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State do not give to a single candidate to that state. Reportshe washington list of the top 10 recipients in 2012. You can see steny hoyer was num ber four in the house and ben cardin was number four in the senate. Neither faced a tight reelection campaign. One would assume some of the thousands of dollars these men got came from the Maryland Association of concerned citizens. Here the house candidates that pac gave to in 2012. Hoyer is nowhere to be found. Similarly, one searches for ben cardin...

The battle of Lake Champlain was important. In my opinion, arthur cohn is the best person to explain why that is so. You know him from his career at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. I am most pleased he accepted an invitation to speak to us on the exact 200th anniversary of the battle. And to include the battles shipwreck legacy as part of the program. I understand that art will take a few audience questions after his presentation. Lets welcome art. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Good eveni...

Cspan 3 created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local cable and satellite proprovider much watch us on hd. Follow us on twitter. In the weeks after the june 6th, 1944 dday invasion of normandy france allied troops faced difficult terrain and german fortifications in towns surrounding the beaches. Next military historian John Macmanus talks about what happened in the days and weeks after. What follows from june 7th on ward is an absolute bloody slog that ultimately leads deep into ger...

It had been postponed for more than a year. Thehopes of so many, futures of so many, depended on what happened that day. We just saw video of the landing. Talk about the significance. Especially the take you put on it. This is called operation neptune. Talk about it from a naval point of view. Of us, perhaps because of the famous photographs taken that day most recently, steven spielberg, saving private ryan. We look at that story as if it begins the moment the bow ramp drops on those landing bo...

They are all over the place. I wondered if you could answer them for me. Thank you. Sure thing. Those are called barrage balloons. They are tethered to the ships themselves. The idea is to create enter trafing for potential s by german aircraft. The allies gained overwhelming command of the air, which may dday possible. An of the reasons invasion would have been very difficult we had not gained complete command of the air. By 1944, we had. Nevertheless, there were still some german aircrafts. Mo...

Refuse to go along with the most routine conventions every day conversation. To say if anything was different or even an accident had not happened. But to instantly kill the conversation. He would not say anything bad about anyone else. That meant he could not participate even the most rudimentary forms of gossip. He refused to talk about himself and could be mattingly liberal is someone would say you know, he would point out that he did not. He was even worse in large groups. In a public forum ...

Under the command of general early nearly invaded washington, d. C. Next, marc leepson takes us on a tour of battlefields to tell the story of the battle of monocacy, where the confederates were delayed by union forces in their approach to the capital, and the battle of fort stevens, where general early probed the defenses of the heavily fortified city before deciding to turn back. , the Bigger Picture of what the war. This was just after the bloodiest six weeks of the civil war. The battle of t...

I unleash the bombing again on july 25th knowing the danger this time. He decides to go ahead with it. Then okay well mark it with orange colored smoke which tells us, okay, dont bomb on this side of the orange colored smoke because thats the u. S. Lines. So the crew men are briefed do not do that. None of them want to bomb their own troops. What do you think happens on july 25th. Heres murphys law. Which way do you think the wind is blowing. Towards the u. S. Lines. So orange smoke is coming ba...

As we had a man there any right to suspect. He had to deal with americans who were quite assertive and was she. Pushy. Think if there is a particular tale that illustrates this. Like eisenhower, you are as much a political leader is a military leader. You have to keep his quiet between the various elements. There were difficulties between the royal navy, the united channel, andnd the terms of who have responsibility where. The commander in chief commanded the harbor and every ship in it. If ther...

Army commander tells waters, this is the first ever meeting of polish and american soldiers on a battlefield. So the two coordinate to snap trap shut for the germans and they will do so, but the germans have continued trying to attack furiously eastward to get out of there. Collectively this part of the battle of normandy is known as the falasie gap. Its roughly around 1944. The german losses have been terrible. 25,000 to 50,000 men captured, 10,000 dead in the pocket alone. Its a concentrated a...