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Take Command is a series of real-time tactics video games by American studio MadMinute Games. [1] The series consist of two games, Take Command: Bull Run (2004) and Take Command - 2nd Manassas (2006). The games are real-time wargames depicting some of the major battles of the American Civil War. The developers describe the games as "real-time ...
From July to November 1861, he was headquartered at the Conner House in Manassas. [17] The winter of 1861–62 was relatively quiet for Johnston in his Centreville headquarters, concerned primarily with organization and equipment issues, as the principal Northern army, also named Army of the Potomac, was being organized by George B. McClellan ...
In a continuing series of auctions starting in 2018, Heritage Auctions is auctioning a collection of memorabilia from the estate of Neil Armstrong, who died in 2012. [54] [55] The event was the first ever auction of the astronaut's personal collection and is billed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first landing on the Moon in 1969. [55]
In 1857, the Burnside carbine won a competition at West Point against 17 other carbine designs. In spite of this, few of the carbines were immediately ordered by the government, but this changed with the outbreak of the Civil War, when over 55,000 were ordered for use by Union cavalrymen. [3]
Take Command may refer to: Take Command (command line interpreter), a cmd.exe replacement by JP Software; Take Command Console, a later version of the command line ...
While many of the campaigns and battles were fought in the region of Virginia between Washington, D.C., and Richmond, there were other major campaigns fought nearby. The Western Virginia campaign of 1861 secured Union control over the western counties of Virginia, which would be formed into the new state of West Virginia. Confederate coastal ...
Eyre Crowe, Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia (1861), painted from a sketch made 1853 when he was touring the U.S. with British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray Ellyson's map of Richmond, 1856 "Auction at Richmond" (Picture of Slavery in the United States of America by Rev. George Bourne, published by Edwin Hunt in Middletown, Conn., 1834)
On 7 December 1863, Santiago De Cuba arrived in Boston, now under the command of Captain Theodore P. Green. [25] Green was detached and the ship decommissioned for repairs on 30 December 1863. [26] She was dry-docked and her repairs were effected at the Boston Navy Yard. [27] In May 1864, Captain Oliver S. Glisson was ordered to take command of ...