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Custer's Last Stand was part of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. George Custer † found himself on an open hilltop with a significantly larger force of Native Americans attacking them. Even though, according to Lakota accounts, the attack on Last Stand Hill produced the most casualties, the Lakota destroyed Custer's force within an hour. [23]
The Firelands, or Sufferers' Lands, tract was located at the western end of the Connecticut Western Reserve in what is now the U.S. state of Ohio.It was legislatively established in 1792, as the "Sufferers' Lands", and later became named "Fire Lands" because the resale of the land was intended as financial restitution for residents of the Connecticut towns of Danbury, Fairfield, Greenwich ...
May 28 – Beverly Hills Supper Club fire killed 165 and injured more than 200 in Southgate, Kentucky; third deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. June 21 – Saint John City Hall fire in Saint John, Canada, killed 21. [103] December 10 – A fire at the Wenonah Hotel in Bay City, Michigan, killed 10. [104]
Mesa Redonda fire: Lima: Peru: 291 deaths, 134 injuries: Shopping center 20 February 2003: The Station nightclub fire: West Warwick, Rhode Island: United States: 100 deaths, 230 injuries: Fightclub 3 November 2004: Seest fireworks disaster: Seest: Denmark: 1 death, 24 injuries: Factory 30 December 2004: República Cromañón nightclub fire ...
The victims who died in the wind-driven fires that have decimated the Los Angeles area fires this week include a man who was found holding a garden hose as well as an 82-year-old man who died in ...
Wildfires have ravaged more than 40,000 acres across Los Angeles, resulting in at least 24 deaths.. The Pacific Palisades fire, one of the most destructive the city has seen, is now at 11 percent ...
A last stand is a military situation in which a body of troops holds a defensive position in the face of overwhelming and virtually insurmountable odds. [1] Troops may make a last stand due to a sense of duty; because they are defending a tactically crucial point; to buy time to enable a trapped army, person, or group of people to escape; due ...
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