Battle of Yorktown During the American Revolution‚ the Americans and French (Franco-American coalition) fought the British at the Battle of Yorktown also known as “The Siege of Yorktown”. The Americans and the French fielded a combined force of roughly 16‚000 soldiers to defeat the British force estimated at 7‚000 soldiers. American General George Washington and French Lieutenant General de Rochambeau led the American and French soldiers. The British commanding officer was Major General Lord Cornwallis
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The Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC‚ an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian Empire at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece. Vastly outnumbered‚ the Greeks held back the Persians for three days in one of history’s most famous last stands. A small force led by King Leonidas of Sparta blocked the only road through which the massive army of Xerxes I could pass. After three days of battle‚ a local resident named Ephialtes betrayed the Greeks by revealing a mountain path that
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Battle of Fort Sumter - April 12-14 - South Carolina - Confederate victory. Battle of Sewell’s Point - May 18–19 - Virginia - Inconclusive. Battle of Aquia Creek - May 29 – June 1 - Virginia - Inconclusive. Battle of Philippi - June 3 - West Virginia (then Virginia) - Union Victory. Battle of Big Bethel - June 10 - Virginia - Confederate victory. Battle of Boonville - June 17 - Missouri - Union victory. Battle of Cole Camp - June 19 - Missouri - Confederate victory. Battle of Hoke’s Run - July 2
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Battle Analysis Outline 1. Define the Subject 1. Who‚ What‚ Where‚ When 2. Resources used 1. Set the Stage 1. Consider the strategic factors 1. What caused the war? 2. Who were the opponents? 3. What were their war aims? 4. What armed forces did the nations possess? 5. How well trained‚ equipped‚ and armed were they? 6. Did any social‚ political‚ economic‚ or religious factors
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Vimy Ridge The battle at Vimy Ridge was one of the most important and a major battle in world war one. It occurred along the path the Canadians took south to get from Belgium into northern part of France. It happened on April 9th‚ 1917‚ it has officially been one hundred years since this horrific battle. The Canadians‚ led by Sir. Arthur William Currie‚ attacked the German soldiers on a seven-kilometre grave yard (from another battle) on a ridge. The reason the Canadians and their allies wanted to
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The battle was known by different names. The Germans referred to it as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein ("Operation Watch on the Rhine")‚ while the French named it the Bataille des Ardennes ("Battle of the Ardennes"). The Allies called it the Ardennes Counteroffensive. The phrase "Battle of the Bulge" was coined by contemporary press to describe the way the Allied front line bulged inward on wartime news maps[22][h][23] and became the best known name for the battle. The German offensive was supported
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BATTLE OF BLAIR MOUNTAIN Terry M. Deener West Virginia History HIST225 March 10‚ 2013 In the early 20th Century‚ West Virginia was a place where coal barons held immense power. Coal companies owned towns‚ mayors and governors. Miners were forced to live on coal camps and rent houses from them‚ as well as purchase all of their coal and other items required to survive from the companies. With this control‚ mining families where forced to live and work in brutal conditions. In 1921‚ after a generation
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Suppose there will be a sea battle at a certain point in the future or there will not be a sea battle at that point in the future. Only one of those propositions can be true and the other one is therefore false. Whichever happens to be true‚ will always be true that it will or will not happen in the future. Hypothetically imagine that it is true that the sea battle will happen at a certain point in the future‚ then there is nothing that can prevent the sea battle from happening in the future because
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Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres‚ Passchendaele became infamous not only for the scale of casualties‚ but also for the mud. Ypres was the principal town within a salient (or bulge) in the British lines and the site of two previous battles: First Ypres (October-November 1914) and Second Ypres (April-May 1915). Haig had long wanted a British offensive in Flanders and‚ following a warning that the German blockade would soon cripple the British war effort‚ wanted to reach the Belgian coast
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Soviets won the battle of Stalingrad and Germans suffered in a disastrous defeat. After losing about 400‚000 casualties in the battle‚ Germans seeked revenge and launched an offensive force against Soviet Union called Operation Citadel. Their initial goal was to take over a salient in the Eastern Front that extended 70 miles toward the west. The salient was a bulge in the Soviet lines that stretched 150 miles from north to south and extend 100 miles westward into the German lines. This battle came to be
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