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Battle of Plum Creek: Texas Militia: Mathew Caldwell: 11 KIA Victory October 1840 Battle of Red Fork Texas Militia: John H. Moore: Unknown Victory 1841 Battle of Bandera Pass: Texas Militia: John C. Hays: 5 WIA Victory 1852 Battle of Hynes Bay: Texas Militia: John Hynes Unknown Victory [51] Jan-May 1858 Antelope Hills expedition: Frontier ...
The Battle of Charleroi, another of the frontier battles, was an action taking place 12–23 August 1914. The battle was joined by the French Fifth Army, advancing north towards the River Sambre, and the German Second and Third armies, moving southwest through Belgium. The Fifth army was meant to join the Third and Fourth armies in their attack ...
Wars fought in the area which currently holds the US state of Texas. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. M.
General Pershing authorized the results of the Meuse-Argonne Campaign, the greatest battle in American history up to that time, in his Final Report: "Between 26 September and 11 November, 22 American and 4 French divisions, on the front extending from southeast of Verdun to the Argonne Forest, had engaged and decisively beaten 47 different ...
Texas entered the battle early in the afternoon when the Army requested her to fire upon a Vichy French Army ammunition dump near Port Lyautey. [9] One more gunfire mission was provided on the 10th before the cease fire on 11 November. [47] Thus, unlike in later operations, she expended only 273 rounds of 14-inch shells and six rounds of 5-inch ...
On 22 April 1915, at the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans (violating the Hague Convention) used chlorine gas for the first time on the Western Front. Several types of gas soon became widely used by both sides and though it never proved a decisive, battle-winning weapon, it became one of the most feared and best-remembered horrors of the war.
The Johnson-Grant venture, the first battle of the Texas Revolution in which the Mexican Army was the victor. From the Johnson forces, 20 Texans killed, 32 captured and 1 Mexican loss, 4 wounded. Johnson and 4 others escaped after capture and proceeded to Goliad. Johnson would survive the Texas Revolution. M Battle of Agua Dulce: Agua Dulce ...
It is named for David Allen Russell, a Civil War general killed at the Battle of Opequon, September 19, 1864. It was established in 1911 as Camp Albert, a base for cavalry and air reconnaissance units sent to protect West Texas from Mexican bandits after the Pancho Villa raid. The base was expanded and renamed Camp Marfa during World War I. In ...