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The Battle of Guard Hill, Battle of Crooked Run, Battle of Cedarville, or the Battle of Front Royal took place on August 16, 1864, in Warren County, Virginia as part of Philip H. Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign of the American Civil War. Confederate forces under Richard H. Anderson were sent from Petersburg to reinforce Early. Brig. Gen.
In 1917 the Bulgarian defensive positions and fortifications were further improved. It included two prime positions with two rows of continuous trenches 1.5 – 2 metres deep, 200 to 1000 m apart and linked with passages for communication. In front of these positions was a two-line system of wire entanglements. Between the rows of trench ...
George, Duke of Clarence, brother to Kings Edward IV and Richard III. On 18 February 1478, George, Duke of Clarence was executed in the Tower of London.Having been found guilty of high treason in parliament, the Duke was executed, probably by way of drowning in a butt of malmsey, by order of his brother, King Edward IV.
Radu Cantacuzino [a] (17 March 1699 – 1761) was an 18th-century Romanian prince, general, adventurer and pretender.As the eldest son of Ștefan Cantacuzino, Prince of Wallachia 1714–1716, Radu was a prospective future ruler of Wallachia, but he and his family were forced to flee into exile after Ștefan, a vassal of the Ottoman Empire, was executed after he was found to be conspiring with ...
Battle or campaign Order of battle Date 1861 Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate Hampton Division and Union Department of Virginia: June 10, 1861 Battle of Hoke's Run: Union Army of the Shenandoah: July 2, 1861 Battle of Carthage (1861) Confederate Missouri State Guard and Union Department of Missouri: July 5, 1861 Battle of Rich Mountain
Its insignia was a medal of St. George on horseback slaying a dragon. This order was destroyed by wars and lapsed by the end of the 14th century. [1] The order was restored as a baronial confraternity around 1390 [2] [3] or 1440 [1] [4] by Philibert de Mollans, squire to the Duke of Burgundy. According to tradition, he had made a pilgrimage to ...
Operation Badr (1973) order of battle; Operation Savannah (Angola) order of battle: South Africa; Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation order of battle: Commonwealth; Iran–Iraq War order of battle; Western Libya campaign order of battle; Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) order of battle: Ottoman Navy
Speirs commanded 2nd platoon, Dog Company. His unit spent the night of 6 June being shuffled into position with other platoons of a company being arranged for battle early the next morning. [3]: 186 During the early morning hours, upon accepting the surrender of three German soldiers, Speirs allegedly gave the order to execute them. Later that ...