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In the winter of the southern campaign, Brigadier General Daniel Morgan led a mixed American force against Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton’s hard–driving British Legion near the Cowpens in South Carolina. Morgan carefully chose ground that favored his outnumbered Continentals and militia, laying out successive lines so that each could fall back in an orderly way rather than dissolve in panic.
The November 1967 fighting around Dak To involved several hills, formations and successive actions. Hill 875 became its best-known episode, but the wider battle also depended on reinforcement, medical evacuation and support from outside the immediate battlefield.
During the First Barbary War, the United States turned a small expedition into an enduring symbol of Marine Corps identity. An overland force of United States Marines and local allies, led by Marine Lieutenant Presley O’Bannon and naval agent William Eaton, marched across harsh desert terrain to attack the port city of Derna on the North African coast. On April 27th, 1805, they assaulted the defenses and captured the
On Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, United States Marines were fighting to hold Henderson Field, an airstrip whose control would decide who could dominate the skies over the surrounding seas.
A story of hard lessons, desert tank duels, and a young armor force learning fast enough to change a campaign.
The landings at Cape Torokina invited a swift Japanese response at sea.
Near the end of the Revolutionary War’s brutal southern campaign, American forces under Nathanael Greene clashed with a British column commanded by Alexander Stewart near Eutaw Springs in South Carolina.
Fast-forward to the summer of the Civil War, and the terrain shifts to the outskirts of Atlanta. Major General William Tecumseh Sherman had pushed his three Union armies close to the rail lines that kept the Confederate stronghold supplied. Newly appointed Confederate commander John Bell Hood tried to break that grip with a series of aggressive counterattacks. At Ezra Church, west of the city, Union troops under Oliv
By the spring of 1865, Confederate forces defending Petersburg and Richmond were stretched thin, facing a larger Union army and dwindling supplies. In a last attempt to break the siege, General Robert E. Lee approved a daring pre-dawn attack against Fort Stedman, a strong point in the Union lines east of Petersburg. On March 25th, Confederate troops under General John B. Gordon initially surged through the fog, captu
Only a day after the horror at Sand Creek, another grim chapter unfolded in Tennessee when Confederate General John Bell Hood hurled his Army of Tennessee against fortified Union lines near Franklin.
On December 13th, 1862, the Army of the Potomac under Major General Ambrose Burnside hurled wave after wave of Union soldiers against Confederate positions at Fredericksburg, Virginia.
In the autumn of the Philadelphia campaign, George Washington gambled on a complex, pre-dawn attack against British forces encamped at Germantown, northwest of the occupied capital.
Gettysburg brought the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac into a three-day battle shaped by terrain, reinforcement, and local decisions. This overview connects the opening encounter, both flanks, Cemetery Ridge, the cavalry actions, and the human aftermath.
As the Peninsula Campaign turned sour for the Union in the summer of 1862, the Army of the Potomac tried to slip away toward the James River, its supply line and safety. On June 30th, 1862, near the crossroads at Glendale and the woods around Frayser’s Farm, Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee launched a complex attack meant to cut the retreating Union column in two.
Early in the Revolutionary War, control of the Tidewater region of Virginia hinged on a narrow causeway at Great Bridge, south of Norfolk.
Near the end of the Revolutionary War, British forces raided the harbor town of New London, Connecticut, to burn supplies and shipping that supported the American cause.
A story of a grinding hill assault, exhausted rifle companies, and a single ridge that reshaped the war back home.
A story of street-to-street fighting, shattered assumptions, and how one city battle reshaped the Vietnam War.