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Story City Museum: Story City: Story: Central: Local history: website, operated by the Story City Historical Society, includes the 1903 Queen Anne period Bartlett Museum, pre-Civil War school house and the Carriage House Museum Swedish American Museum: Swedesburg: Henry: East: Ethnic: Operated by the Swedish Heritage Society, area Swedish ...
A military museum or war museum is an institution dedicated to the preservation and education of the significance of wars, conflicts, and military actions. These museums serve as repositories of artifacts (not least weapons), documents, photographs, and other memorabilia related to the military and war.
Captain Rufus S. Benson, a local state representative, had the law amended in 1886 so that it allowed for the construction of a memorial hall, as the local G.A.R. chapter wanted it to be a place where they could meet. [3] The hall was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [1]
Swiss peasant war of 1653. Civil War; Peasant rebels City governments troops Military victory of the ruling city councils 1656 and 1712 The First War of Villmergen and the Toggenburg War (or Second War of Villmergen) Civil Wars of religion
History of Switzerland, 1499–1914 (1922) full text online pp 386–95; Remak, Joachim. A very civil war. The Swiss Sonderbund War of 1847. Westview Press, Boulder 1993. ISBN 0-8133-1529-8; Weaver, Ralph. Three Weeks in November: A Military History of the Swiss Civil War of 1847 (2012) excerpt; Bucher, Erwin. Die Geschichte des ...
The Siege of Oxford is a 1689 oil painting by the Dutch artist Jan Wyck. [1] It depicts the Siege of Oxford in 1646 during the First English Civil War . Oxford had functioned as the Royalist capital throughout the war as London was in Parliamentary hands.
The siege of Oxford comprised the English Civil War military campaigns waged to besiege the Royalist controlled city of Oxford, involving three short engagements over twenty-five months, which ended with a Parliamentarian victory in June 1646. The first engagement was in May 1644, during which King Charles I escaped, thus preventing a formal siege.
The Black Hawk County Soldiers Memorial Hall, also known as Veterans Memorial Hall, is a Classical Revival veterans hall located at 1915 Courbat Ct. in downtown Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa. It was built starting in June 1915 and first meeting was held there in December of the same year by the Grand Army of the Republic as a memorial to ...