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Battle of Waxhaws: May 29, 1780: South Carolina: British victory Battle of Connecticut Farms: June 7, 1780: New Jersey: British victory Battle of Mobley's Meeting House: June 10–12, 1780: South Carolina: American victory Battle of Ramsour's Mill: June 20, 1780: North Carolina: American victory Battle of Springfield: June 23, 1780: New Jersey ...
The Second Battle of Independence was fought on October 22, 1864, near Independence, Missouri, as part of Price's Raid during the American Civil War.In late 1864, Major General Sterling Price of the Confederate States Army led a cavalry force into the state of Missouri, hoping to create a popular uprising against Union control, draw Union Army troops from more important areas, and influence ...
Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia [A]), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona ...
The Maryland Line protected the evacuation of Washington's troops across the East River to Manhattan at the Battle of Long Island. On August 27, 1776, members of the 1st Maryland Regiment under the command of Major Mordecai Gist repeatedly charged a numerically superior British force, allowing Washington to successfully evacuate the bulk of his ...
Willcox, W: Portrait of a General, Sir Henry Clinton in the War of Independence, New York, 1964, Wilson, David K (2005). The Southern Strategy: Britain's Conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, 1775–1780. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 1-57003-573-3. OCLC 232001108.
The focus of the battle shifted to Independence itself. [15] [16] Independence (October 21–22) As Blunt's forces at the Little Blue withdrew westward toward Kansas City, they passed through Independence. Here Union rearguard units attempted to cover their retreat by engaging Price's oncoming troops in the city streets.
Next to Independence Hall is Carpenters' Hall, the 1774 meeting site for the First Continental Congress, and Congress Hall, the meeting place of the United States Congress in the 1790s prior to the establishment of Washington, D.C. as the nation's capital in 1800.
Independence Hall at night The reverse of the U.S. $100 bill, which has portrayed Independence Hall since 1928 On July 16, 1987, Congress met at Independence Hall in an unprecedented joint meeting outside of Washington, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Connecticut Compromise that determined the structure of Congress during the ...