Battle of Bunker Hill On the night of June 16th‚ 1775 Colonel William Prescott built defenses with 1‚200 men on Breed’s Hill located on Charlestown peninsula. In response‚ the British began burning the town of Charlestown and sent 2‚400 British soldiers‚ under command of General Gage and Howe‚ up Bunker Hill expecting to decimate the Yankee militia. To strengthen his defenses‚ Prescott orders Putnam and his 2‚000 men‚ to also hold the line. In order to take advantage of the hill’s elevation
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battle ever fought in North America. Why did the Battle of Gettysburg happen? Two months foregoing the battle‚ General Lee had an impressive defeat against the Army of the Potomac at Chancellorsville‚ Virginia. He then started planning for a Northern invasion by first taking action on the Yankees. His army was at the time 80‚000 soldiers! With the army of the Potomac Commander Joseph Hooker and leading about 10‚000 soldiers he began moving towards General Lee by Washington D.C. Abraham Lincoln got
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notable battle in the war was the Battle of Crecy‚ which took place in 1346‚ a mere ten years into the start of the war. The battle proved a decisive victory for the English‚ marked notably by the English use of the longbow. Ultimately‚ as Froissart seems to exhibit in his recanting of the battle‚ the British victory can be traced back to superior strategy and preparation. Jean Froissart describes the preparation taken by both the French Army and British Army prior to the important battle. Froissart
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The Japanese Military prepares for war in the Pacific. The Japanese were running out of time due to their low amount of materials. They would be on the edge if they run out of war materials and would be forced to give in to U.S. demands and withdraw from China. General Hideki Tojo’s militaristic government gave out a secret order to admiral Yamamoto. The plan was to seek war with the United States and knock their fleet out. The Japanese military sent a spy to Honolulu‚ Hawaii. The spy had reports
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First Battle of Bull Run Location: Fairfax County and Prince William County Date: July 21‚ 1861 Principal Commanders: Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell [US]; Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard [CS] Estimated Casualties: 4‚700 total (US 2‚950; CS 1‚750) Description: This was the first major land battle of the armies in Virginia. On July 16‚ 1861‚ the untried Union army under Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell marched from Washington against the Confederate army‚ which was drawn up
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The ability of Cutler’s Brigade to repel multiple attacks to the northwest of Gettysburg on the first day of battle was instrumental in the Union Army’s success at Gettysburg. Because Cutler’s Brigade was able to stop the enemy from flanking the Division line‚ the rest of the Army of the Potomac was able to move into position around Gettysburg. This emplacement of the rest of the Union Army around Gettysburg was vital to its success in the Gettysburg campaign; its success in the Gettysburg campaign
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Why the Normans won the battle of Hastings The reason why the Normans won the battle of Hasting About 10 days before the Vikings landed at Stanford the Saxons were down in Hasting where they were expecting the Norman’s to come and attack. Unfortunately for William the winds where not very good in France and after a few days of waiting for the Normans word got out that Vikings had landed up in Stanford. The Saxons marched up as fast as they could‚ they won the battle of Stanford and then went
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reality and the theory of the battle. The Blitzkrieg strategy that had defined German military capacity was inapplicable to the Russian situation in several contexts. Blitzkrieg was intended to avoid stagnant trench and linear warfare‚ it was intended to prevent enemy forces form arranging a coherent defence‚ and it depended upon a highly mobile and mechanised form of warfare. None of these credentials existed in Operation Barbarossa‚ and the result was a battle of attrition. In commencing Operation
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The Battle of Hastings was between William of Normandy and Harold Godwinson in 1066. William won the battle and became king‚ Harald lost for many reasons such as bad luck‚ mistakes and bad leadership. When Edward the Confessor died‚ there was no direct heir to the throne and the throne was passed to Harold Godwinson. Then William claimed that Edward the confessor had promised the throne to him. So they fought at the battle of Hastings for the throne. Harold was unlucky
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord The battle of Lexington and Concord was the first battle of the American Revolutionary War‚ marking the ‘shot heard around the world.’ Pursuing several years of mounting tensions and the livelihood of Boston troops‚ the military governor of Massachusetts‚ General Thomas Gage‚ began moving to secure the colony’s military supplies to keep them from the patriot militias. His proceedings received official consent on April 14‚ 1775‚ when orders arrived from the secretary
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