April 2025 marks 250 years since the momentous events at Lexington and Concord—the opening salvos of the American Revolution.

At the same time, rising tensions with neighboring countries, including the Indo-Pak wars of 1947 and 1965 and the Sino-Indian War of 1962, called for the urgent need of a well-formed military ...

making it appear that Grant was blameless in the greatest single Indian war waged in the West. Throughout his military career, Grant was known as an aggressive commander, but not a warmonger.