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The Battle of Frankfurt was a three-day battle for control of Frankfurt am Main during World War II. The 5th Infantry Division conducted the main attack while the 6th Armored Division provided support. The city was defended by the LXXX Corps of the Seventh Army.
Approximate map of Texas Hill Country. Germans immigrated to Texas as early as 1836. [8] By 1860, the German population in Texas, predominantly first-generation immigrants, reached an approximate level of 20,000 across the entire state. [9] They settled heavily in an area known as the Hill Country. [8] The exact dimensions of Hill Country are ...
The Johnson-Grant venture, the first battle of the Texas Revolution in which the Mexican Army was the victor. From the Johnson forces, 20 Texans killed, 32 captured and 1 Mexican loss, 4 wounded. Johnson and 4 others escaped after capture and proceeded to Goliad. Johnson would survive the Texas Revolution. M Battle of Agua Dulce: Agua Dulce ...
In September 1862, the Confederate States of America took control of Frankfort. Frankfort is the only Union capital to have been conquered by Confederate forces during the Civil War. [4] Although the Commonwealth of Kentucky did not secede from the Union, an attempt was made to set up a Confederate government at Bowling Green in western Kentucky.
Many of those buried here died at the Battle of Wildcat Mountain. The soldiers buried around the monument were from Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas. Twenty-one in total, they were reinterred atop the Crab Orchard Hill in 1871. [2] The monument itself is a 10 feet (3.0 m) tall obelisk made of white marble.
Recent excavations unearthed artifacts presumably from the 1813 Battle of Medina south of San Antonio.
The Civil War in Kentucky: Battle for the Bluegrass State (Da Capo Press, 2007) Bush, Bryan S. (1998). The Civil War Battles of the Western Theatre (2000 ed.). Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing, Inc. ISBN 1-56311-434-8. Bush, Bryan S. Louisville and the Civil War: A History and Guide (2008) excerpt and text search; Cotterill, R. S.
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