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The New Year's Day battle of 1968 was a military engagement during the Vietnam War in Tây Ninh province that began on the evening of 1 January 1968. It involved units assigned to the U.S. 25th Infantry Division and two regiments of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN).
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On 19 March, in an area surrounded by a tree line of sparse woodland that had been scarred by defoliants, American helicopters landed the 3rd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment and the 2nd Battalion, 77th Artillery Regiment, led by Lieutenant Colonels John A. Bender and John William Vessey Jr., respectively, as part of the 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division led by Colonel Marshall B. Garth. [1]
Battle of Little Mountain: March 22, 1782 near modern Mount Sterling, Kentucky: American Revolutionary War Western theater 24 Wyandot vs Kentucky militia Siege of Bryan Station: August 15–17, 1782 modern Lexington, Kentucky: American Revolutionary War Western theater 5+ Kentucky settlers vs American Indians & allies Battle of Blue Licks ...
Though Nelson was seriously wounded, he escaped the battle as Confederate cavalry moved to cut off the Union retreat. [59] He left behind 206 killed, 844 wounded, and 4,303 missing. [ 62 ] With only 98 killed, 492 wounded, and 10 missing, Smith had won one of the most complete Confederate victories of the entire war.
The park continues to expand with purchases of parcels by the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves' Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund and the American Battlefield Trust. An interpretive museum is located near the site where many Confederate soldiers killed in the Battle of Perryville were buried. Monuments, interpretive signage, and ...
The battle of Somerset (or Dutton's Hill) was fought on March 31, 1863, during the American Civil War. General John Pegram led a Confederate cavalry raid into central Kentucky which was defeated by Union forces under General Quincy A. Gillmore .
Maysville is located in Mason County, Kentucky, and contains a large roadcut along U.S. Route 68. The cut was human-made in the 1950s and consists of rock that is roughly 450 million years old. [ 1 ] Maysville provides an opportunity to observe the stratigraphy of the formations present of the Ordovician time period.