The time Canadians fought off an American invasion
In October 1813, American Gen. Wade Hampton marched his 2,000 soldiers along the banks of the Châteauguay River, part of a ...
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
Announcer: A few hundred miles south of Cape Canaveral in Castro Land, there were rumblings. The first word came from the UPI listening post in Miami. Unknown Speaker: "An invasion force landed in ...
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Cuba: Bay of Pigs
1963 (UPI)-President Kennedy said Thursday that the United States never planned to provide air cover for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.He also told a news conference that continuous ...
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Operation Mongoose
The failure of the Bay of Pigs invassion in April 1961 was a disaster for the Kennedy administration. It made the young president look weak, and gave fuel to Cold Warriors in both parties who ...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in ... They landed at the Bay of Pigs, and tried to overthrow ...
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The Cold War
Rather, Cold War politics were front and center ... The president was still smarting from the failed April 17 Bay of Pigs invasion, in which a group of U.S.—sponsored Cuban exiles had attempted ...