Forgotten Patriots | History, Christians, Families, Civil War, WW1, WW2, Revolutionary War, Conservatives

As British forces under General Charles Cornwallis weakly huddled at Yorktown in 1781, George Washington faced one final obstacle: the Continental Army had no money to pay troops or buy supplies.

Salvation came from Haym Salomon, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, financier, and patriot who secured the funds needed to sustain and feed the army.

Arriving in New York in 1772, Salomon embraced the American cause, joining the Sons of Li...

Ask yourself: What do the last 250 years look like without America?

Without the American example, kings still claim divine authority “from God.” Individual liberty is silenced in its infancy. In the twentieth century, it was the United States standing against fascism when much of the world capitulated. The satanic despots of the Nazi Party, proclaiming their Reich “would rule for a thousand years.” And they...

Threatening clouds hung low over Budapest, Hungary.

Soldiers shouted orders, dragging men, women, even children from their homes.

The icy wind cut through the thin clothing of the terrified Jewish families as they were forced toward the banks of the Danube River. There, in the gray dawn, the soldiers lined them up shoulder to shoulder.

“Shoes off!” Shouted the Nazi officer.

The people obeyed. A mother clutched her y...

The Albemarle was a beast.

Protected by four-inch iron plating and sloped armor designed to deflect cannon fire, she seemed invincible.

Union shells bounced harmlessly off like pebbles. Destroying this ironclad was vital.

Traditional attacks had failed. So, Lt. Cushing proposed something bolder...

Under cover of darkness, he would sneak up to the vessel and blow a hole in her hull using the newly invented hand-guided spar torpe...

Before dawn the sound of jackboots thudded on the outside steps, then a fist pounded her door.

“Gestapo! Open up!”

Inside the humble Warsaw apartment, a young Polish woman stood very still.

Beneath her floorboards were forged documents. In a jar were hundreds of names of Jewish children smuggled out into different Christian homes under false identities.

If the Germans found that list, those children and the families...

Gunfire ripped through the Georgia air. Smoke rolled low across the shattered battlefield of downed and dying men.

The wounded lay everywhere; blue and gray uniforms tangled together in mud and blood. Confederate reinforcements advanced. Battered Union troops pulled back.

Yet in the chaos, a lone female figure moved towards the danger instead of away from it.

She wore men’s trousers, hardly the approved dress of a 19th-cen...

History proves that “You can’t have freedom without genuine morality.”

In 480 BC, the Persian Empire’s tyrant, King Xerxes I, launched a massive invasion of Greece intending to enslave the world.

Standing against Persia was King Leonidas and his famed 300 Spartans. The stakes: the freedom of Greece and by extension, greater Europe.

The Spartans held as long as possible before fighting to the last man.

Th...

For hours, General John Buford’s cavalry delayed wave after wave of the best troops the Confederates had, skillfully trading space for time, falling back stubbornly, but keeping to the critical heights.

Carbines cracked, artillery boomed, and horses flattened their ears in the chaos of battle.

One of the finest horsemen in the Union Army, John Buford rode calmly among his men, encouraging them, directing fire, refusing to y...

At the beginning of World War I, a network of civilians in German occupied Belgium began hiding British and French soldiers and guiding them toward neutral Holland.

But they needed help. Someone they could trust.

Edith Cavell volunteered because that’s who she was.

Her nursing school in Brussels became more than a hospital. Secretly she hid British and French soldiers in her attic, cellar, and spare rooms.

She provided ci...

In August 1776, General George Washington’s army faced annihilation at the Battle of Long Island.

British General William Howe executed a brilliant flanking maneuver, trapping the inexperienced American forces against the East River.

The fate of the Revolution hung by a thread.

Standing in the path of thousands of advancing British and Hessian troops was the First Maryland Regiment, fewer than 400 mostly young men.

They l...

President and General Andrew Jackson was many things to many people.

Most of all he was a man of boundless energy who captured the presidency despite being the consummate Washington outsider.

He was one of history’s greatest generals, winning a victory at the Battle of New Orleans (against all odds) that most fail to realize likely saved the interior of the country from continued British encroachment, linking the heartland ...

It is hard to understand the true nature of the sacrifice of the Alamo in American and Texas history without looking at the life and service of one of its stalwart defenders.

His name, James Butler Bonham, truly one of the least known, yet most devoted soldiers who fought to the death defending the eleven women and nine children who were also in the Alamo that fateful day of March 6, 1836.

Lieutenant Bonham was young with his who...

Word spread through the town in minutes.

A young unknown woman had just challenged the famous marksman Frank Butler to a shooting contest. Frank was a shootist who had never lost a rifle match.

Facing him stood a shy young woman. She wore a plain, homespun dress and held an old, worn-out rifle.

Some in the crowd laughed out loud, mocking the girl.

But when the shooting began the laughter died.

One target after another. Clay pi...

In Middle Eastern lands, lands where my wife and I spent part of our lives, we watched humble shepherds, local herders running their sheep near our villa for the grass that grew there in the winter and spring months.

I talked with several. They were strong, but humble men. They had few, if any, resources to fall back on.

God was their protector. And they called upon Him regularly. And their children, and their sheep, were to be p...

The young soldier jerked upright on his cot, another wave of violent pain tore through him.

Outside, the distant thunder of artillery. But inside conditions were as lethal as the battlefield, more soldiers dying from infection and disease than from enemy bullets.

Again, the young soldier called out: “Please… someone…water.”

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