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    Two or more horse-drawn cannon whipping along the battlefield, unlimbering, firing, limbering up, and riding off to fire from another position were loosely referred to as a "flying battery." No Union or Confederate organization officially listed a gun section as a flying battery. The term refers to the light-artillery tactic of keeping guns moving and fighting.


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    1798: Believing that a French invasion of Ireland is imminent, Irish nationalists rise up against the British occupation.

    1846: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterey.

    1861: General Benjamin Butler declares slaves to be the contraband of war.

    1863: Bushwackers led by Captain William Marchbanks attack a Federal militia party in Nevada, Missouri.

    1864: Union General Ulysses S. Grant continues to pound away at Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia in the engagement along the North Anna River that had begun the day before.

    1941: Germanys largest battleship, the Bismarck, sinks the pride of the British fleet, HMS Hood.

    1943: The extermination camp at Auschwitz, Poland, receives a new doctor, 32-year-old Josef Mengele, a man who will earn the nickname "the Angel of Death."

    1951: Lines Kansas and Wyoming became increasingly important with the possibility of a cease-fire and the demilitarized zone that might be required.


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