Bloody Sunday, 21st November 1920 In 1920 the War of Independence was ongoing in Ireland. On the morning of November 21st, an elite assassination unit known as ‘The Squad’ mounted an operation planned by Michael Collins, Director of Intelligence of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Their orders were clear – they were to take out the backbone of the British Intelligence network in Ireland, specifically a group of officers known as ‘The Cairo Gang’. The shootings took place in and around Dublin’s s

In 1863, the battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga decided the struggle for the Western Theater of the Civil War. From the Union’s bloody defeat at Chickamauga to their dramatic comeback under Ulysses S. Grant, this campaign broke the Confederate hold on the West and set the stage for Sherman’s march into Georgia #civilwar #unionarmy #militarystrategy | Kings & Generals