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The Battle of Adwa (Amharic: የዐድዋ ጦርነት; Tigrinya: ውግእ ዓድዋ; Italian: battaglia di Adua, also spelled Adowa) was the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. The Ethiopian army managed to defeat the heavily outnumbered invading Italian and Eritrean force led by Oreste Baratieri on March 1, 1896, near the town ...
Bonds, Russell S. War Like the Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-59416-100-1. Castel, Albert. Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. ISBN 978-0-7006-0748-8. Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the ...
The Battle of Atlanta took place during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia.Continuing their summer campaign to seize the important rail and supply hub of Atlanta, Union forces commanded by William Tecumseh Sherman overwhelmed and defeated Confederate forces defending the city under John Bell Hood.
The battle of Atlanta and other campaigns, addresses, etc. Monarch Print. Co. OCLC 2055872. Swan, James B. (2009). Chicago's Irish Legion: the 90th Illinois Volunteers in the Civil War. Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0809328901. OCLC 232327691. Garrett, Franklin M. (1954). Atlanta and Environs, A Chronicle of its People and Events.
George Edward King (November 3, 1851, Macon, Georgia - Mar 1934, Atlanta) was a prominent Atlanta hardware mogul. He made his fortune building up the King Hardware Company. He bought up at least four major competitors from the first decade of the 1900s through the 1920s. King had his mansion in the Inman Park neighborhood of Atlanta.
Atlanta itself was a center for manufacturing weapons and other military supplies, as well as warehouses for storing the materials. [1] Confederate President Jefferson Davis knew that holding Atlanta was crucial because it was a transit point for supplies going to the army of General Robert E. Lee in the Eastern Theater .
The single most important day of the 20th century was 79 years ago on June 6, 1944, during the pinnacle of World War II. It will forever be remembered as D-Day, but the official code name was ...
The area now covered by Atlanta was the scene of several battles, including the Battle of Peachtree Creek, the Battle of Atlanta, and the Battle of Ezra Church. General Sherman cut the last supply line to Atlanta at the Battle of Jonesboro fought on August 31 – September 1. [27]