The Siege of Port Arthur

By 1864 the Union troops were closing in on the Confederacy. Major ports and cities had been taken over. North Carolina and the port at Wilmington were becoming major targets for the Union army and in November, 1864 a plan was put into place to move Union troops for the first assault on Fort Fisher. In a letter written by Richard Delafield, general and chief engineer for the U.S. Army, Delafield discusses the plan for the destruction and the capture of Fort Fisher and Fort Caswell. Fort Caswell was located on Oak Island, south of Fort Fisher, but also protecting the entrance to the Cape Fear River. Delafield’s letter details the strategy for the destruction of Fort Fisher:

Years ahead of the war, the Japanese leadership identified that they could not militarily defeat the Russian Empire, but believed a series of quick victories would help force the Russian Empire to negotiate a favorable end to the conflict. This belief helped craft a plan to win key military

(Doc. E) If they had waited for the Soviet Union they would have been able to overpower the Japanese with ease. The fact of the Soviet Union being famous for having a large amount of weaponry would have caused tension within Japan and would soon eventually lead to Japan's surrender.

Their plan was to make a landing at Hakata bay after attacking the islands of Tsushima and Iki. For the second invasion, Much larger forces were sent. A total of around 142,000 troops were sent from two separate places. 900 ships with 17,000 sailors, 10,000 Korean troops, and 15,000 Mongol troops set sail from Korea, and a whopping 100,000 recently conquered Chinese troops set sail from southern China on 3,500 vessels. The first invasions of Tsushima and Iki were quite successful, slaughtering a large amount of the inhabitants. Also, when the Mongols reached Hakata bay, the Japanese samurai did not know how to retaliate the coordinated attacks of the Mongols. However, the second time around, the Japanese had prepared well for the Mongol forces, knowing more of their tactics. Even though the Japanese were outnumbered, they had erected walls, six feet tall, about the coastal line. This allowed the Japanese to fend off the Mongol forces. This may have been because the Japanese realized that the Mongols tried not to get into close combat, and having a wall which the enemy would have to climb and fight to get over, the Mongols would be forced to pursue the Japanese coast with some hand to hand combat. The Mongols had taken measures to compensate for their mistakes in the first invasion, such as wearing mail, instead of lighter armor for

The Sieges of Vicksburg and Port Hudson were turning points in the war. US Grant charged into Vicksburg and General Banks moved to the Mississippi River to take down the Confederates based at Port Hudson. The attacks were repulsed and on May 27 the federals went into a siege that lasted 48 days. On June 14 Banks tried to get revenge but the defenders fought them off.. After hearing what happened at Vicksburg, on July 9, the confederates at Port Hudson surrendered. The Union takes control of the Mississippi River. They now have a source to New Orleans. The siege happened when Nyulassy S. Grant was besieging Vicksburg up river while General Nathaniel Banks was ordered to capture and gain control of the Confederate stronghold of Port Hudson. Banks

Introduction The Second World War had been fought between the Axis nations (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan and their smaller allies) and the Allied nations, led by Britain (and its Commonwealth nations), the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America (Source D). The war changed many things internationally. This included changes to do with technology and the end of European colonialism (Source D).

The Naval Battle of Port Royal was fought on November 3rd-7th 1861. Port Royal was a Confederate city on the South Carolina coast. It was defended by 2 forts at the entrance to its harbor named Fort Walker and Fort Beauregard. On November 3rd the attack under Union naval officer Du Pont led a navy attack of 14 warships, 26 supply ships, 25 transports for 12,000 troops, and the flagship The Wabash. The Confederates also had some small ships to defend the harbor including a converted tugboat which each had about 2 to 3 guns each.The Union engaged the confederate ships and easily defeated them. The warships bombarded the two forts until Du Pont received word that Fort Walker had been abandoned. Shortly after Fort Beauregard was abandoned and the

Maritime wars took a noteworthy change amid the common war. On March 8 1862 the Confederates revealed a ship that would change maritime fighting everlastingly, making wooden body ship outdated. The Confederates set two layers of steel plate over the structure of the "Merrimack", situated ten firearms along its side and included a smash her bow. This resilient ship in its first fight, in the harbor of Hampton Roads assaulted five Union boats. The "Merrimack" renamed the "Virginia" sank one Union boat, exploded another ship, and made a third run ashore. No shots could infiltrate her shield. The unexpected thing was the Merrimack was left to sink after the Union naval force cut gaps into it.

