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Wikimedia Commons/NewMexicophotographer1 The Battle of Glorieta Pass, 1862 Texas soldiers pushed north into New Mexico dreaming of gold and glory. Union forces blocked their...
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Wikimedia Commons/NewMexicophotographer1 The Battle of Glorieta Pass, 1862 Texas soldiers pushed north into New Mexico dreaming of gold and glory. Union forces blocked their...
Wikimedia Commons/Popular Graphic Arts The Battle of Stones River, Tennessee Union General William Rosecrans led 44,000 soldiers against Confederate General Braxton Bragg’s 35,000 men...
Shutterstock The Battle of Point Pleasant October 10, 1774 started with Virginia hunters looking for deer near Point Pleasant. Instead, they found 800 Shawnee...
Shutterstock Fort Frederica, Georgia July 7, 1742. Spanish forces with 5,000 men stormed St. Simons Island, aiming to crush Georgia’s British colony. Instead, they...
Wikimedia Commons/Benjamin Tanner Battle of Plattsburgh, Lake Champlain The largest British force of the entire War of 1812 wasn’t heading for Washington or Baltimore....
Shutterstock Rosebud Battlefield, Montana Most people know about Custer’s Last Stand, but the real turning point happened eight days earlier when Crazy Horse whipped...
Flickr/BattlefieldPortraits.com Prairie Grove(Arkansas) Most Civil War battles get forgotten by time, but Prairie Grove stuck around for good reason. On December 7, 1862, Union...
Shutterstock The Alamo (San Antonio, Texas) The Alamo started as a Spanish mission, became a Mexican army post, and ended up as the most...
Shutterstock Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland On September 17, 1862, over 23,000 soldiers fell in a single day near the small town of Sharpsburg, Maryland....
Flickr/Quack the Wooley Duck Stones River, Tennessee The winter of 1862 turned deadly in Middle Tennessee when two armies crashed into each other near...