Chuck Lyons

Jun 30, 2024 | usni.org | Chuck Lyons

Inside the Spanish harbor of Cadiz, the English Protestant Sir Francis Drake could see a mass of some 60 warships, troopships, tenders, and supply ships, many of which Philip II—King of Spain and Portugal and self-appointed protector of the Catholic Church—was readying to sail against England. Many of the Spanish ships were without sails; most were unarmed.

Feb 27, 2024 | flipboard.com | Chuck Lyons

Jon Stewart Offers Serious Solution to Israel-Palestine Conflict: ‘Anything Is Better Than the Clusterf*uck We Have Now’Jon Stewart was hoping to avoid controversy during his third episode back at The Daily Show, but instead, as the prompter rolled, he found himself …

Feb 27, 2024 | historynet.com | Austin Stahl |Chuck Lyons

Who was Etta Place? She was the lover and perhaps wife of Pennsylvania-born Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, aka the “Sundance Kid,” and a peripheral associate of the Wild Bunch, the outlaw gang headed up by Robert LeRoy Parker, aka “Butch Cassidy.” But little is known about her origins and less about what happened to her after Sundance and Butch were killed in South America.

Feb 9, 2024 | historynet.com | Jon Bock |Chuck Lyons

In the darkness, despite having lost the fingers of his right hand and suffered severe shrapnel wounds, Gurkha Rifleman Lachhiman Gurung kept working his bolt-action rifle with his left hand as Japanese repeatedly attacked his position. When morning dawned, the area around his post was littered with the bodies of enemy combatants.   Against all odds Gurung had held his ground and survived.   “I had to fight,” the determined Gurkha later said.

Dec 28, 2023 | historynet.com | Austin Stahl |Chuck Lyons

O n the evening of Nov. 3, 1870, Laura Fair, whom one contemporary newspaper dubbed a “saucy wench,” dressed all in black with a black veil and followed her lover, Alexander Crittenden, onto the San Francisco–bound ferry El Capitan. Aboard she found him sitting on a bench with his wife and three of his children. Approaching the group, Fair shouted, “You have ruined me!” and abruptly shot Crittenden with her Sharps pepperbox pistol. Within hours he was dead.