secular and independent Turkey - Kemal Ataturk.

  5. Titan Missile Museum

    The Titan Missile Museum is home to the sole remaining Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) complex of the original 54 that were on alert during the Cold War. The Titan II carried a nuclear payload 600 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan!

  6. Vietnam Memorial

    The Vietnam Memorial is a tribute to the American Soldiers who lost their lives in the Vietnam War. This sunken black granite monument was not well recieved when it was originally proposed as many people felt that it would be a dark hole in the capitol mall and would not honor the dead.

  7. Stradun

    The polished limestone pedestrian street through Dubvronik's Old Town is trafficked by tourists and locals alike. Also known as the placa, it starts at the Pile Gate and Fountain Onofrijeva and runs down to the .

  8. Hvar, Croatia

    Hvar is an Island off the coast of Croatia. It's probably the most know out of the whole chain, but still relatively untapped if you ask me...

  9. Knezev Dvor

    Just south of Luza Square is the Rector's Palace. It was the seat of the Ragusan (previous name for Dubrovnik) government.

  10. Old town

    Jules Verne, the father of science fiction, in search of unique places for his novels, chose Rovinj as a setting for some chapters of his novel 'Mathias Sandorf'. Just as he was, many a writer has through centuries equallv been enchanted by Rovinj and its beauties.