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2 days ago · American Civil War, four-year war (1861–65) fought between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded to form the Confederate States of America. It arose out of disputes over slavery and states’ rights.
- Cost, Significance, Impact
The enormous death rate—roughly 2 percent of the 1860...
- Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise, measure worked out in 1820 between the...
- Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United...
- Battle of Monocacy
Battle of Monocacy, (July 9, 1864), American Civil War...
- The Land War
American Civil War - Battles, Armies, Impact: A strong...
- Battle of Antietam
Battle of Antietam, a decisive engagement on September 17,...
- Timeline
Timeline of significant events related to the American Civil...
- Facts & Related Content
The American Civil War was the culmination of the struggle...
- Causes & Effects
Lists covering some of the major causes and effects of the...
- What Caused The American Civil War
The American Civil War was the culmination of the struggle...
- Cost, Significance, Impact
5 days ago · The Battle of Gettysburg (locally / ˈ ɡ ɛ t ɪ s b ɜːr ɡ / ⓘ) was a three-day battle in the American Civil War fought between Union and Confederate forces between July 1 and July 3, 1863, in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- July 1–3, 1863
- Union victory
3 days ago · The American Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, was a defining moment in this nation's history settling the question of slavery once and for all. It was by far the bloodiest conflict that the ...
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2 days ago · For Germany's far Left, it provided hope for its own success, and for the moderate socialists, along with the middle and upper classes, it was a source of fear that the kind of bloody civil war that was occurring in Russia could also break out in Germany.
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6 hours ago · A long-simmering dispute between Sudan’s army and a paramilitary group exploded into a full-blown civil war in April 2023. As many as 150,000 people may have been killed since then, according to ...
2 days ago · A decade earlier, they had been vying for global supremacy with Washington. Now, they could not even win a war against a separatist rabble in their own backyard. When in late 1999 Putin, then a young and straight-talking upstart, stormed into the halls of power, he promised to bring Chechnya back into the fold at any cost.
2 days ago · May 1864. Work begins on May 1, 1864, on “Bailey’s Dams” at Alexandria, Louisiana. The plan is to free the Union flotilla accompanying Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks’s Red River Campaign — stranded by very low water in the Red River — by floating the vessels over a series of rapids on waves of water released suddenly from the several ...
