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Military History Now posts on X about $4732t, france, the british, moscow the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 1935 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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"The USMC 1st Provisional Rocket Detachment in action on Iwo Jima. Other Marines called them "The Buck Rogers Men." "A good crew could launch a 'ripple' of XX rockets within seconds" recalled one veteran. (Warning: It's loud 🔊)"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-23T16:32Z 199.5K followers, 47.8K engagements

"Today in 1962 President Kennedy announces a quarantine of Cuba following the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles on the island. By not calling it a "blockade" which would have implied a state of war the language gives both sides space to seek a diplomatic resolution"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-22T10:15Z 199.5K followers, 9312 engagements

"On this day in 1942 200000 Commonwealth troops supported by 1000 tanks attack German and Italian forces near El Alamein. The eventual Allied victory in Egypt along with the Operation Torch landings and the Soviet liberation of Stalingrad helps to turn the tide of WWII"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-23T05:15Z 199.5K followers, 18.5K engagements

"A fully loaded U.S. Navy Vought F4U Corsair uses rockets to launch from a carrier deck. The technique known as jet- or rocket-assisted take off (JATO or RATO) was used in WW2 to help aircraft with larger payloads and short runways to get into the air. (Sound ON)"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-23T11:37Z 199.5K followers, 13.5K engagements

"A British newsreel from 1952 shows the USS Pickerel (SS-524) performing an emergency surfacing maneuver. The WW2-era Tench-class sub had recently finished a 5200-mile submerged voyage from Hong Kong to Pearl Harbor in XX days a U.S. Navy record for a diesel-electric boat"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-23T19:43Z 199.5K followers, 164.8K engagements

"You're looking at survivors of Britain's 'Light Brigade' photographed by Roger Fenton shortly after their ill-fated charge at the Battle of Balaclava. It happened on this day in 1854"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-25T10:06Z 199.5K followers, 35.3K engagements

"Some pretty stunning footage of Allied Douglas A-20 bombers flying dangerously low to avoid detection dashing across the English Channel at Dover to hit a target in Nazi-occupied France. (Clipped from a 1943 newsreel)"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-16T00:19Z 199.5K followers, 94.3K engagements

"Today in 1944 the Nazis give the late Erwin Rommel a lavish state funeral. Although the famed 'Desert Fox' chose to take poison after being implicated in the failed July XX bomb plot against Hitler propagandists opt to make the popular field marshal out to be a national hero"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-18T04:51Z 199.4K followers, 46.6K engagements

"A tank crew with the U.S. Army's 125th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron shows off one hell of a war souvenir: a captured German Panther tank. Griebo Germany. April XX 1945"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-16T18:10Z 199.5K followers, 58.1K engagements

"On this day in 1781 the British surrender at Yorktown. Cornwallis requests that his 8000 redcoats be granted the honour of marching out from their defences with flags unfurled. Washington says no. Citing illness the British general refuses to attend the surrender ceremony"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-19T10:10Z 199.5K followers, 36.8K engagements

"Today in 1739 Britain declares war on Spain. Although the decade-long conflict is nominally fought to avenge an English sea captain who lost his ear to a Spanish boarding party years earlier the War of Jenkins' Ear is more about British commercial interests in the Caribbean"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-23T05:15Z 199.5K followers, 10.4K engagements

"Today in 1917 a U.S. Army gun battery on the Western Front near Bathelemont France fires the first American artillery shells of the First World War. It's a token gesture; the bulk of the United States' contingent to France won't be ready for major action until mid-1918"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-23T10:05Z 199.5K followers, 34.6K engagements

"Today in 1983 7300 U.S. troops invade the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada after a violent power struggle engulfs the country's Cuban-backed ruling party. Although a number of Caribbean states support the invasion the world community including several U.S. allies condemn it"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-25T10:07Z 199.5K followers, 204.9K engagements

"On this day in 1917 the Canadian army goes on the offensive at Passchendaele. More than 16000 troops become casualties; many of the wounded drown in the mud before they can be recovered by stretcher teams"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-26T09:56Z 199.5K followers, 15.3K engagements

"Betty Grable "the girl with the million dollar legs" was the most popular pin-up model of World War II. This iconic shot of the Hollywood starlet taken in 1943 by Frank Powolny became a favourite among G.I.s stationed overseas"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-16T23:15Z 199.5K followers, 10.7K engagements

