May 10 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured by Union troops. He spent the next two years in prison. In 1869, the "golden spike" was driven at ...

FORT DU HACKENBERG, France - In the 1930s, the Maginot Line was viewed as a military marvel, an impregnable network of underground fortifications stretching along France's border with Germany - from ...

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France built miles of reinforced bunkers to stop the next German invasion—but the enemy simply walked around them. The Maginot Line became a symbol of misplaced confidence and strategic collapse.