What is the battle of Gettyburg?
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One of the largest battles ever to take place on US soil in Gettysburg PA during July 1,2,3 1863. This battle took place during the civil war and is considered the turning point of the civil war with respect to the Union forces under General Meade finally winning a large engagement and putting the Union on track to ultimately defeat the Confederate forces under Gen. Lee's command. You should go online and read about this impressive battle as it made many normal soldiers eternally famous throughout the anals of history (Joshua Chamberlain from Maine being one of them) By the way Allstar's answer below is partially correct. Lincoln's Gettysburg address was written and presented several months after the Battle of Gettysburgh and it was in fact the battle that happened first which is why Lincoln went there. The battle just happened to occur at Gettysburg as this is where the two large meandering armies happened to "bump into each other".
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John Paul Jones:\nSeptember 23, 1779, Jones fought one of the bloodiest engagements in naval history. Jones struggled with the 44-gun Royal Navy frigate Serapis, and although his own vessel was burning and sinking, Jones would not accept the British demand for surrender, replying, I have not yet begun to fight. More than three hours later, Serapis surrendered and Jones took command.\nHave a great night!
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Well, if you want a real definition, A pitched battle is a battle where both sides choose to fight at a chosen location and time and where either side has the option to disengage either before the battle starts, or shortly after the first armed exchanges.\n\nA pitched battle is not a chance encounter such as a skirmish, or where one side is forced to fight at a time not of their choosing such as happens in a siege(this ia a "regular battle"). For example the Battle of Edgehill was the first pitched battle of the English Civil War and the Battle of Gettysburg started by chance as a skirmish, but as both generals chose to reinforce their positions instead of disengaging, they turned a skirmish into a pitched battle.\n\nI hope that answers your question or at minimum, gives you an idea on the meanings of both.
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Description: In May and June of 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. On July 4, Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations. This was the culmination of one of the most brilliant military campaigns of the war. With the loss of Pemberton’s army and this vital stronghold on the Mississippi, the Confederacy was effectively split in half. Grant's successes in the West boosted his reputation, leading ultimately to his appointment as General-in-Chief of the Union armies. \n\nResult(s): Union victory
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The major conflict was the repatriasation of the German Democratic Republic into the Federa Republic. This involved funding rennovations, rebuilding infrastructure, disposing of former state property, privatelization, teaching about the democratic ways of the west, and tearing down social benefits of the former east, among other thigns.
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The Battle of Britain is the name for the general air war over Britain.  It is also reffered to as the "Blitz".  It started as an attack against the RAF, but switched to a campaign of bombing London in September 1940.\n\nBlitzkrieg refers to the "lightning war" (literal translation) where German armies quickly stormed other countries, defeating them in weeks.  This is opposed to trench warfare, where years are spent moving the frontline only short distances.\n\nUsing air superiority was a tactic of blitzkrieg, to soften enemy defenses before attack.\n\nThe allies also bombed Germany heavily, I believe causing more civilian deaths than British civilian deaths.
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Check the link below - Lusitania was WW1
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I answered you other question more thoroughly. You may want to go back and look at my response there.\n\nBurkhardt is German and Dutch in origin.
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Look up ' The Notebooks Of Leonardo Da Vinci ' under ' War '. Any library has it in it's referrence art collection.
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A lot of battles took place for Athens.Which one do you mean?I could tell you about the battle between the god Posidon and the godess Athena for the name of Athens.Posidon offered water and Athina the olive tree which is considered the tree of life.It's obvious who won.
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Try out this site I'm not exactly sure what you are looking for.\n\n Meanwhile, on the Eastern Front, the Russians invaded East Prussia but were decisively defeated (Aug.-Sept., 1914) by the Germans under generals Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and Mackensen at Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes (see under Masuria ).
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Spiritual warfare is the mythical battle going on in the spiritual realm.  The concept is not from the Bible, but from the books of Enoch, which were prominant in Hellenistic Judaism as well as early Christianity.\n\nThose books were dropped by the church of Rome because they tended to undermine the authoritarian nature of the 'Jesus as god incarnate' myth.
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The problem is that battles are no longer restricted to battlefields.\nIt gets problematic when the enemy hides amongst the population.
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Imagine having hundreds of thousands of the most brain washed soldiers straight from the Devil's own army charging your lines with no regard for their own lives... \n\nThe krauts just wanted to break our lines, then they could circle around and take our flank.\n\nThey almost made it, and if they had you would be speaking German right now.
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lots of events have occured. (War of independance, anything like that is usually good)\n\nis it recently or a long time ago. please specify for all who come after me
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You mean the movie, The Chronicles of Narnia, right?? The last battle is between the Aslan(Jesus) and the White Witch(Devil).
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http://www.rickard.karoo.net/articles/battles_trenton.html