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The Battle of the Wilderness was fought on May 5–7, 1864, during the American Civil War. It was the first battle of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant 's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. The fighting occurred in a wooded area near Locust Grove, Virginia, about 20 ...
3 giorni fa · 1. It was a rescue mission. On 10 May 1940, Germany invaded France and the Low Countries, pushing the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), along with French and Belgian troops, back to the French port of Dunkirk. A huge rescue, Operation 'Dynamo', was organised by the Royal Navy to get the troops off the beaches and back to Britain. 2. The ...
Aftermath of Dunkirk. My friend and I joined the ATS in March 1939 with some bravado, but surprise, surprise, when war was declared on 3rd September 1939, we were both posted to our military ...
The Battle of Boulogne in 1940 was the defence of the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer by French, British and Belgian troops in the Battle of France during the Second World War. The battle was fought at the same time as the Siege of Calais , just before Operation Dynamo , the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from Dunkirk .
The Battle of Plataea was the final land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It took place in 479 BC near the city of Plataea in Boeotia , and was fought between an alliance of the Greek city-states (including Sparta , Athens , Corinth and Megara ), and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I (allied with Greece's Boeotians , Thessalians , and Macedonians ).
The Battle of Manzikert or Malazgirt was fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Empire on 26 August 1071 [9] near Manzikert, theme of Iberia (modern Malazgirt in Muş Province, Turkey ). The decisive defeat of the Byzantine army and the capture of the Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes [10] played an important role in undermining Byzantine ...
Dunkirk to Dieppe. In the aftermath of the Dunkirk evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force in May 1940, the British started on the development of a substantial raiding force under the umbrella of Combined Operations Headquarters. This was accompanied by the development of techniques and equipment for amphibious warfare.