Japan had no other choice with its current condition it was bound to fail. Not to mention Japan had invested too much into the east asian invasion and that they needed to get satisfactory results from it, but it was later seen as futile by the war and prime minister of Japan considering they cannot just expand with stationed troops.(Doc E) The minister has a point considering the fact that they won’t even be able to reach another place with their limited oil supply to fill up their ships. Also since their mobility is hindered like I said their plans have been slowed by the US, and they plan for revenge. Not to mention our Naval fleet was a lot better than theirs, and if I know anything it is that if you are an island you need to have a strong

This book is about an 18 year old boy named Henry Fleming. He decides that he wants to enlist into the Union Army, in hopes of finding glory and fame in doing so. The army turned out to be pretty boring because all he and the rest of his troops are doing is sitting there, waiting for an enemy to approach them. When he engages in his first battle against the confederate soldiers he is overwhelmed with fear, due to the fact that it’s the first time he has had to fight. In the midst of the battle he tries to run away from the scene, eventually he runs right into the generals. The generals are at the back of the line giving orders to the troops. The troops stand their ground and outlast the confederate soldiers, winning the battle.

The Japanese chose this specific fleet because they knew that the Americans would not be able to fight back as Japan’s armed forces spread across the South

Where it was located in Little Yorktown, they called it Battle of Yorktown ( Siege of Yorktown. ) It started on April 19, 1775, about 5 a.m. 700 British troops, on a mission to capture some Patriot leaders and to take hold of collections of weapons of the Patriots. Now they march into Lexington to find 77 armed minutemen under Captain John Parker command waiting for them on the town’s common green. British Major John Pitcairn commanded the outnumbered Patriots to spread. After a moment’s pausing Americans began to drift off the green. Suddenly, the “shot heard around the world” was fired from an not known gun, and a cloud of musket smoke soon covered the green. When the meeting for giving information Battle of Lexington ended, eight Americans lay dead or dying and 10 others were wounded. Only one British soldier was injured, but the American Revolution had begun.

The Japanese and Australians fought for approximately four months, in this time, Japan progressed up the Kokoda track, at one stage being less than 30 kilometres from Port Moresby in September. Port Moresby was the campaign target hence the Japanese thought they had won the campaign when they reached close proximity. This was the turning point in the campaign, to the extent that Japanese forces were pushed back from Port Moresby and Australian forces finally staged a counter-offensive, pushing the Japanese back.The Australian forces had been overcome by the Japanese offensives and were pushed back to Imita Ridge where they staged their counter-offensive. This was the first time that the Australian forces had moved forward to a large

The Mongols launched their fleet of 1,000 ships and landed in Hakata Bay in 1274 in what would be their first of two attempts to invade Japan. This would be known as the “Battle of Bun’ei” or as the “First Battle of Hakata Bay”. The Mongols would conquer the settlements on the islands of Tsushima and Iki while on route to Hakata Bay. However after landing at Hakata Bay the Mongols were pushed back by the Samurai as they were prepared and expected the invasion. Historians theorize that the Japanese were forewarned by Koryo Korea. The reasons as to why Koryo Korea would give the Japanese this knowledge is because they were tired of being under the Mongol rule and because Japan had shown good will to Koryo Korea by suppressing Japanese Piracy along the coastline of Korea. The advanced warning allowed for Japan to gauge the incoming Mongol forces as they ravaged the islands of Tsushima and Iki. The initial landing success of the Mongols can be attributed to their superior weapons, tactics, and fighting experience. However, as time wore on the numbers began to favor the Japanese and they were able to repel the Mongols back towards their ships. As a severe storm approached Hakata Bay the Mongols decided to board their ships once again to avoid being isolated on Japanese soil. The severe storm system was a typhoon and by the morning a large portion of the ships and one

To impair the walls of Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire brought massive cannons that could take hours to reload.