Archive for category: Military History

On October 21, 1967 at least 35,000 anti-war protesters organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam gathered for a demonstration at the Defense Department (the "March on the Pentagon"), where they were confronted by some 2,500 armed soldiers.

During the American Revolution, the Marquis de Lafayette volunteered from France to help America win its independence from England. He served as an aide to George Washington and was later promoted to general. In 1824, he began a 13-month tour of the 24 United States. At Arlington House, George Washington Parke Custis hosted the Marquis, then the last remaining Revolutionary War general and an advocate for human rights for the enslaved, for religious freedom, and for equality for women.

The late Arlington historian Eleanor Lee Templeman's write-up on Maple Shade describes military action during the Battle of Munson's Hill (a minor North-South clash in the autumn of 1861 on the edges of Arlington and Bailey's Crossroads). She asserts that Henry's home "bears within its walls hidden scars.