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The Battle of the Camel (Arabic: مَعْرَكَة اَلْجَمَلِ, romanized: Maʿrakat al-Jamal) took place outside of Basra, Iraq, in 36 AH (656 CE). The battle was fought between the army of the fourth caliph Ali (r. 656–661), on one side, and the rebel army led by Aisha, Talha and Zubayr, on the other side.
The two parties fought the Battle of the Camel in December 656, from which Ali emerged victorious. Afterward, Mu'awiya, the incumbent governor of Syria, declared war on Ali, ostensibly to avenge Uthman's death. The two parties fought the Battle of Siffin in July 657, which ended in a stalemate and arbitration.
Battle of Fallen Timbers: August 20, 1794 near modern Maumee, Ohio: Northwest Indian War 77 [9] Western Confederacy vs United States of America Battle of Marblehead Peninsula [10] September 29, 1812 modern Marblehead, Ohio: War of 1812 [11] 48 Tecumseh's confederacy vs United States citizens Siege of Fort Meigs [12] April 28 - May 9, 1813 ...
The Battle of Chillicothe was a military engagement of the western theater of the American Revolutionary War. In May 1779, Colonel John Bowman of the Kentucky County militia, accompanied by Benjamin Logan and Levi Todd , led between 160 and 300 militiamen against the Shawnee settlement of Old Chillicothe .
Along the Scioto River, 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Chillicothe [8 39°24′46″N 82°59′00″W / 39.412639°N 82.983333°W / 39.412639; -82.983333 ( Gartner Mound and Village Green Township
As a result, the Chillicothe Shawnee moved their town on the Scioto River further west to the Little Miami River, near what is now Xenia, Ohio. Encouraged and supplied by British officials in Detroit, Blackfish and others launched raids against American settlers in Kentucky, hoping to drive them out of the region.
The Chillicothe Turnpike was an early highway in the U.S. state of Ohio that led from Painesville in Northeast Ohio south to Chillicothe in the southern part of the state, which served as state capital on two occasions in the early 19th century.
The 7th Ohio Cavalry Regiment was a regiment of Union cavalry raised in southern Ohio for service during the American Civil War. Nicknamed the "River Regiment" as its men came from nine counties along the Ohio River , it served in the Western Theater in several major campaigns of the Army of the Ohio .