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2 giorni fa · The Federals crossed the river over the next two days, and when they took away their bridges, the Confederates were left with no way to cross and had to turn back. This ended the failed Red River campaign. Since its beginning in March, Banks’s Federals had sustained 5,545 total casualties (5,245 army and 300 navy).
3 giorni fa · His company had barely gotten back to camp after surviving the brutal combat of the Battle of Sabine Cross Roads during the Union’s 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana when his men were expected to suck it up, turn around and march back toward the enemy for what would ultimately turn into the Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana later that day—9 April 1864.
4 giorni fa · Civil War Battles for the Year 1864. From Bull Run to Chattanooga, the Union armies had fought their battles without benefit of either a grand strategy or a supreme field commander. During the final year of the war the people of the North grew restless, and as the election of 1864 approached, many of them advocated a policy of making peace with ...
5 giorni fa · 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 · May 16, 1864 in Mansura, Louisiana - As Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's Red River Expeditionary Force retreated down Red River, Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. Richard Taylor attempted to slow the Union troops' movements and, if possible, deplete their numbers or, better yet, destroy them.
1 giorno fa · Although the fall of Nanjing in 1864 marked the destruction of the Taiping regime, the fight was not yet over. There were still several hundred thousand Taiping troops continuing the fight, with more than a quarter-million fighting in the border regions of Jiangxi and Fujian alone.
3 giorni fa · Le armi del terrore del terzo Reich. La rivalità tra la Luftwaffe e la Wehrmacht, che nacque quando quest'ultima dichiarò che la V2 era un'arma di artiglieria e quindi di competenza dell'esercito, sfociò nello sviluppo, da parte dell'aereonautica, della bomba volante V1 (Vergeltungswaffen 1 - arma di rappresaglia 1).
