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United States Naval History: Awards and Decorations(227 total words in this text)(3420 Reads)  Above and Beyond: A History of the Medal of Honor From the Civil War to Vietnam. By the editors of Boston Publishing Company. Boston: Boston Pub. Co., 1985. 346 pp. Blakeney, Jane. Heroes, U.S. Marine Corps, 1861-1955: Armed Forces Awards, Flags. Washington: Guthrie Lithograph Co., 1957. 621 pp. National Geographic Society. Insignia and Decorations of the U.S. Armed Forces, by Gilbert Grosvenor and others. Washington: National Geographic Society, 1945. 208 p. The Navy Cross: Vietnam: Citations of Awards to Men of the United States Marine Corps, 1964-1973. Edited by Paul Drew Stevens. Forest Ranch, Calif.: Sharp & Dunnigan Pubs. 1987. 372 pp. Riley, David L. Uncommon Valor . . . : Decorations, Badges and Service Medals of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Marceline, Mo.: Walsworth Pub. Co., 1980. 88 pp. U.S. Congress. Senate. Medal of Honor Recipients-1863-1973. Prepared for the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. 93d Cong., 1st sess., Senate Committee Print No. 15. Washington: GPO, 1973. 1231 pp. U.S. Navy Department. Medal of Honor, 1861-1949, the Navy. Washington: GPO, 1950. 327 pp. A list and biographical record. Wyllie, Robert E. Orders, Decorations and Insignia, Military and Civil, With the History and Romance of Their Origin and a Full Description of Each. New York: Putnam, 1921. 269 pp. |
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1775:
American troops capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British.
1796: Napoleon Bonaparte wins a brilliant victory against the Austrians at Lodi bridge in Italy. 1857: The Bengal Army in India revolts against the British. 1861: Union troops and civilians riot in St. Louis. 1862: The Battle of Plum Run Bend, Tennessee takes place. 1863: General Thomas J. Jackson dies of pneumonia a week after losing his arm when his own troops accidentally fired on him during the Battle of Chancellorsville. 1865: Union cavalry troops capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis near Irvinville, Georgia. 1917: Allied ships get destroyer escorts to fend off German attacks in the Atlantic. 1940: As Germany invades Holland and Belgium, Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Great Britain. 1941: Englands House of Commons is destroyed during the worst of the London Blitz as 550 German bombers drop 100,000 incendiary bombs. |
