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Hace 1 día · The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, [note 2] was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, United States of America, and briefly the Confederate States of America and Republic of Texas against various American Indian tribes in North America.These conflicts occurred from the time of the earliest colonial settlements in the ...
Hace 4 días · A Handbook of American Military History: From the Revolutionary War to the Present, (1997) ISBN 0-8133-2871-3; Weigley, Russell Frank. The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy, (1977) Utley, Robert M. Frontier Regulars; the United States Army and the Indian, 1866–1891 (1973) Richard W. Stewart, ed. (2004).
Hace 5 días · Phillis Wheatley (c.1753-1784) was an enslaved African American poet and author. Despite this, the work Memoirs and Poems of Phillis Wheatley was compiled and the memoirs themselves written by Margaretta Matilda Odell, a supposed "collateral descendent of Mrs. Wheatley."According to Odell, Phillis Wheatley was taken from Africa and transported to Boston when she was approximately seven-years ...
Hace 4 días · James Duncan, Confederate guard in Andersonville Prison; Champ Ferguson (1821–1865), Confederate guerrilla leader sentenced to death for the murders of civilians, prisoners and wounded soldiers during the American Civil War.; Henry C. Magruder (1844–1865), Confederate guerrilla sentenced to death for the murders of eight civilians.; Henry Wirz (1822–1865), Confederate administrator of ...
Hace 1 día · Confederate States of America, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, following the election of Abraham Lincoln as U.S. president, prompting the American Civil War (1861–65). The Confederacy acted as a separate government until defeated in the spring of 1865.
Hace 1 día · Mexican–American War; Clockwise from top: Winfield Scott entering Plaza de la Constitución after the Fall of Mexico City, U.S. soldiers engaging the retreating Mexican force during the Battle of Resaca de la Palma, U.S. victory at Churubusco outside of Mexico City, Marines storming Chapultepec castle under a large U.S. flag, Battle of Cerro Gordo
Hace 3 días · Indo-Pakistani war of 1971; Part of the Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts, Cold War, and Bangladesh Liberation War: First row: Lt-Gen. A.A.K. Niazi, the Cdr. of Pakistani Eastern Comnd., signing the documented Instrument of Surrender in Dacca in the presence of Lt. Gen. Jagjit Singh Aurora (GOC-in-C of Indian Eastern Comnd.Surojit Sen of All India Radio is seen holding a microphone on the right.
