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May 18 – Civil War gold hoax: The New York World and the New York Journal of Commerce publish a fake proclamation that President Abraham Lincoln has issued a draft of 400,000 more soldiers. May 20. American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church – In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899.Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
This is a list of conflicts in Europe ordered chronologically, including wars between European states, civil wars within European states, wars between a European state and a non-European state that took place within Europe, and global conflicts in which Europe was a theatre of war.
4 May - Société Générale bank established in Paris. [1] 14 May - The Orgueil meteorite falls to earth. 19 June - American Civil War: Battle of Cherbourg - Confederate States Navy CSS Alabama is sunk in a single-ship action with USS Kearsarge in la Manche off the coast of Cherbourg Harbour.
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5 May – Hans Gerhard Gräf, German Goethe specialist (died 1942) 12 May – Cäsar Flaischlen, German poet (died 1920) 15 May – Robert Schmidt, German politician (died 1943) 21 May – Otfried Nippold, German jurist (died 1938) 22 May – Willy Stöwer, German artist and painter (died 1931) 2 June – Wilhelm Souchon, German admiral (died 1946)
Pages in category "May 1864 events" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. ... Civil War gold hoax; Battle of Cold Harbor; Battle of Cove ...
The Bermuda Hundred campaign was a series of battles fought at the town of Bermuda Hundred, outside Richmond, Virginia, during May 1864 in the American Civil War. Union Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler, commanding the Army of the James, threatened Richmond from the east but was stopped by forces under Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard.