Tag: “Mexican-american War”

16 places found.

  1. Arromanches

    This place is a very beautiful French place. This is where the invasion in the second world war took place.

  2. Belle Isle

    Former prison island during the civil war. Now is a city park and houses several abandoned buiildings and other fun spots.

  3. Galena

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

  4. 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.

  5. Gettysburg

  6. Morris-Jumel Mansion

    The Morris-Jumel Mansion is Manhattan's oldest home and only remaining Colonial residence. It was built in 1765 by British Colonel Roger Morris.

  7. 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.

  8. 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!

  9. 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.

  10. Wildman's Civil War Surplus

    Wildman's Civil War Surplus is run by self-styled racist Dent "Wildman" Myers, who was born in 1930. Meyers calls his store "The Best Little War House in Kennesaw." He sells Civil War relics, political books, medicinal herbs, posters praising defenders of the white race, Stars and Bars flags, and White Power CDs.