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The highest generalship is to compel the enemy to disperse his army, and then to concentrate superior force against each fraction in turn. -- Col. Henderson |
Constituted 3 June 1784 as a company of the First American Regiment
Organized by September 1784 in Pennsylvania or New Jersey Redesignated 29 September 1789 as a company of the Regiment of Infantry Redesignated 3 March 1791 as a company of the 1st Infantry Redesignated in 1792 as a company of the Infantry of the 1st Sub-Legion Redesignated 31 October 1796 as a company of the 1st Infantry Consolidated May-October 1815 with a company of the 5th Infantry (constituted 12 April 1808), a company of the 17th Infantry (constituted 11 January 1812), a company of the 19th Infantry (constituted 26 June 1812), and a company of the 28th Infantry (constituted 29 January 1813) to form a company of the 3d Infantry Designated 22 May 1816 as Company B, 3d Infantry Consolidated 19 November 1869 with one-half of Company E, 37th Infantry (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Company B, 3d Infantry (3d Infantry assigned 24 March 1923 to the 7th Division; relieved 15 August 1927 from assignment to the 7th Division and assigned to the 6th Division; relieved 1 October 1933 from assignment to the 6th Division and assigned to the 7th Division; relieved 16 October 1939 from assignment to the 7th Division and assigned to the 6th Division; relieved 10 May 1941 from assignment to the 6th Division) Inactivated 1 June 1941 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri Activated 14 February 1942 in Newfoundland Inactivated 20 November 1946 in Germany Activated 6 April 1948 at Fort Myer, Virginia Reorganized and redesignated 1 July 1957 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battle Group, 3d Infantry, and assigned to the 7th Infantry Division (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated) Battle Group inactivated 1 July 1963 in Korea and relieved from assignment to the 7th Infantry Division Redesignated 23 March 1966 as the 2d Battalion, 3d Infantry, and assigned to the 199th Infantry Brigade Activated 1 June 1966 at Fort Benning, Georgia Inactivated 15 October 1970 at Fort Benning, Georgia Assigned 16 March 2001 to the 2d Infantry Division and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington ANNEX Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Company E, 3d Battalion, 19th Infantry Organized 7 February 1866 at Newport Barracks, Kentucky Reorganized and redesignated 23 November 1866 as Company E, 37th Infantry Consolidated 19 November 1869 with Company B and Company E, 3d Infantry, and consolidated units designated as Company B and Company E, 3d Infantry (Company E, 3d Infantry-hereafter separate lineage) 2d Battalion 3d Infantry Honors Campaign Participation Credit War of 1812: *Canada; *Chippewa; *Lundy?s Lane; *Malolos; Mexican War; *Palo Alto; *Resaca de la Palma; Monterey; Vera Cruz; Cerro Gordo; *Contreras; *Churubusco; *Chapultepec Civil War : *Bull Run; *Peninsula; *Manassas; *Antietam; *Fredericksburg; *Chancellorsville; *Gettysburg; *Appomattox; Texas 1861; Florida 1861; Florida 1862; *Virginia 1863 Indian Wars: *Miami; *Seminoles; *Comanches; *New Mexico 1856; *New Mexico 1857; *New Mexico 1858; *New Mexico 1860; *Montana 1887 War with Spain: *Santiago Philippine Insurrection: *San Isidro; *Luzon 1899; Luzon 1900; *Jolo 1911 World War II: *American Theater, Streamer without inscription; *Northern France Vietnam: *Counteroffensive, Phase II; *Counteroffensive, Phase III; *Tet Counteroffensive; *Counteroffensive, Phase IV; *Counteroffensive, Phase V; *Counteroffensive, Phase VI; *Tet 69/Counteroffensive; *Summer-Fall 1969; *Winter-Spring 1970; *Sanctuary Counteroffensive; *Counteroffensive, Phase VII Decorations *Valorous Unit Award for SAIGON - LONG BINH *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation for KOREA 1957-1963 *Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1968 *Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1968-1970 *Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm for VIETNAM 1970 *Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal, First Class for VIETNAM 1966-1970 |
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1775:
The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |