Battle of the Chosin Reservoir begins
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.
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Battle of the Coral Sea
An unfolding story of carrier decks, radio reports, and long-range strikes that reshaped the Pacific war before the fleets ever met face to face.
Battle of the Crater
Two days later on the Eastern Front, another desperate attempt to break a stalemate unfolded outside Petersburg, Virginia. Union engineers and coal miners had spent weeks digging a tunnel beneath the Confederate lines, packing a massive mine with explosives under a salient in the defenses. At dawn on July 30th, the blast tore a huge crater in the earth, killing hundreds of Confederate soldiers instantly and opening a
Battle of the Eastern Solomons
Just three days later, another phase of the Guadalcanal campaign played out at sea. In the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, American carriers, including Enterprise and Saratoga, maneuvered against a Japanese task force seeking to reinforce and resupply their troops on the island. Aviators from both sides flew long-range searches and strikes in a complex pattern of blows and counterblows over the open ocean.
Battle of the Java Sea
Just two days after the Los Angeles scare, a very real crisis unfolded far across the Pacific. On February 27th, 1942, a mixed Allied naval force under Dutch command, including the United States heavy cruiser Houston, engaged a Japanese invasion convoy in the waters of the Java Sea.
Battle of the Komandorski Islands
In the Second World War, the Aleutian Islands campaign unfolded in harsh seas and fog, far from the better-known fronts of Europe and the central Pacific. On March 26th, 1943, an American cruiser-destroyer force under Rear Admiral Charles McMorris intercepted a Japanese convoy near the Komandorski Islands, northwest of the Aleutians. The enemy escort included heavier cruisers, giving the Japanese an advantage in guns
Battle of the Little Bighorn
On the northern Plains, the date June 25th, 1876 is inseparable from the shock that followed the destruction of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer’s battalion along the Little Bighorn River. Part of a larger campaign to push Lakota and Northern Cheyenne bands onto reservations, Custer’s Seventh Cavalry column advanced aggressively toward a large village whose size and fighting strength he underestimated.
Battle of the Marne
By mid-1918, German armies in France had driven a dangerous salient across the Marne River, threatening Paris and hoping to win the war before American troops could arrive in strength. In the early hours of July 18th, French and American forces launched a coordinated counteroffensive, striking the exposed flanks of the German position near Soissons and along the Marne.
Battle of the Philippine Sea
An air-sea clash where radar, training, and discipline turned a desperate carrier defense into a one-sided hammer blow that reshaped the Pacific war.
Battle of the Tenaru
That same global war saw another crucial August fight half a world away on the island of Guadalcanal. United States Marines of the 1st Marine Division had seized a vital airstrip earlier in the month and were entrenching around it when a Japanese force under Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki was ordered to sweep them away.
Battle of the Thames
During the War of 1812, control of the Great Lakes and the Old Northwest hinged on both naval power and fast-moving land campaigns.
Battle of the Wilderness
Almost twenty years later, the United States tore itself apart in civil war, and May 5th, 1864 marked the beginning of a grim new phase. That day, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant pushed the Army of the Potomac south across the Rapidan River into a tangle of underbrush and second-growth forest known simply as the Wilderness. In that terrain, visibility collapsed, lines broke apart, and musket flashes set the woods
Battle of Tippecanoe
Two decades later, another fight in the Old Northwest underscored the stakes of American expansion.
Battle of Trenton
A story of a winter river crossing, a worn-out army on the edge of defeat, and how one night’s gamble kept the Revolution alive.
Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain
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.
Battle of Westport
By late 1864, Confederate General Sterling Price launched a sweeping mounted raid into Missouri, hoping to capture cities, inspire recruits, and shift attention from collapsing fronts elsewhere.
Battle of Winchester
The shock delivered at Front Royal set the stage for a larger clash two days later. On May 25th, 1862, Union General Nathaniel Banks tried to hold the town of Winchester against Jackson’s advancing Confederates, whose columns converged on the Valley Pike from multiple directions. Through the morning, Union infantry and artillery contested ridges south of the town, but Confederate attacks pressed steadily against thei
Beauford T. Anderson
In the dark, humid hours before dawn on Okinawa, the American line around Kakazu Ridge was little more than a jagged string of foxholes and shattered stone. Technical Sergeant Beauford “Andy” Anderson and the men of his weapons platoon had spent the night listening to the island—distant artillery rumbled, mortars coughed, and now and then a Japanese flare turned the terraced fields silver for a heartbeat before dropp