The Bargage Company's Battle In The Battle Of The 13th

X Corps consisted of the 1st Marine Division, Regimental Combat Team 31(RCT31), and the British 41 Royal Marine Commandos. X Corps positioned the 1st Marine Division along the western side of the Chosin Reservoir mostly aligned along the road between the Chosin Reservoir and Hungdam. The Bulk of 1St Marine Division was concentrated at Yudami-ni.[4] Assuming that only a light UN presence would be at the Chosin reservoir, the Chinese 9th Army was tasked to destroy the UN garrisons at Yudami-ni and Sinhung-ni, and then push towards Hagaru-r.[5] The 9th Army would then envelop and trap the main UN forces on the road between Hagaru-ri and Hungnam. The 9th Army initially committed six divisions for the battle, with most of the forces concentrated at Yudami-ni and Sinhung-ni.[6] The UN forces had an approximate strength of 30,000 during the course of the battle.[7] The Chinese 9th Army was supposed to be composed of 12 divisions with a nominal strength of

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

Among these leaders was Bravo Company’s 1st platoon’s SFC Robert Gallagher. The platoon endured terrible living conditions including no running water and filthy living space. These inadequate living conditions must be met with some relaxation on the standards they were expected to follow. Company leadership viewed this as a bribe to keep the soldiers in high spirits. In reality, they set the stage for the erosion of the morals the enlisted soldiers are supposed to possess. While the morals were being chipped away, so was the original plan the battalion had hoped to follow. Fragmentation orders became a pseudo-standard for the boys of Bravo Company. What had originally started as short-term overnight patrol bases turned into fortified traffic control points with the exception of any form of fortification other than in notion only. Despite the fact that platoon-level leadership requested for supplies they were repeatedly turned down. A major breakdown in the communication between the leadership created a loss in faith in the higher leadership for the lower-enlisted soldiers on the ground. Very soon into deployment, Bravo Company began to experience contact with unseen enemy forces. The enemy was able to engage and plant IED’s and cause casualties while remaining elusive. After the first few casualties within the company, the mission to start set up traffic control points was to begin. While conducting patrols down the road time and time

Sadly, their weapons did not have the ability to cut all the wire and destroy deep German trenches or knock out all enemy guns. It also could not provide a useful bombardment for the infantry attack. On July 1, the artillery drifted away from the German front trenches and left the infantry unattended. Nobody was

Moreover, during an extensive struggle on the Morris island, a lot of numbers of torpedoes were being used by the rebels in defense of Fort Wagner. In one of the huge explosions, a corporal of the 3rd colored troops was thrown about 25 yards. “the dead soldier landed entirely naked, with arm resting on the plunger of another torpedo.”

If Washington hadn’t figured out that Howe was going to attack Philadelphia, British might’ve captured Congress! That’s right. At the time of the Battle of Brandywine, Congress was meeting in Philadelphia. That means that if Howe had gotten the jump on Philadelphia, like he wanted, Britain may have won the war! It’s a good thing the Battle of Brandywine took place. I will telling you the causes of the battle, the leaders who ran it, what happened, and the effects it had.

General Pershing, in command of the U.S. 1st Army, set the rail line near Sedan, France as the main objective. This was a vital supply route for German forces (Stewart, 2005), and the direction of attack to the north of the front line through the Argonne Forest would expose the flank of German forces being attacked by the French from the west. Support for the American forces consisted of over 800 aircraft, nearly 190 tanks, and approximately 2,700 pieces of artillery, and over 600,000 men (Stewart, 2005).

At dawn, the Marine 1st Battalion, 5th Marines—commanded by Major Julius Turrill—was to attack Hill 142, but only two companies were in position. The Marines advanced in waves with bayonets fixed across an open wheat field that was swept with German machine gun and artillery fire, and many Marines were cut down.[9][10] Captain Crowther commanding the 67th Company was killed almost immediately. Captain Hamilton and the 49th Company fought from wood to wood, fighting the entrenched Germans and overrunning their objective by 6 yards (5.5 m). At this point, Hamilton had lost all five junior officers, while the 67th had only one commissioned officer alive. Hamilton reorganized the two companies, establishing strong points and a defensive line.[11]

The next part of the book detailed a very sharp decline in the morale and unit cohesion of Bravo Company, but primarily first platoon. The death of Nelson and Casica was the first. Nelson and Casica died when a shooter opened fire on a TCP with a 9mm at

Once the Battle of Mystic Fort was over, the English and the natives were very short in supplies and ammunition. Tired and exhausted, they set up Camp just south of the Mystic fort. They had plans to meet the English ships in the Pequot River in order to get their wounded men back to Safety in Saybrook Fort. However, not long after they establish this camp, more than a hundred Pequot Warriors from close by villages attacked the English forces that were still waiting on Pequot Hill. A small group of Narragansett Warriors soon fled the area of battle, they had plans to head for the Mystic River back to the safety of their Narragansett territory because they knew the English were very low on ammunition and thought that they would soon be unable

The Barbary States were a collection of North African countries Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Tripoli. The united states always had the protection of Britain who had the greatest navy in the world. After the United States separated from Britain they were quick to tell the Barbary States that the United States were weak.

This was a vital, ferocious, do–or–die attack, and as long as the night advance lasted, no quarter was shown (Australian government, 2015). The second battle of Villers-Bretonneux was a battle situated in the town of Villers-Bretonneux in the Picardy region of Northern France. It took place on the 24th and 25th of April 1918 exactly 3 years after the Gallipoli landings.

For hundreds of years, if not thousands, civilizations on earth have been at war. War is used as a means to forcibly end disputes, gain political power, resources, and goods and services. Whether this conflict is essential or for mere preference, it is discretional and debated widely. Just how an old dog cannot be taught new tricks, countries never seem to fully grasp the wisdom from the past. As a result, the repetition of conflict is nearly inevitable. Such can be seen in the Barbary Wars and how it politically, socially, and economically impacted the future of piracy. Though old dogs cannot be taught again, their youth can. When given the knowledge of the past, they are given the wisdom of the future. Through enlightening people all around

In addition, the French established the fortification to give their army time to mobilize in the event of attack, and allow French forces to move into Belgium for a decisive confrontation with Germany. Although the Maginot Line was invulnerable to most attacks including aerial bombings and tank fire, and had exquisite living conditions, air conditioning, confortable eating areas and underground railways, it was strategically ineffective against the German soldiers. During this time, the French had moved the French second army group from the Alsace and Lorraine to the Weygand Line, which was an early application of the Hedgehog tactic (a military tactic in which a defending army creates mutually supporting strong points in a defense in depth which is designed to stop the strength and break the momentum of an attacking army), this left only small forces guarding the Maginot Line. Germany’s Army Group B had begun taking control against Paris and into Normandy; Army group A began its advance into the rear of the Maginot. Also, Germany’s Army Group C launched operation Tiger on June 15, which was a frontal assault across the Rhine River and into France.

Surprised and outnumbered, Company C was nearly wiped out during the first few terrible minutes. But a small group of American soldiers, a number of them wounded, were able to secure their rifles and fight back, killing some 250 Filipinos.