Surrender is one of the most essential rules in international humanitarian law. Don't expect it any time soon in the Middle ...

MOUNT PLEASANT — The Harlan-Lincoln House will present a free, biographical presentation about a former U.S. president. “Unconditional Surrender: A Visit with Ulysses ... Grant’s life story as ...

Worth, during the Mexican-American War.1855. Library of Congress ... Among those was Second Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant. Although during the war he expressed no reservations about it, he would ...

Polk when he ordered General Zachary Taylor to seize disputed territory along the Mexican border with Texas. In the words of Ulysses S. Grant, who served under Taylor: “We were sent to provoke a fight ...

The unjust and unconstitutional Mexican-American War was fought under just such a banner. Union General and later President Ulysses S. Grant recounted, “For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the ...

Progressives have bullied Americans into believing that the post-Civil War amendments had nothing to do with slavery. Forget the Middle Passage, Gettysburg, Ulysses S. Grant and the 600,000 men dead ...

During the Civil War, the factory transformed the hull ... as well as going into the pork packing business. When Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s forces captured Richmond, they did not destroy the ...

The other potential author is Jane Cazneau, a journalist who advocated for the wholesale annexation of Mexico during the Mexican-American ... Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant both opposed ...

But festivities will start earlier when the incoming president arrives for service at St. John’s Episcopal Church. Here’s the latest. “Most people thought that war would have been over in ...

In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said the United States would be a nation that “expands its territory” and referenced the pursuit of “Manifest Destiny into the stars,” vowing to land ...