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The Battle of Maritsa or Battle of Chernomen (Serbian: Marička bitka / Маричка битка; Turkish: Çirmen Muharebesi, İkinci Meriç Muharebesi in tr. Second Battle of Maritsa) took place at the Maritsa River near the village of Chernomen (present-day Ormenio, Greece) on 26 September 1371 between Ottoman forces commanded by Lala Shahin Pasha and Evrenos, and Serbian forces commanded ...
Sevier County and Sanpete County make up the "Little Scandinavia" portion of Utah, where many of Utah's 20,000 Scandinavian immigrants during the 19th century settled. Pair-houses, a Scandinavian home form, are relatively more common here than elsewhere in Utah. There are 24 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
Utah Lake had been a meeting place central to Ute culture, but after the battle, permanent Indian occupation of Utah valley was prevented. [41] Resentment by the Indians over the incident towards the Latter-day Saints became intense in the years following and was a factor contributing to Wakara's War that took place from 1853-1854. [42]: 87
The Utah War (1857–1858), also known as the Utah Expedition, [4] the Utah Campaign, [5] Buchanan's Blunder, [6] the Mormon War, [7] or the Mormon Rebellion, [8] was an armed confrontation between Mormon settlers in the Utah Territory and the armed forces of the US government. The confrontation lasted from May 1857 to July 1858.
[10]: 23 As early as July 31, 1847, a 20-man delegation of Shoshone met with the Mormons to discuss their land claims in northern Utah. [ 10 ] : 14 All of this was over the backdrop of the continent-spanning American Indian Wars and the White settlers' American imperialist views on Manifest destiny , and their resulting genocide of US Native ...
The Battle Creek massacre was a lynching of a Timpanogos group on March 5, 1849, by a group of 35 Mormon settlers at Battle Creek Canyon near present-day Pleasant Grove, Utah. [1] It was the first violent engagement between the settlers who had begun coming to the area two years before, and was in response to reported cattle theft by the group.
Salt Lake City, Utah Captain Lot Smith Company Memorial; Garfield County was named after James A. Garfield; Salt Lake City, Utah Monument dedicated to the GAR dead in the GAR and USAWV Veteran Section of Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Re-dedicated in 2003 by the Sons of Union Veterans.
Immediately after the battle, the armies of Murad I embarked on another campaign overrunning Northern Thrace and forcing young Ivan Shishman to pull back north of the Balkan Mountains. A number of fortresses fell, through after prolonged and fierce sieges: the town of Diampol, for instance, fought against the forces of Timurtash for months but ...