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How an Enslaved Double Agent Named James Armistead Lafayette Helped Win the American Revolution
On October 19, 1781, a column of British soldiers marched onto a field north of Yorktown, Virginia, to perform the ceremony of defeat. General Charles Cornwallis, citing illness, had sent his second-in-command to deliver the surrendered sword in his place. The assembled officers on the victorious American side included the…
The Remarkable Life of Marie of Romania, The English Queen Who Negotiated Her Country’s Borders
Born the granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Tsar Alexander II, Princess Marie became Romania's last queen—and personally redrew her adopted nation's map at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. On October 15, 1922, Marie of Romania was crowned queen of a country nearly twice the size it had been four years…