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Navy Medal of Honor: Haitian Campaign 1915(110 total words in this text)(2283 Reads)  (None) U.S. Marine Corps Recipients BUTLER, SMEDLEY DARLINGTON (Second Award), Major, U.S. Marine Corps., Fort Riviere, Haiti, 17 November 1915 DALY, DANIEL JOSEPH (Second Award), Gunnery Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps., Fort Riviere, Haiti, 22 November 1915 GROSS, SAMUEL, Private, U.S. Marine Corps, 23d Co. (Real name is Marguiles, Samuel.), Fort Riviere, Haiti, 17 November 1915 IAMS, ROSS LINDSEY, Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps, 5th Co., Fort Riviere, Haiti, 17 November 1915 OSTERMANN, EDWARD ALBERT, First Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps, 15th Company of Marines (mounted)., Vicinity Fort Liberte, Haiti, 24 October 1915. UPSHUR, WILLIAM PETERKIN, Captain, U.S. Marine Corps., Fort Dipitie, Haiti, 24 October 1915 |
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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. |
