The fourth event is the battle of Plataea. In July of 479 B.C., following the battle of Salamis, Xerxes left his army and headed back to Asia. He left most of his army and his general Mardonius to continue the fight. Mardonius and the rest of the Persian army stayed in northern Greece. After gathering their supplies and anything else they needed, Mardonius and the rest of the arm set up camp in Plataea. Plataea was located in the Thebes. Likewise, the Greek army, now under Spartan, Pausanias established
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Alice Li HIST 1572 Battle Field Analysis: Gettysburg The 20th Maine In the summer of 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued a second call for volunteers . Because so many Maine men responded to the call for volunteers, the state collected the extra men from various regions and collected them to form the 20th Maine, the last of the state’s three-year volunteer infantry regiments. While other Maine units consisted of men from roughly similar areas, the 20th came from all over. At its’ initiation
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The alamo is located in San Antonio, Texas and is a memorial of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. In 1700-1793, Father Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares was on Mission San Francisco de Solano to spread Catholicism. On the journey Olivares claimed San Antonio as spanish land, it was converted into a waypoint on the way to spanish settlements. The spanish military converted to the alamo to a military garrison and a frontier outpost and occupied the fort after hearing threats from America and
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Rhett Deverich D block, History Alford 24 February 2014 Battles of Alexander the Great The Battle of Granicus River, the goal was simple, defeat King Darius III and conquer the vast Persian empire. Alexander crossed at Hellespont and traveled along the mountain ranges in May of 334 B.C.E. While he and his men were at Troy. The Persians planned a meeting to have a discussion on how to defeat him and where to start. They decided to trap the oncoming army at the river of Granicus. (Granicus
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The Battle of the Alamo in 1836 is an important battle in Chicano history from the Texas Revolution. The battle was a conflict between both Mexico and the colonists in Texas that altered the future of Mexico, Texas, and the United States of America. The chain of events and tensions between the two forces led to the Battle of the Alamo and created a different environment for both the US and Mexico. Events That Led to the Battle of the Alamo Before the Battle of the Alamo began, there are events
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Due to misidentifying oncoming Union Soldiers as fleeing Confederate Soldiers, the Confederates where routed by the Union attack causing a hole in the Confederate defenses. General Lee understood the importance of not allowing the attack to turn the battle; he committed his reserves under the command of BGs Early and Taliaferro. These forces were able to neutralize the Meade and Gibbons’ attempt to break the Confederate lines15. His ability to direct his subordinates to take action in accordance with
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The Battle of the Alamo It was in December, 1835, when a group of Texans started a attack on the Alamo, which at the time was occupied of Mexican forces. Mexico gained their independence 14 years earlier from Spain (History.com). Now it was the Texans that wanted their independence, but this time from Mexico. With the capture of The Alamo, this would be the one of the first actions to gain their independence. The group of Texans that capture the fort was led by George Collinsworth and Benjamin
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The Battle of New Market The Battle of New Market took place on May 15, 1864 on a Sunday. The battle took place in Virginia at the Shenandoah Valley during the Valley Campaigns of 1864. With the battle being in Virginia and the desperate need of more personnel and firepower the Cadets from Virginia Military Institute fought beside the Confederate army defeat of the Union Army invasion that was led by General Franz Sigel. The Cadets from Virginia Military Institute is what brought Julian Edward Wood
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In the first major engagement of the war between regular U.S. and North Vietnamese forces, elements of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) fight a pitched battle with Communist main-force units in the Ia Drang Valley of the Central Highlands. On this morning, Lt. Col. Harold G. Moore's 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry conducted a heliborne assault into Landing Zone X-Ray near the Chu Pong hills. Around noon, the North Vietnamese 33rd Regiment attacked the U.S. troopers. The fight continued
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fire. A few hours later, three ships were fact en route to Florida. There was no returning fire for more than two hours, since Anderson spotted flying the United States flag, but the hopes that were raised by this were false: the ships were in The battle died away after nightfall, but picked up again the following morning. Again, the barracks caught fire, and the flagstaff was shot away in early afternoon, the flag having to be raised instead on a hastily put together staff on the ramparts. At this
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