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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military. -- General Douglas MacArthur |
Sewell?s Point, 1861(105 total words in this text)(2044 Reads)  Other Names: None Location: Norfolk City Campaign: Blockade of the Chesapeake Bay (May-June 1861) Date(s): May 18-19, 1861 Principal Commanders: Lt. D.L. Braine U.S.N. [US]; Brig. Gen. Walter Gwynn and Capt. Peyton Colquitt [CS] Forces Engaged: Two gunboats [US]; battery garrison [CS] Estimated Casualties: 10 total Description: Two Union gunboats, including USS Monticello, dueled with Confederate batteries on Sewell?s Point in an attempt to enforce the blockade of Hampton Roads. The two sides did each other little harm. Result(s): Inconclusive |
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1862:
Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans a day after his fleet successfully sailed past two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River.
1864: For the second time in a week, a Confederate force captures a Union wagon train trying to supply the Federal force at Camden, Arkansas. 1898: The United States declares war on Spain. 1915: Australian and New Zealand troops land at Gallipoli in Turkey. 1945: Eight Russian armies completely encircle Berlin, linking up with the U.S. First Army patrol, first on the western bank of the Elbe, then later at Torgau. Germany is, for all intents and purposes, Allied territory. 1952: After a three day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea. 1972: Hanois 320th Division drives 5,000 South Vietnamese troops into retreat and traps about 2,500 others in a border outpost northwest of Kontum in the Central Highlands. |
