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John Fulton Reynolds was a career United States Army officer and a general in the American Civil War. One of the Union Army's most respected senior commanders, he played a key role…
John F. Reynolds, American general (born 1820)
George Hull Ward was a soldier and Union officer in the American Civil War.
George Hull Ward, American general (born 1826)
Little Crow III was a Wahpekute Dakota chief who led a faction of the Dakota in a five-week war against the United States in 1862.
Little Crow, American tribal leader (born 1810)
Lewis Addison Armistead was a career United States Army officer who became a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. On July 3, 1863, as par…
Lewis Armistead, Confederate general (born 1817)
William Mulready was an Irish genre painter living in London. He is best known for his romanticising depictions of rural scenes, and for creating Mulready stationery letter sheets,…
William Mulready, Irish genre painter (born 1786)
Clement Clarke Moore was an American writer, scholar and real estate developer. He is best known as author of the Christmas poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", which first named each…
Clement Clarke Moore, American author and educator (born 1779)
Robert Gould Shaw was an American officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Born into an abolitionist family from the Boston upper class, he accepted command of the …
Robert Gould Shaw, American colonel (born 1837)
Samuel Houston was an American military general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution. He served as the first and third president of the Republic of Tex…
Sam Houston, American general and politician, 7th Governor of Texas, and 6th Governor of Tennessee (born 1793)
William Lowndes Yancey was an American politician in the Antebellum South. As an influential "Fire-Eater", he defended slavery and urged Southerners to secede from the Union in res…
William Lowndes Yancey, American journalist and politician (born 1813)
Maharani Jind Kaur, also known as Rani Jindan Kaur, was regent and, shortly the regnant of the Sikh Empire from 1843 until 29 March 1847. After the Sikh Empire was dissolved on 29 …
Jind Kaur Majarani (Regent) of the Sikh Empire (born 1817)
Angus MacAskill was a Scottish man. In its 1981 edition, the Guinness Book of World Records stated he was the strongest man, the tallest non-pathological giant and the largest true…
Angus MacAskill, Scottish-Canadian giant (born 1825)
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.
Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (born 1798)
Charles Robert Cockerell was an English architect, archaeologist and writer. He studied architecture under Robert Smirke and embarked on an extended Grand Tour lasting seven years,…
Charles Robert Cockerell, English archaeologist and architect (born 1788)
Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny was a French poet and an early French Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare.
Alfred de Vigny, French author, poet, and playwright (born 1797)
Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German author, linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist. He formulated Grimm's law of linguistics, and was the co-aut…
Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (born 1785)
Hans Christian Heg was a Norwegian American journalist, anti-slavery activist, politician, and soldier. He was best known for leading the 15th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment on the Un…
Hans Christian Heg, Norwegian-American colonel and politician (born 1829)
Grand Gulf is a ghost town in Claiborne County, Mississippi, United States. Before the American Civil War, "its wharves were crowded with cotton from Copiah, Hinds, and Claiborne c…
Confederate forts at Grand Gulf survived a bombardment by Union gunboats, preventing Ulysses S
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War: The Confederates were routed in the Battle of Raymond, a small battle that had an inordinately large
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War: Union troops captured Jackson, the capital of Mississippi
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War: At the Battle of Big Black River Bridge in Mississippi, Union forces under John A
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War: General Ulysses S
The New Zealand Wars took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side, and Māori and Māori-allied settlers on the other.
The New Zealand Wars resumed as British forces led by General Duncan Cameron began the invasion of the Waikato.
John Sappington Marmaduke was an American politician and soldier. He was the 25th governor of Missouri from 1885 until his death in 1887. During the American Civil War, he was a se…
General John S. Marmaduke fatally wounded his Confederate Army colleague Lucius M. Walker in a formal duel in Arkansas.
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War: Union and Confederate forces fought the Battle of Brandy Station, the largest cavalry engagement to