Battles & Campaigns
Engagements and campaigns examined through objectives, terrain, forces, outcomes, and consequences.
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Battles of Fort Fisher
The failed December 1864 expedition and successful January 1865 assault were separate attempts to close Wilmington’s protected sea approach. This overview distinguishes bombardment, amphibious landings, naval and army assaults, and the later advance on Wilmington.
Gulf War tank battles
A story of high-tech American armor meeting Soviet-designed tanks in the desert and how it reshaped modern ground warfare.
Albert Ernest Schwab
The valley offered almost no cover. Shallow folds of earth and shattered shrubs were all that shielded the Marines of 1st Battalion, 5th Marines as they tried to push forward on Okinawa Shima on May 7, 1945. Ahead of them, on a high ridge at the valley’s mouth, a Japanese machine gun hammered the slopes, stitching bullets across every patch of ground where a helmet or sleeve dared to move. The air vibrated with the c
Amphibious landing at Inchon, Korea
Early in the Korean War, United Nations forces clung to a shrinking perimeter around Pusan while North Korean troops pressed hard along the front.
Anton L. Krotiak
The air over Balete Pass crackled with small-arms fire and the flat explosions of grenades. On the steep slope of Hill B, a narrow finger of ground jutting out above the zigzag road that threaded the Caraballo Mountains, five exhausted American infantrymen hugged the earth around a captured Japanese trench. It was 8 May 1945, deep in the Battle of Luzon, and Private First Class Anton L.
Armistice and the End of World War I Combat
On November 11th, 1918, guns along the Western Front at last fell silent as the armistice between the Allies and Germany took effect at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
Armored combat in the Gulf War
A story of high-tech American armor meeting Soviet-designed tanks in the desert and how it reshaped modern ground warfare.
Arthur O. Beyer
The January sky over eastern Belgium is the color of steel, low clouds pressing down on snow-covered fields. An American armored task force eases forward along a narrow road when the world ahead of it suddenly erupts. Antitank rounds smash into the frozen earth, machine guns rake the ditches, and rifle fire lashes out from a ridgeline roughly two hundred yards in front of the column. Inside one of the lead tank destr
Assault on the Hindenburg Line
As the First World War neared its end, Allied forces targeted the Hindenburg Line, Germany’s most formidable defensive system on the Western Front.
Battle for Henderson Field
A story of a jungle airstrip, thin lines of Marines and soldiers, and how local air power reshaped the Pacific war.
Battle of Allatoona Pass
In the aftermath of the fall of Atlanta during the Civil War, Confederate forces tried to strike back not by retaking the city, but by severing the Union army’s lifelines.
Battle of Antietam
A story of a blood-soaked cornfield, a shallow creek, and a battle that reshaped the Union’s war.
Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg)
In the Civil War's Eastern Theater, September 17th, 1862 brought the single bloodiest day in American military history along Antietam Creek in Maryland.
Battle of Assunpink Creek
In the winter following the disastrous losses around New York, George Washington’s army clung to survival around Trenton.
Battle of Atlanta
Three years later and hundreds of miles to the west, another July battle marked a turning point in the struggle to save the Union. Outside Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood launched a bold, flanking assault against Major General William T. Sherman’s forces, hoping to catch Union troops off balance and drive them away from the city.
Battle of Bad Axe
On a wooded bluff above the Mississippi River in what is now Wisconsin, the Black Hawk War came to a bloody end. A small band of Sauk and Meskwaki people led by Black Hawk was trying to recross the river after months of pursuit by United States regulars and militia. At Bad Axe, soldiers, volunteers, and a river steamboat opened fire on warriors, women, and children crowded along the shore and in canoes.
Battle of Ball’s Bluff
Early in the Civil War, the Union still believed a quick, aggressive push might bring the rebellion to a close.