Nkpa's Rivalry

He positioned his trained infantrymen on top of the first hill as the last line of defense. The militia was placed in front of the hill and the sharpshooters were place in front of the militia. The militia was the first line of defense and Morgan ordered his sharpshooter to target specifically the officers and cavalry and fall back in the line of militia before they get in firing range of the redcoats. Once the sharpshooter gets in position with the militia the British army advanced the attack the militia. The militia’s duties were to engage the redcoats for a short amount of then run away to the right side of the side of the hill. Tarleton expected the militia to run away. He sent one infantry unit and one cavalry unit after the militia. However, waiting behind the second hill was Lieutenant Colonel William Washington and his dragoon unit. The British cavalry didn’t expect to encounter another cavalry unit. Washington wiped out the Tarleton’s cavalry then flanked the right of Tarleton’s main element. Simultaneously, the militia ran around the hills to flank the left side. Tarleton found himself in a double envelopment. Tarleton receives 110 casualties, 229 wounded and 829 captured or missing, meanwhile Morgan suffered 25 casualties and 124

Many other military events occurred, such as the Indian raiding parties. One Indian raiding party killed all of the white settlers at Indian Creek while the raiding party was scavenging supplies in the area for the band, which was running low on food. Militiamen in the Battle of Pecatonica, in which the raiding party was defeated, attacked another Sauk raiding party. There was then the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. In this battle, sixty Sauk warriors held off the militia while the Indian non-combatants escaped to safety across the river. An old Indian chieftain hid in a tree after the battle and attempted to negotiate surrender, but the militia could not understand what he was trying to say, ignored him, and continued to pursue the fleeing Indians. Many events like this happened, where the Sauk attempted to surrender, whether by a white flag or verbally, but the US troops and militiamen misinterpreted them or did not care and continued to battle and pursue the Indians (Wyman and Hagan).

The conflict at Fox Hill lasted seven days followed by a grueling march of wounded back to base, a temporary safe spot that would also be taken by the Chinese shortly after.  Their retreat, or Major General Oliver Smith’s infamously quoted “attack in a different direction!” was escorted by the Ridgerunners of 1st Battalion’s Apha, Bravo, and Charlie companies who came down from the Chosin Reservoir and had to fight through the Chinese that surrounded Fox Hill.  By the time the Ridgerunners arrived by the look of the arriving Marines you could not tell who was rescuing whom. In the end Fox Company had 26 dead, 89 wounded and three missing. There were at least 1,000 Chinese

This paper will examine the British and American Southern Loyalist defeat in the Battle of Kings Mountain and discuss the assumptions the British made including loyalist support, logistic support, and terrain advantage.

It is easy to picture nearly the entire column, which was marching from Fort William Henry to Fort Edwards, being slaughtered when you hear the story. When 1600 armed, Indian warriors are attacking a defenseless, panicked column of about 2400 people (including women & children), there is not much left to the imagination how things happened. In reality, however, it did not happen the way that the most people think it did. Colonel Monro's own estimations were that 129 were killed and wounded among the British troops. Regarding the colonial militia, he said, "No Regular Accot Could be got from the Provincials but their Numbers Kill'd Could not be Less than Four Officers & about 40 Men. And very near as many Men Wounded." There is no doubt some killing occurred, but in the big

The second phase of the Battle of Shiloh starts as reinforcements from General Buell’s Army of the Ohio and a unit of Grant’s own reserve division joined the Union Army now positioned at Pittsburg Landing. These reinforcements added over 22,500 men to the Union lines13 bringing the total number of Union forces to over 45,000, which is more than they had on 6 April, the first day of fighting.14 On April 7, General Grant renewed the fighting with an aggressive counteract.15 Greatly outnumbered (Confederate forces now around 25,000) and disorganized the Confederate forces now under General Beauregard fought hard but eventually had to retreat to back Corinth.16 The second phase of the Battle of Shiloh was won by General Grant and his Union forces due to two main reasons. The first, Union troop numbers greatly outnumbered their enemy, over 45,000 to 25,000 respectively. And secondly, the reinforcements received by General Grant had not fought the day before and were fresh and excited to fight, unlike the exhausted remaining Confederate troops.17 This was the bloodiest battle fought on American soil up to that point, with 23,746 casualties (Union: 13,047; Confederate: 10,699).18 The Union lost more men but claimed the victory because the Confederate Army retreated back to Corinth, Mississippi.

