Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet faced a daunting task trying to dislodge Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside’s Federals from Knoxville, Tennessee.   More »

Spaniard Bernardo de Galvez besieged British-held Pensacola in 1781. It fell to Scotsman John Campbell to defend the remote outpost.   More »

Emperor Napoleon achieved a decisive victory over Count Bennigsen’s Russians in June 1807, redeeming the Grand Armee after its setback at Eylau.   More »

Ulysses S. Grant altered the course of the war in the west for the Union Army in February 1862 with the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson.   More »

John Maxwell placed a bomb aboard a cargo ship at City Point in August 1864 in a desperate bid to slow the flow of supplies to Union troops at Petersburg.   More »

The Japanese Army fought desperately along New Guinea’s Driniumor River.   More »

Ulysses S. Grant would later admit that Cold Harbor was the one battle he “would not fight again.” Many federal soldiers who survived would agree.   More »

The five-month campaign by the U.S. Army in 1847 to capture Mexico City pitted Winfield Scott against Antonio de Santa Anna.   More »

General Wheeler used his cavalry effectively against the Union army in the western theater.   More »

One of the earliest multi-role aircraft of World War II, the Bristol Beaufighter was always dependable.   More »