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As Union forces closed in on Atlanta during the summer of the Civil War, Confederate leadership underwent a dramatic change. General John Bell Hood replaced Joseph E. Johnston and immediately sought to seize the initiative with aggressive attacks. On July 20th, 1864, Hood hurled his troops against the Army of the Cumberland as it crossed Peachtree Creek north of the city, hoping to catch Union units strung out and vu
As peace negotiations played out in Europe, British commanders attempted a major invasion down the Lake Champlain corridor, hoping to carve off parts of northern New York and influence the terms of any treaty.
As the Civil War entered its first winter, Union planners sought a deep-water harbor along the Confederate coast to support a tightening blockade.
In the spring of 1918, the American Expeditionary Forces were still gaining experience on the Western Front when German troops launched a major raid near the village of Seicheprey. On April 20th, 1918, storm troops attacked positions held by the 26th “Yankee” Division, made up largely of New England National Guard units. The German assault used heavy artillery preparation, infiltration tactics, and gas shells to knoc
As the wider front buckled, the crisis in Korea intensified around the frozen Chosin Reservoir, where United States Marines and attached Army units held positions along mountain roads and ridges.
During the War of 1812, control of the Great Lakes and the Old Northwest hinged on both naval power and fast-moving land campaigns.
On a cold October morning, a makeshift American flotilla under Benedict Arnold waited behind Valcour Island on Lake Champlain for a much larger British squadron sailing south from Canada.
Two decades later, American troops faced a different kind of threat while on peacekeeping duty in Lebanon.
On November 10th, 1775, the Continental Congress authorized the raising of two battalions of Marines to serve as soldiers at sea.
On December 1st, 1950, in the mountains of North Korea near the Chosin Reservoir, United States Marines and attached soldiers were fighting a different kind of battle for survival.
On this late autumn day, the last British troops finally departed New York City, ending seven years of occupation of the largest port in North America.
On another September 23rd, this time during the critical middle years of the Revolution, a British officer named Major John André was stopped by militiamen near Tarrytown, New York.
In Normandy, weeks after the D-Day landings, American forces found themselves locked in a grinding struggle through hedgerow country that favored the German defenders. The town of Saint-Lô, a key road junction, became a vital objective for United States units trying to break out of the constricted beachhead. After days of intense fighting, artillery barrages, and house-to-house clearing, American troops finally secur
On November 11th, 1943, carrier task forces of the United States Navy launched bold air strikes against the heavily defended Japanese naval base at Rabaul on New Britain.
In the winter of 1950, United Nations forces in northeast Korea found themselves enveloped by massive Chinese attacks around the Chosin Reservoir.
Four years later to the week, another British army marched out to surrender, this time at Yorktown, Virginia.
In South Vietnam, the war that involved American advisers and support was as political as it was military.
In the early twenty-first century, American defense planners adjusted organizational charts to match emerging challenges, including terrorism, fragile states, and competition for influence in new regions. On February 6th, 2007, the Department of Defense announced the creation of United States Africa Command, often abbreviated as AFRICOM, as a unified combatant command responsible for military relations with most nati