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Little Round Top is the smaller of two rocky hills south of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—the companion to the adjacent, taller hill named Big Round Top. It was the site of an unsuccessful assault by Confederate troops against the Union left flank on July 2, 1863, the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg , during the American Civil War .
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After an 1808 proposal, [4] the Taneytown Road was constructed southward from Gettysburg past the east of the Round Tops and by 1858, two crossroads had been built to the area, with three homes (north-to-south: "Geo Bishop", "E. Brickert", & "J. Group") that would become Round Top: [5] Wheatfield Rd on the west across the north foot of Little Round Top to the Emmitsburg Road and Sachs Rd ...
A 1906 hop was held at the "Little Round Top Hotel", the "Round Top dance pavilion" was the site of a 1918 fire and a 1925 stabbing, [6] and picnics at Rosensteel Park were held as late as 1957. The facility also included a store where a Camp Renaissance CCC worker committed a theft in 1936.
Cover of OSG edition, 1979. The 20th Maine, subtitled "The Battle for Little Round Top", is a board wargame published by Operational Studies Group (OSG) in 1979 that simulates the battle for possession of a hill called Little Round Top that anchored the left flank of the Union Army on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
Pieris rapae is a small- to medium-sized butterfly species of the whites-and-yellows family Pieridae.It is known in Europe as the small white, in North America as the cabbage white or cabbage butterfly, [note 1] on several continents as the small cabbage white, and in New Zealand as the white butterfly. [2]
The Top Thrill 2 is the world's fastest triple-launch strata coaster. It features two 420-foot-tall towers and launches riders three times at 74 miles per hour, 101 mph and finally 120 mph.
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