"On this day in 1944 Douglas MacArthur lands at Leyte after being driven out of the Philippines two-and-a-half years earlier. "I have returned" he declares"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-20T10:01Z 199.5K followers, 19.6K engagements

"On this day in 1944 American troops capture Aachen after XX days of street fighting. The ancient Frankish capital which has been called the "cradle of Europe" is the first city inside the borders of Germany to fall to the Allies"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-21T10:04Z 199.5K followers, 71.2K engagements

"Today in 1944 the carrier USS Princeton is crippled by fuel and ammunition explosions following a kamikaze strike at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Amazingly 1361 of her crew escape the conflagration; XXX perish. Several vessels are damaged while assisting the stricken carrier"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-24T10:11Z 199.5K followers, 87.3K engagements

"KEEP LOW A sign from a #WW1 British trench. "Do not stand about here. Even if you are not hit someone else will be." The bullet holes really drive the point home"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-24T12:40Z 199.5K followers, 6690 engagements

"On this day in 1806 Napoleon Bonaparte marches his triumphant army through the streets of Berlin after a stunning 19-day campaign against Prussia. The French victory two weeks earlier at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt seals the German kingdom's fate"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-27T04:57Z 199.5K followers, 20.9K engagements

"Today in 1914 British French & Belgian troops engage the German army at the First Battle of Ypres. It marks the first major clash following the stabilization of the front lines and the beginning of the trench warfare phase of the conflict. Each side loses roughly 130000 men"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-19T04:53Z 199.5K followers, 29.1K engagements

"Today in 1812 Napoleon's Grande Arme abandons Moscow and begins what will become a hellish two-month retreat from Russia. More than 650000 troops invaded the country in June; by December fewer than 100000 remain. Combat disease famine and bitter cold claim the most lives"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-19T05:09Z 199.5K followers, 22.3K engagements

"On this day in XX BC Marcus Junius Brutus best remembered for his role in the murder of Julius Caesar kills himself after his army is routed by Marc Antony at the Second Battle of Philippi"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-23T05:16Z 199.5K followers, 15.7K engagements

"On this day in 1986 the Cold War seems to be thawing as U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavk Iceland to talk nuclear disarmament. Although negotiations break down the summit lays the groundwork for future arms control agreements"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-11T10:10Z 199.5K followers, 10.1K engagements

"On this day in 1962 President Kennedy is informed by U.S. intelligence of the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuban soil. The discovery precipitates a 13-day crisis between Washington and Moscow that very nearly leads to WW3"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-16T10:02Z 199.5K followers, 15.1K engagements

"A WW1-era newsreel shows a freighter falling prey to a U-boat. Germany's renewed policy of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917 initially halted amid American fury over the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania was a factor that eventually brought the U.S. into the war"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-22T19:58Z 199.5K followers, 16.8K engagements

"Today in 1983 suicide bombers strike two international peacekeeping compounds in Beirut Lebanon killing XXX U.S. military personnel XX French troops and six civilians. Hezbollah and Iran are blamed for the attacks which lead to the withdrawal of the peacekeeping force"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-23T10:01Z 199.5K followers, 10.7K engagements

"Today in 1941 the German submarine U-568 torpedoes the still officially neutral American destroyer USS Kearny off Iceland. The U.S. vessel is providing protection to a British and Canadian convoy when it is targeted and struck. Eleven sailors die in the attack"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-17T10:07Z 199.5K followers, 13.5K engagements

"On this day in 1813 Napoleon takes on six massive armies at Leipzig. With nearly 600000 soldiers engaged it will be the largest battle ever fought in Europe until the First World War. Bonaparte is defeated"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-16T05:05Z 199.5K followers, 21K engagements

"On this day in 1827 a combined French British and Russian fleet defeats the Ottoman navy at Navarino. It's the last major sea battle in history fought entirely by sail-powered warships"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-20T04:56Z 199.5K followers, 13.6K engagements

"U.S. Army UH-1 Huey choppers fly cover over a Mekong Delta landing zone South Vietnam March 1969"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-20T20:28Z 199.5K followers, 35.5K engagements

"RIGHT NOW in 1805 Horatio Nelson signals the British fleet sailing into battle at Trafalgar: "England expects every man to do his duty.""
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-21T09:35Z 199.5K followers, 20.9K engagements

"Hard to overstate how large this event once loomed. Consider: My high school (in Canada no less) was named for Nelson. Our yearbook was called The Victory. Even today my office (near Toronto) is on Trafalgar Road"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-21T12:12Z 199.5K followers, 34K engagements

