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Lincoln’s Mere Paper Blockade: The Document that Defined Union Naval Strategy
After a long, tense, and dull winter, the situation at Fort Sumter was dire on the morning of April 12, 1861. The harbor fort was incomplete and undermanned; rations of food and fuel were running low; and the artillerymen were surrounded by the soldiers of a rebellion determined to drive…
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On Cicero
“[A]ll ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.” John Adams Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) was one of the greatest lawyers, orators, statesmen, and philosophers that the Roman Republic had ever seen. From humble beginnings in Arpinum some seventy miles south of Rome, to…
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On Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure was born in the Papal states in 1221, and little is known about his early life. He was a contemporary of the most influential thinkers of the time, including Saint Thomas Aquinas, Alexander of Hales, and Saint Albertus Magnus. Bonaventure served as the seventh Minister General of the…
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