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An illustration of Kerbogha besieging Antioch, from a 14th-century manuscript in the care of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. As the starving and outnumbered Crusaders emerged from the gates of the city and divided into six regiments, Kerbogha's commander, Watthab ibn Mahmud, urged him to immediately strike their advancing line. [4]
Pre-Civil War, for example, most graduates of the U.S. Military Academy were well-schooled in math and engineering, much less so in military tactics. Many soldiers lacked even rudimentary training ...
A 13th-century depiction of battle outside Antioch from William of Tyre's Histoire d'Outremer, in the care of the British Museum. On Monday 28 June the crusaders emerged from the city gate, [53] with Raymond of Aguilers carrying the Holy Lance before them. Kerbogha hesitated against his generals' pleadings, hoping to attack them all at once ...
The Battle of Antietam (/ æ n ˈ t iː t əm / an-TEE-təm), also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, took place during the American Civil War on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union Major General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek.
The Civil War has been commemorated in many capacities, ranging from the reenactment of battles to statues and memorial halls erected, films, stamps and coins with Civil War themes being issued, all of which helped to shape public memory. These commemorations occurred in greater numbers on the 100th and 150th anniversaries of the war. [309]
Battle of Antioch (1097), a siege by the Crusaders against the Muslim-held city, part of the First Crusade; Battle of Antioch (1098), a battle between the Crusaders of Antioch and a Turkish coalition, part of the First Crusade; Battle of Antioch (1268), a siege in which the Mamelukes under Baibars captured the city of Antioch
Battles of the American Civil War Rated by CWSAC Date Battle State CWSAC Outcome Victory Notes April 12 –13, 1861: Battle of Fort Sumter: South Carolina: A: Confederate: Beauregard takes Charleston Federal fort in the first battle of the American Civil War. May 18 –19, 1861: Battle of Sewell's Point: Virginia: D: Inconclusive
Antioch became the capital and court-city of the western Seleucid Empire under Antiochus I, its counterpart in the east being Seleucia; but its paramount importance dates from the battle of Ancyra (240 BC), which shifted the Seleucid centre of gravity from Anatolia, and led indirectly to the rise of Pergamon.