"A trio of U.S. Army Sherman tanks "Bull Moose" "Hula Girl" and "Hawaii Calls" in action in Korea. Feb X 1951"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-21T12:30Z 199.5K followers, 28.4K engagements

"Today in 1978 jets from the carrier USS Ranger accidentally drop XX bombs on the desert town of Wonder Valley California. No one is hurt although one local James Wheeler and his son are nearly struck. "We saw those planes coming closer so we got out of there." Via @squid89_93"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-22T10:10Z 199.5K followers, 12.1K engagements

"A prototype of the M61 Vulcan gatling gun which can fire 6000 rounds per minute undergoes testing at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground. 1949. (Courtesy the U.S. National Archives)"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-22T13:14Z 199.5K followers, 186.7K engagements

"Here an obscure American 8th Air Force veteran by the name of. checks notes. "James Stewart" recalls the respect Allied bomber crews had for Luftwaffe fighter pilots. (Clipped from the 1973 series 'The World at War')"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-22T15:31Z 199.5K followers, 49.1K engagements

"A U.S. Army Bell H-13D Sioux helicopter flies a medevac mission near Taegu Korea. March XX 1951. (Remind anyone of anything)"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-22T15:34Z 199.5K followers, 11.4K engagements

""Good luck." "Thank you. 😳""
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-22T22:54Z 199.5K followers, 81K engagements

"On this day in 1648 the Treaty of Westphalia brings an end to the bloody Thirty Years War. The conflict bankrupts Central Europe's major powers and leaves as many as X million dead"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-24T05:09Z 199.5K followers, 13.6K engagements

"You're looking at footage taken from a camera strapped to the chest of 101st Airborne pathfinder Capt. Frank Lillyman during a training jump in March 1944. The 29-year-old would later go on to be the first American paratrooper to land in France on D-Day"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-17T10:27Z 199.5K followers, 43.2K engagements

"Two F-14 Tomcats from the USS Nimitz mix it up with a couple of Mitsubishi Zeroes in the 1980 sci-fi movie 'The Final Countdown.' The film imagines the nuclear powered aircraft carrier being hurtled back in time to the eve of Pearl Harbor. Any fans"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-19T01:22Z 199.5K followers, 177.2K engagements

"On this day in 1956 Hungarian anti-communists rise up against Soviet rule. More than 3000 civilians are killed when Moscow cracks down two weeks later"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-23T05:22Z 199.5K followers, 38.2K engagements

"AA guns engage German V-1 flying bombs over southern England. Nearly 10000 of the flying bombs were fired at Britain over an 80-day period in 1944. Each carried a one-ton warhead. It would take a V-1 about XX minutes to reach London from the launch sites in France"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-23T16:40Z 199.5K followers, 42.1K engagements

"You're looking at the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne a heavily armed experimental attack helicopter that first flew in 1967. Only XX were built before the program was cancelled in 1972. (We just couldn't resist adding the music.)"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-24T17:45Z 199.5K followers, 175.6K engagements

"On this day in 1854 the Light Brigade carries out a disastrous cavalry charge at the Battle of Balaclava. Tennyson publishes a poetic account of the fiasco just six weeks later: "Boldly they rode and well into the jaws of Death; into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred.""
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-25T05:03Z 199.5K followers, 45.4K engagements

"Today in 1415 an English army led by Henry V defeats a much larger French force near Calais at Azincourt (or Agincourt). A play by Shakespeare will later immortalize the battle: "Gentlemen in England shall think themselves accursed they were not here.""
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-25T05:24Z 199.5K followers, 18.4K engagements

"Mustang XXX Inside the Bizarre 1980s Plan to Bring Back the P-51 "Despite their solid performance in tests the Pentagon eventually balked at the idea of the Mustang revisited." Heres the story:"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-26T20:13Z 199.5K followers, 50.2K engagements

"On this day in 1914 the British battleship HMS Audacious hits a German mine off the northwest coast of Ireland and sinks. Remarkably the government in London suppresses all news of the loss for more than four years"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-27T05:10Z 199.5K followers, 18.1K engagements

"On this day in 1942 the carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) is sunk in the Pacific. Just XXX days later a replacement flattop (CV-12) puts to sea with the same name"
X Link @MilHistNow 2025-10-27T10:01Z 199.5K followers, 11.2K engagements