The fight for control of Iwo Jima lasted thirty eight days. Over that course of time the U.S. lost almost six thousand Marines with another eighteen thousand men wounded. The Japanese however lost around twenty one thousand men. This was the only battle during the war with Japan when the U.S. suffered more casualties than the Japanese. Being one of the bloodiest battles of the war, the taking of Iwo Jima served as a valuable lesson for the upcoming Okinawa campaign. In the weeks following, the battle fell under heavy scrutiny from the press and the public. Many viewed it as an unnecessary fight and loss of

At this point in the Battle of Gettysburg, both North and South sustained large numbers of casualties. The Southern casualties roughly totaled 7,000 of 22,000 troops. The North suffered even more by losing 15,000 soldiers. Both sides needed to re-evaluate their battle strategies. Lee thought victory for the South was possible with better timing and artillery. Conversely, Meade and his other Union generals decided to stay in their current position and continue the battle (King 22).

General Grant and his army of forty-two thousand men had camped along the river. The Confederates second stupid leader, General Albert Sidney Johnston said, ”I would fight him if he were a million.” The poorly prepared rebels were on the march and without food for twenty-four hours. The tired and hungry Confederate Army was still able to catch Grant's army by surprise. Eight of ten union soldiers at Shiloh had never fought before. At the end of the Battle of Shiloh twenty-four thousand men were dead, wounded, or captured.

McClellan’s men were ordered to cross over south mountain and quickly found that Lee had fortified this area. McClellan pushed through and took this area as a victory. Since Lee knew of McClellan’s fortune in finding the 191 orders he quickly began

The Battle only caused four deaths and leaving twenty-four wounded. When the British realized they lost the battle, they sailed down-river back to North Point and collected the remaining soldiers. The Battle of Fort McHenry, the most dangerous period of war after the Independence, was

In conclusion, Colonel Connor's count of Indians dead revealed 224 bodies on the battlefield and 48 more at a curve on the river for a total of 272. Some other estimates state from 368 to 400, for Connor’s soldiers, fourteen died with four officers and forty-nine men wounded, of whom one officer and eight men died later and in addition, seventy-nine were disabled by freezing. After the battle, the troops crossed to the south side of the river and made camp for the night. Later that night, Corporal Tuttle stated, “The night of January 29th, 1863 I shall never forget (how can I). There we camped on the bank of Bear River with our dead and dying, wounded and frozen, 2 feet of snow on the ground. Nothing for a fire but green willows which burn about as well as snow. Oh, the

American fired a second Volley. The British were surprised since they usually fire once and then run. Many militia men did lay down their guns and run. The second American volley was noted as one the most effective single volleys of the war. British continued their advance and the militia disintegrated. The British headed towards the second line. The second line was in a wooded and hilly terrain and which caused British forces to lose cohesion. The Americans were able to surprise them in a more guerilla type warfare. The British suffered the most casualties at this line, but the British were able to overlap the American right, bend it back and soon made it collapse. The third line was the strongest since it was made up of continentals with more accurate rifles. Webster and the British forces launched an attack to the left. It wasn’t effective and Webster was mortally wounded. The right wing was ordered to do a bayonet charge to the left. They were effective temporarily and captured two artillery pieces. Greene saw and ordered LT. COL. William Washington’s cavalry and infantry to seal the breach. They engaged in hand to hand combat and American

American troops at Nantasket in Hull helped by firing a cannon at the British boats, landing a direct hit on one. This turned the tide of battle and the Americans escaped with only one soldier having been killed. General George Washington praised the men: “The General thanks Major Tupper and the Officers and Soldiers under his Command, for their gallant and soldierlike behaviour in possessing themselves of the enemy’s post at the Light House, and for the Number of Prisoners they took there, and doubts not, but the Continental Army, will be as famous for their mercy as for their

The People’s Army of North Vietnam (PAVN) carried out a massive artillery bombardment on the U.S. Marine garrison at Khe Sanh (Defending Khe Sanh). The Marines recorded an actual body count of 1,602 NVA killed, but they estimated the total NVA dead between 10,000 and 15,000. The Time magazine, in an April 12, 1968, was titled, “Victory at Khe Sanh.” They took 220 killed at Khe Sanh and about 800 wounded and evacuated them to a different area. For the next 77 days, U.S. Marines and their South Vietnamese allies fought off an intense battle of the garrison. The Battle of Khe Sanh was one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.