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Hitting the military history trail : VFW's travel guide to battlefields, museums & historic sites /

Profiled are national parks and memorials, historic forts, Indian-settler conflict sites, military museums, homes of famous veterans [more than 900 sites are included]. The actions and events covered in this book span 400 years of history from the first fighting at Jamestown, Va., in May 1607, where...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hanson, Shannon L. W.
Corporate Author: Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kansas City, Mo. : Veterans of Foreign Wars, [2007]
Subjects:
Battlefields > United States > Guidebooks.
Military parks > United States > Guidebooks.
Military museums > United States > Guidebooks.
Historic sites > United States > Guidebooks.
United States > History, Military.
Battlefields.
Historic sites.
Military museums.
Military parks.
United States.
Guidebooks.
Military history.
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Summary:Profiled are national parks and memorials, historic forts, Indian-settler conflict sites, military museums, homes of famous veterans [more than 900 sites are included]. The actions and events covered in this book span 400 years of history from the first fighting at Jamestown, Va., in May 1607, where our military traditions originated.
Item Description:Originally published: VFW magazine, 15 part series, August 2003 through March 2006. Articles were reformatted, updated and expanded.
Physical Description:190 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-182) and index.
ISBN:9780974364339
0974364339