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Dr. Michael Rubin turns China’s territorial logic back on Beijing. Mao told Edgar Snow in 1936 that Formosa, like Korea, deserved independence from Japan,...
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Dr. Michael Rubin turns China’s territorial logic back on Beijing. Mao told Edgar Snow in 1936 that Formosa, like Korea, deserved independence from Japan,...
“One mark of a great soldier is that he fights on his own terms or fights not at all.” The line credited to Sun...
“Veni, vidi, vici” — I came, I saw, I conquered — is how Julius Caesar reported his war against Pharnaces II of Pontus in...
Philip II was assassinated in 336 BC, and within roughly two years his son faced three separate revolts. At Mount Ossa, Alexander built staircases...
"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a...
The army that built forty kilometers of walls in a month had been beaten at Gergovia weeks before. It dug anyway — and stood...
Pharnaces attacked uphill, chariots first, at entrenched Roman veterans on his father's lucky hill — so recklessly that Caesar first read it as a...
He said it in Greek, quoting a comedy; the Latin everyone knows is a mistranslation written 170 years later; his own memoir skips the...
Alexander the Great became king of Macedon at 20 in 336 BCE, after his father Philip II was assassinated. He died in Babylon on...
Summary and Key Points: thirteen-year-old boy hiking through a field in Germany — at a location near Berlin that had previously been documented as...