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Post by deadwoodgultch on Dec 12, 2018 13:09:21 GMT
Feel free to add to this. Does not have to be history, can be your anniversary, or whatever.
Dec/12/1862 USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, MS
Some previous Dec. stuff. Hanukkah begins at sundown Dec. 2 Dec/6 1865 13th Amendment official ratified Dec/7 1941 Pearl Harbor attacked, Pearl Harbor Day Dec/11 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, VA begin |
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Post by deadwoodgultch on Dec 18, 2018 18:03:45 GMT
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Post by deadwoodgultch on Dec 24, 2018 12:11:43 GMT
Today 1814 Treaty of Ghent is signed.
Treaty of Ghent, (Dec. 24, 1814), agreement in Belgium between Great Britain
and the United States to end the War of 1812 on the general basis of the status quo antebellum (maintaining the prewar conditions).
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Post by deadwoodgultch on Jan 2, 2019 14:33:23 GMT
Missed a couple of days:
December 31 1862 Battle of Stones River
January 1 1863 Lincoln signs The Emancipation Proclamation
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Post by quincannon on Jan 9, 2019 0:57:12 GMT
8 January 1815. The Battle of New Orleans. A bad day for Packenham and the boys, but a good day for Jackson, as that battle catapulted him to national prominence and the presidency, and we entered with that ascendancy into the era of Manifest Destiny. So one could argue that New Orleans and San Jacinto that followed twenty one years later were the two most important battles ever fought on US soil. Together they shaped us as a nation. They were much more so important than any in the ACW which was decided as to its ultimate outcome, the moment after the first shot was fired on Sumpter.
One door closes though only for another to open. New Orleans was the start of the special relationship we have with the UK and Commonwealth. As such what started at New Orleans shaped the Atlantic Alliance, and that onward to NATO, and the realization that like man, no nation can ever exist as a political island unto itself.
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Post by yanmacca on Jan 9, 2019 15:24:17 GMT
I am sure that today's date was the same as the funeral of Horatio Nelson, after Trafalgar, his body was brought back to Blighty and after lying in state he was finally buried on the 9th January 1806.
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Post by quincannon on Jan 9, 2019 18:26:23 GMT
1806.
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Post by deadwoodgultch on Jan 9, 2019 19:58:18 GMT
Thank you both. And today, January 1813 the British Declared war on us, US. We have much coming up this month.
15 Jan., 1865 Ft, Fisher falls NC
16 Jan., 1971 My wedding day
17 Jan., 1781 Battle of Cowpens, SC
18 Jan, Lee-Jackson Day(AL,AR,MS,VA) many don't like but they still take the day off.
19 Jan., 1862 Battle of Mill Springs KY
21 Jan MLK Day some others don't like but they take the day off too
22 Jan., 1813 Battle of River Raisin, Monroe MI
28 Jan., 1864 Operations around New Bern NC
30 Jan., 1862 USS Monitor launched Greenport LI. NY
31 Jan.,1865 Robert E. Lee assumes command of all Confederate Armies
" " " US House of Representatives passes the 13th Amendment
Please add more USA, Brittan, Australia,
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Post by benteen on Jan 9, 2019 20:17:08 GMT
January 30, 1968....Start of the Tet offensive in Southeast Asis
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Post by deadwoodgultch on Jan 9, 2019 20:59:56 GMT
Great.
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Post by yanmacca on Jan 9, 2019 21:21:36 GMT
Sorted!
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Post by yanmacca on Jan 10, 2019 12:23:18 GMT
There was a lot of fighting taking place in England in the month of January 871.
King Alfred the Great was battling it out with the invading Danes, three battles took place in that month;
Battle of Reading
Battle of Ashdown
Battle of Basing
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Post by deadwoodgultch on Jan 10, 2019 15:43:19 GMT
Could not open, but will look up, I am a bit familiar with the Norse raids.
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Post by yanmacca on Jan 10, 2019 15:45:59 GMT
Sorry Tom, they were not links, but I will post some up right away.
This battle took place before the others, but missed out by one day as it took place on December 31 870;
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Post by deadwoodgultch on Jan 10, 2019 19:11:35 GMT
Winston Churchill passed on January 24, 1965 one of his famous quotes. "There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion." Fits with some of our discussions.
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