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AuthorMichael Trevis

Michael has a BA in History & American Studies and an MSc in American History from the University of Edinburgh. He comes from a proud military family and has spent most of his career as an educator in the Middle East and Asia. His passion is travel, and he seizes any opportunity to share his experiences in the most immersive way possible, whether at sea or on the land.

Fort Lee

For at least three hundred years, the area of Virginia now called Fort Lee has been inhabited. The roads and the later railroads on which tobacco was transported to market became the avenue of mobilization and troop support during the American...

Early Wars

The history of North America is closely tied to the wild horse herds that spread across the plains following an Indian uprising, resulting in Spanish expelsion from Santa Fe in the late 1600s. Coronado and his conquistadors arrived in the middle...

Killing of Burns

Sometime near the close of the Civil War and about 1864, Burns, who lived on the head waters of Crabapple Creek , about thirteen miles northeast of Fredericksburg, was traveling alone, afoot and on his way to his uncle, Conrad Ahrens, who lived at...

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