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3 days ago · Results of the Battle of Lexington. The outcome of the Battle of Lexington was a British victory. Fighting continued throughout the day along the Battle Road, which runs from Concord to Boston. Quotes About the Battle of Lexington. At the end of the day, Samuel Adams is said to have exclaimed to John Hancock, “What a glorious morning for ...
2 days ago · The five-day battle cost the Germans five U-boats (four sunk by Walker's group), while the British lost Audacity, a destroyer, and only two merchant ships. The battle was the first clear Allied convoy victory. [74] Through dogged effort, the Allies slowly gained the upper hand until the end of 1941.
3 days ago · The Battle of Lewes was one of two main battles of the conflict known as the Second Barons' War. It took place at Lewes in Sussex , on 14 May 1264. [ 1 ] It marked the high point of the career of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester , and made him the "uncrowned King of England".
2 days ago · The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, described as the Varus Disaster or Varian Disaster (Latin: Clades Variana) by Roman historians, was a major battle between Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire that took place somewhere near modern Kalkriese from September 8–11, CE 9, when an alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed three Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus and their auxiliaries.
1 day ago · The battle was bloody because the remaining Bulgarian forces on the battlefield stiffly resisted and according to some chroniclers the river reddened. [34] Bulgarian camp was looted by the Serbs. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] The Emperor himself was badly wounded, his horse killed under him and was captured by the oncoming enemy soldiers.
23 hours ago · The Battle of Okinawa (Japanese: 沖縄戦, Hepburn: Okinawa-sen), codenamed Operation Iceberg, [24]: 17 was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
3 days ago · The Battle of Krusi (Serbian: Битка на Крусима, romanized: Bitka na Krusima) was fought on 22 September 1796 between the campaigning army of Ottoman Empire commanded by Kara Mahmud Pasha, the Pasha of Scutari, and tribes of Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro under the command of Metropolitan Petar I Petrović Njegoš and Jovan Radonjić, at Krusi, Lješanska nahija.
