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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

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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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    Battle At Vimy Ridge

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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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    Battle Of The Bulge Essay

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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

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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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    Sea Battle Fatalism

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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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    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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    The King of Battle is what the artillery has been nicknamed due to their historical effects during war. The roar of artillery brings mass confusion to the enemy and devastating effects to troops in the open. In history‚ one battle that definitively portrays their long standing title as the King‚ the Battle of Antietam. The Union claimed a victory in Sharpsburg because the south had retreated first‚ but the number of casualties from each side would suggest a stalemate. Killed‚ wounded‚ or captured

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    Second Battle of Panipat

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    The Second Battle of Panipat was fought between Samrat Hem Chander Vikramaditya or popularly called Hemu Vikramaditya and forces of Akbar on November 5‚ 1556. Hindu King of Delhi‚who had his coronation or ’Rajyabhishake’ on October 7‚ 1556 at Purana Quila in Delhi had a fight with the army of Akbar. Akbar along with Bairam Khan at that time was stationed about 8 miles away from the war zone and had not participated in the war. On 24 January 1556 Mughal ruler Humayun slipped while climbing down the

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    Battle Of The Alamo Essay

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    Alamo and the fight for Texas’ independence‚ there were a handful of people that gave first-person accounts of certain events that occurred. These individuals were eyewitnesses throughout the Battle of the Alamo and their stories are quite captivating. One of these individuals was just a child during the battle of the Alamo and his name was Enrique Esparza. According to his account written and quoted in The San Antonio Light‚ he and his family found themselves heading to the Alamo due to General Santa

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