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8 hours ago · The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the American Civil War fought on April 6–7, 1862. The fighting took place in southwestern Tennessee, which was part of the war's Western Theater. The battlefield is located between a small, undistinguished church named Shiloh and Pittsburg Landing on ...
- April 6-7, 1862
- Union victory
8 hours ago · The Secretary of the Navy during the Civil War was Gideon Welles and in September of 1861 Welles declared that enslaved and free African Americans could enlist at the lowest rating of "Boy" in the Union Navy. Union vessels located in Southern ports received numbers of runaways who fled slavery by way of small boats to vessels docked in Union controlled territories.
8 hours ago · A somewhat different type of autobiography also appeared in the early course of the civil war; its author was the so-called warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid, who had given multiple interviews to an editor while serving as Somalia’s ambassador to India in the late 1980s and who subsequently authorized their publication in his quest to establish himself as a potential national leader during the ...
8 hours ago · Winston Churchill. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill[a] KG OM CH TD DL FRS RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (during the Second World War) and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from 1922 to 1924, he was a member of ...
8 hours ago · The British colonization of the Americas is the history of establishment of control, settlement, and colonization of the continents of the Americas by England, Scotland, and, after 1707, Great Britain. Colonization efforts began in the late 16th century with failed attempts by England to establish permanent colonies in the North.
8 hours ago · Barry Goldwater. Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 [1] – May 29, 1998) was an American politician and major general in the Air Force Reserve who served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987, and was the Republican Party 's nominee for president in 1964. Goldwater was born in Phoenix, Arizona, where he helped ...
1 day ago · The war started on 6 October 1973, when the Arab coalition launched a surprise attack on Israel during the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, which coincided with the 10th day of Ramadan. [64] The United States and Soviet Union engaged in massive resupply efforts for their allies (Israel and the Arab states, respectively), [ 65 ] [ 66 ] [ 67 ] which heightened tensions between the two superpowers.
