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James Wilkinson fought in the American Revolution and later served as commanding general of the U.S. Army and first governor of the Louisiana Territory. Yet, in 1811, accused of spying for t…

In September 1939 -- at the outbreak of World War II in Europe -- the U.S. Army had fewer than 200,000 men. Yet by the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, this army…