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On the morning of March 15, 1781, British General Charles Lord Cornwallis's force of 2,100 men discovered the Americans holding a defensible position on elevated ground about one and a half miles from the Guilford Courthouse near present day Greensboro, North Carolina.

Prince Harry, once dubbed a royal wild child for underage drink and drug antics, graduated as an army officer in England before joining a regiment that could be sent to Iraq or Afghanistan. The third in the line to the throne passed out at the elite Sandhurst military academy before his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, at a colourful ceremony rich in military tradition. Prince Harry marched with sword in hand across the parade ground to start his military career and stood to attention as his grandmother inspected the cadets. Officer Cadet Wales now becomes a Second Lieutenant in the Household Cavalry...

There was an appalling lack of historical perspective in the House debate Friday night on the Murtha Resolution. It called for the immediate withdrawal of American troops from Iraq (to a safe haven from which they could return). What would have happened to the United States, had France held a similar debate in 1781? Let’s set the stage. The American Revolution was then four years old. French officers and soldiers under the leadership of General Lafayette, had fought along side General Washington. The French fleet under Admiral de Grasse had recently entered the conflict, and blocking the mouth of the...