Great Deceptions in Military History

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Native Americans did play a role in the Revolutionary War, divided by tribal support of loyalist and patriot sympathies, ultimately losing their exclusive western settlements with the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

The Iron Age is argued by scholars to have started around 1200 BCE after shortages of copper and tin led to the forging of stronger metals, iron and carbon, into steel.

The migration of birds is a fascinating area of study as some birds travel up to 6,000 miles without stopping for food, water, sleep, or rest. Some birds make roundtrip flights up to 25,000 miles long.

As the age of exploration ensued, early contacts between European explorers and North American natives were more frequent and often fraught with exploitation, disease and death.

As the gold rush brought a steady inflow of white settlers, the California Genocide was a period of racially driven arrest, enslavement, and murder of thousands of native Californians between 1846 and 1873.

The Battle of Princeton displayed General George Washington’s creativity in war, having strategically moved his men from the Assunpink Creek near Trenton to Princeton, where the patriots would regain control of New Jersey.

The 1,000-year-long Copper Age, wedged between the Neolithic and Bronze ages, was distinguished by the earliest uses of copper and gold for weapons, tools, jewelry, art and more.